Justice committee  If I may, I can....

Justice committee  That's not specifically provided. I can tell you, however, from experience that chief justices or chief judges usually don't conduct large and complex cases because they're otherwise called by their administrative duties and other duties. That's usually left for their colleagues.

Justice committee  The case management judge steps in at the preliminary phase of the trial, where the trial judge, per se, has not yet stepped in. If this case is proceeding before a youth court, of course this case management judge would need to come from that court as well. The case would only i

Justice committee  No, you couldn't. The YCJA clearly states that young offenders must be treated in a separate system, and that was reinforced again in 2009, when the Supreme Court of Canada stated that you can't join on a preferred indictment young offenders and adults. Young offenders have the r

Justice committee  I'm not aware of the details of the proceedings in Toronto. Of course my main point is that, indeed, the current difference between the adult system and the young offender system will remain.

Justice committee  Many of these recommendations stem from a report prepared by the Steering Committee on Justice Efficiencies and Access to the Justice System. Six representatives from the bench sit on this committee. As well, I can say that the former version of this bill, Bill C-53, was presente

Justice committee  As the minister mentioned earlier, Bill C-2 would allow the joint hearing of related motions presented in separate trials. When some of these separate trials are held in different jurisdictions, the chief judge appointing a case management judge to this joint hearing would also

Justice committee  I confess in all honesty that I am not familiar with parliamentary procedure. I defer to the expertise of the committee on that.

Justice committee  There is a mechanism that allows a section to provide that various sections of the bill shall not come into force until an order has been issued, even after the bill has received royal assent. Perhaps this mechanism is the reason why some provisions of the Criminal Code are still

Justice committee  This amendment has been proposed precisely in order to make the wording of the bill similar to the Criminal Code. So, if you look at sections 171 and 172 of the Criminal Code, you find the idea of a person under the age of eighteen years. So this was to make the wording correspon

Justice committee  During our discussions with the provinces, since they are principally responsible for the administration of justice and act as prosecutors in criminal cases, they asked us, in a general way, when amendments deal with criminal proceedings, to give them some latitude in implementin

Justice committee  We have not had specific discussions about the coming into force of the bill. It has been brought to the attention of the provinces, certainly through the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Working Group on Criminal Procedure.

Justice committee  This committee...

Justice committee  The committee has already agreed to an amendment to clause 43 of Bill C-23. Henceforth, when a young offender is serving a youth sentence and is also sentenced as an adult... At present, the method of calculating sentences for adults applies to the full sentence imposed on a youn

Justice committee  An earlier clause in Bill C-23 amended section 145 of the Criminal Code. That particular amendment has already been adopted by the committee. However, the text of section 145 is reproduced in Form 12 in clause 45.1. Unfortunately, the wording does not reflect the proposed amendme