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 | |||||
2007/2008 | . | . | … | . | … |
2008/2009 | . | . | … | . | … |
2009/2010 | . | . | … | . | … |
2010/2011 | . | . | … | . | … |
2011/2012 | . | . | … | . | … |
Prince Edward Island 1 | |||||
2007/2008 | . | . | … | . | … |
2008/2009 | . | . | … | . | … |
2009/2010 | . | . | … | . | … |
2010/2011 | . | . | … | . | … |
2011/2012 | . | . | … | . | … |
Nova Scotia | |||||
2007/2008 | 8 | 8 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2008/2009 | 6 | 6 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2009/2010 | 2 | 2 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2010/2011 | 3 | 3 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2011/2012 | 4 | 4 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
New Brunswick | |||||
2007/2008 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 100 |
2008/2009 | 5 | 2 | 40 | 3 | 60 |
2009/2010 | .. | .. | … | .. | … |
2010/2011 | 6 | 3 | 50 | 3 | 50 |
2011/2012 | 3 | 3 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
Quebec | |||||
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 |
2010/2011 | 6,218 | 1,541 | 25 | 4,677 | 75 |
2011/2012 | 6,290 | 1,679 | 27 | 4,611 | 73 |
Ontario 2 | |||||
2007/2008 | 67 | 67 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2008/2009 | 54 | 54 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2009/2010 | 9 | 9 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2010/2011 | 19 | 19 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2011/2012 | 10 | 10 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
Manitoba 3 | |||||
2007/2008 | 63 | 25 | 40 | 38 | 60 |
2008/2009 | 38 | 14 | 37 | 24 | 63 |
2009/2010 | 46 | 17 | 37 | 29 | 63 |
2010/2011 | 18 | 9 | 50 | 9 | 50 |
2011/2012 | 31 | 11 | 35 | 20 | 65 |
Saskatchewan 4 | |||||
2007/2008 | 6 | 6 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2008/2009 | 9 | 9 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2009/2010 | 9 | 9 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2010/2011 | 5 | 5 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
2011/2012 | 6 | 6 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
Alberta 5 | |||||
2007/2008 | 180 | 5 | 3 | 175 | 97 |
2008/2009 | 173 | 3 | 2 | 170 | 98 |
2009/2010 | 124 | 12 | 10 | 112 | 90 |
2010/2011 | 89 | 11 | 12 | 78 | 88 |
2011/2012 | 98 | 5 | 5 | 93 | 95 |
British Columbia | |||||
2007/2008 | 177 | 4 | 2 | 173 | 98 |
2008/2009 | 185 | 3 | 2 | 182 | 98 |
2009/2010 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 100 |
2010/2011 | 129 | 0 | 0 | 129 | 100 |
2011/2012 | 260 | 0 | 0 | 260 | 100 |
Yukon 6 | |||||
2007/2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2008/2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2009/2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2010/2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2011/2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Northwest Territories 7 | |||||
2007/2008 | . | . | … | . | … |
2008/2009 | . | . | … | . | … |
2009/2010 | . | . | … | . | … |
2010/2011 | . | . | … | . | … |
2011/2012 | . | . | … | . | … |
Nunavut 7 , 8 | |||||
2007/2008 | .. | .. | … | .. | … |
2008/2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2009/2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2010/2011 | .. | .. | … | .. | … |
2011/2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | |||||
2007/2008 | 5,959 | 1,337 | 22 | 4,622 | 78 |
2008/2009 | 6,060 | 1,582 | 26 | 4,478 | 74 |
2009/2010 | 6,733 | 1,626 | 24 | 5,107 | 76 |
2010/2011 | 6,487 | 1,591 | 25 | 4,896 | 75 |
2011/2012 | 6,702 | 1,718 | 26 | 4,984 | 74 |
The number of criminal applications assigned
to staff lawyers in 2011/2012 is not available. Prince Edward Island
Legal Aid records the number of cases completed by staff and private sector
counsel. Staff lawyers closed 948 federal adult criminal and 191 youth
applications in 2011/2012. Federal criminal and youth applications assigned
to private counsel do not include applications handled by private sector counsel
on a per diem basis while substituting or backfilling for a staff lawyer.
The decline in criminal applications between 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 is
partially attributable to a definitional error in one Prince Edward Island
Legal Aid office in 2010/2011, which resulted in over-reporting of criminal
applications.
Figures for 2011/2012 full-service
criminal applications approved and assigned to private lawyers include Legal
Aid Ontario's "Big Case Management" program, which are criminal legal aid
cases (mostly homicide) whose projected costs exceed $20,000.
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 2008/2009, 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.
Figures for Saskatchewan were re-stated for the reference periods 2008/2009 to 2010/2011,
inclusive, based on the number of letters of denial issued to clients by the
Saskatchewan Legal Aid Commission. The number of applications excludes applications
received during 2011/2012 but deemed “discontinued”
for administrative purposes as at March 31, 2012, because the client
ceased contact with the Saskatchewan Legal Aid Commission before obtaining
legal aid services from a lawyer.
The increase, between 2010/2011 and 2011/2012,
in the number of applications approved and assigned to staff lawyers is primarily
due to a change in Legal Aid Alberta's service delivery model to provide early
resolution to lower-level criminal offences. These offences would have been
assigned to private lawyers prior to 2011/2012.
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 or Nunavut. 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
is 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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