A story in the Vancouver Sun says:
BC has appointed nine new Provincial Court judges, the government announced Tuesday … move comes as the province faces intense criticism over delays in the justice system, including from judges themselves.
BC has appointed nine new Provincial Court judges, the government announced Tuesday … move comes as the province faces intense criticism over delays in the justice system, including from judges themselves.
Four of the new judges announced
Tuesday will be appointed to the Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley regions,
with another two being placed in Prince George.
One new judge has been appointed to each of Nanaimo, Smithers and
Penticton.
The judges were assigned in
response to the court's specific needs throughout the province, the government
said.
Even with these nine new judges added today, by the BC Liberal
government, we are still going to be woefully short of what is needed.
A previous report showed a need for 143 full time judicial equivalents ...
and last month (January 2012) there were only 121.3 full time judicial
equivalents on the bench across the province. That makes us still short 13
judges.
