Legal Aid Boycott Concerns

Some Crown attorneys are expressing concern that a legal aid boycott by some criminal lawyers will lead to miscarriages of justice.

The lawyers are engaged in a boycott of Legal Aid to press for higher fees -- they now get between 77 and 96 dollars an hour.

Some Crowns say they fear some serious cases, including homicides, may go to inexperienced junior lawyers.

The prosecutors plan to ask judges to intervene if needed to have incompetent lawyers removed from the cases.