[Nations ranked by relative share of GNP invested in publicly-funded civil legal services—lowest to highest]
NATION (or political subdivision of nation, e.g., province, state)
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THIS NATION’S TOTAL GOVT INVESTMENT IN CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES (in U.S. DOLLARS)
[In U.S. includes Federal, State, local govts, & IOLTA expenditures] |
GOVT’S PER CAPITA CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES INVESTMENT (in U.S. DOLLARS) |
GOVT’S CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES INVESTMENT PER $10,000 of GNP (in U.S DOLLARS)
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TOTAL U.S. CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES INVESTMENT IF U.S INVESTED AS MUCH OF ITS GNP AS THIS NATION DOES IN CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES |
HOW MANY TIMES GREATER IS THIS NATION’S CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES INVESTMENTTHAN THE U.S. INVESTMENT [as % of GNP] |
UNITED STATES (FY 1998) |
$600 million [pop=270 million] |
$2.25 |
$0.70 [=70 cents] |
$0.6 BILLION [e.g., 600 million] |
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GERMANY (1996) |
$390 million [pop=80million] |
$4.86 |
$1.90 |
$1.6 BILLION |
2.5 times |
FRANCE (1994) |
$270 million [pop=59 million] |
$4.50 |
$1.90 |
$1.6 BILLION |
2.5 times |
AUSTRALIA
(FY 1998-99) |
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-New South Wales |
$31 Million [pop=6 million] |
$5.12 |
$2.75 |
$2.3 BILLION |
4 times |
CANADA (FY 1998-99) |
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-Quebec |
$52 Million [pop=7.3 million] |
$7.07 |
$3.50 |
$3.0 BILLION |
5 times |
-Ontario |
$82 Million [pop=11.5million] |
$7.06 |
$3.60 |
$3.0 BILLION |
5 times |
-British Columbia |
$32 Million [pop=4 million] |
$7.80 |
$4.00 |
$3.34 BILLION |
5.8 times |
NETHERLANDS (1998) |
$150 Million [pop=15.5million] |
$9.70 |
$4.20 |
$3.5 BILLION |
6 times |
NEW ZEALAND (FY 1998-99) |
$27 Million [pop=3.8 million] |
$7.10 |
$5.10 |
$4.25 BILLION |
7 times |
ENGLAND (1999)
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$2 BILLION BILLION $1.35 BILLION [pop=53 million] |
$39.00
$26.00 |
Gross=$17.00
Net = $12.00 |
$14.2 BILLION
$10.1 BILLION |
23.5 times
17 times |
SOURCES OF LEGAL AID EXPENDITURE DATA: AUSTRALIA-Legal Aid Commission of New South Wales, Annual Report ’99, Financial Overview, Program Expenditure Chart. CANADA-Legal Aid in Canada: Resource and Caseload Data Tables, 1998-99, Table 5-Legal Aid Expenditures by Object (Statistics Canada-Catalogue No. 85F0028, Ottawa, 2000) Source: Legal Aid Survey, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics. ENGLAND-Lord Chancellor’s Department, Judicial Statistics – England and Wales for the Year 1999 (CM4786, July 2000). Table 10.7-Legal Aid Expenditures: Receipts and Payments, 1999. FRANCE-Projected figures for 1994 reported in National Resource Center for Consumers of Legal Services, France Beefs Up On Legal Aid, Legal Plan Letter, Jan. 15, 1993; GERMANY-Gerhard Danneman, Access to Justice: an Anglo-German Comparison, 2 European Public Law 271 (1996) Table 5. NETHERLANDS-Peter van den Biggelaar, Legal Aid in the Netherlands, in “Legal Aid in the New Millennium” (papers Presented at the International Legal Aid Conference, University of British Columbia 16-19 June 1999) p. 74. (Statistics for 1998). NEW ZEALAND-Legal Aid Board, Annual Report for Year Ending June 30, 1999, p. 33. Appendix 1-Overview of legal aid costs and recoveries. UNITED STATES-Legal Services Corporation, Annual Report–1999. SOURCES OF GNP AND PER CAPITA GNP DATA: World Bank, 2000 World Development Indicators and World Development Indicators database. EXCHANGE RATES: Chart uses exchange rates in effect in year of legal aid expenditure, e.g., 1996 exchange rate for Germany and 1999 exchange rate for England, etc. .
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