Sentences with phrase «changing civil jurisdiction»

This fifth and final item in a series of posts looks at legislative efforts to change the civil jurisdiction thresholds in state limited and general jurisdiction courts in the last decade.

This fourth in a series of posts looks at legislative efforts to change the civil jurisdiction thresholds in state limited and general jurisdiction courts in the last decade.

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But it is also expected to change the way lawyers prepare and practise in the filtering phases of the highly popular civil lawsuits in a jurisdiction that is widely seen as class - action friendly.

One change in the past year has been to remove the requirement for candidates to have a background in a particular jurisdiction such as civil, crime or family — instead they can be selected on their potential to be a judge in a given jurisdiction, with the Judicial College providing training after appointment.

These regulations made amendments to the Magistrates» Courts Act 1980 and the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 to ensure the powers to make procedural rules are wide enough to support the operation in England and Wales of the 2007 Convention and now those wide changes are now with us in the form of SI 2012/2806.

The current debate around the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline centres around political posturing, provincial jurisdiction, investment priorities, climate change, coastal protection and consent by First Nations communities, but when the pipeline was originally being built in 1952, civil defence and the threat of war with the Soviet Union was a going concern.

Should a distinction be drawn between judiciaries in common law (where activist judges can make and change the application law) and civil law jurisdictions?