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Lawyers in England are refusing to represent some people because their legal aid system is insufficient to maintain a viable practice. The legal aid system in Ontario is similarly perpetually on the brink.
“Lawyers are refusing to represent people charged with certain crimes amid a crisis over solicitors’ pay, with one burglary suspect turned away by 12 legal firms, the Law Society president has said. Richard Atkinson, who leads the organisation representing more than 200,000 solicitors in England and Wales, said its members lost money if they took such cases …
Since 1982 accused persons have had the right to a trial within a reasonable time. We’ve had the Askov, Morin and now the Jordan cases of the Supreme Court of Canada trying to ensure that right, with only limited success. So now the courts are stacking cases on top of other cases on their daily trial lists that have no possibility of being reached for trial on that date.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/how-an-invented-supreme-court-ruling-has-rocked-the-canadian-justice-system/article_69e79ee9-d70a-53fa-b2b0-e26a9813d3ae.html?source=newsletter&utm_source=ts_nl&utm_medium=email&utm_email=0B41BB051FF7EA38DB4BDD5E33BA3AB2&utm_campaign=frst_6636&utm_campaign_id=nonsub
JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED – Every person charged with a criminal offence has the constitutional right to have their trial held within a reasonable time. Our Supreme Court has twice attempted to define what is reasonable through the cases of Askov and Jordan. The result has been decades of hundreds of cases being “stayed” from proceeding due to delay and further delays caused by the complex application procedures required to assert that right. Nothing has changed. Simply demanding that the trial process proceed expeditiously doesn’t work.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/11/08/time-limits-were-meant-to-speed-up-justice-they-also-halt-hundreds-of-criminal-cases/?
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR BAIL SYSTEM? – The federal government enacts the criminal code. The province applies it. The province builds and owns the courts. The province hires the Judges, the Justices of the Peace, the Crown Attorneys and court staff.
“The administration of bail is a provincial responsibility,” the Minister’s office said in a statement provided to CityNews. “Ontario must step up and ensure their courts and prosecutors are well resourced, that provincially appointed Justices of the Peace are applying the law — and when they don’t — provincially appointed crowns need to initiate bail …
One steals from dead people while another steals from the evidence locker.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/police-officer-charged-with-theft-criminal-breach-1.7323367
Are police officers held to a higher standard when they commit crimes? If they take advantage of their position to commit those crimes, the answer is yes. Justice Meisner did not hold back.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/boris-borissov-sentencing-1.7338925
Once again Toronto police charge a victim that they assaulted.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/08/12/civilian-seriously-injured-charged-pushed-by-plainclothes-police-officer/?
WHEN POLICE LIE IN COURT (AGAIN) – It seems to be a habit for some Toronto cops. “Is there something embedded within the police culture or subculture that might lead officers to believe that: ‘This is something that not only I should do, but something that I can do and that I’ll get away with as well?'”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/police-misleading-court-1.7257089
YET ANOTHER ILL ADVISED CROWN PROSECUTION OF AN INNOCENT MAN (The Star May 28, 2024)
AFTER TWO YEAR IN JAIL, A JURY TOOK JUST TWO HOURS TO FIND HIM NOT GUILTY. Timothy Clarke Anthony spent two years in jail awaiting trial for a fatal hit-and-run that shocked the Hagersville community. Once his day in court arrived, it took a jury just two hours to find him not guilty, Jacques Gallant …