Gta Legal Aid funds wrongful-conviction cases Legal Aid Ontario commits $100,000 to the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted to help finance expert opinions.

Legal Aid Ontario spokesperson Feroneh Neil didn’t dispute it’s been years since its lawyers saw a pay rise, but noted changes to the rate can be made only through ministerial approval.

The case, launched in 2017 by the Single Mothers Alliance, argues the province's legal aid funding for women fleeing abuse is inadequate, and puts them further at risk.

Legal aid lawyers are facing “administrative chaos” in the aftermath of a cyber attack amid fears more providers will leave the sector, a representative body has said.

The Legal Aid Board has told the Department of Justice it is running €1.3million over budget and faces closing some of its centres as it deals with a huge rise in cases involving asylum seekers ...

There is probably no such thing as an “easy” client for some lawyers. The individuals and the legal issues they face are probably as different as snowflakes. Still, some clients have more needs than ...

As lawyers escalate job action to demand reform of Legal Aid Alberta (LAA) funding, the organization itself is now joining in on calls for more provincial funding.

Put another way, the real terms cut of 48% means that £52 is now effectively worth £26. In 2009, a total of 98,311 legal aid immigration cases were started. But by 2023-24, that fell to 41,682. That ...

The case of a B.C. man facing securities fraud charges in connection with incidents between 2018 and 2020 returns to court in early April as the accused completes an application for legal aid ...

According to total legal aid spending figures for the same period, the proportion of aid spent on such immigration-related cases remains low at just 1.3% of the £119.7m provisionally spent in ...