Add court services to the growing list of provincial responsibilities in Brampton that are not keeping up with growth

Brampton’s courthouses have been overcrowded and under-resourced for years, and things are now nearing a tipping point. It’s the latest issue on a growing list of provincial duties in the high-growth city that Queen’s Park seems ill-equipped or unwilling to deal with.

The number of times courtrooms handling provincial offences needed to close this year because there was no judge available to preside has increased one-third over last year, and recent projections from the city show Brampton is on the edge of having cases thrown out due to unreasonable delay.

New timelines from the Supreme Court of Canada mean the country’s courthouses need to work like well oiled machines in order to keep cases from being tossed out due to unreasonable delay.

In Brampton’s case, a shortage of Justices has led to a surge in courtroom closures, an issue that is projected to reach a critical point early in 2020, with cases set to be dismissed.

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Published on November 19, 2019 in The Pointer Brampton