About Us
WHO WE ARE
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Canadian Veterans Legal Services promotes self-sufficiency, stability, and financial security for Canadian Armed Forces veterans through comprehensive and accessible legal services. CVLS’s unique model of delivering services on-site at homeless shelters and service centers allows it to reach veterans who would otherwise go without the legal help they need.
Our partnerships with shelters, courts, and supportive services providers enable CVLS to make legal services accessible and collaborate with other professionals, ensuring the best chance of veteran success.
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OUR MISSION
TO BE CHANGED Hegel believed that civil society and the state were polar opposites, within the scheme of his dialectic theory of history. The modern dipole state–civil society was reproduced in the theories of Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx. Nowadays in post-modern theory civil society is necessarily a source of law, by being the basis from which people form opinions and lobby for what they believe law should be. As Australian barrister and author Geoffrey Robertson QC wrote of international law.
One of its primary modern sources is found in the responses of ordinary men and women, and of the non-governmental organizations which many of them support, to the human rights abuses they see on the television screen in their living rooms.
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International law can refer to three things:
Public International Law
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Private International Law or Conflicts of Laws
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The Law of Supranational Organizations
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The great end, for which men entered into society, was to secure their property. That right is preserved sacred and incommunicable in all instances, where it has not been taken away or abridged by some public law for the good of the whole … If no excuse can be found or produced, the silence of the books is an authority against the defendant, and the plaintiff must have judgment.
- CVLS
Major Kashmeel McKöena (retired) spent several years as a Military lawyer with the Office of Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the Canadian Armed Forces.
In 2012, Major McKöena retired from the JAG and entered private practice with McKöena Professional Law Corporation. Since then Major McKöena has built a well established practice that has helped veterans overcome their legal challenges.
About Me
Major Kashmeel D McKöena
Qualified Legal Attorneys
Over 19 Years of Experience
Over 150 Jury & Court Trial Victories
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PTSD
PTSD Canada is a proud sponsor and supporter of Canadian Veterans Legal Services
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