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Consent needed for remote or socially-distanced in-person trial, says CLA

from Law Times

Consent needed for remote or socially-distanced in-person trial, says CLA Law Times While the “very survival of an independent defence bar is at stake” amid lingering court shutdowns, the Criminal Lawyers’ Association says it does not favour forcing parties into remote trials or in-person trials. “No one (neither lawyer nor defendant) should be ‘forced’ to proceed with either a remote or socially-distanced in-person trial without their voluntary consent,” said John Struthers, president of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association, in a May 7 statement. READ MORE

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