Unless it has changed, in those days I would also be counsel at court martial. I had clients and would defend people who were charged. Then when the system became one, we would usually receive a phone call from an accused who wanted to be represented at court martial and my second role would be to assign a lawyer who was working with me at the time, both from the reserve and from the regular force. Then once the trial was over, we also would have the responsibility to inform the accused, or the person who was found guilty, of their right of appeal and how to proceed. We would proceed with the first step of the appeal. Then it would be up to the appeal committee to decide whether or not an appeal could proceed under our supervision, or be paid by the director of counsel services, or if he would have to pay for it himself.
I was also given the mandate at times to outsource lawyers to appear in court martial because either we were running out of personnel, or we would be in a conflict of interest.