The Vancouver Sun reports that in staying a criminal charge for unreasonable systemic delay, Provincial Court Judge Brian Saunderson predicted that it will take the staying of a high-profile case like a serial child sex offender case before the provincial government addresses critical under-funding of the BC legal system.  

Judge Saunderson remarked, "I suspect that what it will take is the sort of case that causes the public to be absolutely appalled at the circumstances, a case probably involving something as heinous as a series of child sexual assaults on little children, that kind of case to be stayed for delay - and the same rules apply - because of lack of funding [..]  It will get the attention of the major news media in the province and probably across the country.  It will take that kind of pressure to bring the government to its senses and to comply with its constitutional obligation."

Read the Vancouver Sun article here.