Not exact matches
In a remarkable 54 - page Opinion and Order, which, for its clarity and scholarship, will surely be a historical document,
Judge Aiken rejected the request by the Federal Government and fossil fuel
interveners to dismiss the
case.
«If victims are mad at anybody, they should not be mad at the courts, they should be mad at governments, which have consistently made business decisions to underfund the system
in the expectations that
judges will let them off the hook,» said lawyer Frank Addario, who represented Ontario's Criminal Lawyers» Association as an
intervener in the Jordan
case.
«We applaud the CJC majority report to the minister that properly confirms that the question here was not whether the
judge was apologetic, but rather whether the conduct under review is of such a nature that a reasonable person would lose confidence
in the judiciary,» says Kim Stanton, legal director at the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, which was an
intervener in the
case.