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Originally posted by Snakeeye@Sep 9 2005, 09:31 PM
Mike - fair enough on your second point, but on your first, I am not convinced.
Certantly the panels would be subject to the charter, just how much attention does the Ontario government actaully pay to these panels? Is it the responsibility of a person who feels that they are mistreated by such a panel to complain? If that is the case, then the charter goes right out the window.
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Assuming that this tribunal works the same as others established in Canada, then every decision will be written and published and most likely accompanied by written reasons for judgement -- you can bet these will be scrutinized by womens groups, legal academics, etc. if not by the gov't.
But on a more general point, if a woman can be forced to appear in front of a Sharia tribunal instead of a regular court and can be forced to abide by a ruling that violates her human rights without complaint, then I would say that there was 0% chance that she would have ever made it to a regular, secular court in the absense of these tribunals.
I.e. this won't increase the abuse of women in some Muslim marriages, but could decrease it by providing
some avenue of mediation where none was available for all practicle purposes before.