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  • Services
    • Temporary service changes due to COVID-19
    • COVID-19 and the courts: Answers to frequently asked questions
    • Criminal legal issues
    • Domestic Violence
    • Family legal issues
    • Mental health legal issues
    • Refugee and immigration legal issues
    • All services
    • Legal clinics
    • How to apply
    • Find a lawyer
      • Finding the right legal aid lawyer
    • What do you think about our services?
  • For legal professionals
    • COVID-19: Ongoing list of supports for lawyers
    • LASA, 2020 process updates for lawyers
    • Changes to policies and certificate coverage
    • Roster resources
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Legal Aid Services Act, 2020 policies

Legal Aid Ontario is committed to accountability and transparency while continuously improving the delivery of legal aid services. LAO rules and policies provide guidance, limits and expectations and ensure high-quality services for our clients. Please review the policies below or visit LASA2020rules.ca to learn more.

Policy updates effective Oct. 18, 2021.

Policies

  • Administrative burden
  • Certificate acknowledgement
  • Certificate reinstatement and extension
  • Concurrent proceedings policy
  • Dependent child
  • Extension of unacknowledged certificate
  • Medical expense reduction to income
  • Representing co-accused and witnesses in criminal proceedings
  • Submitting certificate accounts
  • Representation where roster member previously duty counsel services

Resources

  • LASA 1998: General terms and conditions for panel lawyers
  • This form is feedback only.

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