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Ontario|Legal AidLegal Aid 847 What kinds of cases are covered? If a person qualifies financially, the types of cases that may be covered by Legal Aid include: certain criminal charges, issues regarding family law matters, immigration and refugee matters, and some civil cases and final appeals.
- Criminal charges
Legal Aid covers the defence of criminal charges that would likely result in jail time, such as assault, impaired driving causing bodily harm, robbery, welfare fraud, and break and enter. Legal Aid also covers offences which will cause someone to lose their job immediately, be rejected from a planned educational program or be deported from the country, if there is a reasonable defence against the charge.
- Family matters
Family matters that may qualify for Legal Aid include: getting or changing custody of children; setting up, increasing or decreasing child or spousal support payments; help if a partner denies access to children; getting access to see children or to make a major change to access arrangements that have already been made; stopping a partner from selling or destroying the other partner's property; and, negotiating ownership of things like RRSPs or pensions that could provide income.
- Immigration and refugee matters
Immigration and refugee matters that may qualify for Legal Aid include: refugee hearings before the Immigration and Refugee Board; sponsorship and deportation appeals; and, detention reviews.
- Civil cases and final appeals
Certain civil cases and final appeals that may qualify for Legal Aid include: Workers' compensation appeal tribunal cases; Social Benefits Tribunal matters; Employment Insurance appeals; and, mental health hearings and appeals.
To find out if you qualify for Legal Aid, contact your local Legal Aid office, listed on the Legal Line Guide and Website, or in your telephone book.
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