The Legal Centre provides duty counsel at Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) hearings.

Duty counsel can:

• Negotiate with your landlord for you
• Give you advice about your case
• Prepare you to speak in a hearing
• Refer you to other agencies who can help you 

LTB hearings take place in the Ministry of Natural Resources Building at 300 Water St. (at the corner of Water and Charlotte streets) in Peterborough. 

Hearings are on alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays each week. 

If you have a hearing, you should try to speak to duty counsel. 

Go to the hearing room early on the morning of your hearing.  Sign up on the list to speak to duty counsel.  If you are called before you have spoken to duty counsel, you can ask the adjudicator to allow you to wait until you have had a chance to speak to duty counsel.

It is best if you contact the Legal Centre for advice as soon as possible.  The Legal Centre can give you advice about LTB notices, how to make an application to LTB, repayment plans, and documentation to take to a hearing.

You can call the Legal Centre at 749-9355 for advice.

The Legal Centre has a walk in housing clinic on Friday mornings from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.  This clinic is run on a first come, first served basis.  If you come to the clinic, make sure to bring all your notices, receipts, leases/rental agreements, letters, reports and/or pictures.

The Advocacy Centre for Tenants - Ontario (ACTO) is a provincial specialty legal clinic funded by Legal Aid Ontario. ACTO works to better the housing situation of low-income Ontario residents including tenants, co-op members and people who are homeless. ACTO achieves this through test case litigation, lobbying and law reform, housing policy work, community organizing and public legal education.  ACTO manages the province-wide Tenant Duty Counsel program.