rule Need Legal Advice or Assistance? Look Here First

[Ryn]

The members on this website will not provide you legal advice or legal services through this website. Do not post questions requesting legal advice. It is illegal for a non-lawyer (this includes students and articling students) to provide you with legal advice or to provide you with legal services. It does not matter if it is for a "small" or "simple" matter. It is not permitted, full stop.

The lawyers on this website will also not provide you with legal advice because their codes of professional conduct, to which all of them are subject in connection with their membership with a provincial law society, require a certain standard of care for all lawyer-client relationships which is not capable of being met through an anonymous/pseudonymous online forum.

If you need legal advice, contact a lawyer referral service through your province's law society website or through one of several non-profit community organizations available throughout the country. The process is usually free!

[Ryn]

As an update to this rule, if you create an account for the sole purpose of seeking legal advice, we will permanently ban your account without notice and delete your posts.

This forum is not an appropriate venue to ask for legal advice for any reason.