Lawyers and those seeking lawyers say it\u0027s tough to find someone to take a Legal Aid case, either family or criminal
Another woman trying to get legal custody of children in her care for years said she called every lawyer in Brantford and Simcoe. “They say ‘We are taking clients’ or ‘We don’t take Legal Aid’ or ‘We don’t take family cases.’ We’ve been trying for three years’”
Family law and criminal law is emotional and mentally stressful for lawyers. DeLong says she knows of six Brantford family lawyers who have recently stopped taking those cases because of the toll they can take.Article content“It’s not a profitable business and can be emotionally draining. In the last two weeks, I’ve had four clients or former clients die, one of them in Maplehurst so it can be very taxing on your emotions,” he said in a recent interview.
“There’s a general shortage of lawyers in the more outlying areas right across Ontario and, as these guys who have been around forever up and leave, we need even more.”“The simple solution is money. If there was more of it you would entice more lawyers to places like Brantford and Woodstock,” he said. “There’s plenty of work but the problem is conflict of interests in small communities and Legal Aid payments.
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