The Clinique juridique du Grand-Montréal, a non-profit organization, has been committed for nearly three years to providing concrete access to justice in Quebec. In recent years, we have redoubled our efforts to ensure that our users receive services that take into account the systemic barriers they face.
Thanks to the support of multiple financial and community partners, we were able to set up community legal clinics in Montréal-Nord, followed by a second access point in Côtes-des-Neiges.
Our clinic ensures that we can serve you in five languages (French, English, Spanish, Creole and Arabic).
Our mission
Our mission is to generate concrete access to justice, to dismantle the various manifestations of systemic barriers in which the litigant navigates, such as language, culture or transportation, and to be an activist reference in racial profiling.
Our values
The core values of the Clinique juridique du Grand-Montréal are as follows:
Solidarity
Mobilize around issues, provide legal support and, if necessary, refer to other appropriate organizations.
Respect
Act with honesty and transparency, respecting your rights and taking your situation into account.
Social justice
Eliminating discrimination and systemic racism through greater social equity and access to justice.
These values guide the clinic’s actions and contribute to its goal of improving access to justice and promoting social justice in the Greater Montreal community.
Our founder
Marie-Livia Beaugé is a committed lawyer. Sensitive to the injustices she herself experienced as a victim of racial profiling in her youth, she decided to use the law as a means to help others.
Having grown up in Côte-des-Neiges, a neighborhood facing multiple challenges, Ms. Beaugé can’t remain silent in the face of injustice, and nurtures a deep sense of protest. Her academic career led her to study law at the University of Paris.
UQÀM
where she began offering occasional legal consultations in various Montréal-Nord community centers with other students from the Association des Étudiants.e.s Noir.e.s en droit – Volet UQAM.
Association des Étudiants.e.s Noir.e.s en droit – Volet UQAM
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Following her swearing-in in 2019, she established the Clinique juridique de Montréal-Nord, which found refuge for a year in the premises of the organization
Hoodstock
with whom she had worked to create the
Hoodistique Justice
an alternative justice program by and for black people.
Ms. Beaugé practices in civil, criminal and immigration law, yet she always keeps an important place in her practice for giving back to the community.
History of CJGM
2017
Start of initiave
UQAM law students have launched a community legal clinic in partnership with the Centre des loisirs multi-ethnique de Montréal-Nord.
2020
CJGM registration
Marie-Livia Beaugé founds the clinic in Montreal North with the support of several students and the Hoodstock Événement organization.
2021
Second access point
Thanks to a partnership with
CELO
The legal clinic opens a new point of service offering free consultations on Saturdays. This was the beginning of the Côte-des-neiges Legal Clinic.
Following the opening of the new service point. The Clinique juridique de Montréal-Nord and the Clinique juridique de Côte-des-neiges are now part of the Clinique juridique du Grand-Montréal.
Groups and organizations who support our work
