Trial Division: Screening Panel and Saint John

trial division: Wilson-Raybould has yet to appoint a new judicial advisory committee a seven-member screening panel for New Brunswick, according to CBC. Across the country, new judicial advisory committees, known as JACs, have been set up to recommend the appointments of judges to superior courts, based on training and criteria that are supposed to improve overall diversity on the bench. The Saint John dockets are clogged and there is little meaningful or timely access to justice for family litigants, law society president George Filliter wrote in a letter to federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould. Without a committee in place, New Brunswick can't fill two judicial vacancies, including the one in Saint John and another in the trial division in Bathurst. Divorce lawyers, whose cases also involve sensitive issues related to child custody, say they're having to wait a year or longer to get before a judge. Vacancy hard on families For almost a year, Saint John's family court has been operating with two judges when it should have three. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.