SPECIAL TREATMENT IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE

The Province will now provide complainants, but only those alleging a sexual assault, 4 hours of free legal advice. I wonder if that will encourage or discourage complainants from proceeding? I guess it depends on what type of lawyers the Province hires to give such advice.

‘It’s also a tacit acknowledgement that the system doesn’t work for survivors of sexual violence,’ one expert said of the effort to level the legal playing field

Source: In a Canadian first, survivors of sexual violence will get free legal advice in Ontario pilot program