Rules that govern each of the three levels of court and the Criminal Code of Canada were impediments to quickly switching to video or teleconferencing and new…

“Lawyers should be at the cutting edge of solutions that help our clients, not dragging our feet and clinging to old habits.”

Legal Services Society’s CEO says his agency bracing for fallout from economic, institutional and social disruption caused by coronavirus.

“With new sittings being offered in the month of July we hope to clear our docket of the cases necessarily adjourned during the early phase of the pandemic,” B.C. Court of Appeal Chief Justice Robert Bauman said.

Attorney-General David Eby and the society are concerned about the collapse of access to justice in the province because of the pandemic.