Sentences with phrase «more unanimous judgments»

«Looking at the opinions the individual judges wrote last year (as distinct from judgments they simply signed on to without comment) Chief Justice McLachlin and Justice Charron were the most solid majoritarians in the sense that they did the least concurring and dissenting, both wrote a total of nine majority or unanimous opinions, and Justice Charron wrote more unanimous judgments than anyone else — five.»

Not exact matches

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At time of writing, the McLachlin Court has handed down more than a hundred unanimous constitutional law decisions that meet some minimal threshold (arbitrarily but not unreasonably: reserved judgments over 5,000 words in length), of which fewer than one in six attracts this anonymous treatment.

Even more emphatically than the «normal» unanimous judgment, «By the Court» depersonalizes and thereby institutionalizes the Court's most important doctrinal statements.

In spite of differing outcomes, the unanimous ruling, written by Justice Andromache Karakatsanis, provides a clear and ringing endorsement for summary judgment — going as far as promoting a «shift in culture» away from expensive and time - consuming trials and towards swifter and more accessible justice.

Chief Justices bang heads, twist arms, and break legs in order to get their courts to produce more of it, but they don't always succeed, and unanimity remains at least somewhat scarce on the U.S. and Canadian Supreme Courts (although more on the former than on the latter, which has been unanimous in judgment in between two thirds and three quarters of its decisions rendered since 2010).