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Published November 6, 2024
Starting Oct. 26, 2024, Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) has enhanced its “Find A Lawyer” tool and is creating two new referral lists that will identify criminal law roster members who have completed LAO’s optional training relating to either youth clients charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) and/or clients with mental health issues. If…
Published September 5, 2024
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) will be hiring two dedicated SCJ Bail Specialists to help clients not assisted by private counsel with issues requiring applications to the SCJ and other complex bail litigation. One will be situated in the East region and the other, in the Central-East. The Bail Specialists will assist with cases where: no…
Published July 29, 2024
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is continuing to raise the compensation available to roster members doing legal aid work. Today, LAO is implementing several new tariff items for criminal, family, child protection and civil matters. For criminal matters, LAO is implementing new hourly allotments and block fee rates for global resolutions, Impact of Race and Cultural…
Published July 16, 2024
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is continuing to raise the fees roster members are paid for doing legal aid work. On July 29, 2024, LAO will implement a number of new tariff items for criminal, family, child protection and civil cases. For criminal cases, LAO will be implementing new hourly allotments and block fee rates for…
Published July 15, 2024
In response to feedback from roster members who either work from home or on a hybrid basis, LAO’s Roster Management and IT Departments have launched a new functionality through which roster members will now easily be able to show or hide their addresses. This new functionality is now available through the lawyer portal, Legal Aid…
Published June 26, 2024
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) has posted updated instructions for the submission of completed (signed and dated) Basis of Claim forms and narratives in Refugee Protection Division (RPD) matters. Since December 16, 2023, LAO has required roster members to submit completed BOC forms and narratives to LAO within 30 days of the BOC being completed. This…
Published June 13, 2024
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is pleased to share two important resources aimed at achieving racial equity in bail proceedings and improving justice outcomes for Black clients.
Published May 9, 2024
Conditionally enrolled certificate roster members and duty counsel roster members will soon receive and must respond to a three-month advance notification on Legal Aid Online that their conditional roster authorization with Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is expiring. As a reminder, under the Legal Aid Services Rules, duty counsel roster membership is 24 months in duration and…
Published April 30, 2024
Starting April 30, 2024, Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) will cover the bail court/adjournment transcripts once a habeas corpus application certificate for bail is issued. What’s covered LAO will cover the bail court/adjournment transcripts in an electronic format at the expedited rate of $8.80/page up to a maximum of $300 without the need for counsel to…
Published April 22, 2024
LAO is continuing to support backlog reduction efforts in the Ontario court of Justice by providing additional coverage for judicial pre-trials (JPT). Last November, the Ontario Court of Justice (OCJ) introduced a practice direction committing courts to setting trial dates within six months of the information sworn date. Beginning April 27, roster lawyers will be…
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