Budget 2003 -- Government of British Columbia.
   

Objectives, Strategies, Measures and Targets for Core Business Areas — Continued

Legal Services

This core business area supports the following ministry goals:

  • High-quality legal services are provided to government
  • The efficiency of all ministry operations is improved through the use of innovative business practices and technology
Objective: Deliver legal services that meet clients’ changing needs at competitive rates
Strategies:
  • Conduct cost comparison study, and monitor rate fluctuations
  • Arrange service level and cost-recovery agreements with all client ministries
Objective: Reduce the province’s exposure to civil liability, and control liability costs to government

Strategies:

• Undertake a joint project with Dispute Resolution Office to increase clients’ use of dispute resolution

• Complete the Civil Liability Review Project

• Pilot and implement a Legal Risk Management Project that complements corporate risk management initiatives

 

Performance Measures: 2001/02
Base Data 		2002/03
Estimates 		2003/04
Target 		2004/05
Target 		2005/06
Target
Output Measures
% of civil litigation cases (to which government is a party) that employ dispute resolution mechanisms1 N/A N/A Baseline data to be established TBD TBD
# of government ministries and agencies participating in legal risk management program1 N/A N/A Baseline data to be established TBD TBD
Outcome Measures
% of clients satisfied with services and cost-recovery agreements 91% 91% ≥91% ≥91% ≥91%
Efficiency Measures
Blended average hourly cost of internal and external services $110 per hour $110 per hour TBD TBD TBD
Cost of legal services as compared with costs of legal services to other public agencies and legal services provided to other jurisdictions Base rate = $110 per hour;

External rates TBD

Cost remains less than or equal to external rates Cost remains less than or equal to external rates Cost remains less than or equal to external rates Cost remains less than or equal to external rates
 
1   New measure with no previous baseline data.

 

Expenditures for Core Business Area:
(With the exception of FTEs, all figures are expressed in thousands of dollars) 		2002/03
Restated
Estimates 		2003/04
Estimates 		2004/05
Plan 		2005/06
Plan
Operating Expenditures ($000)
Operating expenditures 23,126 15,505 15,320 15,371
Capital Expenditures (CRF) ($000)
Capital expenditures (CRF) 231 23 23 23
Capital Expenditures (CCP) ($000)
Capital expenditures (CCP)        
FTEs ($000)
FTEs 257 291 291 291
Financing Transactions ($000)
Financing Transactions 0 0 0 0
Receipts        
Disbursements        
Net Cash Source        

 

  
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