STILL FAILING - The Deepening Crisis of Bail and Pre-Trial Detention in Canada

STILL FAILING The Deepening Crisis of Bail and Pre-Trial Detention in Canada Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Civil Liberties Education Trust 2024 About the CCLA and CCLET The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is a national, non-profit, independent, non-governmental organization that was constituted to promote respect for and observance of fundamental human rights and civil. [...] i Still Failing: The Deepening Crisis of Bail and Pre-Trial Detention in Canada Acknowledgments The Canadian Civil Liberties Association thanks the Canadian Bar Association’s Law for the Future Fund for providing the funding that made much of the work on this report possible. [...] We are also immensely grateful to the many individuals who agreed to be interviewed about their experiences with Canada’s bail system and the many, many volunteer community members, students and lawyers who dedicated hundreds of hours of pro bono time to court monitoring and research. [...] Particular thanks go to Pro Bono Students Canada (PBSC) for helping connect us with volunteer law students across the country, and the law firms of McCarthy Tétrault and Blake, Cassels & Graydon, which generously agreed to have dozens of their summer students help with our research. [...] Meg MacDonald and Marina Kwak undertook our first round of court monitoring in Nova Scotia, and Queen’s University doctoral students Alyssa Leblond and Ethan Pohl helped with research, transcript analysis and data entry.