I presented our paper
on Judicial Decision Making and Stock Market Movements.
I think we have a very appropriate UChicago styled paper
on Judicial Decision Making and Stock Market Movements.
Although the study showed that judges are less susceptible to the illusions of framing and the representativeness heuristic than lay people, the authors concluded that each of the five illusions had a significant impact
on judicial decision making.
Not exact matches
JUDGING THE JUDGES Patrick McKinley Brennan's review «The Forms Behind the Laws» (April) begs fundamental questions of interpretation, blurs the distinction between legislating and judging, and proposes a mode of
judicial interpretation that would, in its practical application, be indistinguishable from judges who
make decisions based
on personal preference.
Patrick Brennan replies: Upon reading Joseph Viviano's charges against me, I had to ask myself: Who is this Brennan that «proposes a mode of
judicial interpretation that would, in its practical application, be indistinguishable from judges who
make decisions based
on preferences?»
Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical
decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts
on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet
decision -
making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet
judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...
Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the
decisions framework from the
judicial system to a regulatory system» which would
make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills
on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)
A landmark
judicial review that was set to shine a light
on decisions made behind closed doors by regional schools commissioners has been settled out of court.
Requiring the Crown to weigh proportionality, the court says, «would greatly expand the scope of
judicial review of discretionary
decisions made by prosecutors and put at risk the adversarial nature of our criminal justice system by inviting
judicial oversight of the numerous
decisions that Crown prosecutors
make on a daily basis.»
The way in which the Trial Chamber reacted to Alternate Judge Sow's
decision to
make a public statement
on the Taylor Trial; the exclusion of his statement from the official transcript of the hearing; and the recent information suggesting irregularities in the process which the SCSL judges invoked to discipline their
judicial colleague for alleged misconduct all underscore the need for greater transparency
on this issue than we have so far received from the SCSL.
He has lectured in Canada and abroad
on diverse legal topics, and has published
on such subjects as
judicial decision -
making, Canada - US trade, the law of evidence and constitutional law.
Excerpts
on the
decision to publish and whether to issue summary affirmances might be helpful in training externs and clerks in a
judicial opinion writing course to give the students background in some of the
decisions judges must
make in addition to how to decide cases and write the opinions.
(39)
On an application for
judicial review of the arbitrator's
decision, no determination or selection that the arbitrator was required to
make under subsection (29) shall be overturned unless the determination or selection was patently unreasonable.
In order to perform their duty effectively, lawyers research
on laws, the intent of those laws and the
judicial decisions that are relevant to their client's circumstance so as to
make a knowledgeable
decision.
The Library of Congress explains that, as a civil law country, Chinese judges
make rulings based
on statutes without deference to other court
decisions — unlike the U.S. common law system, which is based
on judicial interpretations.
The key is ensuring
judicial officers consider in criminal (i.e., child abuse) and custody cases the broad range impact abuse has
on children to
make more informed
decisions on placement, parenting time, and to protect children from further mistreatment from an abusive parent.
In recent years, there has been growing
judicial emphasis
on hearing and exploring the «voice» and «wishes and feelings» of the child when
making decisions about their welfare.
Judge Your Judges, a project of public radio station WNYC in New York that will focus
on enabling voters to
make more knowledgeable
decisions about New York
judicial elections.
Two questions arose: (i) whether s 204 contained an express requirement under which the county court was required by an enactment to
make a
decision applying the principles that were applied by the court
on an application for
judicial review, thus placing s 204 appeals within the public law category; and (ii) if not, whether there were any other reasons requiring the application of
judicial review principles with the result that s 204 appeals fell within the post-LASPO 2012 civil legal aid regime.
On the one hand, when the chips are down, ODR determinations will, in practice, differ very little from conventional
judicial decision -
making.
(3) An application for
judicial review and any appeal from an order of the court
on the application does not stay the
decision made under this Act.
Making a
decision based
on the evidence, but without additionally requiring expert evidence, is not taking
judicial notice.
When
making a
judicial determination
on the allocation of litigation costs, two
decisions fall to the deciding judge under Civil Procedure Rule (CPR) 44.2: establishing which of the litigating parties is the «winner», and applying
judicial discretion to determine any discounts or changes to awarded costs necessary to reflect elements of the case.
Lord Woolf arguably supplied a
judicial tool - kit with many if not all of the tools required to
make robust
decisions on case management, including cutting cases down to size where appropriate.
While a tribunal's substantive
decision -
making under its home statute may survive a
judicial review merely by being reasonable, a tribunal must still be correct about questions of general law, and must still reach
decisions on a foundation of procedural fairness; legislatures do not authorize tribunals to decide matters through unjust processes (Dunsmuir at 128 - 129).
While
judicial decisions rarely result in everyone being happy, our justice system is founded
on a public confidence that
decisions, whether popular or not, are fully heard and fairly
made.
YLAL calls
on the government to ensure that if the Magee report is implemented, the primary legislation ensures that the interests of justice are the primary consideration for policy
decisions and that
decision making for funding is subject to independent,
judicial scrutiny.
Here we
make reference in particular to the
decision in the OMT / Gauweiler judgments (case C - 62 / 14 and judgment of 21.06.2016) and in the Dansk Industri / Ajos judgments (case C - 441 / 14 and
decision n. 15/2014, unofficial English translation available here), and the
judicial rebellion commented
on by Sarmiento.
[1] This is an application brought by the applicant, Navjeen Kaberwal («Kaberwal»), for
judicial review of a
decision made by the Ministry of the Economy, Immigration Services («Ministry»)
on December 31, 2012 suspending Kaberwal's right to submit applications to the Ministry for a period of two years.
In R (Casey) v Restormel BC [2007] EWHC 2544 (admin), [2007] All ER (D) 96 (Nov) the claimant sought
judicial review of the authority's
decision not to review its
decision of intentional homelessness
on the basis that the request for the review had been
made out of time.
«Reading the order, there is a strong inference that the
Judicial Council
made this
decision on its own and did not consult the Third Circuit,» Hellman said.
(a) The Claimants» case
on the point at the hearing was
made by reference to a Dubai Court of Cassation
decision (Central Bank of Sudan v Africa Alpha Capital 1 Co Ltd, Appeal no 480/2012 Commercial, where the defence was put forward that the court lacked jurisdiction under the Vienna and Riyadh Conventions because the Bank was a «public venture forming a part of the government entities of the Republic of Sudan that enjoys immunity from
judicial proceedings and is not subject to the jurisdiction of the State Courts».
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
If the military tribunals have lawful authority to hear, decide, and condemn, their action is not subject to
judicial review merely because they have
made a wrong
decision on disputed facts.
To illustrate the problem with accusing judges of bias, given the term's various meanings, the article focuses
on recent federal litigation over NYC police stop - and - frisk policy in which (1) the district judge found «implicit bias» in police practices based
on accumulated evidence and expert analysis, (2) the Second Circuit found that the district judge engaged in disqualifying
judicial bias because of her comments in a prior related lawsuit and in the media, and (3) critics accused the Second Circuit of bias in
making decisions that were hard to justify
on either procedural or substantive grounds.
Although
judicial factfinding in sentencing is standard and allowed since Booker
made the guidelines nonmandatory, the
judicial factfinding assumes an even greater role here given that the
decision of even what basic guideline to apply hinges
on what offense the judge finds is proven by the facts.
By validating and giving effect to that campaign — based entirely
on what they had read in the newspapers — Judges Cabranes, Walker, and Parker openly permitted the norms of contemporary political discourse embodied in those news stories to displace the norms of reasoned
judicial decision making, and unnecessarily inserted themselves into the mayoral election campaign.
The Law flows from two places, code sections which are voted
on by the Georgia legislature and from stare decisis, over 200 years of appellate
judicial decisions that
make up the collective wisdom of the bench in interpreting the law in certain factual circumstances.
CaseBase's catchwords and digests
make it easy to search for recent
decisions and articles
on a particular area of law, and for
judicial consideration of legislation and words and phrases.
Other judges might not allow hearings
on Petitions for
Judicial Review and will
make a
decision based only
on the briefs submitted.
This would include the passage of the NRTA and would thereby extend to all
judicial decisions which have been
made on the presumption of NRTA legitimacy.
Judicial Tribunal for the Dubai Courts and DIFC Courts awards Dubai Courts jurisdiction in «conduit» cases: The
Judicial Tribunal for the Dubai Courts and the DIFC Courts, established in 2016 to rule
on conflicts of jurisdiction and conflicts of judgments between the two courts, has issued two recent
decisions in cases where claimants obtained an order from the DIFC Courts recognising arbitral awards
made outside the DIFC, where there was no connection with the DIFC, and where the order recognising the award was referred for enforcement to the Dubai courts for enforcement against assets located there.
An application for
judicial review must be filed within 15 days or 60 days of receiving the refusal, depending
on whether the
decision was
made within Canada or outside of Canada respectively.
Additionally, a
judicial clerk is exposed to a wide array of legal issues and is able to
make a hands -
on contribution to the
judicial decision -
making process.
Advising
on judicial review challenges including
on a challenge to the air quality impact assessment of the Hong Kong - Zhuhai Macau Bridge and advising a UK authority
on a challenge to its procurement
decision making.
The long title explains the result in Conseil des montagnais de Natashquan c. Malec, 2012 CF 1392, a case about alleged discrimination against Aboriginal educators.An initial
decision unfavourable to the applicant was
made, but quashed
on judicial review.
It needs to explain the basis
on which intervention
decisions are
made, and the function that interventions serve in
judicial decision -
making.
The puzzle of a representative judiciary is that many want a diverse bench because more varied experience will enhance
judicial decision -
making, and yet many worry about a representative judiciary precisely because it may mean judges will decide based
on their identity or community affiliation rather than based
on the facts and law before them.
The idea that environmental claims warrant different treatment arises principally from the UNECE Convention
on Access to Information, Public Participation in
Decision -
making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the «Aarhus Convention»), which was ratified by the UK in 2005 and which includes the provision that «each Party shall ensure that... members of the public have access to administrative or
judicial procedures to challenge acts and omissions by private persons and public authorities which contravene provisions of its national law relating to the environment.»
Shortly before the consultation date
on November 28, 2013, I was advised that the College had received a letter suggesting that an application for
judicial review would be
made of a ratio review panel
decision that I had chaired (which had issued over 6 months ago),
on the basis of «a reasonable apprehension of bias».