A Legal Aid Ontario duty counsel is in the drug treatment court every Tuesday and Thursday. That counsel participates in the closed pre-court sessions and represents the interests of the participants in exactly that adversarial way. It's a modified adversarial process when something is contentious. If I'm asking for someone's bail to be revoked, then duty counsel will say, “Why don't we try something short of revoking bail?” But within the team process, we still have our distinct roles, so the person always has an advocate there in court.
If participants want their own private defence counsel to be there, that's open to them. Sometimes when people do want their own counsel, that counsel is present when they enter their guilty plea at the beginning of the program. If there's a conflict that comes up, if they're about to be expelled from the program, their own private lawyers may attend for that. Otherwise, the duty counsel is there to represent them.