Legal Services offers free legal advice through the SA Legal Services lawyer, Bill Reid.

If you are a full-time, fee-paying Durham College or UOIT student, you are eligible to meet with Bill Reid to discuss any personal legal issue.

Appointments are Wednesdays between 8:15 am - 12:45 pm and one Saturday a month from 8:45 am - 12:15pm. To book an appointment, email: sa@dc-uoit.ca

Here is a full list of legal matters you can discuss with lawyer Bill Reid:

FAMILY LAW 

• Divorce
• Separation
• Custody, access and support

OTHER CIVIL MATTERS 

• Debts owed to or by students
• Personal injury cases
• Employment Law
• Landlord and tenant law

CRIMINAL AND OTHER OFFENCE MATTERS 

• Criminal charges
• Provincial offences
• Obtaining pardons and other record-related matters

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW 

• Immigration law
• Human rights
• Workplace safety and insurance board, criminal injuries and compensation board and employment insurance

CORPORATE MATTERS 

• Corporations, partnerships and sole proprietorships
• Commercial matters
• Intellectual property
• Notarization and commissioning of documents

CAMPUS PARALEGAL STUDENT ASSISTANCE (CPSA)

In addition, there is the Campus Paralegal Student Assistance (CPSA). The CPSA is a legal clinic that is supervised by a licensed lawyer and provides paralegal placement students with experience working in the legal services field. The CPSA provides free and confidential legal advice and information for all Durham College, UOIT and online students in the areas of law practiced by the CPSA. However, they do not offer representation in legal matters.

Areas of law CPSA can help you with:

• Tenant’s Rights
• Ontario Disability Support Program
• Ontario Works
• OSAP
• Workplace Safety & Insurance Board
• Employment Insurance
• Employment Standards
• Ontario Human Rights Code
• Small Claims matters
• Criminal Injuries Compensation
• Provincial Offences
• Commissioning and notarizing documents

Please be advised, the CPSA does not assist with Real Estate, Family or Criminal matters.

The CPSA also provides Public Legal Education to groups and individuals through presentations and publications in our areas of practice.

The CPSA clinic is open this semester until March 24, 2015.

Hours: Mondays from 4PM-8PM and Tuesdays from 9AM-8PM

Location: Durham College
2000 Simcoe Street North
Simcoe Building, Room J-117 (In Founder’s Lot 1)
Oshawa, ON L1H 7K4

Phone: 905-721-2000 ext. 3670

Fax: 905-721-3196

E-mail: cpsa@durhamcollege.ca

Twitter: @CPSADurham

Facebook: Campus Paralegal Student Assistance

Review Counsel: Lavinia Inbar