| Issue |
Recommendation |
Judicial Education
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Judges are given false information as part of their "education" in judicial
bias seminars.
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Revisit the material in Judicial bias seminars. Recognize the long-standing,
historical discrimination against fathers in child custody law.
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Custody
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Judges overwhelmingly favour women in custody decisions, according to a
study completed by the Department of Justice in 1989.
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Create a program of affirmative action in custody decisions to help fathers
raise their children post-divorce.
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Add material to the judicial bias seminars to reflect the difficulties
faced by fathers and the costs of being a non-custodial parent.
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Child Support
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Child Support Formulas, developed without fathers' input, are unbalanced,
prevent or reduce access by economic means. There is no recognition of
non-custodial parents costs. Judges exasperate the situation by treating
these formulas as the bare minimum, when they are an exaggeration.
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Measure and publish judgment results on child support, by income and gender.
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Establish a "citizen judicial review board" to evaluate judge performance
and conduct.
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Sentencing
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Judges routinely sentence men more harshly than women for the same crimes.
The Joudrie, Tran, Homolka cases are some of the more well known examples.
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Measure and publish sentencing results
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Establish a "citizen judicial review board" to evaluate judge performance
and conduct.
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Ex Parte Orders
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Judges routinely grant ex-parte orders that throw men out of their homes
or cut them out of their children's lives based solely on unsubstantiated
testimony by an estranged spouse.
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Measure and publish statistics on all ex-parte orders
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Establish a "citizen judicial review board" to evaluate judge performance
and conduct.
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| Cost and Accessibility of Legal
System |
Allow video and audio taping of court proceedings
by litigants, to make the examination of testimony easier. |
