Sentences with phrase «judicial complaints process»

Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Robert Wagner on reforming the judicial complaints process (CBC)

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Upon application for Judicial Review, the High Court found that Ofsted's complaints process was defective because it did not permit a substantive challenge to the most serious criticisms, namely, when a school was found to have serious weaknesses or requiring special measures.

«I am satisfied that there is a public interest in knowing how the CJC deals with complaints against judges to ensure the public has confidence in the integrity of the process and to also ensure that the application for judicial review can be conducted in a meaningful way,» Milczynski wrote.

A Master of Legal Studies degree can help court administrators better understand the function of the judicial system, such as the process of complaint resolution, and the powers of the court, such as how a court oversees disputes and what a court can order to resolve them.

(Judicial review of BSB decision to prosecute a Barrister; «sponsor» Barrister failed to advise BSB Complaints Committee of professional context of Barrister's actions; Committee did not read Barrister's full response to complaint before deciding to prosecute him; failure of due process.)

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

(3) The subcommittee shall dismiss the complaint without further investigation if, in the subcommittee's opinion, it falls outside the Judicial Council's jurisdiction or is frivolous or an abuse of process.

These include: the chief judge's obligation to «identify» a complaint based on public reports suggesting that a judge may have engaged in misconduct; judicial council authority to impose sanctions on complainants who abuse the process; disqualification of judges from proceedings under the 1980 Act; and making the Rules more user - friendly.

(2) If the Judicial Council establishes a mediation process, it must also establish criteria to exclude from the process complaints that are inappropriate for mediation.

Clearly, the Douglas inquiry has shone the light on the inadequate complaint - resolution processes of the Canadian Judicial Council.

51.5 (1) The Judicial Council may establish a mediation process for complainants and for judges who are the subject of complaints.

Another major initiative was reforming the Courts of Justice Act, to improve the judicial complaints and discipline process and to broaden the possible sanctions available to the Judicial judicial complaints and discipline process and to broaden the possible sanctions available to the Judicial Judicial Council.

In order to rebuild public confidence in the judicial system, a robust overhaul of the complaints process — including assistance for members of the public who wish to bring forward a complaint — is essential.

Our education law solicitors can help at any stage of the complaints and appeals process but there are strict time limits in place if your case gets to the judicial review stage so it is vital to contact us as soon as possible.

They wrote, «The imperative of transparency of the complaint process compels publication of orders finding judicial misconduct.»

The Tribunal also dismissed the College's arguments that the complainant's failure to pursue a judicial review of the HPARB decision and the fact that she no longer had conditions on her licenses were relevant to whether or not the complaint was an abuse of process, finding that the need for the complainant to have her complaint appropriately considered under the Code outweighed other policy considerations (¶ 61).

For a long time, Delaware has been unique in having as an aspect of its system of judicial discipline, a process in which a sole judicial officer, the Chief Justice, is expected to review incoming complaints and dismiss those that do not state a proper claim.

The BC Provincial Court's 2015/16 Annual Report highlights several of their innovations: the use of video technology to save transports for prisoners» preliminary court appearances, an active website and social media presence for more open communication, improvement in caseload management, an open and accountable complaint process, and volunteer activities by the Court's Judges, Judicial Justices and staff.

In August, the Canadian Judicial Council published the new Canadian Judicial Inquires and Investigation By - laws 2015 which creates a new process for the consideration of complaints against judges, and abolishes the role of «independent counsel» to the CJC.

Rather than use the formal complaint process, the judicial branch continues to use «activity outside the complaint process» as the primary mechanism for dealing with «difficult problems or judicial misconduct and disability.»