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Publisher:RMB Rocky Mountain Books, 2016
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- Author: Reilly, JohnDate:Created2016Summary:
John Reilly's second book, Bad Judgment, details the author's battle with the Canadian justice system and the difficulties he faced trying to adapt Eurocentric Canadian law for the benefit of First Nations people across the country. This revised and updated edition looks at the future of the Canadian legal and political systems as they relate to this country's indigenous communities. Judge John Reilly, now retired, was, at age 30, the youngest jurist ever named to the Provincial Court of Alberta. For most of his 33 years on the bench he was the circuit judge for the Stoney Indian Reserve at Morley, Alberta. During his career he became interested in aboriginal justice. He saw the failure of the 'white' legal system to do justice for aboriginal people, the harm caused to them by Canadian colonialism, and the failure of all levels of government, including tribal government, to alleviate their suffering and deal with the conflicting natures of European-style law and indigenous tradition and circumstance. As a result of these realizations, Judge Reilly vowed to improve the delivery of justice to the aboriginal people in his community and used his perceived power as a jurist to make changes to improve the lives of the people in his jurisdiction. Along the way, he came into direct conflict with Canadian judicial administration and various questionable leaders among the echelons of both Canadian and First Nation governments.
Contents:- 22 At Long Last, the Rulingon the Merits23 Judge Walter; 24 The Chief Judge's Appeal; 25 The Government Responds Legislatively; 26 The Judicial Railroad; 27 The Judicial Inquiry; 28 My Court Costs; 29 After the Inquiry; 30 My Complaint; 31 Mediation; 32 After the Mediation; 33 S/Sgt. Cohn Investigates My Conduct; 34 Caux; 35 Reflections; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Further Reading; Index of Names Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 How This All Started; 2 Aboriginal Awareness in the 1990s; 3 The Hunter Matter; 4 The Hunter Judgment; 5 Judicial Independence; 6 Judicial Remuneration; 7 Cpl. Young; 8 The Hunter Sentence Appeal; 9 R. v. Gladue; 10 A Meeting with the Chief Judge; 11 After the Meeting; 12 The Litigation Begins; 13 The Hearing on Jurisdiction; 14 Preserving the Public Right; 15 Attempted Mediation; 16 My October Crisis; 17 The Judges Association; 18 The Appeal re Jurisdiction; 19 The Record; 20 The Hearing on the Merits; 21 My Complaint
Sujets: Alberta | Canada | Indigenous peoples--Government relations | Indigenous peoples | Judges | Judicial independence | Reilly, John, 1946-Original Publisher: Calgary, RMB Rocky Mountain BooksLanguage(s): EnglishCollection(s)/Series: Read Alberta eBook Collection | Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection | Alberta Collection