Allow all students to vote for LSUC Benchers and make
Bencher election voting mandatory for everyone.
Not exact matches
Had the leader's office wished to influence the outcome it would have been sufficient to persuade a reasonable number of front -
benchers to
vote only for John Healey (the one candidate who could be relied upon to back Ed Miliband in any issue where he needed it) to guarantee his
election and a fairly small number to back Steve Rotherham who may have been seen as preferable to Dennis Skinner, in order to ensure that he came second.
The new online
voting system for the Law Society of Upper Canada
bencher election virtually eliminated the old problem of late - arriving
votes, says Treasurer Laurie Pawlitza.
The structure and function of the law society, including the possibility of regulating alternative business structures, is a key question as the Law Society of Alberta's members
vote in their
bencher election this week.
That may be the reason Quebec lawyers
voted in greater numbers than Ontario lawyers did during the recent Law Society of Upper Canada
bencher elections.
Van Ommen started his
bencher career in 2008 when he won the Vancouver county by -
election with 773
votes.
Therefore, if
bencher election candidates» campaign literature doesn't provide a detailed strategy for solving the unaffordable legal services problem, don't
vote for them, and tell them so when you see them.
The
voting period begins the week of April 13th and closes at 5:00 pm EDT on April 30th (for more information on
voting in the
Bencher Election, please visit the Law Society's website).
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Bencher Elections are currently underway, with
voting concluding on April 30, 2015.
In Ontario in 2007, 34.5 per cent of lawyers
voted in the
bencher election; in 2011, 37 per cent (15,592 lawyers) did so.
Still great, but we need to trim this back a little further to account for people who saw these tweets and are not eligible to
vote in the LSUC
Bencher election.
Prior to the
election, the Ontario Trial Lawyers» Association published on its web site a list of
benchers who opposed the introduction of alternative business structures, urging its members to
vote for those candidates opposed to ABS.