Table 7-2
Legal aid plan direct legal service expenditures, staff and private lawyers by type of matter, current dollars — Criminal matters

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Legal aid plan direct legal service expenditures, staff and private lawyers by type of matter, current dollars — Criminal matters
Table summary
"This table displays direct legal aid expenditures on staff and private lawyers for criminal matters. The row headers provide information by province/territory and fiscal year. The column headers provide information on direct legal aid expenditures on staff and private lawyers in thousands of current dollars and as a percent of total direct legal aid expenditures for criminal matters."
  Total Staff lawyers Private lawyers
  thousands of dollars percent thousands of dollars percent
Newfoundland and Labrador  
2007/2008 4,630 4,519 98 111 2
2008/2009 6,060 5,846 96 214 4
2009/2010 6,009 5,748 96 262 4
2010/2011 6,615 6,419 97 196 3
2011/2012 6,860 6,657 97 203 3
Prince Edward Island  
2007/2008 701 565 81 136 19
2008/2009 .. .. … .. …
2009/2010 .. .. … .. …
2010/2011 875 795 91 80 9
2011/2012 820 772 94 48 6
Nova Scotia  
2007/2008 11,576 9,280 80 2,296 20
2008/2009 12,461 9,688 78 2,773 22
2009/2010 11,346 9,420 83 1,926 17
2010/2011 11,777 9,709 82 2,068 18
2011/2012 12,509 10,233 82 2,276 18
New Brunswick  
2007/2008 3,052 2,100 69 952 31
2008/2009 4,033 3,037 75 996 25
2009/2010 .. .. … .. …
2010/2011 3,533 2,444 69 1,089 31
2011/2012 3,996 2,813 70 1,183 30
Quebec  
2007/2008 49,572 26,272 53 23,300 47
2008/2009 52,360 27,912 53 24,448 47
2009/2010 51,854 28,815 56 23,039 44
2010/2011 57,219 30,521 53 26,698 47
2011/2012 57,741 28,947 50 28,794 50
Ontario 1  
2007/2008 121,431 9,850 8 111,580 92
2008/2009 131,232 11,080 8 120,152 92
2009/2010 130,452 11,826 9 118,626 91
2010/2011 132,542 13,516 10 119,026 90
2011/2012 138,875 14,249 10 124,626 90
Manitoba  
2007/2008 12,928 6,324 49 6,604 51
2008/2009 13,591 6,612 49 6,979 51
2009/2010 15,905 7,391 46 8,514 54
2010/2011 15,520 7,907 51 7,613 49
2011/2012 16,177 7,996 49 8,181 51
Saskatchewan  
2007/2008 13,121 10,804 82 2,317 18
2008/2009 14,213 11,543 81 2,670 19
2009/2010 14,412 12,192 85 2,220 15
2010/2011 14,702 12,805 87 1,897 13
2011/2012 15,726 13,463 86 2,263 14
Alberta 2  
2007/2008 26,827 4,964 19 21,863 81
2008/2009 32,862 6,622 20 26,240 80
2009/2010 36,226 6,954 19 29,272 81
2010/2011 37,763 12,795 34 24,968 66
2011/2012 37,069 13,094 35 23,975 65
British Columbia  
2007/2008 39,549 4,063 10 35,486 90
2008/2009 40,954 3,917 10 37,037 90
2009/2010 39,131 4,264 11 34,867 89
2010/2011 38,805 2,648 7 36,157 93
2011/2012 42,989 2,798 7 40,191 93
Yukon  
2007/2008 909 751 83 158 17
2008/2009 1,053 900 85 153 15
2009/2010 990 905 91 85 9
2010/2011 1,069 951 89 118 11
2011/2012 1,191 1,003 84 188 16
Northwest Territories  
2007/2008 2,419 666 28 1,753 72
2008/2009 2,313 399 17 1,914 83
2009/2010 2,350 612 26 1,738 74
2010/2011 .. .. … .. …
2011/2012 .. .. … .. …
Nunavut 3  
2007/2008 .. .. … .. …
2008/2009 1,130 735 65 395 35
2009/2010 .. .. … .. …
2010/2011 .. .. … .. …
2011/2012 3,166 2,441 77 725 23
Total  
2007/2008 286,715 80,158 28 206,556 72
2008/2009 312,262 88,291 28 223,971 72
2009/2010 .. .. … .. …
2010/2011 320,420 100,510 31 219,910 69
2011/2012 337,119 104,466 31 232,653 69
1.
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 69% of direct legal aid expenditures on staff lawyers. 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.
2.
Organizational structure and delivery of services changed in 2010/2011. Regional front line offices were transformed into Legal Service Centers providing information, brief services, expanded duty counsel and decisions for full certificate coverage. The creation of Legal Service Centers resulted in realignment of services provided by staff lawyers for certain types of matters.
3.
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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