SOC 3730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Legal Secretary, Judicial Independence
3 Mar 2013
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Court support staff: important they be representative of canadian society. 1) they represent the public face of the courts. 2) all canadians should feel that they have an equal opportunity to work in the courts in 1996, 14,125 persons were reported to have been working in these court support occupations: gender. Two-thirds of court support staff are women. 61% of administrative staff are women, 81% of court clerks and 93% reporters. Nearly all sheriffs and bailiffs were men. Women reporters earned on average about , 000 while men earned about ,000 doing the same job: aboriginal peoples. About 2% in 1996 of court support staff were aboriginal. Court support services are now much closer to being representative of aboriginal canadians than the judiciary. About 77% of the aboriginal people working in the courts had. 2+ years of postsecondary education compared with about. Aboriginal canadians represent about 3% of canada"s police forces, meaning that the police are now representative of.
