Saskatoon judge says situation facing Legal Aid is 'dire'

In a rare display of public 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 after a series of adjournments in Saskatoon provincial court, Judge Barry Singer said he was dissatisfied with a “systemic” shortage of Legal Aid lawyers that is leading to those accused “sitting in the