Sentences with phrase «fundamental role of judges»

the entire Charter into jeopardy, undermines the rule of law, and goes against the fundamental role of judges as the protectors of Canada's constitutional rights.

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One can only hope that the judge, in his haste to issue a ruling, misspoke or misunderstood his fundamental role in ensuring that the state continue to meet its duty to all of Connecticut's children, their parents and the broader society.

It remains to be seen whether or not the fun - damental objection was judges taking responsibility, or a breach of fundamental human rights, if it is only the former people might wonder whether or not common law has a role to play at all if it can not radically adapt to the perils we face.

The Administrative Council plays a key role in the «reign of terror» that tries to discourage EPO staff, including judges, from fighting for basic human rights and one of the most fundamental values of the civilized world: judicial independence.

It shows a deeply worrying and fundamental lack of understanding of the proper role of a judge.»

Here, however, the AGC was named as a respondent by ACJ Douglas, which meant that the AGC was placed in a fundamental conflict «between two public interest positions — on the one hand, defending the process and the Committee's decision... and, on the other, abandoning that responsibility in deference to the direct role of the AGC as Minister of Justice in the disciplinary process for superior court judges» (para. 7).

In the past seven years the Supreme Court has changed the fundamental role of trial judges by expanding, in Daubert, the analyses by which trial judges admit or exclude expert testimony and by broadening, in Kumho, the scope of testimony subjected to this kind of review.

Even if the training of judges and prosecutors remains a domestic issue, it plays a fundamental role in the construction of the area of freedom, security and justice.