Cameras Are the Norm in Canada’s Supreme Court
by The Federalist Society
Posted September 02, 2010, 3:54 PM
Stationary cameras in the courtroom of the Canadian Supreme Court are "unobtrusive" and do not attract the attention of the practitioners or the judges, said Canadian Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin last week at the judicial conference of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in a discussion with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former 10th Circuit chief judge Robert Henry, and Nina Totenberg from NPR. The chief justice opined that nearly everyone has refrained from putting on a performance for the cameras since they were installed in the court in the 1980s and that media outlets have been "very very very responsible" in broadcasting what was occurring in the court, reports The Blog of Legal Times.
Justice Ginsburg, for her part, stated that the U.S. Supreme Court Justices should defer to any colleagues on the Court who, like former Justice David Souter, have strong feelings against bringing cameras into the courtroom.