Rise's latest report in a series on how the legal system fails women experiencing family violence in BC. Building on Rise’s research results in our wildly successful Why Can’t Everyone Just Get Along report released earlier this year, Are We Ready to Change? provides...

Section 211 reports are ordered in difficult family law cases where the parents cannot agree about parenting issues. Sometimes called "custody and access reports", section 211 reports are written by a neutral professional and provide judges with information about the...

The Family Advocate Support Line provides legal support to Law Foundation-funded family law advocates and other frontline workers, including transition home staff and settlement workers, by answering questions by telephone and email. FASL does not provide any direct...

If you are involved in a family law matter, you have certain rights under the law. However, to preserve your rights, you must pay attention to certain time limits. This document sets out some deadlines and time limits that may apply to you, and we have made it...

This toolkit provides an overview of some of the major issues that lawyers may encounter when requesting or responding to psychological reports ordered under s. 211 of the Family Law Act. Section 211 reports (sometimes called “custody and access reports” in other...

This webinar is for lawyers, law students, advocates, or anyone working with people in the family court system. We will discuss Rise’s research in the ways that colonial law is harmful for Indigenous clients, and provide recommendations on how to decolonize family...

4 March 2021 11:00 am - 12:15 Rise -SFU-Webinar-advert With Margaret Jackson, Professor Emerita in the School of Criminology and Director of the FREDA Centre at Simon Fraser University, and Haley Hrymak, who works with Rise Women’s Legal Centre representing...

This project was conducted between June 2017 and May 2020 and made possible by generous funding from  Women and Gender Equality Canada. The project team is grateful to the key informants and interdisciplinary experts we interviewed and consulted with throughout this...

Submissions to the British Columbia Law Institute, developed in consultation with a group of front-line family support organizations, anti-violence advocates, family law experts and feminist legal advocates with expertise in child protection law and practice....

Rise Women's Legal Centre is pleased to offer its official Financial Statement for the fiscal year 2019-20, which have undergone a thorough professional review engagement by an outside accounting firm, and have been approved by our Board of Directors. 2019-20 Rise...