Shandro said the province-wide rollout of the new system is expected to be completed by early 2024.
The ministry’s Budget 2023 performance metrics includes reducing the lead time to trial for serious and violent matters at the provincial court to 24 weeks, a decrease of nearly three weeks from 2021-22. “It’s more efficient in terms of streamlining the process and getting rid of weaker cases at an earlier stage,” Penney said.Outside of those provinces, including currently in Alberta, police generally make independent decisions on whether or not to lay charges.
If anything, this process should severely cripple the law enforcement methodology of throwing a bunch of charges at someone in hopes that at least one will stick.
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