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Circuit Court jurisdiction, original jurisdiction, and
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then you are setting up another court next to it and
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saying half of it is going to go over here. This means
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that you are going to have two sets of courts, two sets
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of clerical offices and all the attendant difficulties
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with those. It seems to me that if my assumption is
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correct, one, that the clerks' offices will be under the
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supervision and control of the courts in the new plan,
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and two, that they will be modernized, then those offices
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ought to handle all the paper work for the People's Court.
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We are living in an age where the more paper work you
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have, the more efficiently you can handle it. I think
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this ought to apply, too. The more paper work, the more
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efficiently you can handle it. For instance, the court
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has just adopted a rule to use mail service. People's
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Court has been using this for 25 years. I can envision
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where 80 or 90 per cent of service in future cases will
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be by mail. It would seem ridiculous to have two offices
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doing the same job, separated a couple of blocks apart.
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MR. MARTINEAU: It is not precluded that this
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could all be done by the same staff of people.
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