Sentences with phrase «chief justice needs»

I suggest that the Western Australian Government and the Chief Justice need to take stock of their own failings.

Not exact matches

«You will need political leadership today because governments come to office, and you will need that chief executive of the country to say that I am interested in making sure that that part of my country, which I preside over has a lasting peace and I will allow for independent and proper adjudication of justice by the application of the traditional or customary wheels of justice and current or legal means of justice to run in tandem, to bring whatever impasse that has existed over the period to a halt,» he told host Ekow Mensah - Shalders.

The justice secretary needs to urgently explain his role in this fiasco and how these multibillion contracts will be inspected and supervised without a chief inspector.

The Media Coalition Against illegal Mining is appealing to the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, to sensitize judges adjudicating galamsey cases on the need to hand out sanctions deterrent enough to perpetrators of illegal mining.

In his remarks, a representative of Chief Edwin Clark, Chief Mike Emakpere, said the people of the South - South were of the opinion that the current system had failed hence the need to revisit it in other for equity and justice to prevail.

Patricia Gunning, who recently resigned as the special prosecutor / inspector general of the Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs, said she decided to go public after Cuomo Chief of Staff Melissa DeRosa last week recounted her personal bouts of being subjected to sexism.

It was against this backdrop, that the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, underscored the need for part of the district assemblies» common fund to be used to rehabilitate and build new courts for easy access and quality delivery of Justice.

We need to congratulate Justice Dotse and / or the Chief Justice for ensuring this.

Then, a day or two later (more if needed), the Chief Justice will present the court's «opinion» to the class.

In his speech commemorating the work of Professor Jill Poole, the Lord Chief Justice spoke about the importance of the «best possible legal education» as well as the need to teach procedure.

However, the Lord Chief Justice also emphasised the need to teach law «as an academic subject and as a practical subject.»

In 2015, the Conference of Chief Justices and Conference of State Court Administrators adopted a resolution supporting «the aspirational goal of 100 percent access to effective assistance for essential civil legal needs.»

The Chief Justice expands on exclusivity with examples similar to those set out in Delgamuukw (para 48), and adds an emphasis on context and the need to use both the common law and the Aboriginal perspective (para 49).

Beverley McLachlin, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, has stated it in this manner: «If you're the only one who can provide a fundamental social need from which you benefit, I think it follows that you have to provide it.»

The chief justice designated an associate justice to chair the commission, and he worked tirelessly to lead the effort to document the need for civil legal aid and then find additional funding.

With the courts preparing for a # 350m cash injection over the next five years, much of which will hopefully go on better IT — under the deal struck by the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor a few months ago — we are finally heading to the point when the good old bill of costs needs a makeover.

A review of the long line of Supreme Court decisions descending from Chief Justice Dickson's and Mr. Justice LaForest's decision in Sparrow in 1990 shows a Court that began its consideration of these matters by describing s. 35 (1) «as a promise» and that promises needed to be considered with a liberal and generous purposive interpretation.

The Report says we should follow the 2015 resolution by the Conference of Chief Justices and Conference of State Court Administrators to strive for 100 % access to effective assistance for essential civil legal needs.

«Despite the best efforts of former Chief Judges, there was little or no involvement of our judges in such areas as: financial management; operational decisions; the implementation of judicial support programs; the use of statistics and management information for assessing caseloads or judicial resource needs; or the day - to - day administrative needs of the judges and justices of the peace.»

While there did not seem to be much interest from the Court in trying to rationalize DWI blood alcohol testing as a special needs search, Chief Justice Gildea did linger over the idea, asking whether the special needs analysis would be different if test refusal had not been made a criminal offense in Minnesota.

My recent comments on Advocate Daily about this [see the whole story here: Police concerns unfounded, alarmist] seem more timely now that Canadian police chiefs say that the federal Department of Justice is weighing how to get around the Supreme Court's ruling that police need a warrant to obtain subscriber data linked to online activities [See the Star report here]

Chief Justice Robert Bauman in B.C. stated yesterday that the system needed some «shock therapy» and dramatic actions to «shake the foundations» in order to foster the type of change required, in conjunction with $ 150,000 invested over three years for Access to Justice B.C..

«Another unresolved question as of Monday morning is why President Bush felt a need to upstage the ceremony in which Chief Justice Roberts formally joined the Court.

He also notes the right candidate will require «strong aquatic skills,» saying the new chief justice will need «the poise and dexterity of the dolphin on the one hand [and] the tenacity and armoured skin of the crocodile on the other hand.»

The Chief Justice of Ontario, the Honourable Warren Winkler started by asking what he thought was the fundamental question «why do we need an independent law reform commission?»

Richard Susskind, Technology Advisor to the Lord Chief Justice, has been arguing for several years that technological disruption is inevitable and that lawyers need to prepare now.

CALGARY — As the Canadian Bar Association conference got underway this morning, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin opened with a keynote speech emphasizing the need to balance the pressing need to change the delivery of legal services with lawyers» professional obligations.

''... the book offers a comprehensive resource that will guide the newcomer to the IAA while also offering a good platform from which those more experienced might assess the completeness of their research and the need to conduct further work,» said Sundaresh Menon, Chief Justice, Singapore.

Oregon HB 2322 (2007) Provides Chief Justice may designate locations in the state for the sitting of circuit courts in the event of an emergency and that such locations designated need not be in the circuit court's judicial district.

[13] Chief Justice James Allsop of the Federal Court of Australia summarised the ethical issues which arise as a result of the conflict the billable hours system creates between the economic pressure on a firm to maximise its profit and the ethical pressure on lawyers to work in their client's best interest: «Only a very slight change of focus needs to be made by a lawyer to change from (a) expecting a profitable return from running as well and efficiently as possible a large case in court, to (b) planning how to make as much money as possible from running the same large case in court.»

February 3, 2015 — «Iowa attorneys will not be required to pay a yearly fee to support low - income legal services, but the state needs to find more ways to provide representation to its poorest residents, Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady wrote in a Tuesday order.

According to Justice David Wake, who chaired the Secretariat from 1999 to 2005, it has faced a number of challenges over the years, including: continuing uncertainty about the different roles of the Conference and the Office of the Chief Justice; concern about possible erosion to the core programs; lack of coordination between the different programs; and the ongoing worry of the family law judges that their unique programming needs might be lost as their numbers declined with the expansion of the Unified Family Court.

In August, the Conference of Chief Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators passed a joint resolution calling for «an aspirational goal of 100 percent access to effective assistance for essential civil legal needs.»»

Guest columnists Richard McDermott, presiding judge of the King County Superior Court, and Barbara Madsen, chief justice of the Washington Supreme Court, voice concern that at a time of increasing legal needs for low - income residents, legal aid resources are facing cuts.

As chief justice, he reported to the General Assembly that an intermediary court was needed to ease the volume of cases heard by the Court of Appeals and the resulting backlog.

Chief Justice Roberts needs to carefully monitor the implementation of the judiciary's new reporting rules to ensure that these rules change judicial behavior — that the new sunlight actually disinfects the judiciary against the stain of corporate judicial lobbying.

Chief Judge Jonathan Lippmann — along with Presiding Justice Karen Peters, Third Department; Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti; and New York State Bar Association President David Schraver — heard testimony from six panels for the purpose of assessing the resources needed to close the justice gap.Justice Karen Peters, Third Department; Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti; and New York State Bar Association President David Schraver — heard testimony from six panels for the purpose of assessing the resources needed to close the justice gap.justice gap.»

Chief Justice Dickson and Justice La Forest, found that argument at odds with the need to give constitutional provisions, broad, generous and purposive interpretations (as the Court had done earlier in a number of Charter rights decisions).

Chief Justice Heather Forster Smith, of the Ontario Superior Court, said modern court administration and courtrooms are needed in order to make the judicial system more efficient.

The Chief Justice considers the possibility of broadening the exemption for «impoverished» litigants by reading in the the terms «in need,» as the Court of Appeal had done, but rejects it.

# a new Securities Transfer Act will be enacted to provide a modern framework for the transfer of shares, bonds and other securities, and promote interprovincial and international harmonization of rules; # personal health information access and privacy legislation will be introduced to balance the individual's right to confidentiality with the need to get information for legitimate health purposes; # government will receive the report of the Task Force on Access to Family Justice, and respond to its recommendations accordingly; # a Building Code Act will be enacted that establishes a chief building inspector position, promotes consumer safety, and provides for province wide adoption of the National Building Code and mandatory inspections by qualified inspectors; # a Heritage Conservation Act will be introduced to improve heritage stewardship; # a new Pay Equity Act will be introduced to ensure that pay equity legislation applies to all parts of the public service.

[14] Not surprisingly, I can not state matters better than Chief Justice McEachern in Hodgkinson: «While I favour full disclosure in proper circumstances, it will be rare, if ever, that the need for disclosure will displace privilege».

Restructuring is what family law needs, says the as - of - yet unreleased report from the Cromwell committee to Chief Justice McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada.

By Jennifer Samara Shuber Restructuring is what family law needs, says the as - of - yet unreleased report from the Cromwell committee to Chief Justice McLachlin of the... Read more

The Chief Justice also suggested that Child Protection officers were reluctant to remove Aboriginal children for fear of another Stolen Generation, implying more children need to be removed.

In response, Summer May Finlay wrote at Croakey that the Chief Justice's comments and associated media reports revealed «a simplistic, unhelpful view» of the complex factors contributing to the over-incarceration of Aboriginal people, and that WA Government and justice systems need to take stock of their own contribJustice's comments and associated media reports revealed «a simplistic, unhelpful view» of the complex factors contributing to the over-incarceration of Aboriginal people, and that WA Government and justice systems need to take stock of their own contribjustice systems need to take stock of their own contributions.

Under the guidance of the former Chief Justice, a number of initiatives were introduced into the Family Court that sought to promote the capacity of the Court to deal with cultural diversity, but particularly to meet the needs of Indigenous families.

As the Chief Justice of the High Court has recently noted, the 1967 referendum has left the Races Power in need of further reform: