LEGAL REPOR T: CRIMINAL LAW AND FORENSICS
Ontario and B.C. Supremely different stories in
Ontario is flush with judges while B.C. can't fill vacancies, forcing it to cancel trials. BY KELLY HARRIS
two dozen anticipated vacancies from a year earlier, but also a new complement
I
n November 2008, the Ontario Supe- rior Court judicial roster was full. It included the filling of the more than
of judges added to the court for the first time since 1995. It means for the first time in years
getting to the Superior Court in Ontario can be measured in weeks instead of
years and months, says Ontario Bar Association past-president James Morton. The head of the litigation group at Toronto's Steinberg Morton Hope & Israel LLP, Morton has for
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