Sentences with phrase «judicial bias issues»

Indeed, in this effective Slate commentary focused upon the judicial bias issues raised by the case, Emily Bazelon concludes with this sober assessment:

Not exact matches

Consequently, for a judge not to allow defense voir dire / cross examination questioning of a prosecution witness before a damning exhibit is allowed into evidence, presents not only a Due Process issue but also a possible perception of pro-prosecutorial bias of the judge, whether or not that bias exists, at least in the eyes of laypeople watching the trial, when a critical element of a sufficiently functioning judicial system is for the public to perceive judges as following their oaths of office.

Key chapters and sections cover: • Decision - making, including personal interests, bias and determination, equality and discrimination and elections • The process for making and handling complaints on conduct issues • The challenging of authorities on conduct issues including through judicial review, the Ombudsman and by using Freedom of Information • Offences • The law in Wales

Specific topics which have been covered in recent conferences include judicial ethics; interpreters; delivering reasons for judgment; assessing credibility; social media; technology and search warrants; managing a provincial offence trial; effectively communicating an oral judgment; risk assessment and indicators of lethality at bail hearings; the Youth Criminal Justice Act; eye - witness identification; conducting pre-trials; specific issues at trials of regulatory offences; fly - in - courts, residential schools; application of Gladue principles; mistrials and bias; accident reconstruction; search warrant issues; domestic violence issues; orders for examination under the Mental Health Act; child apprehension warrants under the Child and Family Services Act; evidentiary issues; discrimination and harassment in the workplace; stress management; and pre-retirement planning.

Shortly before the consultation date on November 28, 2013, I was advised that the College had received a letter suggesting that an application for judicial review would be made of a ratio review panel decision that I had chaired (which had issued over 6 months ago), on the basis of «a reasonable apprehension of bias».

If a judicial candidate, before becoming judge, actively campaigns on partisan issues in violation of the Judicial Conduct Code, and if a candidate for judicial office pledges to be biased in favor of the prosecution by promising to be «tough on crime», then the respect for the judiciary willjudicial candidate, before becoming judge, actively campaigns on partisan issues in violation of the Judicial Conduct Code, and if a candidate for judicial office pledges to be biased in favor of the prosecution by promising to be «tough on crime», then the respect for the judiciary willJudicial Conduct Code, and if a candidate for judicial office pledges to be biased in favor of the prosecution by promising to be «tough on crime», then the respect for the judiciary willjudicial office pledges to be biased in favor of the prosecution by promising to be «tough on crime», then the respect for the judiciary will suffer.

One Canadian case did not actually address the issue of judicial bias, but the circumstances are worth discussing.

On the core issue of bias Rix LJ similarly took the view that there was «no escaping the fact that a decision - maker in the planning context is not acting in a judicial or quasi-judicial role but in a situation of democratic accountability».