An Ontario judge and justice of the peace avoided public hearings and instead faced discipline behind closed doors last year after complaints were filed over respective comments they made about a young racialized offender and an accused Indigenous person.
and are outlined within the councils’ 2022 annual reports, released in June.
“It is alarming that the review panels in both cases did not consider making racist and anti-Indigenous comments serious enough to require a public hearing into whether judicial officials committed misconduct,” Shakir Rahim, lawyer and director of the CCLA’s criminal justice program, told CTV News Toronto in a statement.
The judge told the young person, who had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of time spent in refugee camps, that he was not unique in his circumstances, the document shows. In his response to the complaint, the judge said he was “deeply remorseful.” According to the panel, the official said he felt this way “because the shortcomings he exhibited during the sentencing proceeding are not reflective of the type of judge, and human being, he is.”
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