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The Legal Services Society (LSS) is the legal aid provider in British Columbia, Canada. Its mission is to provide innovative and collaborative legal aid services that enable people with low incomes to effectively address their issues within the justice system. Services are available for family, civil, and criminal law matters and include legal information, advice, or representation, depending on the client’s legal problem. Each year the society helps tens of thousands of low-income people to solve their legal problems. LSS is a non-profit organization governed by a nine-member board of directors. While the provincial government is its primary funder, the society remains independent of government. It also receives funding from other sources, including the Law Foundation of British Columbia and the Notary Foundation of British Columbia. Provincial funding has declined over the past two decades, significantly impacting the Society's services and operations (see below). ==Services== British Columbia's Legal Services Society provides three main types of services: information services, advice services, and representation services.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Legal Aid Facts – Snapshot of Services )〕 Information services include outreach worker requests, as well as publications such as self-help manuals, legal aid awareness materials, Aboriginal publications, and general legal information. These are materials are available predominantly online through the (Legal Services Society website ) and the (Family Law in BC website ). Advice services include criminal, immigration, and family duty counsels, as well as the Brydges phone line (providing "Province-wide, toll-free telephone advice service for persons who have been arrested, detained, or are under active investigation by a law enforcement agency") and the Family LawLINE (a "phone service for financially eligible people that provides information on a variety of family law issues"). Representation services provide the full services of a lawyer for eligible individuals in the areas of criminal, family, and immigration law. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Legal Services Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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