Geographies of legal resistances: Legal clinic struggles to empower marginalized groups

0ntario's first legal aid clinics were developed in the early 1970s by activists concerned about the marginalization of the poor within the legal system and the failure of the existing legal aid certificate program to meet the poverty law needs of groups such as tenants, welfare recipients, immigrants, injured workers, and persons with disabilities. Some of these activists were lawyers and law students; others were involved in low-income …