Poverty law resources

o        Employment (incl. for employment insurance) 

 

o       Birnbaum & Mosher, Law for Social Workers: A Canadian Guide, 4th ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2008)

o       Crowe & Baker, Dying for a home: homeless activists speak out (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2007)

o       Hanna & Callison, Aboriginal Poverty Law Manual (Vancouver: Legal Services Society, 2004)   

o       Regehr & Kanani, Essential law for social work practice in Canada (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2006)

o       Samuels & Tanner, Managing a legal and ethical social work practice (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2003)

o       Vayda & Satterfield, Law for social workers: a Canadian guide, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 1989)

o       Young et al, Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007)

 

o       Bilchitz, D., Poverty and Fundamental Rights: The Justification and Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

o       Gómez Heredero, A., Social security as a human right: the protection afforded by the European Convention on Human Rights (Strasbourg : Council of Europe Pub., 2007)

o       Noone & Tomsen, Lawyers in Conflict: Australian Lawyers and Legal Aid (Annandale, N.S.W.: Federation Press, 2006)

o       Salomon, M., Global Responsibility for Human Rights: World Poverty and the Development of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

o       Van Langendonck, J., The Right to Social Security (Antwerpen: Intersentia, 2007)

 

David Eby: http://davideby.blogspot.com/

LawLINE: http://bc-lawline.blogspot.com/  

 

Canada Benefits

http://www.canadabenefits.gc.ca/faechome.jsp?lang=en    

 

Review Tribunals for Canadian Pension Plan and Old Age Security

http://www.ocrt.gc.ca  

 

Government of Canada. Serving Employment Insurance Appellants (Employment Insurance Act)

http://www.ei-ae.gc.ca/en/home.shtml    

 

Charter Committee on Poverty Issues

http://www.equalityrights.org/ccpi/  

 

Canadian social research links

http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/  

 

Homeless Street Archive website

http://homelessnation.org/  

 

Your Welfare Rights: A Guide to BC Employment and Assistance

 

BC Employment and Income Assistance Web Orientation

http://www.weborientation.gov.bc.ca/    

 

Pivot Legal Society is a non-profit legal advocacy organization located in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

 

Employment and Assistance Tribunal Board of British Columbia

http://www.gov.bc.ca/eaat/    

 

Legal Services Society of B.C. LawLINK. Welfare

http://www.lawlink.bc.ca/links/welfare.asp    

 

Welfare fact sheets

http://www.lss.bc.ca/assets/resources/pubs_w/wfs.pdf  

 

Your welfare rights: a users guide to BC employment and assistance

http://www.lss.bc.ca/assets/resources/pubs_y/YourWelfareRights/ywr.pdf  

 

UBC Law Students' Legal Advice Program

http://www.lslap.bc.ca/main/?manual2006  

 

PovNet

http://www.povnet.org/    

 

Downtown Eastside Residents Association

http://www.dera.bc.ca/  

 

Discretionary Justice and Social Welfare - an Information and Research Resource (University of Toronto, Discretionary Justice and Social Welfare Working Group)

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/justiceandsocial/  

 

Welfare (Ontario Works) page on isthatlegal.ca

http://www.isthatlegal.ca/index.php?name=start.owa  

 

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)

http://www.ocap.ca/  

 

Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC)

http://tdrc.net/  

 

International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty

http://www.ileapinitiative.com/