LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Law Society
10 Aug 2016
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Judges were now able to strike down legislation. Judges almost become like clerks, rubber stamping plea bargains more often than making trial decisions. Government has tried to make process more transparent. Need to practice for at least 10 years. Name can be put forward by law society of your own province. The cabinet then discusses who would make a better judge and the gg appoints the judge that is recommended by the cabinet. In the process of election it is a lot more open but a lot more political. Gives the appearance of transparency even though it really isn"t. no real serious questions asked. By electing judges it makes them out to be like politicians. We assume that lawyers would know how judges should behave. There is no measure to determine how well the nji works. A society of judges that judge the conduct of other judges. The cjc is not a court of appeal.
