Sentences with phrase «commonwealth affairs»

R (on the application of Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No 4)[2016] UKSC 35, SC, June 29 2016, [2016] 3 WLR 157 Instructed in the Supreme Court challenge.

Maftah and another v Secretary of State for the Foreign Office and Commonwealth Affairs [2011] EWCA Civ 350, [2011] All ER (D) 120 (Apr)

His Lordship referred to R (Quark Fishing Ltd) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2006] 3 All ER 111, [2005] UKHL 57.

In R (on the application of Abbasi) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2002] EWCA Civ 1598, [2002] All ER (D) 70 (Nov) the Court of Appeal accepted that «customary international law forms part of our common law».

Increasingly, a more liberal approach is being taken to justiciability (see R (on the application of Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2001] QB 1067, [2000] All ER (D) 1675 and R (on the application of Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2006] EWHC 1038 (Admin), [2006] All ER (D) 149 (May).

It has quite a style of cause: The Queen (on the application of Wheeler) v. Office of the Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Speaker of the House of Commons

R (Sarkandi and others) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2014] EWHC 2359 (Admin)-- challenge to the Foreign Secretary's decision to propose, to the European Union Council of Ministers, the imposition of sanctions on the claimants.

Judgment of the Supreme Court is handed down today in the case of Janah v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs («SSFCA») and Libya, and Benkharbouche v SSFCA.

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Libya v Janah (Supreme Court, 18 October 2017) Reyes v Al Malki (Supreme Court, 18 October 2017)

Most recently, Rachel has been appointed to act as Special Advocate for one of the Claimants in judicial review proceedings brought against the Secretary of State for Defence and the Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by three Afghan nationals claiming that they worked for the Defendants in Afghanistan as covert human intelligence sources.

[18] As Lord Denning explained in The Queen v The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Constitution Act, 1867 (formerly the British North America Act 1867) «set out detailed provisions, in sections 91 and 92, distributing legislative powers between the Dominion Parliament and the provincial legislatures.»

In R (Hottak) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2016] EWCA Civ 438 the Court of Appeal considered the extra-territorial scope of the Equality Act 2010.

In R (Hottak) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2016] EWCA Civ 438 the Court of Appeal considered the extra-territorial scope of the Equality...

Re Commonwealth Institute (In Members» Voluntary Liquidation)[2014] W.T.L.R. 1621 Application by the liquidators for directions in relation to (amongst other matters) a potential claim against the Government estimated to be worth in excess of # 18m; acted for the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (an interested party).

Re Commonwealth Institute (Setchim v Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs)[2014] EWHC 2218 Volutary liquidation; application for directions under s. 112 Insolvency Act 1986.

As a result of the decision in R (Binyan Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2008] EWHC 2048 (Admin), the Divisional Courts made Norwich Pharmacal [1974] Ac 133) order, requiring disclosure by the foreign secretary of material which it considered was essential to a fair trial in criminal proceedings in the US for terrorist offences.

Christopher Greenwood QC and Jemima Stratford (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs, as intervener.

It has quite a style of cause: The Queen (on the application of Wheeler) v. Office of the Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Speaker of the House of Commons... [more]

R (on the application of Sarkandi and others) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2015] EWCA Civ 687, [2015] All ER (D) 138 (Jul)

Joint General Secretary Kevin Courtney has written a letter to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, urging action in the case of 16 - year - old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi.

That was Tobias Ellwood, who is parliamentary under - secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs, speaking earlier in a statement which he was called on to make.

The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr William Hague): I would support the Prime Minister and the Government in their response, particularly in an international dimension.

«John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received of the number of people convicted of the crime of social dangerousness in Cuba in each of the last five years.

George Osborne was replaced as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Philip Hammond, former Mayor of London Boris Johnson was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and David Davis became Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

In July 1997, he was elected as Secretary of the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Committee and the Conservative Middle East Council.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects elections to take place in Afghanistan; and what steps the Government are taking to facilitate such elections.

«Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with reference to the Statement during the Prime Minister's address to the US Congress that the UK would work with the United States of America to reduce stockpiles of nuclear weapons, what steps the Government is taking to achieve that objective.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent reports he has received on the political situation in Madagascar.

The highest - profile members of parliament leaving were: Gordon Brown, a former Prime Minister, Leader of the Labour Party (both 2007 — 2010) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1997 — 2007); and William Hague, the outgoing First Secretary of State and Leader of the House of Commons and former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (2010 — 2014), Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition (both 1997 — 2001).

Oral Questions — Under - occupancy rule for housing benefit - Baroness Quin Dalit or Scheduled Caste aid programmes in India - Lord Harries of Pentregarth Criteria for the allocations of direct budgetary support to developing countries in 2013 — 14 - Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale Debate on the address — Defence, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, International Development - Baroness Warsi / Lord Astor of Hever

Speaking on the government's behalf, Tim Sainsbury, the under - secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs, responded in typical fashion — India was a «democratic country» with «an independent legal system» and a «vibrantly free press in which injustices can be and are exposed».

Tobias Ellwood - The Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs:

Rt Hon Hugo SWIRE Lately Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Minister of State for Northern Ireland.

[3] In June 2016, she was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in another reshuffle.

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

Not exact matches

Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy will lead a Commonwealth mission to Pakistan to press the new military regime for a firm timetable for restoring democracy.

The four - member Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, met with Pakistan's army ruler Pervaiz Musharraf, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and other political leaders and government officials as they assessed the political situation in the country.

State Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Matthew A. Beaton will join the Groundhog Day celebration at Mass Audubon's Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln Friday, Feb. 2, when Ms. G, the Official Groundhog of the Commonwealth, will make her annual prediction on the length of the remaining winter.

Here he describes his equally stormy involvement as deputy head of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) department in the arms for Sierra Leone affair, when a British company supplied weapons to that country's President in contravention of an embargo; his role as single - handed saviour of Ghanaian democracy when deputy high commissioner in Accra, and his participation in peace negotiations in Togo to end Sierra Leone's civil war.

His scholarly write - ups have been published in international journals such as Human Rights Quarterly (US), Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (UK), African Affairs (UK), and Review of Human Factor Studies (Canada).

Indeed it was a 15 - member team that included the Electoral Commission Chairman of South Africa, Vuma Glenton Mashinini, a former Tanzania National Electoral Commission Chief, Judge Damian Lubuva, Ms Pauline Welsh, Director of Legal Affairs, Research and Development at the Electoral Commission of Jamaica and Commonwealth Secretary - General Patricia Scotland.

Witness (es): Mark Simmonds MP, Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Richard Benyon, Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Dr Peter Hayes, Director Overseas Territories, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Jeremy Eppel, Deputy Director, International Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Evidence, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Ian McKendry, Deputy Director for the Overseas Territories and the Caribbean, Department for International Development

But in their response to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's annual human rights report, the foreign affairs committee urges the government to consider its policies.

[157] Heath moved Maudling to the foreign affairs portfolio, and Douglas - Home took over Lloyd's responsibilities as spokesman on Commonwealth relations.

Last week the Foreign Affairs Select Committee published a report on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Ion S. Jovin, MD, FACC, the study's lead author and medical director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, said that the study's results are consistent with data from contemporary studies of patients with acute coronary syndrome and STEMI.

The early MultiLit research (1996 — 1998) is detailed in the report commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA, now DEEWR) entitled «An Evaluation of MultiLit» (Wheldall & Beaman, 2000).

Foreign and Commonwealth Office No. 46A ------ Terrace London SW1 PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL Dear Mr. Milius, It has been suggested to me that you might be interested to have a discussion with us about fast - stream appointments in government service in the field of foreign affairs which occasionally arise in addition to those covered by the Open Competition to the Diplomatic Service.

The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum.

He said that he had sent a letter about the matter to the Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor, who acts as the Commonwealth Censorship Minister.