Ontario’s legal aid program, already hit by a lawyers’ boycott, plans to lay off staff to eliminate a $56 million deficit. The move follows an announcement earlier this week that British ...

The middle class should have access to Ontario’s legal aid program and lawyers who work in the system should be paid considerably more. Those are two of seven key recommendations released ...

Duty counsel are lawyers who help and may represent persons in court, especially those who do not have any legal representation. In most cases, those who cannot afford a lawyer can reach out to a duty ...

You are right: There is something unconscionable in the operation of the legal aid program in Ontario (The Right To Be Defended - editorial, July 28). For the past 22 years, Ontario's criminal ...

After a 15-year career, Kim Marshall of Scarborough got sick and lost her job. Facing serious mental health challenges, she applied to the Ontario Disability Support Program which, she learned, was ...

The Mounted Police Professional Association announced a legal aid program on Wednesday to cover the costs of legal advice and lawyers for officers accused of wrongdoing.

Aside from criminal law, there are other legal bailiwicks, for example family law, that require legal aid funding, according to Mr. Prutschi.Mr. Prutschi, of the law firm Adler Bytensky Prutschi, ...

Legal Aid Alberta signed a new five-year governance agreement with the province on Wednesday, but one of the organization's newest programs is creating confidentiality, privilege and privacy concerns.

Manslaughter cases are getting delayed, and some Albertans are at risk of losing their children in custody cases. Those are some of the alarms being sounded by judges as the Legal Aid Alberta job ...