Sentences with phrase «in judicial efficiency»
Overall, the justice system in Ontario has improved in the last year, but it still has glaring shortcomings in judicial efficiency and the disproportionate representation of Indigenous people in prisons, according to a new justice system report card.
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In short, to increase the judicial system efficiency and improve legal certainty.
Almost anyone who regularly toils in courthouses across Ontario — judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers — would say that despite previous rulings on delays from the Supreme Court and judicial warnings from lower courts, successive federal and provincial governments have failed to properly resource the justice system in a way that would ensure its fairness and efficiency.
Given the lack of available motion and trial dates in Toronto courts, counsel are well aware that the options they can currently provide their clients are extremely limited, despite a concerted effort by our judicial system to promote expediency and efficiency.
While the Honorable Judge Carton has already ruled on Lindsay Lohan's suit against E * Trade arising out of the hilarious «milkaholic» baby commercial, the real suit, in a testament to the efficiency and rationality of our judicial system, is still pending.
* Study and explore the possibility of the development of a judicial protocol with the aim to: * Allow for communication among judges in overlapping class actions proceedings * Coordinate and harmonize activities in proposed overlapping class proceedings in order to maximize efficiency, reduce costs and avoid the duplication of effort; * Honour the independence and integrity of the superior courts while promoting inter-provincial cooperation and respect for comity; * Implement a framework of general principles to address basic administrative issues arising out of national and multijurisdictional class actions; and * Provide for nationally - accepted carriage motions.
Guest columnist Anastasia Konina, writing recently in the online journal Jurist, says: «the proposed system of consumer rights enforcement has been heavily criticized for a number of reasons, such as «putting efficiency above judicial scrutiny,» loss of public access, pressure due to general confidentiality of ADR and ODR proceedings and banning access to courts.»
In my professional capacity at the CCCT - CCTJ, I am interested in leveraging technology opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of judicial, court and tribunal processeIn my professional capacity at the CCCT - CCTJ, I am interested in leveraging technology opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of judicial, court and tribunal processein leveraging technology opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of judicial, court and tribunal processes.
Mummery LJ points out that the real purpose of the discretion in s 2 (3) is to deal with «mixed claims» where equal pay is one of several issues before the court and splitting it off would be in the interests of judicial efficiency; it is not really addressed to issues such as those in these cases.
The American criminal justice system is far from being sufficiently enlightened, starting by too many presumed - innocent people caged without bond pending sentencing, moving to Virginia's crabbed criminal discovery system, continuing to Virginia's system that allows prosecutors to scare defendants to plead guilty by their refusal to waive a jury that in many instances and locations can mean more racist jurors than judges on top of the jurors often being more wild cards than judges for sentencing, continuing to the many judges who choose judicial efficiency over a fair trial, continuing to the brutal capital punishment system, cntinuing to excessive mandatory minimum and guideline sentencing, and continuing to the slew of innocent convicted people (many of whom plead gulilty rather than risking a worse fate), and continuing to frequently excessive sentences and excessive probation violation sentences.
Since the first judicial opinion endorsing the use of Technology Assisted Review (or TAR) was written by Judge Andrew J. Peck in 2012, an entire legal industry has grown up on the premise of streamlining the document review process in discovery — that is, taking a repetitive task traditionally performed entirely by attorneys and introducing the concept of computer assistance to increase efficiency and improve consistency.
Because judicial performance evaluations are «one of the few opportunities that attorneys have to comment on the efficiency and performance of a judicial officer,» JPE commissions should make an effort to explain the importance of such surveys to attorneys and ensure identifying information never appears in the results.
[9] «The Canadian Judicial Council is a federal body created under the Judges Act with the mandate to promote efficiency, uniformity, and accountability, and to improve the quality of judicial service in the superior courts of CanadaJudicial Council is a federal body created under the Judges Act with the mandate to promote efficiency, uniformity, and accountability, and to improve the quality of judicial service in the superior courts of Canadajudicial service in the superior courts of Canada.»
The federal Parliament created the Council in 1971 to promote efficiency, uniformity, and accountability, and to improve the quality of judicial service in all superior courts of Canada.