From: Andreas VonCramon [voncraa@lao.on.ca]
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011
1:20 PM
To: yjc@cogeco.net
Subject: Duty Counsel Services in
Brockville and Perth
Attachments: 1101_SFET-DC-CERThandout -
English.pdf
Duty
Counsel are available to help unrepresented clients (subject to financial
eligibility) at both criminal and family court on their court date. We do
not represent clients at trial. We are usually not able to help clients
between court dates, but we do provide family law advice lawyer services (at
the times and locations listed below).
In family
cases, we will try to help at any time with emergency or urgent situations – this
is generally limited to situations with a significant risk of imminent and
serious harm to a parent or child, or that a child may be abducted from
Ontario. However, family court is only open Monday to Wednesday in
Brockville, and Thursday and Friday in Perth, which limits our access to the
court for expedited cases. Clients are also well-advised to first contact
the police or CAS in these circumstances as judges usually want to know why
these agencies have not responded if the case is an emergency.
In both
criminal and family cases, we will also try to help with vulnerable clients by
meeting them between court dates or attempting to schedule their court
appearances when things are less busy. A significant portion of our
clientele suffers from addictions, mental illness, illiteracy or other
functional impairments, so we have to reserve these services for clients who
are particularly at risk. Please contact me about this if you have
questions, or think that I can be of assistance.
Clients can
apply for legal aid by telephone at 1-800-668-8258 or, in criminal cases, at
each court location at the times indicated below.
Our
office in Brockville is at the courthouse:
41 Court House Square,
Brockville, Ontario, K6V 7N3
Attention: Duty Counsel
Office
Phone:
613-341-2800 x2294
Fax:
613-342-8720
Family Law Advice Lawyer services are available at this location:
Tuesdays
2-4 p.m.
Thursdays 9-11 a.m.
Criminal legal aid applications:
Youth court 2nd and 4th
Tuesday each month from 9-11 a.m.
Adult court Friday from 9-11
a.m.
Our
office in Perth is at the courthouse:
43 Drummond Street East,
Perth, Ontario, K7H 1G1
Attention: Duty
Counsel Office
Phone:
613-326-0790
Fax:
613-326-0782
Family Law Advice Lawyer services are available at this location every
Thursdays from 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Criminal legal aid applications from 9-11 a.m. every Monday.
We have
the following staff:
Andreas von Cramon Supervisory Duty Counsel
Cindy
Burrell
Staff Lawyer
Amy Long
Staff Lawyer
Mark
Graham
Legal Aid Worker
Financial
Eligibility
Most
services provided by Legal Aid Ontario are subject to financial
eligibility. Our financial eligibility poster is attached to this
email. In criminal cases, we help clients with simple plea negotiations
even if they do not financially qualify for our services. In family
cases, we will provide up to 20 minutes of summary legal advice (not case
specific) to clients even if they do not financially qualify, time permitting.
General
Information
Clients can
get general information about access to the services provided by Legal Aid
Ontario at http://www.legalaid.on.ca/en/getting/default.asp.
These
materials are probably useful for other stakeholders, as well.
Thanks
Andreas von
Cramon
Supervisory
Duty Counsel
Legal Aid
Ontario – Brockville/Perth