No Funding For The Disadvantaged In Ontario

Sounds like a culling for 4 years, with nothing to suggest paralegals being allowed tap into Legal Aid funding for the disadvantaged.


Ron Payne
Welfare Legal
Hamilton, Ontario


The Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) has committed to expanding the paralegal scope of practice over the next four years.
Presented to Convocation Dec. 4, the Priority Planning Committee strategic plan report to Convocation outlines significant changes that will have a dramatic effect on the future of legal services in Ontario. The changes are “robust and ambitious,” affecting paralegal education entry standards, mentoring, professional development, and competence assurance, in addition to expanding the scope of practice.
Paralegal-specific measures in the Strategic Plan 2015–2019 include:

• Working to ensure that high quality instruction is being offered by the accredited institutions that educate paralegal licensee candidates
• Examining enhancements to the paralegal licensing requirements, including possible additional education and training prior to entering an accredited paralegal program
• Exploring the expansion of areas of practice and delivery of services by paralegal licensees

http://paralegalscope.com/scope-to-expand-over-next-four-years/

ODSP And Legal Aid

A single on ODSP does not qualify for a legal aid certificate, according to this article, because they receive too much money.

When did this change?


Who is responsible for this?


Why?

But when it comes to eligibility criteria for legal aid, Ontario is on the low end. In a province with a median family income of $73,290, the cut off for a legal aid certificate is $10,800 for a single-person household and $18,684 for a family of two people.
http://www.lawtimesnews.com/201401203721/headline-news/how-does-ontario-legal-aid-compare

The Gods Have Intervened

Harry represents one side—employees, tenants, trade unionists, women, the disabled, the poor and homeless, the young and aged. Blight represents bosses, big governments, major corporations, polluters and industrial magnates and perpetrators of discriminatory and unsafe practices in the workplace.

Will She Stay or Will She Go?

http://harrykopyto.ca/2013/10/25...

The Gods Have IntervenedIt’s hard to know where to begin. Once you jump through the rabbit-hole into the world of Big Law’s moral police, it’s a different reality.  What others may give you a medal...

The Evidence Is Here Part 5 First A Lawyer Then A Hostel

The Evidence Is Here Part 5  First A Lawyer Then A Hostel

B.C. woman may lose home over huge lawyer bill

Woman owes $180,000 despite winning lawsuit and being awarded costs

A B.C. woman stands to lose her home to her lawyer, who is moving to foreclose on her to pay his six-figure bill.

"My friends and family say this can't be happening. There's got to be a mistake," Dale Fotsch said.

Case dragged on

A decade ago, her common law ex-husband Leigh Wilson went after Fotsch, trying to get a piece of her property after their breakup. The case took nine years to resolve, which was years longer than her lawyer had predicted, she said.

"There was a three-week trial – three weeks! For my little place in the country. I mean, it just seems a little overboard and ridiculous," Fotsch said. "There were three tables of binders, with papers stacked sky high."

She said she had already paid thousands in legal fees when the case finally went to trial in 2007. As it advanced, her lawyer said he wouldn't continue unless she allowed him to secure a $100,000 mortgage against her property, at 18 per cent interest per year.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/11/30/bc-legalbills.html

 

Ron Payne 
Welfare Legal 
Hamilton, Ontario 
Email welfarelegal2004@hotmail.com

Blog http://welfarelegal.blogspot.ca/

The Evidence Is Here Part 4 Modern Day History

The Evidence Is Here Part 4

Modern Day History

The accuser picks the judge.

The accuser picks the prosecutor.

The accuser gets it’s legal fees paid by the accused. 

Kopyto hit with costs order over $38,000! But the Fight Continues…

http://harrykopyto.ca/2013/05/24/kopyto-hit-with-costs-order-over-38000-but-the-fight-continues/