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Monday, October 5, 2026

The Hearing

International justice, modernized. Hearings in five minutes. Decisions final. A service standard the Hague never met.

Source: The Hearing

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Ten things

  1. In those same six years, Saskatchewan's Office of Residential Tenancies, hearing roughly 6,000 applications annually, processed on the order of 36,000 of them.
  2. Every sentence of this tribunal's design is lifted, verbatim and cited, from the modernization of real tribunals that decide whether real families keep their homes, their benefits, and their children.
  3. Sarah Buhler, "Pandemic Evictions: An Analysis of the 2020 Eviction Decisions of Saskatchewan's Office of Residential Tenancies" (2021) 35 J.
  4. "Transforming Our Justice System," Lord Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice and Senior President of Tribunals, UK, September 2016
  5. Five-minute hearings fit inside the 2,190 days Thomas Lubanga spent in custody awaiting the ICC's first-ever verdict.
  6. International Nuremberg Principles Academy, "Length of the Proceedings at the International Criminal Court," 2022
  7. Government of Saskatchewan news release, August 3, 2016: ORT decisions on CanLII (~10% of decisions published)
  8. It is not a claim that Saskatchewan's hearing officers act in bad faith, nor that the Office of Residential Tenancies breaks its own rules.
  9. The disposition field below reproduces each original record, verbatim, including the acquittal and the case that ended without a verdict.
  10. The audit is of where thin process is deemed safe to deploy, and the answer, everywhere, is: on the people least equipped to contest it.

Five questions

  1. Which term completes this sourced statement? “In those same six years, _____'s Office of Residential Tenancies, hearing roughly 6,000 applications annually, processed on the order of 36,000 of them.”

    1. Tenancies
    2. Saskatchewan
    3. Transforming
  2. Which term completes this sourced statement? “Sarah Buhler, "Pandemic Evictions: An Analysis of the 2020 Eviction Decisions of Saskatchewan's Office of _____ Tenancies" (2021) 35 J.”

    1. Residential
    2. International
    3. everywhere
  3. Which term completes this sourced statement? “_____ hearings fit inside the 2,190 days Thomas Lubanga spent in custody awaiting the ICC's first-ever verdict.”

    1. Five-minute
    2. Tenancies
    3. modernization
  4. Which term completes this sourced statement? “_____ of Saskatchewan news release, August 3, 2016: ORT decisions on CanLII (~10% of decisions published)”

    1. Government
    2. everywhere
    3. Transforming
  5. Which term completes this sourced statement? “The _____ field below reproduces each original record, verbatim, including the acquittal and the case that ended without a verdict.”

    1. modernization
    2. International
    3. disposition

Answer them in the interactive edition, where each question is read aloud.

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