Sentences with phrase «judicial accountability»

What began as an effort by legislators to expand judicial accountability for sexual abuse by Catholic clergy has grown to cover people in every walk of life.
The Report concluded that the wide latitude for prosecutorial discretion, and the absence of judicial accountability, presented opportunities for abuse.
Two years ago, the Center for Judicial Accountability sued New York over its budget - making process, complaining that the governor, Senate majority leader and Assembly speaker were violating the state constitution.
Similarly, many schoolchildren today attend schools that lack sufficient and equitable funding in part because of Rodriguez, which foreclosed the federal judicial accountability that could require states to remedy their inequitable funding disparities.
Under SB 870 as filed a Special Commission on Judicial Accountability would be created to look at the nomination, selection, appointment, and oversight of judges in the Commonwealth and to develop recommendations to improve accountability including reappointment standards.
And «If ostensible democratic societies are to persist with judicial review, then a variety of steps can be taken — reduced judicial powers, specialized constitutional courts, responsive appointment procedures, legislative overrides, greater judicial accountability, periodic constituent assembles, etc. — to de-sacralize and defrost the constitutional order.
We will carry out comprehensive and integrated reform of the judicial system and enforce judicial accountability in all respects, so that the people can see in every judicial case that justice is served.
The Center for Judicial Accountability, based in White Plains, filed an amended complaint March 23 against the governor, the Senate and the Assembly in state Supreme Court in Albany.
It argues that using digital media as a platform to disseminate courtroom narratives has the potential to strengthen many of the open court principle's foundational values, including accessibility, judicial accountability, and freedom of speech.
To set up an online repository of legal information from Ghana, towards the promotion of Rule of Law, judicial accountability and good governance in Ghana and Africa.
The House of Commons has approved Bill C - 337, The Judicial Accountability Through Sexual Assault Law Training Act, with little or no debate.
In April, 2000, a government backbencher introduced a private member's Bill in the Ontario legislature, Bill 66, the Judicial Accountability Act, 2000, which would have required the Attorney General to table an annual report identifying individual judges and the sentences they imposed in serious criminal cases.
(Sources: Excerpt from Ontario Hansard, April 18, 2000, upon first reading of the Judicial Accountability Act, 2000.
Florida: Senate version of «Judicial Accountability» bill would no longer force judges off of criminal cases if racial disparity in sentencing found
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