Alberta Mirror

Monday, December 4, 2023

Liberals to analyse plan to move military prosecutors and defense advocates

Key takeaways: 

  • Review is the newest action in discussing the military’s sexual misbehaviour crisis. 
  • The Liberal government is initiating up an intimate operation group to think whether the civilian justice system should obtain over the whole of the duties of military prosecutors and defence advocates in sexual offence cases within the Canadian Armed Forces.

Defence lawyers to the civilian justice system: 

The Liberal government is initiating up an inner working group to think whether the civilian justice system should get over all the services of military prosecutors and defence lawyers in cases ahead of sexual misconduct within the Canadian Armed Forces.

The study, being led in coordination with the federal Department of Justice, is the newest action towards directing the sexual mischief crisis that has grasped the Department of National Defence for the greater part of this year.

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Relating to the review is included in documents received by CBC News and Defence Minister Anita Anand declared, in an interview, that it is one of many actions being held ahead of the decisions of the misconduct outside review panel managed by retired supreme court justice Louise Arbour.

“It is profound,” Anand told on the margins of the Halifax International Security Forum across the weekend. “I am preparing the ground for us to be able to act quickly on the recommendations in their final form from Madam Arbour.”

The newest legal review of the military justice policy, issued earlier this year, and enclosed by another former supreme court justice, Morris Fish, suggested a range of actions to increase the confidence of military prosecutors and defence lawyers, including a glimpse at them becoming civilians.

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