Legal Research

StatsCan Report on Justice Personnel

By Simon Fodden

As a group, justice personnel are becoming older, according to a Statistics Canada report, “Aging of justice personnel” by Mathieu Charron, Racha Nemr and Roxan Vaillancourt, available on Juristat in HTML and PDF. (There’s a summary available on The Daily.)

The main findings of the study, based on the 2006 Census, are that the number and average age of justice workers has grown in parallel with the labour force as a whole; the median age is now 41. The report goes on to scrutinize four groups in greater detail: police officers, court personnel, correctional services workers, and private security officers. “Court personnel” includes lawyers (and seemingly all lawyers and notaries, whether actually involved in litigation or not), and it might be of interest to readers that between 1991 and 2006 the number of lawyers has risen by 42% (53,060 to 75,105) and the median age of lawyers rose from 38 to 44. The full chart of court personnel can be seen here. There is no reference to law librarians per se.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).