None. It's not strictly relevant to the distinction I'm making. He gave an instruction. At least I'm assuming the remark in question was given during the instructions.
If I were a juror, I would listen intently to what the judge said about, in my fatuous example, finding assualt or negligence. Especially when you consider that juries are selected for stupidity, I can see a juror thinking, "Well if the judge says I have to find him guilty, I guess I have to find him guilty." In Virginia jury nullification is against the law.. Consequently if I ever was on a jury and wanted to nullify, I sure as hell wouldn't let ANYONE know what I was doing.
My point about giving orders and such was just to argue that different officers of the court have different authority, and get paid different kinds of respect and can command different levels of obedience. Id suggest that juries expect advocates to make a case, while they expect judges to tell them what's what.
And? Is that permissible under Canadian law?