Sentences with phrase «judicial appointment process»

«What we need to do... is to return to what I once enunciated as the four stages for a comprehensive, and representative and inclusive judicial appointments process for the Supreme Court of Canada, that will be anchored in merit, that will reflect our diversity, and will end up in having not only the best people appointed but achieving the best process for that purpose,» said Cotler.

Florida has a commission - based judicial appointment process wherein the governor appoints all members of the nominating commissions, with some of the governor's appointees come from candidate lists submitted by the Florida Bar.

However, the judicial appointment process has become completely corrupted.

With Justice Cromwell's surprise decision to resign this September, the Federal Liberals promising reform of Supreme Court appointments, and recent media discussion around the political edges of judicial appointments, The Law Society of BC yesterday offered recommendations to Justice Minister Jody Wilson - Raybould promoting four core principles for the judicial appointment process.

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.

In my view, the study results seem accurate, if only because the judicial appointment process has become increasingly politicized.

Democracy and transparency can have powerful and salutary effects on the judicial appointments process.

Galati's challenge led to widespread public debate on both the judicial appointment process and areas of the constitution and division of powers.

Agarwal calls for more transparency in the judicial appointment process, the release of statistics on who is applying to become a judge and what the criteria are, and for the appointment of younger lawyers.

The only hint of change was a statement that the government is «considering ways» to change the judicial appointment process, and that it is committed to «openness, transparency and merit» in the process.

Ferris, who chaired a Law Society of B.C. committee that recently submitted a report to the federal government on how to improve the way judges are appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, says changes to the judicial appointment process can not be cosmetic.

Justice Camp brings about the underlying issue of the judicial appointment process, and his comments subsequent to trial are illustrative of the view that judicial appointments are not merit - based.

One of her most significant decisions while on the Court of Queen's Bench — and one she mentions in her Questionnaire for the Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointment Process — was the first judicial authorization of medically assisted dying (MAD) in Canada outside of Quebec, which I blogged on here.

As part of its review of the judicial appointment process, the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs should expand the existing information on the gender of judges and include visible minorities and Indigenous people.

«There are a whole range of factors that go into the judicial appointment process.

The Liberals overhauled the judicial appointment process to boost judicial diversity, yet can not keep pace with judicial departures.

It will surprise no one that most of the issues addressed in this collection are still germane twenty years later, as we continue to struggle with the judicial appointment process.

Many expressed worries that this could lead to an overpoliticization of the judicial appointment process in Canada.

«Regretfully, the judicial appointments process for the Supreme Court of Canada has been effectively dismantled,» says Cotler, the former MP for Mount Royal and attorney general from 2003 to 2006.

«That reforming the judicial appointment process ranked so high on Prime Minister Harper's «to - do» list during his government's first year in office will not surprise those familiar with the oft - expressed antipathy of many Conservatives and their socially conservative supporters to Charter - based «activism» on the Bench.»

«By November, without any prior consultation with the judiciary or organized Bar, Justice Minister Vic Toews stunned many with his announcement of contentious reforms to the judicial appointment process.»

My expectation was that the data would support a commonly held view that qualified women lawyers are being overlooked in the judicial appointment process and that the gender disparities we see in appointments is the result of discrimination or bias in that process (see, for example this op ed piece from June 2014.)