The Charter, Government and the Machinery of Justice

Abstract

The following is the text of an address delivered on the occasion of the Tenth Viscount Bennett Memorial Lecture, 16 October 1986, in the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick. It examines the conflicts inherent when the offices of Attorney-General and Minister of Justice are held by one individual. Within this framework the author considers both the current New Brunswick context and the varieties of statutory reform undertaken in a number of Commonwealth countries to resolve this conflict - most notably through creation of a separate office of Director of Public Prosecutions.