Public Input Invited For Justice System Review
Friday, March 2, 2012 @ 9:28 AM
Prince George, B.C. – In his role as chair of B.C.’s Justice Reform Initiative, Geoffrey Cowper, QC, has launched a new website to initiate conversation and generate ideas about how B.C.’s justice system can be made more efficient, transparent and accessible for all British Columbians.
The British Columbia Justice Reform Initiative website – www.bcjusticereform.ca – provides a forum for the public and stakeholders to provide their input. It invites constructive dialogue on the challenges facing – and potential solutions for – B.C.’s justice system through the use of an interactive blog and social media updates, as well as regular surveys seeking public feedback.
Cowper has been asked by the Province to identify barriers to timely criminal justice and measures to improve the system’s outcomes, as well as look for new ways that collaboration and co-operation can be fostered among various justice system participants.
The Justice Reform Initiative will identify long-term, fiscally responsible solutions and provide recommendations for dealing with the challenges faced by B.C. justice system.
Cowper must provide his final report to government in July 2012. This report, as well as updates expected mid-March, mid-April and mid-May, will be posted on the Justice Reform Initiative website.
Comments
“public input re: justice system”? To me that sounds like a politically correct lynch mob phrase.
“Constructive+construction=Gallows, yah, I’m good with that LOL
All those words written in that article above leads the reader to believe that they can tell the judges what to do? Good luck with that. Free advice? Worth every cent. The general public knows what it wants when it comes to justice in this country. Some how it kinda gets lost in translation when it enters the ears of politicians.
So Darn True!
How about making it simply mandatory for lawyers to be completely ready for a case when it comes to court? None of this, oh, I have to do this or I have to do that, or we’re still waiting to hear from……..
Passing a law to make lawyers do their job in a more efficient manner? Whose concept of “efficient manner”? Let’s us get a committee together,for a few years, gather up every ones opinions, submit it to the Justice Minister in Ottawa and see what he thinks. Then another lawyer will pop out of the woodwork and will use the Charter of Rights to tell you that lawyers , when it comes to trials, can do anything they want. Certain procedures in Canada are etched in stone. Not to be changed for the sake of efficiency. Look around you. Everything you touch or do has the governments fingerprints on it. From the milk you drink to taking the garbage out weekly. Big Brother does exist. He’s in the shadows always.
Lawyers pass the laws, so, ain’t gonna happen. Is frustrating though when they ask for everything under the sun AND stuff they don’t need. Many a crown leaves court scratching their heads wondering why they picked this occupation..
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