Sentences with phrase «canadian judiciary»

«He believes he can make a positive contribution as a member of the Canadian judiciary.

One reason for this holding was the fact that the old law was, as Justice MacDonnell put it, «the subject of uniformly withering criticism from law reformers, academics and all levels of the Canadian judiciary for more than 30 years» (par.

(2215) But those members of the Canadian judiciary who do indeed seek to be bound by the constitution could, I think, usefully consider the argument advanced by Professors Barnett and Bernick as a guide in their endeavours.

A comparison with judges is instructive: members of the Canadian judiciary are appointed for life, with removal from the bench happening only in the rarest circumstances and for the most egregious transgressions; judges have no fear that their continued employment is subject to their rendering a decision in a particular case which the government of the day deems favourable.

What we know is that the Canadian judiciary is overwhelmingly white at a time when Canadian society is more diverse than ever before.

The second is that the Canadian judiciary became the guardian of the Canadian Constitution in 1982.

By: Alice Woolley PDF Version: The Problem of Judicial Arrogance In her remarkable new book Life Sentence (Doubleday Canada, 2016), Christie Blatchford describes the Canadian judiciary as «unelected, unaccountable, entitled, expensive to maintain and remarkably smug» (at pp. 33 - 34).

It overshadows Chief Justice McLachlin's announcement within a speech at Carleton University on the Media and the Courts, that the Canadian judiciary should start to think seriously about social media.

Public confidence in the impartial adjudication of disputes by an independent judiciary is the Canadian judiciary's most valuable commodity.

But I blame Baird Ellan and the NDP for putting a bullseye squarely on the back of the Canadian judiciary for the Tories to easily hit with a poisoned political arrow.

In a unanimous 7 - 0 ruling, the Court held that the Canadian judiciary should indeed be accountable and open to censure, and that «[l] awyers should not be expected to behave like verbal eunuchs.»

This is a confidential program of prevention, assistance and treatment for members of the Canadian judiciary and their family members.

(5) With the «constitutionalizing» of more and more political and social issues into fundamental rights, the Canadian judiciary has all but removed those issues, in a fairly permanent way, from the realm of future civic engagement and future political debate.

One would have to ask what was the message that Canadian Judicial Council was trying to convey to Canadian judiciary and Canadian public when they recommended to Canadian Parliament removal of Justice Paul Cosgrove from the judicial bench??

So it seems that Canadian Judicial Council is telling Canadian judiciary and Canadian public that we are one big and happy family of crooks on the take whose extracurricular services come at a price that only very rich people and drug traffickers can afford.

In her remarkable new book Life Sentence (Doubleday Canada, 2016), Christie Blatchford describes the Canadian judiciary as «unelected, unaccountable, entitled, expensive to maintain and remarkably smug» (at pp. 33 - 34).

The reason for this has less to do with factual necessity than with the institutional conservatism of the Canadian judiciary.

Do you see yourself reflected in the Canadian judiciary?

Not exact matches

We built the membership last September to include fair representation from the judiciary, lawyers in private and public sector practice, the Courts Administration Service, a few other areas and a journalist to represent the interests of the Canadian public.

«The judiciary, the legal profession, and all Canadians will be well served by his dedication to upholding the laws and Constitution upon which this country is founded.»

«The reason we weighed in is it's very important that Canadians have confidence in the administration of justice and the judiciary,» he adds.

However, with women now forming approximately 37 % of the lawyers in Canada, the percentage of female judges is falling quickly behind not only the profession but also what many Canadians expect — a judiciary that reflects Canadian reality and not just the legal profession.

It is instead that bane of Canadian existence that has long cried out for lengthy periods of incarceration, if only our bleeding heart, pink - shirted, liberal judiciary would recognize it.

The Government believes Canadians» confidence in superior courts will be solidified if the judiciary more closely mirrors the reality and experience of those who appear before it.

McLachlin has gone a long way to make the top court more accessible and transparent to Canadians by being an approachable face of the judiciary.

In March, Canadian Lawyer InHouse held a roundtable on e-discovery in Canada, sponsored by LexisNexis Applied Discovery, with a group of experts in the field from private firms, corporate legal departments, and the judiciary.

«The authority of the judiciary in any democratic society rests on public confidence and public confidence can not exist in the absence of displaying the highest norms of conduct and ethical principles for judges,» says Norman Sabourin, executive director and senior general counsel for the Canadian Judicial Council.

And while it's likely accurate to say that judges tend to support democratic values, there are plenty of examples in Canadian history of the judiciary and individual judges acting in ways that also seemed also to promote private, elite and state values, which at times in the past were very illiberal.

Susskind, in addition to being a law school professor, is a special adviser to the Canadian Bar Association, and an independent adviser to law firms, governments, and judiciaries around the world.

The Canadian Bar Association yesterday issued a press release condemning the imposition of emergency rule and the arrests of lawyers, and calling for reinstatement of the judiciary and «return to the rule of law».

As was the case in the United States and other countries in the world, the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms forced the judiciary to adopt a more activist role viz other state actors.

It is integrity that pulses in the heart of Canadian democratic institutions and propels an independent judiciary.

2 To promote and facilitate communication among all Canadian Judges and with the judiciaries of foreign countries;

More than two - thirds of Canadians want a democratic check on the power of the judiciary.

Increasing diversity within the judiciary requires more than just statements from legal organizations that there is a need for a bench that better reflects the makeup of its community, says Jennifer Chow, a Vancouver lawyer and past president of the provincial branch of the Canadian Bar Association.

While the Canadian public wants more accountability from the judiciary, some judges want less.

The Society's Officers also meet through the year with representatives of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), the judiciary, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, the Public Prosecution Service, Schulich School of Law, the Law Foundation of Nova Scotia, AJEFNE, county Bar associations and others.

The writers are the leading Canadian voices in the academy, the judiciary and government.

The Canadian Judicial Council's annual reports went from seventy - two pages in 1996 to TWO PAGES in 2016 — a clear message from both the judiciary and the CJC that the Canadian public can go to Hell for all they care.

With respect to conduct, I can speak to you with intimate knowledge of the federally appointed judiciary, because I preside over the Canadian Judicial Council, which has the statutory responsibility to receive complaints about federally appointed judges.

I have raised with my colleagues on the Canadian Judicial Council the question whether there are not more ways in which the judiciary collectively could be helpful, perhaps by offering courses or seminars for journalists.

Also in the area of support for those representing themselves in court, Pro Bono Law Alberta, the Canadian Bar Association — Alberta Branch, and members of the judiciary from the Alberta Courts, worked together to produce four educational videos which provide unrepresented claimants with short, easy to understand instructions about basic courtroom procedures, processes, etiquette and other useful information.

Then, in what he called his «accidental career» as a judge on the Ontario Court of Appeal and later chief justice of Canada, he embarked on a quest to make the judiciary more responsive to modern Canadian expectations of justice and fundamental rights.

The Scott Index to Canadian Legal Periodical Literature is now available on the website of CAIJ (Centre d'accès à l'information juridique), the network of 38 libraries serving members of the Barreau du Québec and the province's judiciary.

The Neutral Citation Standard for Case Law was developed in 1998 by the Canadian Citation Committee, an informal group that brought together various specialists in legal information from the judiciary, academia and the publishing industry, including slawers Martin Felsky and Daniel Poulin.

Unlike in the United States, Canadian law societies are also independent of the judiciary.

«Delays are bad for the accused, extremely bad for the victims, and extremely bad for Canadian society and the credibility of our judiciary,» Rolland told the committee, which is examining questions related to court delays and their effects on penal justice across the country.

The judicial tribunals on which this book focuses are the same executive branch organizations that, as noted above, were called «judicial tribunals» in the McRuer Report; the same organizations that, in 1990, Ed Ratushny's Report on the Independence of Federal Administrative Tribunals and Agencies described as «tribunals which are adjudicative» and for which it recommended the label «tribunal» be exclusively reserved; and the same organizations that in 1991 the late Chief Justice of Canada Antonio Lamer, in a keynote speech to the conference of the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals, referred to as bodies that are «created to operate essentially as adjudicators... in a manner that is similar to the function of the judiciary... [and] expected to dispense justice in the same sense as the courts of law.»

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