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QUEBEC CROWNS GET MUCH-NEEDED SUPPORT REGIONAL WRAP-UP Q reorganization plan rolling out at the uebec Crown prosecutors will get a significant boost of logisti- cal support under a new work Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales, the government office that directs all criminal and penal prosecu- tions in the province. ful of paralegals working at the DPCP. But up to 85 more will be added along with 41 administrative assistants over the next three years, Quebec Justice Minister Jean-Marc Fournier and DPCP direc- tor Claude Lachapelle promised as they outlined new efforts to improve working conditions for prosecutors. In all, the number of people work- SPECIALIZATION IN BUSINESS LAW Part-time, Executive LLM program for corporate counsel and practising lawyers Until now, there were only a hand- ing at the provincial prosecutor's office will grow to 985 people — a 47-per- cent increase over March 2011. At that time, Fournier approved 160 other hires, including 98 prosecutors, in a first stab at substantial change after a bitter two-week strike by Crowns that ended with back-to-work legislation. (A small number of employees transferred over to DPCP from the Justice depart- ment with the centralization of all penal infraction work under the new Bureau des affaires pénales.) Also coming to the DPCP is the cre- ation of a centralized legal research cen- tre that Crowns can consult throughout the network of seven regional offices, 33 satellite offices, and seven bureaus with individual mandates for specific concerns like corruption and organized crime. Continuing legal education training will be consolidated and improved and a partnership is to be struck with a Quebec university for tailored manage- ment training for DPCP staff. There were 16 chief prosecutors, 46 deputy chief prosecutors, and 558 prosecutors, bringing the total number of provincial Crown lawyers to 620 at the end of May. While daily work conditions for pro- For more information, call 416-978-1400 or visit: http://www.law.utoronto.ca/programs/GPLLM.html TIME: EVENT: Supported by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) - Ontario Chapter and in partnership with Carswell, a Thomson Reuters business. GLLM_IH_Apr_12.indd 1 8 JULY 2012 www. CANADIAN Lawyermag.com vincial Crowns are improving, close to 1,000 lawyers who work for provincial government departments and public agencies like provincial tax collector Agence de revenu du Québec have yet to see the benefits of a new five-year collec- tive agreement with higher wages that was worked out last July and supposed 12-05-03 10:58 AM