Military summary trials: a victorian system of justice
The summary trial is perhaps, at best, an anachronism presenting an absence of structural independence and impartiality. There is an urgent need to review this.
OTTAWA—Soldiers, sailors and airpersons are subject to both the ordinary law and to a special code of discipline embedded in the National Defence Act. The Code of Service Discipline (CSD) gives the military their own judges, prosecutors, defence counsels, court reporters, police officers, p...
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