Judge recommends the province pay for legal counsel for private children\u0027s services agency at fatality inquiries into four teen suicides.
“It is unsettling.”Dalton recognized her recommendation that the province fund the agency’s legal representative was unprecedented under the Fatality Inquiries Act, but necessary.
“But if not in this case, then when? What constellation of factors would be required to tip the scale if not this? If this is not a case that warrants a recommendation, one might be forgiven for thinking that the process to secure state-funded counsel is hollow.”Article contentDalton said the private agency had a strong vested interest in the inquiries into the four suicides which concluded last October.
“There are also compelling public interest reasons which support a recommendation for state-funded counsel to ensure procedural fairness.”Article content
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