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Hourly Tariff and Block Fee Billing Chapter only | « List of chapter contents

Criminal Chapter only | « List of chapter contents

Tariff Maximums

• Determining the tariff maximum
• Table A: Summary conviction offences or Crown election offences where the matter proceeds summarily (except sexual assault)
• Table B: Indictable Type I offences, Crown election offences where the matter proceeds by indictment, and all charges of sexual assault regardless of Crown election
• Table C: Indictable Type II
• Table D: Provincial offences and federal summary conviction
• Table E: Summary conviction appeals (in the Superior Court of Justice)
• Table F: Appeals to the Ontario Court of Appeal
• Table G: Appeals to the Supreme Court of Canada
• Table H: Maximum Hours Table – Other Matters

Additional Information

• Adjournments
• Appeals
• Bail Hearings
• Bail reviews and youth bail de novo applications
• Charter applications
• Co-accused
• Co-counsel
• Contempt of court
• Correspondence
• Court day
• Dangerous and long-term offender applications
• Discretionary Increased
• DNA genetic databank applications
• Extradition
• Fifteen-year reviews of parole eligibility
• Fitness hearings
• Immigration/Deportation
• Incomplete matter
• Judicial pre-trials
• Junior counsel
• Legal advice in domestic criminal matters
• Motions
• Multiple Charges
• Ontario Review Board hearings
• Opinion certificates
• Parole hearings and penitentiary discipline hearings
• Plea to lesser included offence
• Pre-trials
• Waiting time
• Withdrawal without Crown election

Big Case Management

List of Offences

Civil Chapter only | « List of chapter contents

Tariff Maximums

General Notes

• Adjournments
• Correspondence
• Junior counsel
• Nature of Court Attendances
• Waiting time

Family Law Tariff

• Subsequent pretrial conferences, settlement conferences, case conferences
• Table A: Family Law
  
  • Uncontested divorce
  • Contested divorce
• Child Protection Tariff (CFSA)
• Table B: Child Protection
• Table C: Civil Litigation
• Table D: Trials, References and Hearings
• Table E: Appeals
• Table F: Immigration and Refugee Law
• Table G: Administrative Boards of Tribunals
• Table H: Other Civil Matters
• Group and Test Case Certificates

Travel Chapter only | « List of chapter contents

General

• Hourly rates
• Special northern travel incentives
• Criminal matters
• Civil matters (including Family and CFSA)

Travel disbursements

• Accommodation
• Meals
• Mileage
• Other modes of transportation
• Parking
• Toll roads - Highway 407

Travel for Others

• Experts
• Investigators
• Witness

Costs & Contributions Chapter only | « List of chapter contents

Introduction

Costs

• General principals
• Costs against institutional parties
• Costs and Family Responsibility Office (FRO)
• Assessment of costs
• Costs and support orders
• Costs recovered
• Steps to take after costs awarded
• Writs of Execution or Notices of Garnishment
• Waiver of costs
• Costs for services performed while the client was not legally aided
• Costs awarded against a legally aided client

Settlement and Judgments

• General principles
• Amounts recovered
• Settlement/judgment amounts uncollected
• Settlement/judgment before administrative tribunals
• Waiver of LAO’s charge against money or other property

Contribution agreements

• General principles
• Estimated amounts
• Fixed amounts
• Monthly contribution agreement
• Legal aid liens and other forms of security
• Estimated total fees
• Change in client’s financial circumstances

Negotiating a Settlement

• Waiver of costs to facilitate settlement
• Waiver of LAO’s charge on recovery to facilitate settlement
• Settlements involving the transfer or sale of property with a lien