{"id":138,"date":"2016-09-18T10:46:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=138"},"modified":"2016-09-18T10:46:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T14:46:25","slug":"canadian-legal-profession-resists-cameras-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/09\/18\/canadian-legal-profession-resists-cameras-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian legal profession resists cameras in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what was probably the most watched moment in a criminal trial in Canadian history. Justice Denny Thomas read his reasons for finding Travis Vader guilty of second degree murder as more than 100,000\u00a0people watched live on television across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands more looked online from around the world.\u00a0That single camera, focused on the judge, was such a small step in giving Canadians a better sense of what happens in their courtrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Yet\u00a0it has taken so long and comes with no indication it will happen again soon. \u00a0Judges and lawyers \u00a0need to better show Canadians their courts in action.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly\u00a0though, I worry that people will seize this opportunity to keep cameras out next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">In what was probably the most watched moment in a criminal trial in Canadian history. Justice Denny Thomas read his reasons for finding Travis Vader guilty of second degree murder as more than 100,000\u00a0people watched <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/09\/18\/canadian-legal-profession-resists-cameras-in-court\/\" title=\"Canadian legal profession resists cameras in court\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[52,45,55,53,54,56,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-news","9":"tag-cameras-in-court","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-convicted","12":"tag-justice-denny-thomas","13":"tag-second-degree-murder","14":"tag-sentencing","15":"tag-travis-vader","16":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}