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Originally Posted by fredr123
While I appreciate that the "thousands upon thousands of dollars wasted on this ######" comment is likely directed at all of the costs inherent in running our justice system, I take umbrage with the photo of a lawyer with dollar signs in his eyes.
I do not know whether Jackie Tran's defence and multiple appeals were funded by Legal Aid Alberta. In many cases, the serious offences you see make the news on a nightly basis are defended by lawyers who are working on legal aid certificates. The tariffs paid by Legal Aid are quite modest. I would suggest that the primary motivating factor for defence lawyers in these cases is not money. If you are a lawyer in Alberta, there are far better ways to make beaucoup bucks than taking on Legal Aid cases.
Here are the current (well, 2009 anyway) tariffs paid by Legal Aid Alberta: http://www.legalaid.ab.ca/lawyers/Do...20FRIENDLY.pdf |
You just didn't get the joke. You didn't recognize the lawyer in the the picture as being Balfour Der. Probably a decent guy, was even a crown lawyer, but the butt of several jokes in Calgary as the guy who jumps to defend every high profile murderer, rapist, drug dealer, white collar granny scammer, multiple-fatality causing drunk driver, etc. and is probably one of the most highly paid and infamous defense lawyers in the city.