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Published June 22, 2017
TORONTO, Ont. (June 22, 2017) Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is providing $100,000 of funding to a project headed by an Ottawa-based organization to provide services to Black students facing suspension or expulsion hearings. The Somali Centre for Family Services of Ottawa has been given a one-time grant worth $100,000 to provide legal representation, advocacy or…
Published May 19, 2017
Between May 23 and June 16, 2017, Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) will be holding a series of in-person and online consultations sessions to address the need to temporarily suspend some refugee services. Without additional funding to meet the increased demand for refugee and immigration legal aid services, LAO must take immediate steps to ensure it…
Published May 9, 2017
On behalf of Legal Aid Ontario, I have received the independent review performed by Deloitte for the Ministry of the Attorney General. Over the past four months Deloitte thoroughly examined LAO’s work and interviewed staff and stakeholders. Their review of our work affirmed the feasibility of LAO’s balanced budget plan while offering recommendations for LAO…
Published April 18, 2017
After listening to feedback from community agencies that serve racialized communities, Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) has translated its most requested brochures and fact sheets into the ten most requested languages. “When we started looking at developing a strategy to address the needs of racialized groups, we saw an opportunity to give people a better understanding…
Published March 31, 2017
On April 1, 2017, Legal Aid Ontario is raising the eligibility threshold for all legal aid services another six per cent. LAO implemented the first of multiple six per cent increases on Nov. 1, 2014. Certificate program The certificate program provides eligible, low income Ontarians publicly funded legal representation. A certificate is a voucher guaranteeing that…
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…
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