In my experience, we still do a hearing before a justice, but it might be by consent: The Crown will agree to someone's release on limited conditions, obviously, in compliance with the law. However, there may not have been an opportunity to vet what the defence lawyer said the accused's circumstances are, or, for example, if there's a release plan, that release plan may not have been vetted by the prosecutor: They may not have had the time or resources to reach out to see if they're going into a recovery house, the reputation of that recovery house and those sorts of things. Depending on the day and how busy it is, they may not have those opportunities to dig deep on these files. That's why—
