Saskatoon judge calls Legal Aid situation 'dire'

In a rare public expression of opinion, a Saskatoon judge placed blame on Legal Aid Saskatchewan’s head office for a “dire” shortage of lawyers representing society’s most vulnerable people in the city’s courtrooms.
Speaking from the bench on Thursday in Saskatoon provincial court, Judge Barry Singer said he was dissatisfied with a “systemic” shortage of Legal Aid lawyers that is leading to people accused of crimes “sitting in the can.”
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