The challenge of ensuring timely access to justice is not a recent phenomenon: the grievance is so old, in fact, that Shakespeare famously wrote of "law’s delays" in Hamlet’s best known soliloquy. Last week, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada launched into a sharp monologue of his own about the logjam in our justice system. He warned that a failure by the federal Liberal government to fill judicial vacancies is placing trials at risk of falling apart and eroding public confidence in our institutions.
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