Dr. Jennifer Carroll MacNeill:

On judicial discipline, the issues that tend to come up are very short of those that would be appropriate for impeachment. They concern court management, temperament and, on occasion, issues of judicial brutality. All of those are necessarily subjective. I often feel for the President of the District Court. She has 70 independent institutions throughout the country for whose conduct she is indirectly responsible, with no mechanism by which to encourage helpful, or censure unhelpful, behaviour. The judicial council is the solution to that. It would be a forum within which to raise complaints of a more minor nature. Those kinds of issues might be at the forefront of judges' minds when they sit on the bench if there was a culture of people raising complaints and those complaints being dealt with appropriately by such a council.