The ABA found it appropriate to apply the basic tenets of
appropriate judicial conduct, such as judges» duty to «respect and honor the judicial office as a public trust and strive to maintain and enhance confidence in the judicial system» and to «maintain the dignity of the judicial office at all times» when it applied rules of offline conduct to judges» activities online.
Not exact matches
The Canadian
Judicial Council said today it would be
conducting a public inquiry into Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench Associate Chief Justice Lori Douglas, shining an even - brighter spotlight on the debate over the
appropriate conduct of judges in their private lives.
In the coming months, Council will consider how best to engage stakeholders and other Canadians to explore all and any
appropriate avenues of reform to the
judicial conduct process.
While punting issues to the membership may be
appropriate where the decision involves matters of policy (say, in establishing a rule on how many hours of CPD time lawyers are required to obtain or in approving new rules of professional
conduct or bylaws) rather than administrative decisins involving a weighing of Charter values, in these sort of circumstances, it's hard to see how the decision in BC or NB can survive
judicial scrutiny (even if one doesn't believe that the earlier SCC decisionin TWU doesn't govern).
Such necessary action may include: (1) Establishing alternative locations to
conduct judicial business in the event that one or more court locations can not be used, (2) suspending any
judicial business that is deemed not essential by the Chief Justice, and (3) taking any other
appropriate action necessary to ensure that essential
judicial business is effectively handled by the courts.
That authority includes «the ability to fashion an
appropriate sanction for
conduct which abuses the
judicial process.»
(b) A lawyer who knows that a judge has committed a violation of applicable rules of
judicial conduct that raises a substantial question as to the judge's fitness for office shall inform the
appropriate authority.
I expect that it is therefore likely that we will see case law develop that will examine how to determine if the
conduct of a Pursuer has been
appropriate in order to determine when successful Defenders might be entitled to recover
judicial expenses.
To a foreign investor affected by such
judicial measures, it is not always clear, however, what
judicial measures (especially in countries like India with one of the most activist Supreme Courts in the world) can be subject to a claim under investment treaty law; which theory of liability is
appropriate for a state's liability arising out of judiciary's
conduct (or omissions); and which policy issues these different theories of liability raise.
The effect is that in
judicial review proceedings the High Court must refuse relief if it appears «to be highly likely that the outcome for the applicant would not have been substantially different if the
conduct complained of had not occurred», unless the granting of relief is
appropriate «for reasons of exceptional public interest».
(b) shall maintain the dignity
appropriate to
judicial office and act in a manner consistent with the impartiality, integrity, and independence of the judiciary, and shall encourage members of the candidate's family to adhere to the same standards of political
conduct in support of the candidate as apply to the candidate;