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Turning The Tables On Rds: Racially Revealing Questions Asked By White Judges, Constance Backhouse
Turning The Tables On Rds: Racially Revealing Questions Asked By White Judges, Constance Backhouse
Dalhousie Law Journal
In the 1997 RDS case, the Supreme Court of Canada deliberated on the concept of judicial race bias. The decision subjected the oral ruling of a lower court trial judge in a busy Youth Court to close scrutiny. The majority of the nine-person, all-white bench reprimanded Canada’s first Black female judge, whose words about police officers who “overreact” in dealing with racialized youth they found “troubling” and “worrisome.” This article places the same close scrutiny on the words of the white judges who were most critical of the trial judge. It examines their informal interjections and comments at the Supreme …
Judging By The Numbers: Judicial Analytics, The Justice System And Its Stakeholders, Jena Mcgill, Amy Salyzyn
Judging By The Numbers: Judicial Analytics, The Justice System And Its Stakeholders, Jena Mcgill, Amy Salyzyn
Dalhousie Law Journal
This article considers the future of judicial analytics, its possible effects for the public, the judiciary and the legal profession, and potential responses to the rise of judicial analytics in Canada. Judicial analytics involves the use of advanced technologies, like machine learning and natural language processing, to quickly analyze publicly-available data about judges and judicial decision-making. While, in Canada, judicial analytics tools are as yet at the early stages of development and use, such tools are likely to become more powerful, more accurate and more accessible in the near-to-medium future, resulting in unprecedented public insight into judges and the work …