Table 14-4
Approved legal aid applications, staff and private
lawyers by type of criminal matter — Provincial offences
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Total | Staff lawyers | Private lawyers | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
number | percent | number | percent | ||
Newfoundland and Labrador | |||||
2005/2006 | . | . | … | . | … |
2006/2007 | . | . | … | . | … |
2007/2008 | . | . | … | . | … |
2008/2009 | . | . | … | . | … |
2009/2010 | . | . | … | . | … |
Prince Edward Island | |||||
2005/2006 | . | . | … | . | … |
2006/2007 | . | . | … | . | … |
2007/2008 | . | . | … | . | … |
2008/2009 | . | . | … | . | … |
2009/2010 | . | . | … | . | … |
Nova Scotia | |||||
2005/2006 | 32 | 32 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2006/2007 | 5 | 5 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2007/2008 | 8 | 8 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2008/2009 | 6 | 6 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2009/2010 | 2 | 2 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
New Brunswick | |||||
2005/2006 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100 |
2006/2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2007/2008 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 100 |
2008/2009 | 5 | 2 | 40 | 3 | 60 |
2009/2010 | .. | .. | … | .. | … |
Quebec | |||||
2005/2006 | 6,090 | 1,030 | 17 | 5,060 | 83 |
2006/2007 | 6,154 | 1,664 | 27 | 4,490 | 73 |
2007/2008 | 5,456 | 1,222 | 22 | 4,234 | 78 |
2008/2009 | 5,590 | 1,491 | 27 | 4,099 | 73 |
2009/2010 | 6,516 | 1,577 | 24 | 4,939 | 76 |
Ontario | |||||
2005/2006 | 16 | 16 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2006/2007 | 34 | 34 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2007/2008 | 67 | 67 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2008/2009 | 54 | 54 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2009/2010 | 9 | 9 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
Manitoba 1 | |||||
2005/2006 | 27 | 4 | 15 | 23 | 85 |
2006/2007 | 59 | 22 | 37 | 37 | 63 |
2007/2008 | 63 | 25 | 40 | 38 | 60 |
2008/2009 | 38 | 14 | 37 | 24 | 63 |
2009/2010 | 46 | 17 | 37 | 29 | 63 |
Saskatchewan 2 | |||||
2005/2006 | 3 | 3 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2006/2007 | 8 | 8 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2007/2008 | 6 | 6 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2008/2009 | 9 | 9 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2009/2010 | 9 | 9 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
Alberta | |||||
2005/2006 | 207 | 3 | 1 | 204 | 99 |
2006/2007 | 163 | 8 | 5 | 155 | 95 |
2007/2008 | 180 | 5 | 3 | 175 | 97 |
2008/2009 | 173 | 3 | 2 | 170 | 98 |
2009/2010 | 124 | 12 | 10 | 112 | 90 |
British Columbia | |||||
2005/2006 | 205 | 9 | 4 | 196 | 96 |
2006/2007 | 178 | 5 | 3 | 173 | 97 |
2007/2008 | 177 | 4 | 2 | 173 | 98 |
2008/2009 | 185 | 3 | 2 | 182 | 98 |
2009/2010 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 100 |
Yukon 3 | |||||
2005/2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2006/2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2007/2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2008/2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2009/2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Northwest Territories 4 | |||||
2005/2006 | . | . | … | . | … |
2006/2007 | . | . | … | . | … |
2007/2008 | . | . | … | . | … |
2008/2009 | . | . | … | . | … |
2009/2010 | . | . | … | . | … |
Nunavut 5 | |||||
2005/2006 | 6 | 5 | 83 | 1 | 17 |
2006/2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2007/2008 | .. | .. | … | .. | … |
2008/2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2009/2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | |||||
2005/2006 | 6,587 | 1,102 | 17 | 5,485 | 83 |
2006/2007 | 6,601 r | 1,746 r | 26 r | 4,855 r | 74 r |
2007/2008 | 5,959 r | 1,337 r | 22 r | 4,622 r | 78 r |
2008/2009 | 6,060 | 1,582 | 26 | 4,478 | 74 |
2009/2010 | 6,733 | 1,626 | 24 | 5,107 | 76 |
In 2005/2006, Manitoba began to issue
one legal aid certificate per matter. This led to an increase in the count
for total, approved and refused legal aid applications. In 2006/2007,
the use of certificate equivalents initiated by staff was discontinued, resulting
in a decrease in the count for total and approved applications and an increase
in refused applications. In 2009/2010, Manitoba began to include the
number of applications that were used to generate secondary or tertiary certificates
in the total number of legal aid applications reported. This led to an increase
in the count for total and approved legal aid applications and accounts for
the increase in approved applications assigned to staff and private lawyers.
In 2008, all youth matters became eligible
for legal aid under an agreement between the Saskatchewan Legal Aid Commission
and the Ministry of Justice's Court Services Branch. This led to an increase
in the count for total and approved legal aid applications.
No distinction is made between summary and
full service applications in Yukon. All applications are counted as full service
applications. Data for Yukon include duty counsel counts.
Presumed eligibility counts are not included
in the data for the Northwest Territories. Territorial offences are included
with criminal matters.
In 2009/2010, the capacity for statistical
reporting in Nunavut was limited due to issues with information tracking systems.
As a result, the number of approved applications may be underreported and
are not comparable to previous years and information is only available for
criminal matters approved to private lawyers.
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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