Legal Aid in Canada 2021-22

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Table of contents

• Introduction
  • Background
  • Legal Aid Program
• Revenues and expenditures
• Legal aid applications
  • Application approvals
  • Application refusals
  • Application outcomes among Indigenous clients
• Duty counsel services
• Appeals
• Interprovincial Reciprocity Agreement
• Legal aid clients
  • Indigenous legal aid clients
• Cases and expenditures
• Immigration and refugee legal aid
• Legal aid plan personnel
• Specialized courts
• Pandemic relief funding

List of tables

• Table 1 - Legal aid plan revenues, by type of revenue, annual, 2021-22
• Table 2a - Legal aid plan expenditures, by type of expenditure, 2021-22
• Table 2b - Total administrative and other costs, 2021-22
• Table 3 - Legal aid applications received, by type of matter, 2021-22
• Table 4 - Legal aid applications approved for full legal representation, by staff and private bar lawyers, annual, 2021-22
• Table 5 - Refused legal aid applications, by reason for refusal, all legal aid matters, 2021-22
• Table 6 - Refused legal aid applications, by reason for refusal, criminal matters, 2021-22
• Table 7 - Refused legal aid applications, by reason for refusal, civil matters, 2021-22
• Table 8 - Applications for full legal representation, approved and refused, by self-identified Indigenous population, criminal and civil, and province/territory, 2021-22
• Table 9 - Duty counsel services, by type of matter, 2021-22
• Table 10 - Duty counsel service expenditures, by type of matter, 2021-22
• Table 11 - Appeal applications, approved and refused, for legal aid services, by criminal and civil matters, 2021-22
• Table 12 - Incoming and outgoing civil legal aid cases processed under the Interprovincial Reciprocity Agreement, 2021-22
• Table 13 - Legal aid clients, by age, gender, and type of matter, Canada, 2021-22
• Table 14 - Indigenous legal aid clients receiving full legal representation and summary services, by gender and type of matter, 2021-22
• Table 15 - Criminal legal aid cases by type of offence and in-year expenditures, adults, Canada, 2021-22
• Table 16 - Criminal legal aid cases by type of offence and in-year expenditures, youth, Canada, 2021-22
• Table 17 - Immigration and refugee legal aid certificates and expenditures, by province/territory and type of lawyer, 2021-22
• Table 18 - Legal aid service delivery by private bar, staff, and other lawyers, 2021-22
• Table 19 - Legal aid plan personnel as of March 31, 2022
• Table 20 - Criminal legal aid funding to address pressures resulting from COVID-19, 2021-22

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