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DAVID AND JOYCE MILGAARD’S LAW – With the ongoing development of technology and investigative tools that we did not have in the past, this is a very important step. It has been decades of waiting for this.

Posted byDennis Reeve 17 February 202317 February 2023
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lametti-wrongful-convictions-commission-1.6750429
Posted byDennis Reeve17 February 202317 February 2023Posted inUncategorized

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WAIT! WHAT? BACK TO 2014 FUNDING? – “The Ontario government cut $133 million from legal aid in 2019, amounting to 30 percent of the LAO budget. Legal Aid Ontario is not sustainable in the trajectory that it appears to be at present. FOLA is asking the provincial government to increase annual spending on Legal Aid Ontario to $480 million, up from $350 million, which would restore funding to its 2014 level. The federation also wants the threshold increased for legal aid eligibility, an increase in lawyer tariff rates, more modernization, and improved data collection.”
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Finally, our shamefully warn-out, antiquated, strip-mall OCJ criminal courts will be upgraded to “state-of-the-art” facilities but it will remain to be seen whether consolidating the 6 local courts into one mega-court location is a good idea.

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