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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.

Posted byDennis Reeve 24 April 202224 April 2022
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https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion/our-justice-system-should-not-go-back-to-normal-pre-covid-days/366033
Posted byDennis Reeve24 April 202224 April 2022Posted inUncategorized

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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.
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RETURN TO IN-PERSON HEARINGS A BAD IDEA – These same considerations apply to criminal law lawyers. I do not want to go back to sitting in court or in a hallway or in the lawyers’ lounge from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. to have my 15 minutes in court. How do I justify charging my client for a day of counsel fee when I only worked 15 minutes? How do I survive in business if I only bill for those 15 minutes? Now that we have escaped that, I will not go back.

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