The Advocacy Centre for The Elderly is a community based legal clinic for low income senior citizens. ACE is managed by a volunteer board of directors at least half of whom are seniors. ACE is funded through Legal Aid Ontario and is the first legal clinic in Canada to specialize in the legal problems of seniors.

ACE provides direct legal services to low-income seniors, public legal education, and engages in law reform activities. ACE services and activities are in relation to areas of law of special importance to the seniors' population.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Judith Wahl, ACE's Executive Director, was awarded the Ontario Bar Association's Award for Distinguished Service on December 5, 2008.

This award recognizes exceptional contributions and/or achievements by Ontario Bar Association members to the legal profession in Ontario; or to jurisprudence in Ontario or Canada; or to the law or development of the law in Ontario; or a significant law-related benefit to the residents of Ontario.

Latest Postings

Powerpoint Slides - OCSA/ONPEA Conference - "Health Care Consent and Advance Care Planning: Getting it Right" - October 2008

Newsletter, Volume 5, Number 1, Summer 2008

Submission to the Ontario Standing Committee on Social Policy: Review of the Personal Health Information Protection Act, August 2008

Submission to the Law Commission of Ontario Concerning the Law as it Affects Older Adults, July 2008