Short Circuit: A Failing Technology for Administering Justice in Nunavut
If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail, but if all you have is a circuit court what happens to the administration of justice? This paper explores the history and contemporary usages of the itinerant ‘circuit court’ in the Canadian Arctic. Presenting the circuit court as a technolog...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:68b73533c5bd436d99f7a3f02449b3e4 2023-05-15T15:03:01+02:00 Short Circuit: A Failing Technology for Administering Justice in Nunavut David Matyas 2018-05-01 https://doi.org/10.22329/wyaj.v35i0.5787 https://doaj.org/article/68b73533c5bd436d99f7a3f02449b3e4 en fr eng fre University of Windsor doi:10.22329/wyaj.v35i0.5787 2561-5017 https://doaj.org/article/68b73533c5bd436d99f7a3f02449b3e4 undefined Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Vol 35 (2018) droit info Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2018 fttriple https://doi.org/10.22329/wyaj.v35i0.5787 2023-01-22T19:36:56Z If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail, but if all you have is a circuit court what happens to the administration of justice? This paper explores the history and contemporary usages of the itinerant ‘circuit court’ in the Canadian Arctic. Presenting the circuit court as a technology of justice, the paper explores why and how this instrument has been employed and the possibilities it constrains. Looking to the challenges of administering justice in contemporary Nunavut, the paper argues that a different type of technology may be needed: One that facilitates work, rather than exercises control; allows for specialized outcomes in place of compliant results; and that focusses on the growth of justice instead of products that are just. The paper concludes by exploring the local, sedentary, judge-based system of Greenland—steeped in its civilian procedural law—as a compelling alternative technology to the circuit court in Nunavut. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland Nunavut Unknown Arctic Greenland Nunavut Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 35 379 400 |
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If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail, but if all you have is a circuit court what happens to the administration of justice? This paper explores the history and contemporary usages of the itinerant ‘circuit court’ in the Canadian Arctic. Presenting the circuit court as a technology of justice, the paper explores why and how this instrument has been employed and the possibilities it constrains. Looking to the challenges of administering justice in contemporary Nunavut, the paper argues that a different type of technology may be needed: One that facilitates work, rather than exercises control; allows for specialized outcomes in place of compliant results; and that focusses on the growth of justice instead of products that are just. The paper concludes by exploring the local, sedentary, judge-based system of Greenland—steeped in its civilian procedural law—as a compelling alternative technology to the circuit court in Nunavut. |
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