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Table 6
Legal aid plan direct legal service expenditures

Legal aid plan direct legal service expenditures
	Total	Total direct expenditures	Percent of total	Direct legal service expenditures
	Total	Total direct expenditures	Percent of total	Criminal matters		Civil matters
	thousands of dollars		percent	thousands of dollars	percent ¹	thousands of dollars	percent ¹
Newfoundland and Labrador
2004/2005	.	.	…	.	…	.	…
2005/2006	.	.	…	.	…	.	…
2006/2007	.	.	…	.	…	.	…
2007/2008	.	.	…	.	…	.	…
2008/2009	.	.	…	.	…	.	…
Prince Edward Island
2004/2005	1,442	1,442	100	..	…	..	…
2005/2006	..	..	…	..	…	..	…
2006/2007	1,336 ^r	1,336 ^r	100	682 ^r	51	654 ^r	49
2007/2008	1,464 ^r	1,464 ^r	100	701 ^r	48	763 ^r	52
2008/2009	..	..	…	..	…	..	…
Nova Scotia
2004/2005	16,309	14,825	91	8,384	57	6,441	43
2005/2006	18,466	17,209	93	9,398	55	7,811	45
2006/2007	18,978	17,820	94	9,883	55	7,937	45
2007/2008	21,314	19,888	93	11,576	58	8,312	42
2008/2009	23,420	21,785	93	12,461	57	9,324	43
New Brunswick
2004/2005	4,987	4,266	86	2,719	64	1,547	36
2005/2006	6,325	5,255	83	3,474	66	1,781	34
2006/2007	6,959	6,178	89	4,077	66	2,101	34
2007/2008	6,297	5,663	90	3,052	54	2,611	46
2008/2009	7,869	6,753	86	4,033	60	2,720	40
Quebec ²
2004/2005	132,225	119,717	91	46,329	39	73,388	61
2005/2006	128,891	116,587	90	46,716	40	69,871	60
2006/2007	134,712	120,365	89	50,485	42	69,880	58
2007/2008	127,526	114,545	90	49,572	43	64,973	57
2008/2009	135,008	121,167	90	52,360	43	68,807	57
Ontario ³
2004/2005	302,741	234,532	77	105,330	45	129,202	55
2005/2006	351,665	282,725	80	143,957	51	138,768	49
2006/2007	325,847	254,792	78	119,951	47	134,841	53
2007/2008	332,828	251,687	76	121,431	48	130,256	52
2008/2009	356,107	272,187	76	131,232	48	140,955	52
Manitoba
2004/2005	21,365	16,728	78	9,503	57	7,225	43
2005/2006	23,531	18,351	78	11,069	60	7,282	40
2006/2007	23,118	17,503	76	11,506	66	5,997	34
2007/2008	24,511	19,019	78	12,928	68	6,091	32
2008/2009	26,899	20,645	77	13,591	66	7,054	34
Saskatchewan
2004/2005	14,468	13,361	92	9,441	71	3,920	29
2005/2006	16,631	15,016	90	10,639	71	4,377	29
2006/2007	16,935	15,756	93	11,299	72	4,457	28
2007/2008	19,147	17,660	92	13,121	74	4,539	26
2008/2009	20,495	19,064	93	14,213	75	4,851	25
Alberta
2004/2005	42,692	37,640	88	21,752	58	15,888	42
2005/2006	49,469	42,632	86	24,389	57	18,243	43
2006/2007	48,297	41,256	85	24,758	60	16,498	40
2007/2008	53,606	44,683	83	26,827	60	17,856	40
2008/2009	66,274	54,769	83	32,862	60	21,907	40
British Columbia
2004/2005	60,623	48,347	80	33,026	68	15,321	32
2005/2006	66,810	52,854	79	35,329	67	17,525	33
2006/2007	72,217	57,399	79	38,121	66	19,278	34
2007/2008	78,122	59,747	76	39,549	66	20,198	34
2008/2009	82,039	64,214	78	40,954	64	23,260	36
Yukon
2004/2005	1,596	1,237	78	799	65	438	35
2005/2006	1,714	1,400	82	923	66	477	34
2006/2007	1,695	1,364	80	925	68	439	32
2007/2008	1,617	1,325	82	909	69	416	31
2008/2009	1,780	1,485	83	1,053	71	432	29
Northwest Territories ⁴
2004/2005	4,125	2,677	65	..	…	..	…
2005/2006	4,380	2,714	62	1,660	61	1,054	39
2006/2007	4,487	2,863	64	1,907	67	956	33
2007/2008	5,058	3,448	68	2,419	70	1,029	30
2008/2009	4,646	3,240	70	2,313	71	927	29
Nunavut
2004/2005	5,023	2,300	46	1,650	72	650	28
2005/2006	5,430	2,601	48	2,040	78	561	22
2006/2007	5,575	2,999	54	2,500	83	499	17
2007/2008	..	..	…	..	…	..	…
2008/2009	5,730	1,815	32	1,130	62	685	38
Total
2004/2005	607,596	497,072	82	…	…	…	…
2005/2006	673,312	557,344	83	289,594	52	267,750	48
2006/2007	660,156 ^r	539,631 ^r	82	276,094 ^r	51	263,537 ^r	49
2007/2008	671,490 ^r	539,129 ^r	80	282,085 ^r	52	257,044 ^r	48
2008/2009	730,267	587,124	80	306,202	52	280,922	48

Percent of direct expenditures.

For Quebec, the breakdown in direct legal expenditures is estimated.

Ontario has 79 legal aid clinics that are independent, non-profit organizations funded by the legal aid plan. Staff lawyers and community legal workers at these clinics provide legal aid services primarily in “other” civil matters, particularly in the area of poverty law which includes, social assistance/income maintenance, landlord and tenant, workers’ compensation, criminal injuries compensation, and refugee and immigration matters. In 2008/2009, these clinics accounted for about 21% of total legal aid expenditures. Ontario's figure for direct legal aid expenditures includes an estimate for work done by private lawyers, but not billed to the legal aid plan by year-end. A change in the method used to estimate this figure resulted in a one-time increase in direct legal services expenditures (affecting criminal and civil matters) of $33.6 million in 2005/2006.

Prior to 2005/2006, a breakdown of direct legal aid expenditures by type of matter is not available, but they are included in the figure for total expenditures.

Note(s):

For more details on legal aid concepts and terminology please refer to the glossary.

Source(s):

Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Legal Aid Survey 3308.

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Table 6Legal aid plan direct legal service expenditures

Table 6
Legal aid plan direct legal service expenditures