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The Unheard Case for Civil Legal Aid

At the Canadian Bar Association’s (CBA) annual meeting last week, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson was asked how he intends to solve a national legal aid problem. After a decade of cutbacks and neglect, provinces now offer less legal aid services and have instituted higher eligibility criteria. A number of lawyers pressed the Minister to devise [...]