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ger 1976 the
the Attorney
d a White Paper
'Administration,
;"the premise that
pntario may- be
pdermined by the.
,Sepsis facing the
dy'ls_province. This
r. reports that it
by 1968 that great
ncies existed in
s and services
In various parts of
vince, and only a
is approach would
adequate „ facilities
1 of service for all
s. A major change in
dministration took
n 1968 when the
, and the Ministry of
ttorney General
, for the first time
ponsibility.for courts
ation.
the whole question
aditional and ancient
of courts ad -
tion could best be
020th Century needs
rred to the Ontario
form Commission.
mission's Report,
in 1973, was en -
y the government,
some concern was
ed about specific
al proposals.
onal developmental
to test feasibility of
court reform
s was initiated, for
urpose the Central
gion, a group of ten
and judicial districts
g around Hamilton,
ted, providing as it
microcosm of the
rovince. The ob-
f the project was to
a setting for
g and testing ad-
ive methods and
for the courts.
roject Management
oncentrated on the
areas: development
e standards for
al Courts (Criminal
mily Divisions);
management of the
offices by the
ement team;
ent of more ef-
techniques for
g the work of court
and the preparation
cripts; development
istical analysis
and techniques;
ent of evaluative
and standards
court productivity;
flow management.
ing to the White
all but one crucial
he Project Team
considerable suc-
development of
strative support
permitted the
Cam to: monitor the
S,, of individual
allocate ad -
resources more
more
and efficiently;
elo.p;. a uniform
throughout the
administrative
art operations,.
-the 'present
administrative
of the courts
any real progress
area of case flow
ent.
the most important
es taken by the
Management Team,
e approval of the
ev Committee, was the
ent of a case flow
rent system in the
al Court (Criminal
in Halton County.
ective was to re -
the work of the
courts to make
m use of judicial and
yrces and increase
efllence"of the public.
osal.for a case flow
Ment system in -
the . complete re -
ng of all the business
criminal courts, the
g.l of the time of
Cement of . various
the re=allocation . of
81
duties between Provincial
Judges and Justices `'of the
Peace, a change 'in, the ,
procedure for setting trial
dates, a change in the in -take
procedure for scheduling first
appearances of cases not
Previously dealt with, a
change in adjoui^nment
procedures, a change in the
number and location of
various court sittings, the
development .of a new system
for streaming certain types of
case into different courts, and
the allocation of specific
blocks of judicial time for the
disposition of certain types of
case.
The Central West Project
has, apparently., proved that
case flow management is a
key to effective court reform,
and if effective management
is to be attained, the present
management must be unified.
The White Paper concludes
that the Central West Project
demonstratedthat in our
courts administration system
judicial and administrative
functions are so interwoven
that any system which at-
tempted to confer control on
the basis of the distinction
would fail to meet the goals of
effective court reform. The
only way to achieve any
unified managerial control
over case flow -is' to place
overall control in the hands of
a central authority with the
ability to develop and apply
case flow management
standards upon individual
courts. Neither the con-
stitution nor the public would
permit this authority to be
wielded by the Attorney
General. Effective
management controls over
individual courts and upon
the court system as a whole
can only be imposed where
ultimate authority Is vested
in a judicial office. It is
proposed that ultimate
authority and responsibility
be conferred upon a Judicial
Council composed of the
senior judiciary.
The United States and
Great Britain have adopted
different solutions to vest
unified' control over courts
administration in a judicial
office. Changes in the courr
structure to meet public
needs have taken place in the
past and, no doubt, will
continue to take place. While -
the proposed court structure
should ' permit the im-
plementation of reforms
necessary to ensure the
public the level of service
they presently require,
further and other
arrangements can be made to
' meet future needs.
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