Contributing to public interest advocacy in Canada
Nexus/Fall 2022
I entered law school the same year that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into being.
I entered law school the same year that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into being.
Fifty years ago, a group of idealistic students organized to provide desperately needed legal services to impoverished Torontonians. Their courageous work laid the foundation for what has grown to become Downtown Legal Services (DLS), the Faculty of Law’s leading public interest clinic for low-income clients. That original spirit of improving access to justice carries on with the students who step into DLS today.