{"id":70334,"date":"2020-04-11T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=70334"},"modified":"2020-04-11T11:35:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T15:35:37","slug":"pandemic-ii-justice-system-down-furlong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/04\/11\/pandemic-ii-justice-system-down-furlong\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic II: Justice system down [Furlong]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law21.ca\/2020\/04\/pandemic-ii-justice-system-down\/\"><strong>Pandemic II: Justice system down<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from law21.ca by Jordan Furlong<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We need to recognize a couple of things about our justice system, in order to fully appreciate the fate that awaits it in the COVID-19 era and the tasks that now lie in front of us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The first is that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G3-yj0o8114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the system has nowhere near the capacity or resilience required<\/a>\u00a0to handle an emergency of this magnitude. Like our hospitals, which are about to be overrun with virus patients, our courts are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2018\/07\/09\/how-the-underfunding-of-legal-aid-is-clogging-up-the-justice-system.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">perpetually underfunded<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/legaltechnology.com\/uk-courts-to-operate-remotely-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-lets-be-honest-its-complicated-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">technologically handicapped<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/01\/nyregion\/for-victims-an-overloaded-court-system-brings-pain-and-delays.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">already overloaded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Case backlogs are common, hearings are routinely adjourned, and even straightforward cases stretch out over months and years. There is an entire body of constitutional law that addresses\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnow.org\/criminal-the-right-to-be-tried-without-undue-delay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how long you can delay a person\u2019s trial before their rights are violated<\/a>, and it should tell us something that we don\u2019t even find that remarkable anymore.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>What this crisis has revealed is the central operating assumption of our justice institutions, which has now become our stumbling block: <em>Everybody comes to the courthouse.<br \/>\n<\/em>&#8230;<br \/>\nRichard Susskind has made many insightful observations over the course of his career, but I suspect one will outlast all the others: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/online-courts-and-the-future-of-justice-9780198838364?cc=ca&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We have to decide if court is a place or a service.<\/a>\u201d For hundreds of years \u2014 right up until last month, in fact \u2014 court has been a place. By the time this pandemic has truly run its course, court will be a service.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pandemic II: Justice system down &#8212; from law21.ca by Jordan Furlong Excerpt: We need to recognize a couple of things about our justice system, in order to fully appreciate the fate that awaits it in the COVID-19 era and the tasks that now lie in front of us. The first is that\u00a0the system has nowhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,832,473,829,825,833,830,285,309,201,330,196,480,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-access-to-justice","category-canada","category-cost-of-legal-services-including-access","category-law-schools","category-legal-reform","category-legal-technologies","category-legislation-legislatures","category-platforms","category-policy","category-political-science","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-society","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70350,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70334\/revisions\/70350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}