 "The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions." --Vaclav Havel The Lawyer as Prosecutor: Rule (Nova Scotia Barrister's Law Society Handbook) When acting as a prosecutor, the lawyer has a duty to (a) act, in the exercise of any prosecutorial function including the exercise of prosecutorial discretion, fairly and dispassionately;1 (b) act in the spirit of the decision of Mr. Justice Rand in Boucher v. R., which is to say to seek justice, not merely to strive to obtain a conviction and to present to the court in a firm and fair manner evidence that the lawyer considers to be credible and relevant; (c) not prevent or impede one charged with an offence or in peril of such a charge from being represented by counsel or from communicating at reasonable times with counsel; and (d) disclose to defence counsel or to the party charged, if unrepresented, in a full, fair and timely fashion, before, during and after a trial, as circumstances may dictate, all such matters as are required to be disclosed in accordance with the policies and standards of Crown disclosure determined, from time to time, by law or by directive of the Attorney General, whether such disclosures may tend to show guilt or innocence or would affect punishment. Interestingly enough, this is on the website of Nova Scotia, a province whose Justice System is as beleaguered as Saskatchewan regarding corruption and cover-ups. |
| The Miazga letters to his co-conspirators |
