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The Black Legal Action Centre

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The Black Legal Action Centre

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Education Law

If you have been suspended, expelled, or treated unfairly because of your race, BLAC can provide you with information and advice, and may be able to help you prepare documents or to represent you in an appeal. Explore education law

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Employment Law

If you work in a non-unionized workplace, and have been treated unfairly because of your race, BLAC may be able to help you with a wide range of issues including employment standards, employment insurance, and wrongful dismissal. Explore employment law

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Housing Law

If you have been treated unfairly because of your race, BLAC may be able to help with various matters such as evictions, warning letters or complains to landlords, and termination notices.

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Human Rights

If you believe you have been treated unfairly because of your race (e.g. racially profiled at a store), BLAC can help you understand your rights and what you can do to protect them.

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Income Assistance

BLAC can support you with understanding the complex rules and processes associated with social assistance and other public benefits. We can provide summary legal advice and assistance in negotiations for income support programs if your issue is related to anti-Black racism.

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Police Complaints

If you have been treated unfairly because of your race, BLAC can provide you with advice, advocate on your behalf, help you make a complaint, and/or represent you during an investigation. BLAC can also support advocacy groups navigate the complaints systems.

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The Black Legal Action Centre is a Community Legal Clinic funded by Legal Aid Ontario. As a condition of funding, we must perform a financial eligibility test. This eligibility test determines if we can provide you with legal representation and services. There are 3 factors involved in that test:

The individual’s family unit,
The family unit’s gross income
The family unit’s liquid assets.

The photo on the left outlines the financial eligibility test. For more information on this eligibility test, click link below

Challenging Anti-Black Racism Through Advocacy, Education & Legal Action

Complete an Online Intake Form

We want to make it easier for you to reach us. If you want help from one of the members of our legal team, you can download our intake form and email it to BLAC at intake@blac.clcj.ca. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

Here are a few important things to consider before you reach out to us via email.

Transmissions do not create a solicitor-client relationship.

Email transmissions, using through submitting an intake form to BLAC, or to any member of the clinic, do not create a solicitor-client relationship. You will not become a client unless and until BLAC agrees to act for you and that agreement is confirmed in a written agreement .

Transmissions may not be confidential

BLAC cannot guarantee the confidentiality of the content of any email transmission facilitated by this website. If you wish to provide confidential information to any of the lawyers at BLAC, please contact the lawyer by telephone.

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BLAC offers a range of legal services to Black Ontarians

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The Black Legal Action Centre

What We Do

The Black Legal Action Centre

Providing Legal Services

Education Law

Education Law

Employment Law

Employment Law

Housing Law

Housing Law

Human Rights

Human Rights

Income Assistance

Income Assistance

Police Complaints

Police Complaints

Challenging Anti-Black Racism Through Advocacy, Education & Legal Action

Complete an Online Intake Form

Here are a few important things to consider before you reach out to us via email.

Transmissions do not create a solicitor-client relationship.

Transmissions may not be confidential

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