Proactive disclosure

Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is a publicly funded organization, committed to transparency. If you require further information on LAO's expenses and how your tax dollars are put to use, please feel free to contact us.

Memorandum of understanding

LAO-MAG Memorandum of Understanding

LAO operates within a framework of accountability arising from the laws that govern it, including the Legal Aid Services Act and the Human Rights Code, provincial policies, agreements with clinics and its own internal policies. LAO’s administration is also governed by a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Attorney General of Ontario and LAO.

The MOU between LAO and the Ministry of the Attorney General was revised April 2014.

LAO-MAG Memorandum of Understanding 2014

Budget

Statement of operations

• Statement of operations budget for the 2017/18 fiscal year

Salary disclosure

Salary disclosure

Under the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, organizations that receive public funding from the Province of Ontario are required to disclose the names, positions, salaries and taxable benefits of employees who were paid a salary of $100,000 or more. This information is published annually on the Ontario Government website.

Expense reports

Expense reports

PDF copies of the quarterly expense reports for the LAO's senior management, president and CEO and the Chair of the board of directors

• Board Chair's expenses
• President & CEO's expenses
• Senior management expenses
• LAO board
• Organization expenses

Contracts

Contracts

PDF copies of contracts made between LAO and various vendors, employees, and other organizations.

• Vendor contracts
• Employee contracts

Service agreements

Service agreements

Details of service agreements made between LAO and other organizations.

• Clinic refugee service agreement

Public proceedings of the Board

Public proceedings of the Board

Agendas, minutes and other materials for the Legal Aid Ontario Board of Directors meetings.

• 2015 public proceedings of the Board
• 2014 public proceedings of the Board
• 2013 public proceedings of the Board
• 2012 public proceedings of the Board
• 2011 public proceedings of the Board
• 2010 public proceedings of the Board
• 2009 public proceedings of the Board

Board advisory committees

• Aboriginal issues advisory committee
• Clinic law advisory committee
• Criminal law advisory committee
• Family law advisory committee
• French language services advisory committee
• Immigration and refugee law advisory committee
• Mental health advisory committee
• Prison law advisory committee

Information requests

Information requests

Account payments

• Status update on Deloitte and MNP reports recommendations

Clinic Information Management System (CIMS)

• Response to procurement inquiry

Community legal aid clinics

• 2016/17 funding:
  
  • 2016/17 Clinic Client Service Coordination Fund expenditures
• 2015/16 funding:
  
  • 2015/16 support for clinics through Clinic Client Service Coordination Fund
  • 2015/16 support for clinics through the Clinic Transformation Fund and the Fund to Strengthen the Capacity of Community and Legal Clinics
• 2014/15 funding:
  
  • 2014/15 support for clinics through Clinic Client Service Coordination Fund
  • 2014/15 funding to transform and strengthen the capacity of community legal clinics
• Status of LAO funds for the clinics project
• Total amount of funding recovered by LAO from legal clinics as annual community clinic budget surpluses from 2006

Immigration and refugee

• Immigration and refugee law advisory committee: Meeting minutes
• Data for Hungarian refugee claims between 2006 and 2014

Legal aid panels

• Panel lawyers throughout Ontario

General and third-party information requests

These are written requests for records of a non-personal nature and responses for information requested by a third party (such as a law firm) on behalf of a client.

• Granted
• Partially granted
• Denied
• No records available to respond

Public interest related correspondence and information

African Canadian Legal Clinic (ACLC)

Committee decisions

Final Clinic Committee Decision
- Executive summary
August 16, 2017

Clinic Committee Decision
January 19, 2017

Clinic Committee Decision
June 20, 2016

Clinic Committee Decision
November 7, 2014

Clinic Committee Decision
September 5, 2014

Reviews

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC): Procedures with respect to the African Canadian Legal Clinic
April 2017

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC): Internal audit - follow-up to 2013 PwC Forensic Review
April 2016

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC): Forensic Review and Supplemental Forensic Review (credit card review)
April 2013 / Supplemental report, go to page 198

Agreements and policies

Memorandum of Understanding with the ACLC
PDF

Funding agreement with the ACLC
PDF

LAO-Clinic dispute resolution policy
PDF

Fact sheets

Why did Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) withdraw its funding from the African Canadian Legal Clinic (ACLC)?
PDF

Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

Letter regarding the cost of inmate telephone communications
Joint letter with the John Howard Society to the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services
September 13, 2017 / PDF

Criminal law association

Correspondence with Criminal Law Association
July 6, 2015