Vancouver Sun columnist Ian Mulgrew reports on the growing tension between BC's legal stakeholders and the provincial government over the issue of funding for legal aid.  The Trial Lawyers Association of BC is organizing a public awareness campaign in several courthouses today, and is calling for mounting withdrawals of legal aid duty counsel services in 2012 if government does not move to address the issue of underfunding.

Mulgrew's article chronicles escalating moments of friction between BC's judicial and legislative branches of government, and concludes with the following reductive statement: "With only a limited pot, if you had to decide whether to give more money to lawyers and judges or crippled kids, which would you choose?"

Read the article here.