Table 6
Legal aid plan direct legal service expenditures, current dollars

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Legal aid plan direct legal service expenditures, current dollars
Table summary
"This table displays direct legal aid expenditures by legal aid plans in current dollars. The row headers provide information by province/territory and fiscal year. The column headers provide information on direct legal aid expenditures by type of matter in thousands of current dollars and as a percent of total direct legal aid expenditures and total expenditures."
  Total Total direct expenditures Percent of total Direct legal service expenditures
Criminal matters Civil matters
  thousands of dollars percent thousands of dollars percent 1 thousands of dollars percent 1
Newfoundland and Labrador  
2007/2008 8,146 7,532 92 4,630 61 2,902 39
2008/2009 10,900 10,268 94 6,060 59 4,208 41
2009/2010 10,845 10,196 94 6,009 59 4,186 41
2010/2011 12,399 11,427 92 6,615 58 4,812 42
2011/2012 12,858 11,850 92 6,860 58 4,990 42
Prince Edward Island  
2007/2008 1,464 1,464 100 701 48 763 52
2008/2009 .. .. … .. … .. …
2009/2010 .. .. … .. … .. …
2010/2011 1,838 1,838 100 875 48 963 52
2011/2012 1,814 1,814 100 820 45 994 55
Nova Scotia  
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
2009/2010 21,589 20,035 93 11,346 57 8,689 43
2010/2011 21,837 20,216 93 11,777 58 8,439 42
2011/2012 23,319 21,533 92 12,509 58 9,024 42
New Brunswick  
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
2009/2010 .. .. … .. … .. …
2010/2011 7,437 6,404 86 3,533 55 2,871 45
2011/2012 7,732 7,178 93 3,996 56 3,182 44
Quebec 2  
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
2009/2010 135,285 120,931 89 51,854 43 69,077 57
2010/2011 145,786 128,984 88 57,219 44 71,765 56
2011/2012 143,867 129,554 90 57,741 45 71,813 55
Ontario 3  
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
2009/2010 371,740 275,061 74 130,452 47 144,609 53
2010/2011 362,163 281,237 78 132,542 47 148,695 53
2011/2012 372,943 295,851 79 138,875 47 156,976 53
Manitoba 4  
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
2009/2010 31,737 22,704 72 15,905 70 6,799 30
2010/2011 29,138 21,707 74 15,520 71 6,187 29
2011/2012 29,720 22,761 77 16,177 71 6,584 29
Saskatchewan  
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
2009/2010 21,675 19,456 90 14,412 74 5,044 26
2010/2011 21,165 19,843 94 14,702 74 5,141 26
2011/2012 22,295 20,849 94 15,726 75 5,123 25
Alberta  
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
2009/2010 77,158 64,634 84 36,226 56 28,408 44
2010/2011 71,675 62,515 87 37,763 60 24,752 40
2011/2012 69,035 60,234 87 37,069 62 23,165 38
British Columbia  
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
2009/2010 79,312 60,948 77 39,131 64 21,817 36
2010/2011 76,857 63,450 83 38,805 61 24,645 39
2011/2012 80,789 67,389 83 42,989 64 24,400 36
Yukon  
2007/2008 1,617 1,325 82 909 69 416 31
2008/2009 1,780 1,485 83 1,053 71 432 29
2009/2010 1,714 1,408 82 990 70 418 30
2010/2011 1,796 1,528 85 1,069 70 459 30
2011/2012 1,945 1,666 86 1,191 71 475 29
Northwest Territories  
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
2009/2010 5,120 3,172 62 2,350 74 822 26
2010/2011 .. .. … .. … .. …
2011/2012 5,331 .. … .. … .. …
Nunavut 5  
2007/2008 .. .. … .. … .. …
2008/2009 5,730 1,815 32 1,130 62 685 38
2009/2010 6,199 2,798 45 .. … .. …
2010/2011 .. .. … .. … .. …
2011/2012 8,307 4,649 56 3,166 68 1,483 32
Total  
2007/2008 679,636 546,661 80 286,715 52 259,946 48
2008/2009 741,167 597,392 81 312,262 52 285,130 48
2009/2010 762,374 601,343 79 .. … .. …
2010/2011 752,091 619,149 82 320,420 52 298,729 48
2011/2012 779,955 .. … .. … .. …
1.
Percent of direct expenditures.
2.
For Quebec, the breakdown between direct legal service and central administrative expenditures is estimated.
3.
Ontario has 77 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 2011/2012, these clinics accounted for about 19% of total direct 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.
4.
The major change from 2009/2010 was due to an adjustment made in the previous year for an accrual for civil service pension and severance. Legal Aid Manitoba converted 23 staff positions from contract to civil service in the prior year.
5.
In Nunavut in 2009/2010, a breakdown of direct legal aid expenditures by type of matter is not available, but they are included in the figure for total expenditures. Prior to 2010/2011, figures for legal aid expenditures were based on an accounting system administered by the Government of Nunavut departments of finance and justice; figures for 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 legal aid expenditures are based on an accounting system developed by a third-party accountant on behalf of the Legal Services Board (LSB) of Nunavut. Consequently, legal aid expenditures for 2009/2010 and earlier, on the one hand, and 2010/2011 and 2011/2012, on the other hand, are not comparable.
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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