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May 6, 2015

The review committee will examine the implementation of the Criminal Justice Act.

Passed in 1964, the Criminal Justice Act was aimed at creating mechanisms for putting the principle of court-appointed lawyers for poor defendants into practice. A recently appointed committee of judges and lawyers will review the act's five decades of implementation.

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