Advocacy Access Program

Advocacy Access is a service of the BC Coalition of People with Disabilities that provides information, assistance, advice, and occasional representation for people with disability-related issues such as welfare benefits for people with disabilities, Canada Pension Plan disability benefits, and the Registered Disability Savings Plan. Website: Click on "Advocacy Access" and then "Advocacy Access Publications" for a number of fact sheets about disability-related money and income support issues.

Website bccpd.bc.ca Phone 1-604-872-1278 Toll-free: 1-800-663-1278 TTY: 1-604-875-8835 Find on Clicklaw Advocacy Access on Clicklaw HelpMap

In law, to formally deliver documents to a person in a manner that complies with the rules of court. Service may be ordinary (mailed or delivered to a litigant's address for service), personal (hand-delivered to a person), or substituted (performed in a way other than the rules normally require). See "address for delivery," "ordinary service," "personal service" and "substituted service."

In contract law, a promise made by someone about a certain state of affairs, like "the plumbing was replaced last year" or "I had a vasectomy two years ago." See "misrepresentation."

In law, a legal incapacity to do certain things, like enter into a contract or start a court proceeding. Legal disabilities include insanity and being under the age of majority. See "age of majority."