Cash-strapped province can't afford to fix legal aid

B.C. defense attorney should pick up we're-not-going-to-take-it they Gauntlet thrown down over legal aid funding.

They need a new approach to engage the government, judges, other lawyers and the public in organizing the reform legislation.

The Provincial Court of the system is grinding toward a specific catastrophe thousands of cases taking too long to process and more backed up daily. The withdrawal of duty counsel services in some courthouses just last week forced the judge to put off many, many cases.

Duty counsel are lawyers were physically at the courthouse, available to appear for those who do not have their own representation.

Withdrawals has planned for the coming months, culminating in a complete withdrawal of duty counsel services throughout April, which further exacerbate supplies intolerable docket.

If the steps in the defense bar campaign by disrupting major criminal trials that require extraordinary funding arrangements, expect more delays.

That's not to mention the human cost - individuals who spend more time in prison than they should because representation is not available, the guilty to go free because their case was too long delayed, the victim is denied Correction - lawyers leads to this action refer to that as damage to "collateral", and that the Achilles heel of the resistance.

Celebrity lawyer Kevin McCullough Victorian Mother Teresa look like flying to Vancouver to help spring the poor, the poor, unfairly locked up - A capable lawyer with a penchant for Churchillian cigar sounds like a real safety Army captain: "I just can not fathom the idea of ​​letting anyone sit in custody for one more second and this, I'm doing the duty counsel services as much as I do everywhere."

He continued that just the thought of "a man sitting in jail for a minute, an hour, a day or a week when I can get them as duty counsel -" is not acceptable.

At the time of Dickens: God bless his soul, Tiny Tim! One of the McCullough helped keep out of the move Friday was little known thief Tracy Lloyd Caza, 51-year-old to 78 Dec 31 convictions arrested on sex assault, assault and warned that those charges.

Despised for stealing a ring from the finger of 91-year-old woman recuperating from surgery in hospital, Caza was released from prison only Dec 9 after a two year bit for robbery. He will appear in Provincial Court again February 6.

Taking a moment from his new clients, McCullough defended the government:

"Master, many civil servants do not have pay increases. If there are any more money to put in legal aid, I would hope that it is earmarked to increase coverage for people and not for an increase in fees the lawyer. You want more funding? Increase tax money is not there right now. "

That's rich coming from one of the lead lawyers on the defense team for corrupt bureaucrats Dave Basi and Bob VIRK, who trundled with more than $ 6 million in tax money.

Thankfully, that check is not drawn to legal-aid budget, which totals about $ 68 million.

However, he was right. If the optics of what they were doing was not caused by the defense bar to realize them on the wrong track, perhaps they should consider a healthy dose of real politik McCullough. The province is skint.

Tighter budgets are a reality - no provincial administration can afford another $ 35 million or so annually to restore legal aid to what it was a decade ago, when the Liberals first took office.

The question is whether the Liberals (or a new government) can find some $ 20-30 million for a one-time bandage until serious law reform occurs.

New ideas and news ways of doing things, the extensive structural changes are required due to repair legal aid can not be done in isolation - the crisis is a symptom, not a cause.

Article Source:- http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/Defence+lawyers+extract+blood+from+proverbial+stone/5965806/story.html

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