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Notes 237
52 Blankenberg, E., “Comparing legal aid schemes in Europe,” Civil Justice Quarterly, 11
(1992), p. 106.
53 Gray, A., Rickman, N. and Fenn, P., “Professional autonomy and the cost of legal aid,”
Oxford Economic Papers, 51 (1999), p. 556.
54 Ibid.
55 Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario, Ontario Legal Aid Review, chapter 7: “The
choice of delivery models for legal aid,” available at:
http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/English/about/pubs/olar/ch7.asp, p. 22.
56 Ibid., p. 22.
57 Gray, Rickman and Fenn, supra note 53, p. 557.
58 Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, supra note 55, p. 5.
59 See Goriely, supra note 2, p. 1.
60 South Africa, supra note 33, p. 8.
61 Ibid., p. 2.
62 Ibid., p. 3.
63 Ibid., p. 3.
64 National Council of Welfare, Legal Aid and the Poor, available at:
htpp://www.ncwcnbes.net/htmdocument/reportlegalaid/reportiegalaid.htm, p. 33.
65 Ibid., p. 33.
66 Ibid., p. 35.
67 Ibid., p. 35.
68 Ibid., p. 35.
69 The United Kingdom Law Society, The Future of Publicly Funded Legal Services (2003), p.
54.
70 Ibid., p. 54.
71 Frank H.Stephen, Reform of Legal Aid in Scotland. University of Strathclyde research paper,
p. 9.
72 Ibid., p. 9.
73 Regan, supra note 48, p. 52.
74 Regan, supra note 48.
75 Ibid., p. 63.
76 See Wydrzynski, Hildebrandt and Blonde, “The CAW prepaid legal services plan: a case
study of an alternative funding and delivery method for legal services,” Windsor Yearbook of
Access to Justice, 22 (1991).
77 Griffiths, J., supra note 4.
78 Goriely, T. and Paterson, A., “Introduction,” in supra note 2, p.10.
79 Ibid.
80 Ibid., p.12.
81 Blankenberg, supra note 52, p. 108.
82 National Council of Welfare, supra note 64, p. 23.
83 Blankenberg, supra note 52, p. 108.
84 It may be desirable to restrict the range of choice available for legal aid clients for
representation at some standard proceedings. For example, it may be wise to mandate that
duty counsel be used in specific circumstances where clear economies of scale exist such as
at bail hearings or adjournments. See Ontario Legal Aid Review, supra note 55, pp. 120,
133.
85 A full discussion of these quality monitoring and control mechanisms for the delivery of
legal aid services from which this summary is adopted is contained in the Report of the
Ontario Legal Aid Review, supra note 55, pp. 129–32. Also valuable is the back-ground
study prepared for the same report, Sandra Wain, “Quality control and performance
measures,” A Blueprint for Publicly Funded Legal Services (Toronto: Government of
Ontario, 1997), p. 609.