Complaints can only be made by ‘those affected’ or ‘those who witnessed it’.
Wouldn’t this be covered by the appeals process anyway ? Like if your judge engaged in some form of misconduct, presumably that would either be grounds for appeal or significant contributing factor in the grounds for appeal ?
I think people – the general public – want to be able to complain about the likes of Martin Nolan when he drops another one of his trademark klangers, but unfortunately this legislation won’t allow for that.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s good, it’s something … But just not exactly what I believe the general public were hoping for. We’ll have to give it time to see how effective it is.
We need a mechanism for the public to be able recall judges who fail to protect the community from criminals.
I’m thinking specifically of judges like Nolan and Greally whose starting principle in every case seems to be that nobody must ever go to prison, no matter the number nor nature of their convictions.
The Oath that a judge swears on taking office states that s/he will duly and faithfully and to the best of their knowledge and power carry out their judicial functions.
When judges break that oath by putting the feelings of criminals before the safety of the community, there’s no comeback. No consequences. No nothing.
I really wish we had a fully totally completely separate committee which was elected directly by the people, not part or answerable to any government body, was paid out of tax money and could be removed/call for re election by petition of x number of voters. It would be a completely independent body to check on the judiciary.
Sharpening my pencil, these fuckers are about to rue the day!
ITT:
A lot of people who don’t know the difference between misconduct and giving lenient sentences.
Also ITT:
People who have no clue about sentencing guidelines or mandatory sentencing.
Not sure if this aged really well or really badly.
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*concerned Nolan noises*
Complaints can only be made by ‘those affected’ or ‘those who witnessed it’.
Wouldn’t this be covered by the appeals process anyway ? Like if your judge engaged in some form of misconduct, presumably that would either be grounds for appeal or significant contributing factor in the grounds for appeal ?
I think people – the general public – want to be able to complain about the likes of Martin Nolan when he drops another one of his trademark klangers, but unfortunately this legislation won’t allow for that.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s good, it’s something … But just not exactly what I believe the general public were hoping for. We’ll have to give it time to see how effective it is.
We need a mechanism for the public to be able recall judges who fail to protect the community from criminals.
I’m thinking specifically of judges like Nolan and Greally whose starting principle in every case seems to be that nobody must ever go to prison, no matter the number nor nature of their convictions.
The Oath that a judge swears on taking office states that s/he will duly and faithfully and to the best of their knowledge and power carry out their judicial functions.
When judges break that oath by putting the feelings of criminals before the safety of the community, there’s no comeback. No consequences. No nothing.
I really wish we had a fully totally completely separate committee which was elected directly by the people, not part or answerable to any government body, was paid out of tax money and could be removed/call for re election by petition of x number of voters. It would be a completely independent body to check on the judiciary.
Sharpening my pencil, these fuckers are about to rue the day!
ITT:
A lot of people who don’t know the difference between misconduct and giving lenient sentences.
Also ITT:
People who have no clue about sentencing guidelines or mandatory sentencing.
Not sure if this aged really well or really badly.