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[Burnaby49]

Vancouver courts are reopening with courtroom cameras;

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/column ... 8d66341e4/

Appropriately the hearing chosen for this article is representative of most of my court reports, an individual living in an alternate reality who's lawsuit has no basis in law.

I'll have to check if Michael Millar's sentencing appeal will be broadcast. If so you can all audit his final hearing to see if I've grossly exaggerated his craziness and obsessions.

[wserra]

By all means, let us know. Having lived in U.S. courts for the last 44 years (plus one more as a third-year law student), I am interested in the comparison with our fellow common-law jurisdiction to the north.

Already a couple of things in the article to which you link seem passingly strange.

[Appeals] usually feature lawyers reading legal arguments

No good appellate lawyer (or trial lawyer) reads arguments. Sure, s/he knows in advance what s/he will say, but reading it breaks the essential connection between lawyer and judge (or jury, in a trial).

an at times repetitive 90-minute presentation

She got ninety minutes? A pro se got ninety minutes? The last time I argued before the Second Circuit (the New York federal appeals court), I got seven.

The justices, however, seemed to only scratch their head.

Your judges have heads? Or was the panel just sharing one - which would be more familiar.

Judge Judy would have told Walker to quit wasting her time and get back before Skolrood.

I hate to say it, but in that respect any judge here would have resembled Judge Judy.

[Burnaby49]

She got ninety minutes? A pro se got ninety minutes? The last time I argued before the Second Circuit (the New York federal appeals court), I got seven.

No, she didn't get 90 minutes, that's just sloppy reporting. She got 120 minutes to babble on. Two hours per party is the standard on appeal unless they've reduced it during the lockdown. Crown would have also been entitled to 2 hours but I assume five minutes sufficed.

[Appeals] usually feature lawyers reading legal arguments

Again I'm assuming sloppy reporting. I've never seen a lawyer read out arguments although I have seen a few pro se defendants do it. Obviously not this one who preferred to rely on stream of consciouesness.

[notorial dissent]

Oh. My.