legal aid

Province agrees to $70-million funding boost to Legal Aid Alberta in new governance plan

A new $70-million plan aims to reverse “decades of underfunding” in for Legal Aid Alberta, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Minister of Justice Kathleen Ganley said in an Oct.11 press conference.

A woman's place

The flight of women out of criminal law is well documented, and those who stay face many obstacles. Low rates of legal aid, fewer backup office resources or legal mentors and a lack of outside assistance if a lawyer is going on maternity leave can all have an impact.

First budget from B.C. NDP injects cash into legal services

The first full budget handed down by British Columbia’s New Democratic Party will provide much needed injections of funds to the province’s ailing legal community, but at the same time it draws blood from larger corporations and the real estate industry with new tax levies.

Law school clinics welcome legal aid funds

Well-armed for a career after legal clinic articles

The good, the bad, the ugly . . . and the silver lining

Winnipeg universities launch legal help centre

Access to justice and pro bono law

Legal aid: a system in peril

Negrea’s setting precedents

If it ain’t fixed, then break it: pro se litigants, civil justice reform, and the economics of law

Taking risks pays off