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Published March 29, 2017
By David Field, President and CEO, Legal Aid Ontario Fifty years ago this week, this advertisement appeared in major newspapers in Ontario: Click here to download image. In case you can’t read the text at the bottom, here’s what some of it says. You can also read the PDF. A criminal or civil action, or…
Published March 27, 2017
This spring, 144,000 more Ontarians will be able to qualify for legal aid services, thanks to a six per cent increase to the financial eligibility threshold that comes into effect on April 1. Ontario’s 2014 budget committed to increasing the eligibility threshold for legal aid by six per cent over multiple years. This raise has given…
Published March 1, 2017
TORONTO, Ont (March 1, 2017) Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is working to decrease criminal court delays and better support its clients by providing coverage for mandatory second judicial pre-trials to courts across Ontario. A second judicial pre-trial is a substantial meeting between Crown and defence with a judge to determine options for resolving a case, or…
Published January 10, 2017
Click here to download image. This year’s winner of the Sidney B. Linden Award is Ryan Peck, executive director of the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario (HALCO). Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) will honour Mr. Peck at a ceremony in Toronto’s Osgoode Hall this February. Mr. Peck has diligently fought for low-income people who require help…
Published December 8, 2016
(TORONTO, ON – December 8, 2016) Legal Aid Ontario is releasing a strategy paper on the bail system in Ontario. Approximately 62 per cent of people in Ontario jails are in custody without having been convicted or sentenced for a crime. Many of these people are facing charges for non-violent offences. Over the past 15…
Published December 1, 2016
Legal Aid Ontario’s articling students held a vote earlier this year to determine if they wished to organize with the Society of Energy Professionals as their exclusive bargaining agent. The vote was counted today at the Ontario Labour Board and the result was 29 in favour and 4 opposed. In the coming days, LAO will…
Published November 15, 2016
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) invites you to give feedback on how to make LAO’s work more transparent, and its data more publicly accessible. Earlier this year, LAO released a discussion paper: Open Government at Legal Aid Ontario: Promoting Transparency and Accountability in Ontario’s Justice System. Now, LAO wants to hear from you. The feedback collected…
Published November 7, 2016
Please note that all Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) offices, as well as our toll-free number, will be closed on Friday, Nov. 11 to observe Remembrance Day. All legal aid offices and our call centre will resume regular business hours on Monday, Nov 14.
Published October 28, 2016
Click here to download image. If you know someone worthy of this award and haven’t already nominated him or her, please complete the nomination form and send it to LAO’s Communications department. The deadline for submission-Friday, November 4-is only a week away. LAO created the Sidney B. Linden award to honour exceptional individuals who have…
Published October 27, 2016
Click here to download image. The Government of Ontario has reappointed John D. McCamus as Chair of the Legal Aid Ontario Board of Directors for another two years, effective September 28, 2016. Mr. McCamus was called to the bar in 1973 and has been LAO’s Board Chair since July 2007. Over the course of his…
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