Legal jurisprudence urges caution regarding the use
of judicial interviews as a method of ascertaining the views and preferences of children in family law litigation.
This is the first in a series
of judicial interviews with GLS Director and Assoc. Dean for Experiential Learning Mary - Beth Moylan, so look forward to more local judicial insight to follow.
The fifteen - minute interview before the commissioners included asking whether the interval between my last court appearance in late 2011 and the date
of my judicial interview was too long for me to be effective as a judge.
Not exact matches
He appears to have
interviewed everyone still breathing who had anything whatsoever to do with the events he chronicles, and has made good use
of his access to
judicial papers and former Supreme Court clerks.
Tom Fitton
of right - leaning
Judicial Watch defended Trump on «Fox and Friends» Saturday morning — leading Trump to post two tweets on Saturday afternoon that were lengthy quotes from Fitton's
interview.
«What I hope I've done is create the profile
of what
judicial leadership looks like, in this day and age, in the world we live in today, where the problems
of the world are not distinct from the judiciary,» said Lippman, in an
interview at his Midtown office earlier this month.
• Brian Paddick, a former deputy assistant commissioner with the Met who is seeking a
judicial review
of the alleged failure
of his former force to tell him his name had been found on a list
of public figures whose phones may have been targeted, called for Coulson to be
interviewed by police.
Regarding recent
judicial appointments
of members from minority groups Alberta law professor Eric Adams was
interviewed in the Globe and Mail:
In an
interview with AdvocateDaily.com, Toronto criminal and constitutional lawyer Annamaria Enenajor says this ruling is the latest in a number
of decisions that «reflect the reluctance
of Canadian courts to permit the legislative branch
of government to usurp core
judicial functions.
New challenge for lease costs; Saturday, Bloody Saturday; sniffing out a
judicial interview & the magic
of land registry address.
In Alberta, candidates for Provincial Court appointments are first screened by the Alberta
Judicial Council and then
interviewed by the Provincial Court Nominating Committee, which provides its recommendations to the minister
of justice.
The central issue at the core
of the
judicial review claim concerned the human defendant's lawyers seeking access to the full first account
interviews provided by senior company employees to the company's lawyers, and which were undertaken as part
of that investigation.
A
judicial interview involving parental alienation is one tool the court can use to try to get to the bottom
of this emotionally explosive cases.
In keeping with the tenor
of Judge McDonald's entire ethics proceeding, in a post-reprimand
interview, he referred to the
Judicial Conduct Commission as «clowns who can't figure out they have no authority over me.
The perspectives
of children whose parents were involved in a family law dispute are normally brought before the court in one
of five ways: the custody assessment or views
of the child report
of an expert; an affidavit or letter written by the child; or, a
judicial interview.
(Sources:
Interviews of Brian W. Lennox for OCJ History Project, 2014 - 15;
Interviews of S. Linden for OCJ History Project, 2014 - 15; David Wake and Brian W. Lennox, «The Ontario Court
of Justice: A Journey in Education,» National
Judicial Institute: 20th Anniversary Essays, p. 41)
(Source: National
Judicial Institute,
Interview of Katherine McLeod for the OCJ History Project, 2015.)
I was called down to Toronto in August 1986 to meet with the
Judicial Council, where I was
interviewed by Chief Judge Hayes
of the Criminal Division, Chief Judge Andrews
of the Family Division, Chief Justice William Howland (Chief Justice
of Ontario), a couple
of other judges and some others, including an Anglican minister.
All
of the judges
interviewed expressed grave concern about
judicial redistricting, especially at the pace it was moving.
Our BC Parental Alienation Lawyers will aggressively pursue intervention by psychologists, through
judicial interviews of the children and reunification therapy to protect children from becoming unwitting victims.
However, one can save both the time and expense
of hiring an expert if you can persuade the court to order a
judicial interview, which takes place in the judge's private office without lawyers or parents present.
This article uses the terms below to describe incidents
of judicial humour as revealed through our empirical research, including
interviews and a court observation study.
In their
interviews, three
judicial officers describe their humour as being «a bit
of lightheartedness» or «a little bit
of a joke», or suggests that
judicial officers can use humour «in a mild way».
In our
interviews, one judge describes the role
of judicial humour to set participants at ease: «You try to bring a bit
of lightheartedness into the matter or, you know, make, try to make some comment that makes people feel at ease... the lawyers, the litigants, the witnesses».
As discussed in more detail below,
interviews with Australian
judicial officers suggest that there is an understanding and acceptance
of judicial humour in court as well as an awareness
of the risks.
whether and when
judicial interviews of children are appropriate, the best processes and locations for these
interviews, how the information judges receive should be taken into account in determining the cases before them, and how the information received should be shared with the parties;
Brian Ludmer, B. Comm., L.L.B. — «
Judicial Interviews and the Reliability
of the Voice
of the Child» Children in high conflict family litigation are recognized in the law as being highly suggestible and capable
of being manipulated by a dominant parent.
While the reliability
of children's out -
of - court statements are subject to specific rules
of evidence regarding admissibility, these protections are lost in
judicial interviews.
Courts want to hear the «voice
of the child,» and there are various ways to do that, he says, including through a family therapist, a formal forensic family assessment, a
judicial interview or a lawyer appointed for the child — either privately under the Children's Law Reform Act or from the Office
of the Children's Lawyer (OCL), which operates as an independent law office in Ontario's Ministry
of the Attorney General.