LAWS 1000 Study Guide - Apen, Adversarial System
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*slide #1- a note on context" wont be on the exam* New role for judges: after the charter, judges given broader power over what laws goes against the charter. Substance of every law open to the power of the judge. Judges don"t act in the way most people think they do: death of the old adversarial system, changes role from an umpire to more of a clerk, who oks" decisions. Idea that the role of the trial should be more than a guilty/non guilty decision. Judges must now realize that their decisions have impacts on the victim/ offender. Increasing role of experts make judges role tougher, since judges don"t have knowledge of every expertise. Some feel this gives a democratic mechanism to the judge-making process: this however turns the process into a sideshow", makes judges open themselves up to public scrutiny.
