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WHAT IF MY CAR BREAKS DOWN AND I NEED A TOW?

http://opp.ca/index.php?lng=en&id=115&entryid=6009c4bcffaafb36b702fb23

Posted byDennis Reeve6 February 20216 February 2021Posted inUncategorized

MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES – ““Mandatory minimums are being struck down on an ad hoc basis, province to province,” It has reached the point that neither lawyers nor Judges know which mandatory minimum sentences have been struck down and where.

Clocks and clock hands that is pulled / twisted out of a regular shape
https://www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/law/rule-of-law/2021/canadas-web-of-mandatory-minimum-sentences
Posted byDennis Reeve5 February 20215 February 2021Posted inUncategorized

THE CONTINUED CRIMINALIZATION OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.

https://johnhoward.on.ca/brokenrecord/?fbclid=IwAR0jrIvPwVszpKDbG3xhN5Vg9t5NRDYHtvnvn9Smpiy9ilC8m7nJC9Ipk1g

Posted byDennis Reeve2 February 20212 February 2021Posted inUncategorized

THE COVID EFFECT – Pandemic outbreaks in jails.

At the Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton there are 88 inmate cases and 42 staff cases.
https://www-thestar-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.thestar.com/amp/news/gta/2021/01/25/maplehursts-130-active-covid-cases-make-it-ontarios-worst-jail-outbreak-of-the-pandemic.html

Posted byDennis Reeve26 January 202126 January 2021Posted inUncategorized

SENTENCES FOR CHILD SEX CRIMES ARE INCREASING DRAMATICALLY

“Sexual offences against children are among the most severe and so the penalties imposed on those convicted of such offences should be of the most severe.”

Jordan Donich on sexual assault law post-MeToo
https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/general/jordan-donich-on-sexual-assault-law-post-metoo/337040
Posted byDennis Reeve22 January 202122 January 2021Posted inUncategorized

THE COVID EFFECT – BAIL

In Brampton, charges were stayed as the accused was held in custody for 12 days before he had a bail hearing. There are “long-standing and glaring systemic issues,” in Brampton’s bail court.

“It is most regrettable that it has come to this,” Harris wrote. “Sadly, the long-standing nature of this problem and the profoundly detrimental effect on countless others not before the court, coupled with the virtually inevitable perpetuation of delays into the future, requires a stay.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/01/21/brampton-judge-tosses-organized-crime-linked-gambling-case-over-egregious-12-day-wait-for-bail-hearing.html?rf
Posted byDennis Reeve22 January 202122 January 2021Posted inUncategorized

THE COVID EFFECT – We are suffering the same problems as England in this excellent description of the situation. Ultimately, “Detectives, lawyers and judges all know that the longer it takes a trial to be heard, the more likely something is to go wrong.”

The jury at an Old Bailey trial, separated by plastic glass panels
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55712106
Posted byDennis Reeve22 January 202122 January 2021Posted inUncategorized

“We need to stop ballooning police budgets across Canada” – Once again Mr. Spratt hits the nail on the head.

Michael Spratt
https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion/we-need-to-stop-ballooning-police-budgets-across-canada/336702

Posted byDennis Reeve14 January 202114 January 2021Posted inUncategorized

All Court matters should be conducted remotely unless it is absolutely necessary to proceed in person.

Yahoo News
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ontario-courts-urged-limit-person-003650549.html
Posted byDennis Reeve14 January 202114 January 2021Posted inUncategorized

JANUARY 13, 2021 – The suspension of jury trials will be extended until May 3, 2021, at the earliest.

https://www.ontariocourts.ca/scj/notices-and-orders-covid-19/notice-to-the-profession-and-public-december-22-2020

Posted byDennis Reeve14 January 202114 January 2021Posted inUncategorized

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  • Credit also has to be given to JAMES LOCKYER for his tireless advocacy over many years to bring this to fruition.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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