POLS 303 Lecture Notes - Precedent, Canadian Bar Association, Judicial Independence
Document Summary
On december 15, 1988, the attorney general ian scott announced in the ontario. Legislature the establishment of the judicial appointments advisory committee: a pilot project to develop and select potential judicial appointments, the committee consisted of: Two provincial court judges appointed by the chief justice of the. Three lawyers (one appointed by the upper law society of upper canada, one by the canadian bar association and one by the county and district. Seven persons who are neither judges nor lawyers, appointed by the. Attorney general: each member of the committee will have overlapping terms. The judiciary of the ontario superior court of justice should be reasonably representative of the population that it serves. Trial courts are primarily concerned with solving disputes. This occurs through a close examination of the evidence presented/witness testimony, etc. The supreme court of canada receives hundreds of applications per year, but hears only a small fraction of those appeals.