Mayors call for more people to be kept in jail before trial and the BCCA said use of lose Vancouver Island rail line

This week on Legally Speaking with Michael Mulligan: The mayors of Victoria and Esquimalt, who serve as co-chairs of the Victoria and Esquimalt Police Board, have issued a press release suggesting that to prevent police officers from being assaulted and to reduce criminal activity by mentally ill people, more people should be kept in jail before they have a trial. In Canada, people are presumed to be innocent. There is also a constitutional right not to be denied reasonable bail w...