Friday, January 30, 2009

Prof. Michael Code has co-authored, with the Hon. Patrick LeSage, a major report for the Government of Ontario reviewing the procedures for large and complex criminal trials. The report provides many recommendations for improving the procedures for such trials, which have in recent years taken excessively long periods of time to be resolved.

Read the report on the Ministry of the Attorney General's website.

The report has received extensive coverage in the media.

"Major changes urged to keep trials moving," The Toronto Star, Nov. 28, 2008.

"Ontario to place prosecutors in police stations," The Globe and Mail, Nov. 28, 2008.

"Report laments legal aid snag," The Toronto Star, Nov. 29, 2008.

"'Complacent culture' allows trials to drag, report finds," The Globe and Mail, Nov. 29, 2008.

"Key players buy-in to criminal reforms," The Lawyers Weekly, December 19, 2008