Tuesday 5 March 2013

Toronto CONNECT LEGAL Charity for Immigrant Small Business.

170 BLOOR ST. WEST at Avenue Road (in same building as PARK HYATT - BLOOR STREET ENTRANCE)

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for our Volunteer Lawyer Matching Program, (FIFTY FREE HOURS)you must:

Be an immigrant who has been granted permission to remain in Canada;
Have been in Canada for 10 years or less;
Be operating or launching a viable business;
Be unable to afford legal services as determined by our economic guidelines; and
Complete an application and provide all required documentation.

Please click here to download an application form. You can submit the application form, with the supporting documents, to info@connectlegal.ca.

Note: Connect Legal reserves the right to determine which applicants it accepts. Factors considered include the viability of your business, your participation in a formal business program and/or the nature of the legal expertise required.

Business Viability

Please be advised that we favour those applicants who are already enrolled in or completed formal business support programs. If you are not in such a program, you may still be eligible, but we will need to see indicators that your business is at a stage where a donation of volunteer lawyer services is warranted. Some of the things which we look for include the following:
1) Business is already up and running receiving revenue
2) Applicant has a highly developed business plan
3) Applicant has invested money in the business
4) Applicant has strong references from potential clients
5) Applicant has employees
6) Other factors
We are happy to discuss this with you in more detail over the phone before you fill out the application. Please contact us at info@connectlegal.ca or 416-964-3933.

Economic Guidelines

To qualify for Connect Legal's pro bono legal assistance, your gross household annual income must not exceed the figures below depending on the size of your household:

Household Size	Maximum Annual Household Income (Gross)
1 person	$36,000 / year
2	$54,000 / year
3	$61,992 / year
4	$73,992 / year

If you have any question about the income guidelines, please contact us.

UK: KOSOVO PSYCHOPATHIC REFUGEE

From DAILY MAIL

Refugee poster boy unmasked as drugs gang boss behind plot to flood the country that gave him refuge with £1.2m of cocaine

Arben Dumani was 10 when he escaped worn-torn Kosovo with his family
He was interviewed by the media about starting a new life in Glasgow
But 13 years on, it has emerged he is the boss of a drugs smuggling gang
Dumani, now 23, was jailed for 12 years at the Glasgow High Court
Gang members Albert Memia, Fabion Ponari, and Gjeorgj Pjetri, also jailed

By Grant Mccabe
PUBLISHED: 22:23 GMT, 5 March 2013 | UPDATED: 01:06 GMT, 6 March 2013

Jailed: Arben Dumani, pictured taking part in an apprentice joiners scheme in Glasgow, was the boss of a drugs smuggling gang

Jailed: Kosovan refugee Arben Dumani, 23, became the boss of a gang plotting to smuggle drugs into the UK - just 13 years after being granted refuge to live in the country

He came to Britain as a ten-year-old schoolboy, escaping his war-torn Kosovan homeland to a promising future in a safe new home.
But yesterday, 13 years after arriving, child refugee poster boy Arben Dumani was unmasked as the boss of a drugs gang behind a plot to flood the country that gave him refuge with £1.2m of cocaine.
Unrepentant Dumani stood in the dock as prosecutors described a drug dealing enterprise involving him and with his three henchmen as on a ‘virtually industrial scale’.
During a dawn raid on a safe house in Glasgow last year, officers seized over 2kg of the Class A drug and substances and equipment used to bulk out the pure drugs.
The mob helped bring about their own downfall by taking mobile phone photos of themselves snorting cocaine laid out to spell their names.
The four – all originally from Eastern Europe – were sentenced to a total of 30 years and six months at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday.
Detective Chief Superintendent Athol Aitken said: ‘This serious organised crime group, led by Arben Dumani, was involved in the importation of cocaine with an estimated street value of £1.2million.
‘This was a significant quantity of drugs that would have caused untold harm to Scottish communities and I welcome the court result which will ensure the individuals involved are held accountable for their crimes.’
Dumani was just 10 when he and his relatives escaped the horrors of their Kosovan homeland for a new life in Glasgow.