Law courts in Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer and Lethbridge are slowly reopening, but they won’t operate the same way they did pre-pandemic.
At least four courtrooms have been modified to protect against COVID-19. They now feature transparent barriers between the justice and counsel.
It’s a move defence lawyer Ajay Juneja appreciated when he represented his client, Tasha Mack, at one of the first in-person sentencings at the Court of Queen’s Bench in months. “Everyone I was with felt extremely safe.
There were appropriate measures put in place to make sure everyone was an appropriate distance apart. There were plastic barriers in place to prevent any type of transmission from one person to another.” Two courtrooms were used for the trial, one