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Televising Court Trials In Canada: We Stand On Guard For A Legal Apocalypse, Lorne H. Abugov
Televising Court Trials In Canada: We Stand On Guard For A Legal Apocalypse, Lorne H. Abugov
Dalhousie Law Journal
Four years ago an eminent Canadian jurist denounced the presence of a CBC television crew filming trial participants as they emerged from his courtroom at Osgoode Hall. Chief Justice G. A. Gale of the Ontario Supreme Court found the incident "quite offensive" and bid the crew to leave the hallway and the courthouse "because I was satisfied that their operations constituted an interference with the administration of justice." ' Four years later the Canadian position on the presence of news cameras in the courts and within its precincts has remained unaltered, unbending and, worst of all, uncontroverted. A blanket prohibition …
The Québec Advisory Council On The Administration Of Justice Le Conseil Consultatif De Justice, Maxwell Cohen
The Québec Advisory Council On The Administration Of Justice Le Conseil Consultatif De Justice, Maxwell Cohen
Dalhousie Law Journal
Among the classical problems of democratic government perhaps few are so continuing in their challenge to the political imagination as the creation of better methods to balance the interests and the strategies of the governors and the governed. While in a loose sense democratic systems posit the notion that 'sovereignty' lies with 'the people' it is not without significance that the New Left and their varied allies now employ "power to the people" as a slogan that becomes a critique of the conventional machinery of representative government. For these reasons there are to be found, increasingly, in many western democratic …