What is the standard of access to counsel, access to transcripts and access to appellate review?

Alberta, Canada


The following excerpt is from R. v. Robinson, 1989 ABCA 267 (CanLII):

Before Law Society of British Columbia et al v. Andrews et al,57 it might have been arguable that all convicted appellants were similarly situated - a class - and should, so far as possible, have been furnished, as equally as possible, the opportunity of obtaining potential benefit to themselves from the fullest possible array of" appellate review. The objects of the Canadian criminal justice system include continuing fairness during the prosecutorial process as a constitutional entitlement, at least for those charged with serious and complex criminal offences. So merit aside, all should have counsel; all should have transcripts; all should have unlimited appeals.

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