Sentences with phrase «legal aid plans»

The Ontario Legal Aid Plan expanded significantly between 1968 and 1989.

According to the report, about 745,000 applications for legal assistance were received by legal aid plans in the 11 reporting provinces and territories in 2009 - 10, down five per cent from the previous year.

Canada's legal aid plans spent $ 659 million on delivering legal aid services in 2006/2007, or the equivalent of $ 20 for every Canadian.

In 2014, a joint Working Group of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) and the Association of Legal Aid Plans of Canada (ALAP) collaborated to formulate and propose national legal aid benchmarks for Canada.

Through Provincial legal aid plans across Canada, thousands of defendants receive free or subsidized legal defences.

The principles underlying the development of the modern legal aid plan — that equality before the law required that individuals have access to legal representation regardless of their means, and that legal aid should therefore considered as a right, not a charitable gift — were part of a larger vision of a «just society.»

Elsewhere, the MoJ has released consultations on new criminal legal aid plans and further proposed changes to judicial review.

And the final highlight of the report shows in the reporting provinces and territories, even though almost 10,000 lawyers — private lawyers: 87 per cent; legal aid plan staff lawyers: 13 per cent — provided legal aid assistance in 2009 - 10, those numbers are down two per cent from the previous year.

Provincial and territorial legal aid plans — excluding New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island — spent $ 762 million to provide legal aid services, or about $ 23 for every Canadian.

Federal contributions to provincial legal aid plans were unchanged from the year before...

Following two years of decline, the 11 reporting legal aid plans registered an increase of 4 % in legal aid applications in 2008/2009.

Legal aid plans need to properly fund pre-trial conferences.

Enter Legal Aid Ontario's (LAO) new blog — the first ever by a Canadian Legal Aid plan.

In a post last month, I reviewed efforts by former Minister of Justice to establish a national legal aid plan.

One of the most significant developments during this period was the advent of the modern Ontario Legal Aid Plan.

Similarly, the establishment of Ontario's legal aid plan in 1967 and the steady growth in community legal clinics in the 70s, including law school clinic programs with a special connection to the work of the Provincial Courts, were powerful forces inevitably leading to a more transparent court.

Other than Quebec and Ontario, legal aid plans spent more on criminal than civil cases in 2009 - 10.

The report also shows that legal aid plans across the country received $ 721 million in funding, of which 93 per cent came from the provincial / territorial and federal goverments.

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At that time, LAO LAW was called The Research Facility, as it was when it began in 1979, at which time LAO was the Ontario Legal Aid Plan.

Just over 11,000 lawyers, from both the private sector and legal aid plans, provided legal aid assistance in 2006/2007, a 9 %

Under this approach to legal aid, sometimes referred to as the «judicare» model, services are provided to low - income persons by private lawyers on the basis of certificates issued by the legal aid plan.

Justice Jack Nadelle, who began his career as an assistant Crown Attorney in 1968 — immediately after the introduction of the Legal Aid Plan in 1967 — and continued to serve as a prosecutor until 1977 when he was appointed to the Provincial Court in Ottawa, saw first - hand the effects of legal aid on the work of the Provincial Court (Criminal Division).

By the time I started as an assistant Crown Attorney in 1968, the Legal Aid Plan seemed well - established but not yet fully realized.

As a legal aid plan, we had significant cost and time constraints.

The Law Society Amendment Act, 1951 authorized the Law Society to establish the «Ontario Legal Aid Plan,» in order to compensate lawyers for the expenses they incurred, but not the time they spent, when representing low - income Ontarians.

- Legal aid plans spent $ 673 million on providing services in 2005/2006, or the equivalent of $ 21 for every Canadian.

As the territory's legal aid plan, LSB is responsible for providing legal services to financially eligible Nunavummiut in the areas of criminal, family and civil law.

In 2008/2009, legal aid plans spent approximately $ 730 million on providing legal aid services in 11 provinces and territories [excluding NL & PEI], which amounts to approximately $ 22 for every Canadian.

1 Community legal clinics that receive funding from the legal aid plan established under the Legal Aid Act.

The Legal Aid Services Act, 1998, S.O. 1998, c. 26, ended LSUC's ownership and operation of the Ontario Legal Aid Plan, and in its place established Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), as a corporation without share capital, «independent from, but accountable to the Government of Ontario,» as set out in the Act (s. 3 (4)-RRB-.

«As with all legal aid plans, Legal Aid Ontario operates within a fixed budget so must be responsible in how the public money it receives from the Ontario government is spent,» says spokesman Feroneh Neil.

This is, of course, exactly the situation which arises when the client's legal fees are paid by the... Legal Aid Plan.»

As president of the CLA from 2007 — 2009, Mr. Addario led a sustained battle to restore the effectiveness of Ontario's legal aid plan.

His application for funding by the Legal Aid plan was turned down.

Just over 11,000 lawyers, from both the private sector and legal aid plans, provided legal aid assistance in 2006/2007, a 9 % decline from the previous year.

Legal Aid plans have been trimmed to the bare essentials.

[1] A lawyer may assist in making legal services available by participating in the Legal Aid Plan and lawyer referral services and by engaging in programmes of public information, education or advice concerning legal matters.

Legal aid plans are at the forefront of new innovations in service delivery, leading to an expansion in the traditional scope of service and the population served.

In the latest ruling on the case, Campbell ordered Gratl to personally pay $ 100,000, with $ 50,000 going to the Ontario Legal Aid Plan and $ 50,000 to the lawyer acting for the child's mother, Julie Kirkpatrick.

In 2012, we are likely to see serious fiscal pressures on Access to Justice through budget freezes or cuts to legal aid plans, courts and other justice programs.