Zyvetskistaahn for Justice

Zyvetskistaahn

Zyvetskistaahn

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Hello, I'm Zyvetskistaahn and I am running for the office of Justice. I ran and was elected at the last two judicial elections but the Court has only really got to do things quite recently so I'm hoping to stick around for a while longer. I've been Chief Justice this last term, which has meant that I've had a little bit more to do than my fellow Justices, as I've been handling the Court's declassification process, and I was the moderating Justice for the recent request for review, though there wasn't too much moderating that needed to be done.

I also have experience of TNP law outside of being a Justice, having served as Speaker, which necessitates an understanding of the laws and rules around citizenship and around the Assembly, particularly, and as an Election Commissioner (both on an ex officio and appointed basis) prior to the law establishing the standing Election Commission, which has needed an understanding of the particular laws governing those elections and how to interpret them, which I should imagine would be helpful despite the relatively recent changes to the law.

Other than the prospect of further cases this term, I would like to make some changes with respect to the rulings page to hopefully make it less unwieldy, but those are somewhat dependent on technical feasibility and Administrator time. I would also like to see about establishing new templates for indictments and for FOI reviews, in the same way that requests for review have their own templates.

In my last two campaigns I was asked about court matters that I've been a part of, so I'm going to link here to the things I have previously linked to in response, namely, my briefs in the Election Commissioner Oaths review and the Speaker's Power to End Debate review; I'm also going to link to the one opinion of the Court which has been produced during my time on it, in relation to the Speaker's Power to Extend Voting Periods.

Any questions?
 
James Urquhart:
What is your view of the current Court procedures? Do you think they need changed or left the same?
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I think, in the main, that they ought to be kept the same. The provisions dealing with criminal trials seem to be quite fulsome and to have served adequately in the trials that have taken place since their adoption. I think that it might, perhaps, be useful to add provisions dealing with the Court's power to compel the disclosure of information (at the moment the process is addressed in opinions of the Court), however, I would be slow to make changes to the criminal procedure without having had the experience of moderating a criminal trial in TNP.

In a previous campaign, I said that I would like to see the Chapter dealing with Requests for Review expanded on. I have this term had the opportunity of moderating a Review under the Court Rules as they are presently and I think that I am still of the view that they ought to be expanded. Particularly, I would like to have it be made clear that there is an expectation that an official subject to a Review should respond to it, as I did find the response of the Speaker to the most recent Review (and the brief of Guy addressing that response) useful. I also raised the possibility of adding provisions dealing with the Court requesting information or questioning parties/amici, I still think that that could be useful in terms of encouraging the Court to engage in such requesting or questioning.

Perhaps the most significant change that I would consider would be in respect of FOI reviews. Currently they don't have their own specific procedure and I would think that they ought to, however, I haven't participated in a FOI review and I can't think of one having been done recently, so I'm not sure what procedure ought to be adopted and would have to say that it should be approached cautiously.
 
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