Sentences with phrase «barristers society»

The Council of the Nova Scotia Barristers Society has just released a report produced by Victoria Rees, their Director of Professional Responsibility, entitled «Transforming Regulation and Governance in the Public Interest.»

Today's Halifax Chronicle Herald reports that the current mayor of Cape Breton municipality, John Morgan, is about to face a disciplinary hearing by the Nova Scotia Barristers Society for professional misconduct.

Same for the Barristers Society; they've done nothing.»

Some readers of this blog may be interested in this seminar that I'm giving for the Nova Scotia Barristers Society in a couple of weeks.

Tupper has previously filed a complaint against the lawyers with the Barristers Society of Nova Scotia, which rejected his allegations.

Star alumni: Former Nova Scotia Court of Appeal judges Doane Hallett and J.E. (Ted) Flinn; Nova Scotia Court of Appeal Justice Duncan Beveridge; former MP and premier of Nova Scotia Russell MacLellan; former president of the Nova Scotia Barristers Society Ted Wickwire, who played a major role in developing the Nova Scotia Legal Ethics Handbook

The current Attorney General, the Hon. Ross Landry was a career RCMP officer who received his law degree but does not appear to practice law (although he is an honourary member of the Nova Scotia Barristers Society).

«Despite these multiple approvals, TWU now faces the necessity of legal action against the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Nova Scotia Barristers Society, and now the Law Society of British Columbia, related to their disapprovals of TWU's law school based upon the University community's religious beliefs,» said a press release.

During law school, Branson served as an articles editor for the Baylor University Law Review and as a member of the Baylor Barrister Society.

However, the provincial barristers societies are still an important regulatory reality of that profession, and likewise we will always require a Regulatory Authority.

Not exact matches

The English law is inseparably bound up with the history and structure of the Inns of Court, those ancient collegiate societies to which, until recently, every barrister had to belong, and which, in my days as a student, insisted that you could not be called to the Bar without first dining for a requisite number of nights in the Hall of your Inn.

This was disclosed yesterday by the Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume, who represented the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, when a civil society group, Centre for Social Justice, CSJ, led by Barrister Eze Onyekpere submitted a report on MTEF to the Senate.

The Nova Scotia Barristers» Society released a detailed report last October entitled «Transforming Regulation and Governance in the Public Interest» — a thorough look at all the seeds of change from technology through unbundling, new law firm structures, globalization, the greying bar, growth of in - house counsel, and more.

As barristers return to man the metaphorical barricades to protest the latest round of legal aid cuts and the solicitors» professional body gloomily predict «extinction» for its ageing members (according to Law Society research, the average age of duty solicitors is 47 years), few lawyers would take issue with the oft - repeated assertion in the legal Twittersphere: #TheLawIsBroken.

The Nova Scotia Barristers» Society will not seek leave to appeal the provincial top court's finding that its council's resolution not to accredit Trinity Western University is invalid.

Update: 9:20 pm: Clarification of statement from Nova Scotia Barristers» Society and comments from Trinity Western University added.

Last week, the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society issued its inaugural Entity Regulation Update detailing many of the ongoing efforts in that province to assess, consult and consider how lawyers and law firms should be regulated in the future.

Echoing Moyse's concerns about law schools» failure to keep pace with change is Darrel Pink, who in January concluded 27 consecutive years at the helm of the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society, that province's regulator.

For the last few days, TWU has been battling the Nova Scotia Barrister's Society in court.

Law of professions: The applicant, Joseph Groia, is a barrister and solicitor licensed by the Law Society to practise law in Ontario.

Though the Barristers» Society of Nova Scotia was officially founded in 1858, its library dates from 1797, when Chief Justice Thomas Strange donated his personal library to the common use of the Halifax bar.

Relevant to the question of issues affecting practice, Max Walters recently wrote in the (English and Welsh) Law Society Gazette of the extent to which some English barristers are reporting high levels of stress arising from their work, working environment and government policy.

Trinity Western fighting Nova Scotia decision to deny accreditation: Nova Scotia Barristers» Society decision a blow to religious freedom, says university president By Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press CBC Dec. 16, 2014

Through its April 2014 decision, the Nova Scotia Barrister's Society has interfered with the ability of TWU students to practice law in Nova Scotia, and with those students» ability to collectively exercise freedom of conscience, religion and expression in association with others.

NL: Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador, Library PE: Law Society of Prince Edward Island, Law Library NS: Nova Scotia Barristers» Society, Library Services NB: Law Society of New Brunswick, Law Libraries QC: Centre d'accès à l'information juridique, Bibliothèque (English); Bibliothèques et points de service (English) ON: Law Society of Ontario, Great Library; LibraryCo MB: Law Society of Manitoba, Great Library; Manitoba Law Libraries SK: Law Society of Saskatchewan, Library AB: Alberta Law Libraries BC: Courthouse Libraries BC

However, a lower court found, and the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal agreed, that the barristers» society has no power to unilaterally determine that TWU unlawfully discriminates in its admission and enrolment process.

The Barristers» Society does not require lawyers who are now practicing law in Nova Scotia to adhere to any particular beliefs about sexuality and marriage.

HALIFAX: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is intervening in support of freedom of association for all voluntary associations in Canada, in a court application commenced by Trinity Western University (TWU) against the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society.

However, if these same individuals, adhering to the same Christian beliefs, associate with each other in a community such as TWU to study law, the Barristers» Society prohibits them from practicing law in Nova Scotia.

However, if those same Christian law students chose to associate with each other in a community to study law at TWU, the Barristers» Society considers them unfit to practice law in Nova Scotia.

Cape Breton lawyer Jill Perry has been appointed to represent the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society on the Council of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada.

The Barristers» Society does not require Nova Scotia lawyers to adhere to any particular opinion about same - sex marriage, or about sexual morality.

However, for law school graduates seeking to practice law in Nova Scotia, the Barristers» Society will ban those who, while studying law, chose to join a Christian university community and adhere to a community covenant.

The team of lawyers defending constitutional freedoms in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Trinity Western University v. Nova Scotia Barristers» Society, including counsel for TWU, JCCF, and five interveners.

The Barristers» Society's refusal to accredit TWU students due to the associational activity of adhering to the Community Covenant also discourages the collective pursuit of the common goal of practicing law.

At the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society, Ms. McNeill currently volunteers as a member of the Fitness to Practise Committee (since June 2012) and the Racial Equity Committee (since June 2009).

Solicitor «X» v. Nova Scotia Barristers» Society (1998), 19 Admin.

The Barristers» Society does not prohibit Christian law graduates of other law schools in Canada (or the U.S.) from entering the legal profession in Nova Scotia if they, as individuals, adhere to traditional Christian beliefs and practices, including those concerning sexuality and marriage.

«Effectively, the Barristers» Society is punishing the choice to share beliefs and pursue common goals in community.

As part of its mandate to protect the public interest, the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society is engaged in access to justice issues across Nova Scotia, through its Equity Program and enhanced consultation with other key players in the administration of justice.

· JCCF to argue that the Barristers» Society decision against TWU law school graduates violates Charter section 2 (d) freedom of association

The Criminal Law Standards Committee of the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society is seeking input from the membership on the introduction of the following new Standard:

However, the Barristers» Society this past April decided to bar graduates of TWU's law school from entering the legal profession in Nova Scotia, solely because of the law students» choice to associate together in a community that adheres to traditional Christian beliefs and practices.

The Barristers» Society demands that TWU change its Community Covenant in order for its law school graduates to be allowed to practice law in Nova Scotia.

She is a member of the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society, the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Tax Foundation, and the International Fiscal Association (IFA).

As a Certified Civil Trial Attorney, member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), and inductee into the International Society of Barristers, Eric Kahn handles a broad spectrum of significant and complex claim including automobile negligence, trucking accident, construction site accidents, product liability claims, medical malpractice cases, and claims against public entities.

A Hearing Panel released its written decision on Monday, July 17 in the matter between the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society and Halifax lawyer Lyle Howe.Read More >

Ashleigh is a member of The Order of Barristers, a United States national honor society which recognizes individuals who have excelled in oral advocacy and service to the legal profession.

Paper prepared for Council of the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society.

Mr. Perdue is both an Advocate in the American Board of Trial Advocates and Fellow in the International Society of Barristers.