Sentences with phrase «diversity on the bench»

With such a mysterious process, it leaves outsiders wondering how issues such as diversity on the bench can be improved.

The biggest concern expressed by judges at the meeting was what merit selection would mean for racial diversity on the bench.

«The Committee is concerned about the lack of diversity on the bench.

The contrast in opinions between how Alito and McKee regard what a plaintiff needs to show to prevail in a Title VII case is quite illuminating, and may say quite a bit about why we need diversity on the bench...»

IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis told WDRB that the type of system Nemes proposes — which puts merit over a judge's ability to win an election — tends to result in fewer disciplinary issues and more diversity on the bench as well as increased public trust and confidence in the judiciary.

The image was intended to reinforce the subject of the cover article — the lack of transparency in the judicial appointments process and the resulting limited diversity on the bench — but as we have heard from a number of readers, it conveyed a very different message and undermined this important discussion.

This committee is also focused on promoting diversity on the bench, and continued work and promotion of the Judicial Disqualification Project.

Where is this merit and diversity on the bench supposed to materialize from if law societies do not accredit schools that will foster merit and diversity among lawyers?

Maria Evangelista, Kwixuan Maloof, Niki Solis and Phoenix Streets portray the sitting judges as conservatives appointed by Republican governors, and are running on a platform of greater diversity on the bench and judicial reforms, such as decreased use of money bail.

Speaking last week, Mrs Justice Dobbs said progress in increasing diversity on the bench has been woefully slow.

One ruling of Alito's «may say quite a bit about why we need diversity on the bench,» writes University of Maryland law prof Sherrilyn Ifill, blogging on Blackprof.

She agrees that there is a need for more diversity on the bench, but in the short term she believes that vacancies should not go unfilled.

Diversity on the bench will come only if there's a strong back bench to draw from.

Recurring themes included: Access to Justice, «unbundled» legal services, the new online Civil Resolution Tribunal and changes to Small Claims Court, diversity on the bench, using plain language, restorative justice, and First Nations Court.