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we believe can assist in alleviating the exasperating<br />
delays in the civil justice system.<br />
1. Increasing Resources and<br />
Judicial Appointments<br />
Our federal and provincial governments have<br />
neglected to properly fund the civil justice system<br />
for years.<br />
Healthcare, education, and other social issues<br />
get significantly more media attention, and are<br />
therefore prioritized over the civil justice system<br />
when it comes to policy and spending. This has<br />
led to many open judicial vacancies and an agonizingly<br />
slow process to fill them. In the meantime,<br />
there are not enough judges to handle the<br />
significant existing caseload and the backlog<br />
caused, in part, by COVID-19. A recent Federal<br />
Court decision from Justice Henry S. Brown decried<br />
the record number of judicial vacancies as<br />
a “crisis”. 1 As a corollary, the existing judges are<br />
overworked, under-resourced, and drained. This<br />
creates a knock-on effect where successful lawyers<br />
are not incentivized to leave private practice,<br />
and all its associated amenities, to become<br />
part of an overworked and underpaid judiciary.<br />
2. Increase the Jurisdiction and<br />
Authority of Case Management Judges<br />
Most civil procedure rules provide a case management<br />
judge with the authority to make procedural/interlocutory<br />
orders, if it is appropriate<br />
to do so. There should be no qualifiers on a case<br />
management judge’s authority to issue procedural<br />
and interlocutory orders. Some judges have<br />
recently exhibited a willingness to make relatively<br />
substantive decisions at a case conference, which<br />
is a development that should be applauded. 2<br />
Generally, the discovery process is often the<br />
most expensive and laborious step in the civil<br />
litigation process. Motions dealing with discovery<br />
issues are on every docket in every province,<br />
and can clog up the system. All discovery-related<br />
motions should be addressed by case conference,<br />
without the need for motion records and<br />
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