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THE AMALGAMATED TORONTO COURTHOUSE – All of the criminal courts in Scarborough, North York, Etobicoke, 311 Jarvis, College Park and Old City Hall will all be funneled into one central courthouse in downtown Toronto. It seems to be universally (except for the Government) panned as a bad idea.

Posted byDennis Reeve 23 April 202223 April 2022
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Posted byDennis Reeve23 April 202223 April 2022Posted inUncategorized

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MISLEADING SENSATIONALISM – People will take what serves their purposes from a judgment. Like a catchy headline evoking an emotional response at the expense of understanding the logic of laws that protects us all from abuses of power. The headline, a “Charter technicality” flies in the face of the findings of Justice Prutschi. “Even without any malice or bad faith on the part of police, the breach was more than a mere technical error, he continued. “The result is the complete denial of true right to counsel. This is a serious violation favouring exclusion of evidence.”
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THE DEFAULT COURT APPEARANCE SHOULD BE REMOTELY – The old “normal” was not working except on the back of defence lawyers. “With the fool-hearted rush to return to “normal,” we must recognize that normal was just a cover for injustice and inequity in many cases.

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