Launch of StepstoJustice website brings out justice system leaders

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  Feds step in to help Pro Bono Ontario with funding

  Three legal help centres in Toronto and Ottawa will remain open throughout 2019, thanks to $250,000 in funding from the federal government and approximately $275,000 in donations from private donors.

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  Judge blasts province of Ontario for problems with Brampton courthouse

  ​ A judge with the Superior Court of Justice has excoriated the provincial government over the state of conditions at the Brampton Courthouse, west of Toronto. Justice Peter Daley, a regional senior judge with the central west region, says there are a host of problems that have resulted due to a lack of hearing rooms and office space at the courthouse, even after a memorandum of understanding was signed in 2008 with the government of the day.