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It is meant to help you: | It is meant to help you: | ||
*guide your client or patient in taking the ''first steps'' toward addressing their legal problem, and | *guide your client or patient in taking the ''first steps'' toward addressing their legal problem, and | ||
*make the best ''referrals'' for your client or patient to information, assistance, advice or representation to address the legal issue. | *make the best ''referrals'' for your client or patient to information, assistance, advice or <span class="noglossary">representation</span> to address the legal issue. | ||
==Reason for this Guide== | ==Reason for this Guide== | ||
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Because legal resources are often not available locally in many areas of British Columbia, the usual first "point of contact" to get help with a legal problem is not a lawyer or legally trained advocate, but a friend or helping professional such as a counsellor, doctor, nurse, teacher, government worker, public librarian, or religious leader. | Because legal resources are often not available locally in many areas of British Columbia, the usual first "point of contact" to get help with a legal problem is not a lawyer or legally trained advocate, but a friend or helping professional such as a counsellor, doctor, nurse, teacher, government worker, public librarian, or religious leader. | ||
It is hoped that this Guide will help you | It is hoped that this Guide will help you — the friend or helping professional — provide basic information and appropriate referrals to friends, clients or patients who find themselves with common legal problems. | ||
==Organization of this Guide== | ==Organization of this Guide== | ||
