Refusal to consider an evidentiary objection is an improper refusal to assume jurisdiction that affects trial fairness. Where a party seeks exclusion of evidence it is for the trial judge to "decide what procedure should be followed". With "rare exceptions", a judge is "empowered to reserve on any application until the end of the case".
The judge has discretion to defer rulings on the basis that: [4]. An exception for deferment of rulings are where the "interests of justice necessitate an immediate decision". Under s. A trial judge must consider all evidence relating to the issue of innocence or guilt.
However, there is no requirement that the judge "record all or any specific part of the process of deliberation on the facts".
When considering evidence on a multi-count indictment, the judge just give separate consideration to a verdict on each count.
No judge is expected to be a "tabula rasa". A judge should only be deciding cases on the evidence adduced in the courtroom. A judge cannot act based only on personal knowledge and familiarity of a matter without more. Judges are regularly required to decide on whether it is properly admissible or not and disregard inadmissible evidence they are exposed to.
It will not generally create an apprehension of bias. Subject to "due process concerns", there is no prohibition on the trial judge making findings of guilt on a theory that has not been advanced by the Crown. A criminal trial court to "control its process" is a fundamental value of the criminal justice system". A judge is authorized to make orders "necessary to ensure an orderly trial, without which the administration of justice risks being A Superior Court Justice has the inherent jurisdiction to eliminate any procedural unfairness that arises during a trial.
The Superior court has inherent jurisdiction to control the disclosure process of a matter before the provincial court. The "procedural directions contained in the Code are of necessity exhaustive". The powers of a provincial court judge are "entirely statutory. The inherent powers of a superior court judge to control the court process is said to be equally available to provincial court judges either expressly by statute or by necessary implication.
Consequently, a provincial court judge has implied jurisdiction to "vary one of its own orders in order to correct clerical mistakes or errors arising from an accidental slip or omission or in order to properly reflect the intention of the court" [9]. Generally, a "court has a limited power to reconsider and vary its judgment disposing of the case as long as the court is not functus.
There is a limited power of a trial judge to exclude evidence in order to ensure trial fairness where other remedies are not sufficient. However, it is considered an "unusual exercise" of the trial management power. A judge may limit the examination or cross-examination of witnesses or the right to call defence witness only where it is justified in "clear and compelling circumstances". A trial judge should never direct Crown as to whom they must call to give evidence.
The judge is required to listen to evidence that "advances the work of the court". He or she cannot be required to listen to irrelevant or pointless evidence. The reality, in state and federal courts across the country, is that thousands of men and women work long hours for less money than they might make practicing law to interpret and administer the rights and limitations woven into over years of American law. American criminal court judges bear a particularly demanding duty to serve as guarantors of justice.
Criminal judges administer that function; they manage cases, set schedules, hear motions and empanel juries. Criminal cases may begin in one court for arraignment, move to another for motions before trial and end up in another for the trial itself.
Although clerks and court staff may issue notices and maintain calendars, judges are responsible for making the decisions implicit in moving numbers of individual, occasionally complex, emotional or notorious, cases along on a timely basis. When a judge dons a plain black robe, she becomes the personification of the law. She must rule on motions, settle disputes between advocates, maintain objective order between opposing attorneys, support frightened witnesses and control sometimes contentious spectators.
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Allowing the appeal, this Court. HELD: 1. Section of the Evidence Act, confers vast and. The said. Even if any such question crosses into irrelevance the same.
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Ram Chander v. When the trial judge noticed that PW-3 was in a bit of confusion. If the witness has corrected an error slipped out of his tongue there is no. In the instant case, there was. PW-3 with a view to ascertain the correct position. Statement, on the facts of this case, is not enough to castigate the. The maximum consequence, which such discrepancy may.
The evidence of the injured witness PW cannot be rejected merely. The condition of the maker of the. First Information Statement should be borne in mind -whether he was in a. G-H; A]. The injured witness, PW-3, correctly identified all the six accused in. But in the FIR filed by him only the names of four.
Police did not involve PW-3 in the test identification parade. Hence, the. Accordingly, the conviction and sentence passed by the trial court against. Shri Sushil Kumar, learned senior counsel criticised. Counsel submitted that when the cross-examiner has.
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