Judge at Trial

[time2lookahead]

Just a quick and hopefully simple question. Once you are at the trial phase, I have heard that you cannot have a judge that you have previously had hear your case. Is this true? And if so in which law is it stated...I have burned through Family and am now working on Divorce Act...please help before my brain is complete mush! Thanks!

 

[thistoshallpass]

Don't know if this helps, but a lot of information on this website. You can find step by step info at the link below. I believe in the guide for "case conferences" it states that the judge hearing this will not be the judge at trial.

Ministry of the Attorney General - Family Law

 

[time2lookahead]

That is a link I have been using and you are right it is a great link, unfortunately,I am still not finding what I need! I am trying searching and when I tried to truncate my search I got nothing so when I went with the regular keywords...500 results!

Help! Head is SWIMMING!

 

[Steve Osbourne]

Trial ? Ha Ha Ha

Trial ? Ha Ha Ha

If you think you are close to a trial, you are probably suffering severe delusions, and or being fed bullony.

Typically a court might have 100 cases looking for a trial, they all attend a special court date thats abit like an auction of race horses, the most expensive lawyers get first crack at it.

Huh? Yes, thats right, then the riff raf, the junior lawyers, who are NOT going to get anything, the supervisory judge tells them all yes, you have a trial but, the wheels start turning and before you know it, around 95% of the list just disappears.

Oh how does that happen you might ask...

Courts don't want to do work, judges are lazy, they intimidate, they will do "deals behind the scenes" to get rid of any case that has a 'self represented litigant"... they will use any and all excuses but generally have a boring set of devastating tools to pull out of the bag to create total injustice.

Oh, yes, or no, the judge who heard the pretrial or the case conference can't hear the trial, not that one is going to happen.

Steve

 

[time2lookahead]

Oh this is heading to trial alright..ex has the most expensive and most senior lawyer in town! And let me tell you I get the slapped around feeling you are talking about!

So let me get this straight however, there has been numerous court appearances. Case conference, a couple of motions, settlement conference and now in a month a pretrial management conference. ANY of the judges who have presided over ANY of these cannot preside over the trial? The judge I am seriously trying to dodge presided over the case conference and the motions. I want to know if that judge can be the trial judge?