POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Elution, Visible Minority, Whistleblower
14 Jan 2018
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Scc and federal courts: constitution act 1867 responsibility for the canadian judicial system is divided between the federal and provincial governments, federal government appoints the judges on every province"s court of appeal and the provincial/territorial. Independent from the formal institutional independent from the executive and legislative branches. Judges are supposed to make objective decisions on the law: question about the backgrounds and the dominant values of the actors (judges come from similar backgrounds) Judges are usually drawn from the middle and upper classes of society they are not representative of their society: they are also influences by their formal training as lawyers. Judges are appointed and promoted by governments who are not likely to choose radical lawyers for the bench. Court chief justice argues that they do so in the spirit of the law: must remember that judges cannot be apolitical. 19th century about 12 000 people, 14 million annually, 10 major departments.
