The risk is that diversity of opinion, so vital to the healthy development of the law, may be relegated to the occasional murmur, particularly so if the very same judges who sit on a majority of sentence appeals insist on inflexible adherence to horizontal stare decisis and maintain that their judgments, being «first at bat», must be followed by their colleagues. (supremeadvocacy.ca)
Rather than disparaging with politically motivated sound bites the very same judges our government continues to appoint, the Minister could lead by example by demonstrating a desire to pay heed to the increasing messages from the bench decrying mandatory minimum penalties and uncollectable surcharges. (slaw.ca)
MacManus also suggested to the same judge that government - issued phones given to Clinton's top aides, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, had been destroyed because they were older models. (businessinsider.com)