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Alberta Law Foundation

The Health Law Institute receives its core funding as a result of the generous support of the Alberta Law Foundation.

The Alberta Law Foundation was established under the Legal Profession Act in 1973. The Foundation is the recipient of the interest paid on clients' funds held in lawyers' general trust accounts. The Foundation makes this interest available to organizations engaged in activities in keeping with the Foundation's objects.

The objects of the Foundation are:

  • conducting research into and recommending reform of law and the administration of justice;
  • establishing, maintaining, and operating law libraries;
  • contributing to the legal education and knowledge of the people of Alberta and providing programs and facilities for those purposes;
  • providing assistance to native people's legal programs, student legal aid programs, and programs of like nature;
  • contributing to the costs incurred by the Legal Aid Society of Alberta to administer a plan to provide legal aid.