Specific topics which have been covered in recent conferences include judicial ethics; interpreters;
delivering reasons for judgment; assessing credibility; social media; technology and search warrants; managing a provincial offence trial; effectively communicating an oral judgment; risk assessment and indicators of lethality at bail hearings; the Youth Criminal Justice Act; eye - witness identification; conducting pre-trials; specific issues at trials of regulatory offences; fly - in - courts, residential schools; application of Gladue principles; mistrials and bias; accident reconstruction; search warrant issues; domestic violence issues; orders for examination under the Mental Health Act; child apprehension warrants under the Child and Family Services Act; evidentiary issues; discrimination and harassment in the workplace; stress management; and pre-retirement planning.
Not exact matches
Justice Nnamdi Dimbga while
delivering judgment in the suit filed by Omo - Agege challenging his suspension from the Senate, held that the
reason given by the Senate and the Senate President
for suspending Omo - Agege was unconstitutional.
In
delivering a summary of the lead
judgment, Justice Muhammad said he would give his
reasons for his decision on November 18.
None of these
reasons, except serious ill - health of the judge, would, however, justify a substantial delay beyond the usual period taken
for delivering judgments.
Reasons for judgment were released today by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, finding a formal offer that was bested by 9 % and was
delivered a few days prior to trial was capable of triggering double costs.
While
delivering accountability
for the grave crimes perpetrated during the Khmer Rouge is an important goal, the legitimacy of the Court depends on
judgments being well
reasoned and fair.
Judges contribute to manydecisions through their participation on panels, through the circulate - and - revise process, and through their minority
reasons, but they are generally remembered
for the majority
judgments that they
delivered on behalf of the Court.
However, I then explored a Chief Justice factor in
judgment assignment, on the not unlikely hypothesis that
for institutional
reasons Chief Justices
deliver more than their notional one - ninth share of
judgments, especially
for the more important decisions.