CELA’s legal services often include referrals. Many of our most common referrals are gathered here.
Our Lawyer Referral List – For when we cannot provide legal assistance and you need a referral to the private bar.
Other Environmental Law and Policy Organizations in Canada:
- Canadian Institute of Resources Law
- Centre Québécois du droit de l’environnement
- Environmental Law Centre – Alberta
- Ecojustice
- West Coast Environmental Law
- East Coast Environmental Law
Useful links we use a lot in our work:
- Access Environment (environmental approvals and registrations in Ontario)
- CANLII – Canadian Legal Information Institute
- CEPA Environmental Registry
- Chemical Substances Website – Govt of Canada
- Environmental Registry of Ontario (previously the EBR Registry, now an archive)
- (read a blog about this change to the ERO)
- How to make a freedom of information request (in Ontario)
- Making an online request for access to information (under the federal Access to Information Act)
- Statistics Canada
Useful on-line resources for access to justice and social services:
- Legal Aid Ontario (and all specialty and community-based clinics across Ontario)
- Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO)
- Pro Bono Students Canada (national site) (with chapters at university law schools across Canada)
- Connecting Ottawa
- Your Legal Rights
- FindHelp (operates 211, three-digit community phone line)
- Steps to Justice