Recent Trends in Legal Aid

The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice published a post on Slaw.ca today on Recent Trends in Legal Aid.

As the post explains:

"Keeping track of trend and change in legal aid has never been more important. Legal aid is by far the largest part of the access to justice landscape in Canada. Even with constraints of the current fiscal realities, or perhaps because of them, legal aid systems have the infrastructure, the expertise and the resources to contribute significantly to expanding access to justice in Canada. "

It looks at trends in government support for legal aid, applications, levels of duty counsel service in criminal and civil matters, etc.