Public Prosecution Service Of Canada: Federal Court

Federal Prosecutors Dept: According to the Public Prosecution Service of Canada s annual report released last week, federal prosecutors handled 78,698 files in 2011-2012, more than 48,000 of which were new while the remainder were carried over from previous years, according to Montreal Gazette. This year s report, unlike previous ones, also offered a glimpse of federal court activity by region and oTTAWA The lion s share of federal court cases last year were handled by Ontario and British Columbia where drug, organized crime, terrorism, human smuggling and environmental protection crimes kept prosecutors busy, new figures suggest. Of them, 58,972 about three-quarters of them involved charges under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Prosecutors also handled more than 9,000 cases involving economic offences, more than 8,500 involving environmental protection offences, 479 immigration cases and 227 cases related to census violations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.