BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Company

LEGAL AID ONTARIO

Operating Address

171 Queens Avenue Suite 610 London, ON N6A 5J7

Established

0

Tel.

(519) 660-2308

Toll-Free

-

Fax

(519) 433-6010

URL

Contact

Janet Davenport, Administrator

Employment(full time)

3

Summer placements

No

Co-op/Internships

No

Apprenticeships

No

Export

No

Import

No

Industry Classification

541110
Professional, Scientific and Technical Services..
Offices of Lawyers..

Profile

Every day LAO helps almost 4,000 disadvantaged people, including single parents seeking child support from delinquent ex-partners; victims of domestic violence; parents seeking custody of children to protect them from abuse; injured workers; refugees; and accused persons.

Only people meeting strict financial eligibility limits receive legal aid. Wherever possible clients are asked to contribute toward the cost of their legal fees. In 2003, this amounted to over $13 million.

LAO services are carefully targeted to meet diverse client needs and make the most efficient use of our resources. Poverty law services - such as helping people to obtain or maintain social assistance benefits - are delivered through a network of 80 independent, community-based legal aid clinics, funded by LAO.

LAO also runs a certificate program through its network of 51 offices. Here we issue certificates, which low-income people use to retain a private lawyer to represent them in proceedings before the criminal or family courts, certain administrative tribunals or immigration/refugee boards. The certificate is the private lawyer's guarantee of payment from LAO, subject to the rates and limitations set out in the legal aid tariff.

We also provide duty counsel services ? performed by staff and private-sector lawyers ? for people who arrive in criminal, family or youth courts without a lawyer.

The certificate and duty