Not exact matches
Still, if you think that this article will result in reforms, such as
mandatory recusals in
cases where judges have taken campaign contributions, or replacing
judicial elections with appointment, think again.
For example,
mandatory court - based mediation rules,
judicial dispute resolution initiatives,
case management regimes, pre-trial conferences, and cost - based settlement incentives have all become central pillars of the modern civil justice system and its reform.
First, recent Tory amendments whittling away at
judicial discretion in sentencing by increasing the number of offences subject to
mandatory minimum penalties will only create new and more tragic examples of
cases where a manifestly unjust sentence is required by statute.
A private members bill has been introduced in Parliament restricting candidates to the bench to those who have special training in sexual assault - related education, demanding written reasons in all related
cases and requiring
mandatory oversight by the
Judicial Council.
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Mandatory pre-action directions, involving a «one size fits all» approach and delayed access to
judicial involvement, are contrary to the active
judicial case management principles encouraged by Lord Woolf in the civil procedure reforms.