New Family Law Clinic expands learning opportunities – Queens U

The Faculty of Law has launched a new Family Law Clinic that will give students more hands-on learning opportunities.

The new clinic received financial support from Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), which is allocating more than $2 million over three years to six university-operated legal clinics to provide family law services for low-income Ontarians.

“For more than 30 years, Queen’s law students have served the local community by providing legal advice and representation to low-income residents,” says Daniel Woolf, Principal and Vice-Chancellor. “With LAO’s wonderful support, the Faculty of Law will expand these legal services and give law students a broader range of experiential learning opportunities, which is a commitment of the university.”

The Family Law Clinic joins four existing legal aid clinics: Queen’s Legal Aid (QLA), the Prison Law Clinic, Queen’s Business Law Clinic, and the Elder Law Clinic. When the Family Law Clinic is fully operational, at least 50 per cent of law students will have the opportunity to take a clinical law course while at Queen’s, in addition to more than 90 students who volunteer with QLA every year.

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