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1 results foundAuthor: Canada. Statistics Canada Title: Legal Aid in Canada: Resource and Caseload Statistics, 2009/2010 Summary: This annual report provides an analytical overview of the revenues, expenditures and caseloads of legal aid plans in Canada. It includes information at the provincial/territorial level on legal aid delivery systems, sources of revenue, expenditures on legal aid services, and legal aid caseloads. Highlights for 2009/2010 include the following: • In 2009/2010, legal aid plans spent $762 million on providing legal aid services in 11 provinces and territories, which amounts to about $23 for every Canadian. After adjusting for inflation, legal aid spending was up about 4% from the previous year. • With the exception of Quebec and Ontario, legal aid plans spent more on criminal matters than civil matters in 2009/2010. The Quebec legal aid plan allocated 43% of its direct expenditures to criminal matters, while in Ontario the figure was 47%. In the other jurisdictions the proportion of direct expenditures on criminal matters ranged from 56% for Alberta to 74% for Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. • Legal aid in Canada is funded primarily by provincial/territorial and federal governments. In 2009/2010, legal aid plans reported receiving funding totalling over $721 million with 93% of this amount coming from government sources. Other funding is received by way of client contributions, cost recovery monies and contributions from the legal profession. • Provincial and territorial governments directly fund both criminal and civil legal aid. The $547 million contribution in 2009/2010 represented a 6% increase from the previous year (after inflation) and marked the fifth consecutive annual increase. In 2009/2010, funding was up in 9 of the 13 jurisdictions (after inflation), led by Manitoba at 31%. • The federal government contributes directly to the cost of criminal legal aid only. In 2009/2010, funding for all 13 jurisdictions totalled $112 million. After adjusting for inflation, this figure was down slightly from the year before. • About 745,000 applications for legal assistance were received by legal aid plans in the 11 reporting provinces and territories in 2009/2010, a decline of 5% from the previous year. The decline was driven by fewer civil legal aid applications as the number of criminal legal aid applications remained unchanged. Civil matters accounted for over half (55%) of applications received. • In 2009/2010, the reporting legal aid plans approved almost 500,000 applications for full legal aid services (including providing information, advice and representation in court), a decrease of 1% from the previous year. Criminal matters accounted for over half (56%) of approved applications. • In the reporting provinces and territories, almost 10,000 lawyers from both the private sector and legal aid plans provided legal aid assistance in 2009/2010, a decline of 2% from the previous year. Private lawyers accounted for 87% of those providing legal aid services, while legal aid plan staff lawyers accounted for the remaining 13%. Details: Ottawa: Ministry of Industry, 2011. 125p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 25, 2011 at: http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection-R/Statcan/85F0015XIE/85F0015XIE.html Year: 2011 Country: Canada URL: http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection-R/Statcan/85F0015XIE/85F0015XIE.html Shelf Number: 121486 Keywords: Assistance to the PoorCourts (Canada)Legal AidPublic Defenders |