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July PEOPLE blasts our legal system llfrlditfwrtter Justice is tor less Important than potholes in terms of votes and that why the provincial government allots less than one per cent of its budget to justice while transportation gels somewhere between a and a third of the fundi le government spends ally At least so says Peel provincial court Judge Kenne th of Georgetown Judge la one of he judges in the division of the provincial court In the Peel judicial strict After five years on the bench pally it Clarence and hen in Brampton he is only too aware of the problems in the province legal system Provincial court is the torn court of a three- tier system which he terms large ly obsolete The structure of system he says is largely historical and like historical it lends to Ret carved in stone and be very difficult to change Until changes are made however taxpayers will continue to hear moans and groans about how jammed the courtrooms are how del ays are letting suspected run around loose waiting for their trial It Provincial court Is the off spring of the old local magistr court and as result any criminal charge that is laid will start out in that court no mailer where it finally winds up To understand the historic background of the system go back 100 years In Ontario Judge Lai don says It was a very different society and Iransportation and Mire different them Every needed justice of peace or a These just farmers or Is respected a t by peers they d knowledge of law y dealt with eve g happened in th from someone In n his mother In la eia eourt judge Is his ultimate successor and that why we deal with ever thing from causing a disturbance to der More serious matters would from the local magistrate the county court judfc who sat full time tn the county seat i re illy serious would from the country court court held by judge who Ihe irea each spring and fill or the assizes Judge says that in Peel justice of the J P arc traffic liquor offence cases now bill provincial court has to hear appeals in They also hive to deal Willi people arrested weekend who be s agenda or ised in THIttfc COURTS The present system has three separate courts with three separate ions which historically have among them This in eolossal dujiln if rk tremendous i miles fur dil Tie books ises date court works by silting There forea lawyer knows his clients are to appear in the fall silting he may not know until a day or so before case is next on the list then he ma haw nisi in court one e has adjourned lie Supreme works by sittings Judge says he know when will sit is winter This represents j third court which can present cases a conflicting time and delays as liwyers sort out To ingle the mess Judy sufkests iheri should be only one trial court such criminal civ and familj Appeals from ihe divisions could eilher to a lined court or lo a single court of appeal Peel has i worse of cases than inj where in io Judge People arrested now won Janunrj he Asked Pee I should be so badly jammed up he pointed a number of reasons He suspects lhnt Peel has a lower number of judges per capita than similar irias the I eel body are tougher than r such departments Peel gets a disproportionate number of long coses The Toronto airport is in our area with a population of eight million Georgetown Market Place