New judicial expense disclosures strike ‘right balance,’ say legal advocates

Brock University professor Matthew Hennigar says these new disclosures help answer the question: ‘what does our justice system cost as a public good?’

Justice Minister David Lametti accepted a compromise during the last Parliament on a bill requiring the release of judicial expenses, agreeing to an amendment that publishes amounts by court rather than judge. The second quarter report on these expenses was released at the end of October.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

November 11, 2020

Federal judges are releasing their expenses for the first time following a law passed during the last Parliament, and the new numbers show the move struck “the right balance,” according to judicial advocates and one Senator who previously opposed the legislation. The first version of the law wo...

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