Sentences with phrase «judicial pecking order»

A Master of the Alberta Queen's Bench once wrote that stare decisis creates a judicial pecking order in which judges lower on the pecking order are not entitled to ignore the decisions of their pecking order superiors.

First, it's binding on those lower in the judicial pecking order, which means the Masters who hear more of discovery related motions than judges.

Actually, if we're going to be technical: it's entirely worthless as precedent since there's no person lower on the Ontario judicial pecking order (unless things have changed in Ontario since the end of 2012) than a deputy judge of the small claims court.

The judicial pecking order does not permit little peckers to overrule big peckers.

Not exact matches

It's always worth quoting this reminder about pecking orders in the Canadian judicial universe:

[51] Any legal system which has a judicial appeals process inherently creates a pecking order for the judiciary