
Legel aid: is it free or do you have to pay? If you are eligible for legel aid, you are entitled to the services of a lawyer for free or by paying a fixed amount. It mainly depends on your financial situation and your family situation. Before age 18, you are automatically eligible for free legal aid for services covered by legel aid, regardless of your financial situation. LegelAid Helps You Become An Informed Legel Services Consumer. Legel Aid provides a range of legel services.
Alibi
Disclosure of your alibi is not required. However if it will definitely clear you, you should give them your alibi or at least tell them your lawyer will disclose it.
Refer to "R. v. Cleghorn" if you wish more on the law of disclosing alibis.The Supreme Court of Canada has held in R. v. Russell, 67 C.C.C. 28, that where an alibi is not set up at an early stage in the proceedings, the trial judge is entitled to comment on the fact and the alibi is thereby considerably weakened.
