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Posted bywpengine 4 January 20194 January 2019

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PROPOSED CHANGES TO TRIAL PROCEDURE: BAD CASES MAKE BAD LAW 1. No peremptory challenges to the jury panel. Who then is going to ensure the jury is representative and impartial if anybody? The Judge? Or will the jury simply be the first 12 people on the list? 2. No more preliminary inquiries. In practice, preliminary inquiries work to speed up the entire process.
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POLICE CARDING – “It is remarkable that a government in 2018 is seeking recommendations on a police practice that is so obviously unacceptable in a free and democratic society. Will no one in office simply state for the record that carding, as defined by the new report and lived by far too many innocent people in Ontario, is reprehensible?”

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