Ontario to spend $72-million to tackle courts backlog, hire court staff, AG says

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Attorney General Doug Downey said part of the funding will help pay for more than 340 new court employees

, including Crown prosecutors, victim support staff and bail vettors – experienced Crown attorneys who facilitate faster bail decisions and resolutions when appropriate.

Downey said the province will also convene a team of experienced prosecutors to review files involving homicides and other targeted offences to help streamline those cases. “We’re using things that we learned through COVID to have extra capacity – we can now run trials, we can do hearings electronically, we’re in a position that we can leverage technology to have that kind of space,” he said.The attorney general said he wants to ensure charges related to crimes such as murder and sexual assault aren’t being stayed due to delays in the judicial system.

“Getting back to where we were system-wise isn’t necessarily success, that’s presuming that the system was working properly before. So I’m a little more ambitious than just getting back to a level that we were at,” he said.

 

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