To predictable howls of dismay, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould has unveiled what she properly calls a “bold” reform of the sleepy, slow-moving and lost-in-another-century criminal justice system. Because the minister is a politician, and a lawyer by training, her language was judicious. In Bill C-75, the government proposes to do much, and much of it appears to be about a genuine culture shift. And as often as not, says criminal lawyer Daniel Brown, a director of the Criminal Lawyers Association, “Prosecutors and defence lawyers work together. “The criminal court is not there to solve social problems.

Source: National Post March 29, 2018 23:03 UTC