The South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALCO) is a not-for-profit legal aid clinic that was first established in 1999. In September 2007 SALCO was given permanent legal clinic status by Legal Aid Ontario.

SALCO’s mandate is to provide access to justice for low-income South Asians in the Greater Toronto area. As a specialty clinic funded by Legal Aid Ontario, SALCO provides advice, brief services, and legal representation in a various areas of poverty law, including:

Immigration
Human Rights
Ontario Works / Ontario Disability Support Program
Tenant’s rights
Criminal Injuries Compensation
Old Age Security
Canada Pension Plan

In addition to casework, SALCO’s mandate also includes public legal education, law reform initiatives, community development, and test case work.

SALCO’s hopes to empower low-income South Asians and be a voice for positive change in the South Asian community in the Greater Toronto Area.

Learn more about SALCO. 

                               

      
      
 
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Goings On:

SALCO is closed on Monday Aug. 2, 2010 for Civic Holiday.

SALCO has moved to a new location as of March 31, 2010.

Network of Agencies Against Forced Marriages

SALCO AGM Report 2009

SALCO AGM Report 2008

Public Legal Education

Bill 103 Summit

Colour of Poverty

CLEO 6-languages Project

Rights of Non-Status Women

Provincial Learning Advisory Committee- Linguistic Access

  

Contact   SALCO 
  Address: 
  45 Sheppard Ave. E  
  Suite 106A
  Toronto, Ontario
  M2N 5W9

Phone:   416-487-6371

Fax:       416-487-6456


Hours of operations:

Monday,Tuesday,Thursday,Friday
9:30am-5:00pm.(closed everyday 
from12:30pm -1:00pm for lunch)
Wednesday 9:30pm-12:30pm

Nearest Subway:
Sheppard Station
(Yonge University Line)