Legal Aid Ontario announced it is planning a three-year increase to financial eligibility thresholds for family and criminal duty counsel and criminal certificate services.

For over a year, Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) faced questions about a rather unusual issue for public institutions — what to do with a surplus of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Legal Aid Alberta, a publicly funded, non-profit organization that provides affordable legal services to disadvantaged Albertans, says its contract has been extended and negotiations will continue.

Alberta's provincial government has announced an update to the financial eligibility guidelines for Legal Aid Alberta, marking what it says is a pivotal step towards broadening access to legal ...

Forecast spending for 2025 is $297.3 million, a 54.6% rise from 2020.

Dalhousie Legal Aid Service is a community-based office in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It also is a clinical program for law students and is operated by the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.

As legal aid clients increasingly present with unmet health, social and economic needs, cases are more complex, lengthy and costly. Community need for legal assistance is high.

Legal Aid NT offers free legal representation for people in court. (ABC News: Hamish Harty) The proposed changes mean from January 1, Legal Aid NT will refuse to accept new adult clients charged ...

Legal aid is a public fund which can help pay for legal advice, family mediation and representation in a court or tribunal. Wide-ranging changes to civil legal aid came into force in April 2013 ...