News & Media

Letter to City Council of Squamish Against Proposed Bylaw to Regulate Camping

Anna Cooper | May 22, 2019 | Letters & Statements

Pivot welcomes Drew Dennis as Executive Director

Pivot Legal Society | Apr 30, 2019

Project Inclusion Recommendations Influence New Bail Conditions Direction

Pivot Legal Society | Apr 17, 2019 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog, Drug Policy Reform, Project Inclusion

Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure and its Impact on Sex Working Communities: Brief to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights

Lyndsay Watson | Apr 08, 2019 | Legal Submissions

17 years of police violence in Canada

2000 - 2017: The number of victims who died after fatal interactions with police

Peter Kim | Mar 28, 2019 | Criminalization and Policing, Featured, Blog

The interests of the business community should not take precedence over human lives

Pivot Legal and the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition successfully defend the right to harm reduction and health care

Peter Kim | Mar 08, 2019 | Blog, Drug Policy Reform

Pivot Legal Society and Canadian Drug Policy Coalition successfully defend supervised consumption at Federal Court of Canada

Justice Mosley agreed with our arguments and dismissed CABA’s application, citing directly from our submissions. In his decision

Peter Kim | Feb 28, 2019 | Press Releases, Drug Policy Reform

Pivot Legal Society files appeal to BC Supreme Court Order after heavy-handed enforcement at Anita Place

We intend to inform the Court of the City and RCMP’s misconduct over the weekend, which included numerous and egregious contraventions of Justice Grauer’s decision.

Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell | Feb 25, 2019 | Press Releases, Homes For All

Pivot Legal Society seeks leave to appeal aspects of BC Supreme Court ruling on Anita Place. Encouraged by recognition of life safety concerns and the allowing of solid structures

We are encouraged by the Court's recognition of life safety concerns and the allowing of solid structures

Peter Kim | Feb 08, 2019 | Press Releases, Homes For All

VIDEO: How Court-Imposed Conditions Set People up to Fail

"Conditions of release" are imprisoning vulnerable communities in a cycle of harm that produced criminality

Peter Kim | Feb 04, 2019 | Videos, Project Inclusion