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THE B-C LAW SOCIETY IS ECHOING CALLS BY B-C'S ATTORNEY GENERAL TO EXPLORE WAYS THE U-S LEGAL SYSTEM WORKS MORE EFFICIENTLY THAN OURS.
"Routine cases which 20 years ago took 3 or 4 days now take 3 or 4 weeks."
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT ROB MCDIARMID SAYS WALLY OPPAL WAS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT SUGGESTING COMPLEX CRIMINAL TRIALS SOUTH OF THE BORDER FINISH MUCH MORE QUICKLY THAN THEY DO HERE. MCDIARMID SAYS LAWYERS IN CANADA TEND TO SPEND MUCH MORE TIME DURING TRIAL ON CHARTER ISSUES AND THERE ARE MANY MORE APPEALS.
"Now part of the difficulty we have is that trial judges are quite familiar with these sorts of things. They tend to get scrutinized and verdicts overturned."
MCDIARMID SAYS WALLY OPPAL IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK EXPLORING HOW WE CAN LEARN FROM THE AMERICAN SYSTEM, SPEEDING UP THE PROCESS AND THEREBY REDUCING COSTS.
YEah, never mind someone's right to explore all the avenues available to them. This fucking sick. Hey, why not just go ahead and contract our justice system out to a big US company?
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