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Legal Aid Ontario begins major review of organizational structure to better serve Indigenous clients TORONTO, Nov. 4, 2021 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) has appointed Dr. Beverly Jacobs, Associate...
TORONTO, April 3, 2018 /CNW/ - Thanks to an investment from the province of Ontario to ensure that more low-income Ontarians can obtain legal services, community legal clinics and student legal aid...
TORONTO, Jan. 10, 2018 /CNW/ - The Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC), a new independent legal clinic, has been formed with the mandate of serving the legal needs of Black Ontarians. BLAC is a...
TORONTO, Aug. 16, 2017 /CNW/ - The Clinic Committee of Legal Aid Ontario's Board of Directors has decided, under its dispute resolution process, to withdraw LAO's funding of the African Canadian...
Legal Aid Ontario's Racialized Community Strategy goes on the road to meet with communities TORONTO, July 17, 2017 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is developing a strategy to identify the legal needs ...
TORONTO, June 27, 2017 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is providing $100,000 of funding to a project headed by two GTA-based organizations to provide services to Black students facing suspension or...
TORONTO, June 22, 2017 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is providing $100,000 of funding to a project headed by an Ottawa-based organization to provide services to Black students facing suspension or...
Judicial pre-trials help resolve criminal cases early and reduce costly delays TORONTO, March 1, 2017 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is working to decrease criminal court delays and better support...
TORONTO, Oct. 7, 2016 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) objects to an inaccurate, incomplete and misleading media release by the Society of Energy Professionals ("Legal Aid Ontario Thwarts Democracy by ...
Sept 8 & 9, 2016 web conference on disruptive technologies for expanding legal aid is a co-production of Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), the Legal Services Society of BC, and Osgoode Hall Law School...
TORONTO, Dec. 16, 2015 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is launching a mobile phone application (app) to help people determine whether they are financially eligible for a legal aid certificate. The...
TORONTO, Dec. 14, 2015 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is pleased to announce the appointment of David Field, a senior executive at Legal Aid Ontario, as its new President and Chief Executive...
TORONTO, Sept. 21, 2015 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) will increase the funding of each Student Legal Aid Services Society by $100,000 annually. As a result, these clinics will provide additional...
TORONTO, July 29, 2015 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is investing an additional $1.5 million in community legal aid clinics with the fewest resources per low-income person in the 2015/16 fiscal...
TORONTO, June 8, 2015 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is continuing the most significant and rapid increase in eligibility for legal aid certificates in more than 25 years. This historic initiative...
TORONTO, May 14, 2015 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) will provide the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) with $100,000 over two years to provide post-conviction legal services...
TORONTO, March 12, 2015 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is providing funding to Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto (ALST) for four additional Gladue report writers. ALST, a leader in Gladue...
TORONTO, Dec. 2, 2014 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) will honour the 2014 Sidney B. Linden award recipient, lawyer William A. (Bill) Sullivan, at a ceremony hosted by LAO's Board Chair John McCamus...
TORONTO, Nov. 27, 2014 /CNW/ - Nishnawbe-Aski Legal Services Corporation (NALSC) is launching a Gladue report program thanks to funding from Legal Aid Ontario (LAO). The funding will allow NALSC to...
TORONTO, Oct. 20, 2014 /CNW/ - Starting Nov. 3, 2014, Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) will provide more time for lawyers to help clients who are involved in a court proceeding with a child protection agency. ...
TORONTO, Oct. 8, 2014 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is investing $600,000 over three years in a partnership with Luke's Place, a centre devoted solely to improving the safety and experience of...
TORONTO, Sept. 2, 2014 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is providing over $2 million over three years to six university-operated legal clinics to provide family law services for low-income Ontarians....
TORONTO, July 9, 2014 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is committing $9 million over the next three years to help community and legal aid clinics improve access to justice and outcomes for low-income...
TORONTO, July 8, 2014 /CNW/ - Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is partnering with Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario and the Provincial Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee...
TORONTO, July 3, 2014 /CNW/ - Eligible clients who are separating from their spouse can now get help from a Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) lawyer to negotiate and draw up a legally-binding separation...
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