ARCH Membership

Membership to ARCH is open to any person who supports the objectives of ARCH and meets the criteria set out in our by-law. Members must also agree with the objectives of ARCH Disability Law Centre which are to:

  • Identify key legal disability issues and conduct test-case litigation;
  • Monitor and respond to law and policy developments affecting persons with disabilities;
  • Provide legal representation, summary advice and referral for individual persons with disabilities;
  • Provide education to the public and the legal profession on disability-related law;
  • Maintain a range of publicly available publications and legal materials;
  • Undertake a variety of community development activities.

Members of ARCH will receive our print or electronic newsletter and are eligible to vote at our Annual General Meeting. If you would like to become a member of ARCH, please fill out the membership application form and return it to ARCH via fax, email or mail.

Membership in the Centre is open to any person who meets the following criteria and whose application for membership the Board approves:

(a) resides in the Province of Ontario;
(b) is at least eighteen (18) years of age;
(c) is not an ‘un-discharged bankrupt’;
(d) has not been dismissed as an employee of the Centre, has not taken legal action against the Centre in the preceding ten years, and does not have litigation pending against the Centre.

The membership year shall run from the period immediately after the last annual general meeting (AGM) until the adjournment of the next AGM. Only those members whose membership applications or renewals the board has approved at least thirty (30) days prior to the Annual General Meeting and whose names appear on the eligibility list, shall be eligible to vote at that meeting.
 

Membership in the Centre is open to any person who meets the following criteria and whose application for membership the Board approves:

(a) resides in the Province of Ontario;
(b) is at least eighteen (18) years of age;
(c) is not an ‘un-discharged bankrupt’;
(d) has not been dismissed as an employee of the Centre, has not taken legal action against the Centre in the preceding ten years, and does not have litigation pending against the Centre.

The membership year shall run from the period immediately after the last annual general meeting (AGM) until the adjournment of the next AGM. Only those members whose membership applications or renewals the board has approved at least thirty (30) days prior to the Annual General Meeting and whose names appear on the eligibility list, shall be eligible to vote at that meeting.

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