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What is a Clicklaw Wikibook?

Clicklaw Wikibooks are collaboratively developed, plain language legal publications that are published and kept up-to-date on a wiki, where they can also be printed. More than 50 legal professionals and law-related, non-profit organizations contribute to the Clicklaw Wikibooks collection. Read more ...

Covid-19 Resources for British Columbians

Covid-19 Resources for British Columbians provides a list of links to information dealing with the ways Covid-19 public health directives are affecting people's lives. We are in the process of moving the content from this wikibook to the Clicklaw website. We will no longer be updating it beginning on December 14, 2020.

Featured Clicklaw Wikibooks

Below are the most recently updated publications. For other titles, see the complete list.

	JP Boyd on Family Law A practical, in-depth, plain-language manual of family law and divorce law in British Columbia.
	Dial-A-Law A service of People's Law School, Dial-A-Law features free information on the law in British Columbia in over 130 topic areas.
	Consumer and Debt Law From People's Law School, a resource for advocates and other legal professionals helping clients with consumer or debt problems.
	Tenant Survival Guide From TRAC, a legal resource on residential tenancy law for tenants.

About this site

This site is operated by Courthouse Libraries BC with the assistance of the Clicklaw Wikibooks Advisory Committee. The site is operated in tandem with the public legal information program Clicklaw.

The main Clicklaw site is a one-stop portal to legal information & assistance for the public in BC.
The Clicklaw blog highlights what's new on Clicklaw.
Visit Clicklaw on Twitter @Clicklaw, Facebook, and YouTube.

Covid-19 Resources is moving to Clicklaw

We are in the process of moving the content from Covid-19 Resources for British Columbians to the Clicklaw website.

What does that mean?

We are going through the list of resources in the wikibook and making sure you can find them on the Clicklaw website
We are updating Clicklaw’s common questions with Covid-19 resources so you can find good starting points for your legal issues
The pages will remain here, but we will no longer be updating them beginning on December 14, 2020.

This move does not affect the other wikibook titles on Clicklaw Wikibooks.

Have questions about the move? Please email us: editor@clicklaw.bc.ca.

Clicklaw Wikibooks contributors

View the full list of contributors: legal professionals and law-related, non-profit organizations

For contributors

If you are a contributor collaborating in developing and updating content on a Clicklaw Wikibook, see the Clicklaw Wikibooks Contributor Guide for step-by-step instructions on using the wiki platform.
If you are a contributor to the main Clicklaw website, you can find support on updating your organization's entries in the Clicklaw Website Contributor Guide.

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-If this is not your first time visiting, you may notice something different here. We updated the homepage design on August 31st, 2020.
+We are in the process of moving the content from [[Covid-19 Resources for British Columbians]] to the [https://www.clicklaw.bc.ca/ Clicklaw website].
+What does that mean?
+* We are going through the list of resources in the wikibook and making sure you can find them on the Clicklaw website
+* We are updating Clicklaw’s common questions with Covid-19 resources so you can find good starting points for your legal issues
+* The pages will remain here, but we will no longer be updating them beginning on December 14, 2020.
+This move does not affect [[Contents | the other wikibook titles]] on Clicklaw Wikibooks.
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+Have questions about the move? Please email us: editor@clicklaw.bc.ca.
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