Sentences with phrase «chief justice set»

In 2013 the Chief Justice set up the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Outreach Committee to ensure that the Court's administration and judiciary work hand in hand to enable and facilitate participation of Indigenous Australians in court processes.

Lawyers say Ontario's «quirk» of letting chief justice set provincial fines should be changes, Toronto Star

Not exact matches

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As he has done so many times throughout his tenure, Chief Justice Lippman today outlined a thoughtful set of proposals that will further our state's debate.

«The suspension follows the establishment of a prima facie case against the four Justices, by the Committee set up by the Chief Justice to investigate alleged acts of bribery and corruption against certain persons, including the four Justices, as contained in the 29th August, 2015 petition of Mr. Anas Aremeyaw Anas,» the statement said.

Pro-NPP Pressure group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), has described as «needless» the decision by the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, to set up special courts to prosecute persons who refuse to pay the mandatory TV license.

«Setting up a meeting, talking to another official, or organizing an event (or agreeing to do so)-- without more — does not fit that definition of official act,» Chief Justice John Roberts wrote.

Unconfirmed reports suggest that a five - member committee has been set up by Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo, to investigate the...

«Setting up a meeting, talking to another official, or organizing an event — without more — does not fit that definition of «official act,»» Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote in the opinion.

Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo set up...

David Miliband voted for the iraq war, for 90 days» detention without trial, which was defeated despite him, for setting control orders at the instance of the Secretary of State for Justice instead of the Lord Chief Justice and against giving suspects the right to see the evidence against them.

The chief inspector is appointed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and reliant on it for his budget, setting up a rather unhelpful dynamic given he's supposed to be scrutinising the results of its policies.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts wrote that passing a law would suffice, but routine acts such as setting up a meeting or making a call did not.

And I can announce today that the Justice Secretary and Lord Chief Justice have set up the first joint working group to examine how to deliver problem - solving courts in England and Wales.

The court was set up by the Chief Justice after several agitations from some judges indicted in the scandal.

Similarly in the motion brought by former President Goodluck Jonathan praying Justice Abang to set aside the subpoena issued to him to appear in court to give evidence for Metuh, the Court in a brief ruling held that it has no jurisdiction to entertain the motion argued by Chief Mike Ezekhome (SAN) for Jonathan on the ground that the former President has not been formally served with the subpoena.

Justice Dimgba was set to hear the EFCC's motion on Thursday but had to adjourn until November 11, after Adedipe and Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), appeared for Mrs. Jonathan and argued that the ex parte could not be heard since their client had filed an application challenging the court's jurisdiction to entertain it.

«Setting up a meeting, talking to another official, or organizing an event - without more - does not fit that definition of «official act,»» Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote in the opinion.

Legal experts say that if a prima facie case is established against any of the commissioners during the preliminary investigation, the Chief Justice, per the rules, will then set up a committee to fully investigate the issues and a report submitted to the president.

Chief Inspector Oppong said the Police arrested Adjei who was alleged as the leader of the group, to assist in the investigations, but the angry youth besieged the Techiman Police station asking for him to e set free whilst supporters of the victims also demanded that he should be released to them for instant justice.

Lawyer Addo argues that the portion of the statement that states that «the suspension follows the establishment of a prima facie case against the four Justices, by the Committee set up by the Chief Justice» is a clear indication that due diligence was not done by the Director of Communications before the statement was released.

A West Coast branch of the movement has set up operations as the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at the school of law at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jepsen is seeking a direct, expedited review requiring the approval of Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers, saying the time for the state's highest court to review the ruling is now, not after the 180 - day period Moukawsher set for the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the General Assembly to answer his demand for remedies.

Holding that state enterprise Indian Rail Tour Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is the «absolute owner» of luxury tourist train Maharaja Express, Delhi High Court bench comprising of acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Siddharth Mridul set aside its interim order to IRCTC to run this service jointly with Cox & Kings.

The straight - talking Ontario chief justice is now handling a massive Nortel Networks Corp. mediation, once again setting the bar in areas of corporate - commercial law.

Ohio's chief justice recruited more than 1,000 lawyers to represent borrowers free of charge, and the state set up a hotline to direct borrowers to the lawyers.

Chief Justice McLachlin reiterates (at para 26) the three - part test for Aboriginal title that was first set out in Delgamuukw:

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).

As Chief Justice Chartier pointed out, the lawyer's duty of integrity is the first set out in the Code of Professional Conduct.

The Council received the complaint and set up a review chaired by Manitoba Chief Justice Richard Scott and monitored by Thomas G. Heintzman of McCarthy Tétrault.

These aspects of title — all previously set out in Delgamuukw — make up what the Chief Justice calls the «positive proposition» associated with the content of Aboriginal title (para 15).

Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin said the decision on whether to allow the face covering must be decided on a case - by - case basis and that judges would have to consider a set of questions before deciding whether to order a witness to remove her niqab.

The judiciary advised the Law Society in December 2017 that the review of SHR had been concluded and the chief justice had approved the following set of SHR, increasing the rates across solicitors of each level of seniority by more than 40 % and introducing two additional bands of seniority of solicitors:

In a social setting many years ago, I asked the late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Bora Laskin, about such a change in emphasis between courts.

Earlier this month, Kirk Makin of the Globe and Mail scooped an announcement of a major set of Reports on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, an inititaitive that started with the Chief Justice's challenge to the Canadian Bar Association last summer.

Chief Justice Martel Popescul addressed the jury following the lawyers» closing arguments and set out the three possible verdicts:

The Chief Justice of Canada, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, addressed the latter in her recent lecture to the Canadian Bar Association, but I do not perceive that she or anyone else in the legal community have addressed the fundamental issue that the SRL phenomenon raises: the right to participate in the making of common law; the ability to put a set of interests before the courts that hitherto have not been able to afford to be there — and thus, a rather significant challenge to the validity of the whole body of common law as it stands.

-- the letter from Malcolm Heins, CEO of the Law Society to Chief Justice Smith of the Superior Court of Justice, setting out the manner in which complaints should be made by the SCJ; and

The three options that are available to employees if their employer unilaterally changes a fundamental terms of their employment contracts was set out by the Ontario Court of Appeal in Wronko v. Western Inventory Service Ltd, 1 Chief Justice Winkler summarized the options as follows:

(viii) the proceeding be set for trial on a particular date or on a particular trial list, subject to the approval of the Chief Justice, and

This discount rate is set by the Chief Justice pursuant to s. 56 Law and Equity Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 253 and BC Reg 74/2014.

The amendments also included a requirement for the Chief Justice to have an education plan setting out the elements of the continuing education judges were to receive.

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Chief Justice McLachlin also held that any change to the composition of the court could only be done by constitutional amendment, at para. 5: «The eligibility requirements set out in s. 6 relate to the composition of the Court and are, therefore, constitutionally protected.

The Chief Justice: «We are all of the view that the appeal should be allowed... The conviction is set aside and a new trial is ordered.»

Real reconciliation, to use the term favoured by a succession of chief justices, will only become likely when a government takes office that genuinely wants to forge new relationships and when Canada decides that the best way to interpret obligations set out in agreements will follow a line between clear and plain meaning and a purposive interpretation.

Daniel Martin Katz, Institutional Rules, Strategic Behavior and the Legacy of Chief Justice William Rehnquist: Setting the Record Straight on Dickerson v. United States, 22 Journal of Law & Politics 303 (2006) < SSRN >

«The wounds of war have changed,» said Scott, who is the task force commander for the Veterans Subcommittee of the Kentucky Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission, which was set up by Kentucky Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr..

Roslyn Levine, executive legal officer in the office of the chief justice, said even though the court schedule is set months in advance, it is revisited regularly as circumstances change.

The Chief Judge issues a «Letter of Authorization» to each Justice of the Peace setting out the powers and duties of a Justice of the Peace.