Sentences with phrase «constitutional affairs as»

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«Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion,» said Harper, who was at the time constitutional affairs critic for Reform.

State secretaries of state are prohibited as a matter of law and constitutional principle from conducting foreign affairs.

So, while the courts could slow down the process, they are likely to stay out of the Legislature's affairs as a simple matter of respect for the constitutional separation of powers.

In the House of Commons, Keeley served as a member of the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee and from February 2006, the Finance and Services Committee.

She was recently employed as a specialist adviser to the Lord Speaker's Committee on the Size of the House of Lords and is currently a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.

«The issues are, indeed, complex,» constitutional affairs minister Mark Harper told MPs, as government whips manoeuvred to defeat the bill.

The Committee on Constitutional Affairs calls on the Committee on International Trade, as the committee responsible, to incorporate the following suggestions into its motion for a resolution:

Next month the Home Office will be split into two departments as the Department for Constitutional Affairs will become the Ministry of Justice to deal with criminal justice while the Home Office will be in charge of policing and counter-terrorism.

Simon Hughes, Lib Dem constitutional affairs spokesman, said: «It would be a serious setback to our democratic credentials as a country if the Commons does not vote this week for a wholly or predominately elected second chamber.

It can be no coincidence that the House of Lords constitutional affairs committee is now scrutinising the wisdom of one person serving as both justice secretary and lord chancellor.

In 1999, he was given additional responsibilities as Spokesman for Constitutional Affairs.

Liberal Democrat constitutional affairs spokesman Simon Hughes added: «If Britain is to continue its reputation for proper access to high quality justice then we need to invest in our justice system as befits a key part of the welfare state.

Election Day next month is shaping up to be a comparatively sleepy affair statewide, as ballot propositions for constitutional amendments, along with whether to hold a constitutional constitutional, the only issues all New Yorkers will face when they head to booth.

«I will appeal to the joint committees on Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary affairs who have already done a great deal of work during the recess on the Right to Information Bill 2018 to make a report as quickly as possible in order for us to deliberate thereon,» Prof. Ocquaye said.

The Minority Spokesperson on Constitutional, Parliamentary and Legal Affairs, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, has described the donation of GHc 10,000, among others items, to the Attorney General's office by the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana as an insult to Ghanaians.

Earlier this year, the House of Lords Constitutional Affairs Committee concluded that there should be «a presumption against holding referendums on the same day as elections» because of the risk that voters would be confused and results distorted.»

The Minority Spokesperson on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Joe Osei Owusu, has described John Mahama's claims of frustration about the delay in passage of the Right to Information Bill as «hypocritical.»

[4] On 23 January 2018, the Constitutional Affairs Committee adopted a text stating that the Spitzenkandidat process could not be overturned, and that Parliament «will be ready to reject any candidate in the investiture procedure of the commission president who was not appointed as a Spitzenkandidat in the run - up to the European elections».

Of the junior posts, those promoted include Nicholas Soames as defence secretary, John Bercow as shadow international development secretary and Alan Duncan as shadow constitutional affairs secretary.

It needs be noted that the Constitutional Court, with reference to integration, ruled that recognised refugees can not be treated «as permanent residents because they are not in the same [legal] circumstances for the simple reason that they have yet to meet the requirements for permanent residence».21 The requirements include an onus placed on a refugee applicant to provide compelling reasons demonstrating that he / she will remain a refugee indefinitely, subject to an approval by the Standing Committee for Refugee Affairs (SCRA).

John is the founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, former law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, and has served as the director of congressional and public affairs at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights during the Reagan administration.

This investigation followed an investigation in 2005 by the then Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) who, while finding issues in the unregulated market for will - writing services, concluded that voluntary regulation, such as a code of practice approved by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), might be a proportionate solution.

Shipman also quotes Bernard Jenkin, Conservative MP and current chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC), as stating «[the Vote Leave NHS funding pledge] was deliberately controversial».

The Parliamentary Constitutional Affairs Select Committee (the committee) observed that «the [AG's] responsibility for prosecutions has emerged as one of the most problematic aspects of his or her role».

With the firm since joining from Nsubuga & Company Advocates in 2012, Kalule works on banking, insurance and competition disputes, and has acted as a deputy judge at the Commercial Court of Uganda, while Gantungo, a former state attorney in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and the chambers of the attorney general, handles corporate matters and some disputes in the energy, oil and gas, mining, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and taxation sectors.

In recent years, CCLA has supported similar bills, such as Bill C - 279, in written submissions to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, and in our testimony to the Senate Committee on Human Rights in June 2013 and the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in October 2014.

Turning to the question as to whether the «honour of the Crown» could be invoked to override Canadian constitutional norms in the area of veteran's affairs, the Court disagreed with the Plaintiffs / Respondents position that the doctrine imposed a «generalized obligation on all servants of the Crown».

Daniels et al. v. Canada (Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development) et al. 2016 SCC 12 Administrative Law — Constitutional Law — Courts — Indians, Inuit and Métis Summary: The plaintiffs sought declarations (a) that Métis and Non-status Indians were «Indians» within the meaning of the expression «Indians and lands reserved for Indians» in s. 91 (24) of the Constitution Act, 1867; (b) that the Queen (in right of Canada) owed a fiduciary duty to Métis and Non-status Indians; and © that the Métis and Non-status Indian peoples of Canada had the right to be consulted and negotiated with, in good faith, by the federal government on a collective basis through representatives of their choice, respecting all their rights, interests and needs as Aboriginal peoples.

The criticisms of just about every aspect of the government's plans for implementation of the Carter legal aid reforms by the House of Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee were so severe as to raise a serious question about whether the reforms can go ahead as planned.

Despite this, the government's 50 - page response, published on 22 June, rejected all the criticisms and promised that the reforms would go ahead as planned (see Implementing Legal Aid Reform: Government Response to the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee Report, Cm 7158).

The Hawaii State Constitutional Convention of 1978 created institutions such as the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to promote indigenous language and culture.

Barbara Cartwright, Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Federation of Humane Societies: Thank you for inviting me to appear as a witness before the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs.

It is fairly evident that the Committee tried to instrumentalize its FR in order to provide the other constitutional authorities (the Government and — most certainly — the Judiciary) with somewhat of a saving (or escaping) clause in order to overcome the stagnation caused by the Margellos doctrine and the ICJ's authoritative distinction between procedural conditions, such as the jurisdictional immunity of the defendant State, and the merits of the case, even if the contested affair involves grave violations of jus cogens norms.

It adds, «For these reasons, we would like to propose that our AFCO committee, as the committee responsible for Constitutional Affairs, organises a hearing with high level representatives from Facebook and from Cambridge Analytica as well as the whistleblower Christopher Wylie in order to get a proper understanding of the role this companies have played during the Brexit referendum campaign and in electoral campaigning.»

[49] Native Title Amendment Bill 2006, Explanatory Memorandum, p74, as cited in: The Senate, Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Native Title Amendment (Technical Amendments) Bill 2007 [Provisions], May 2007, p8.

If, as a result of this repeal, the RDA can no longer be said to be consistent with or an implementation of ICERD then the constitutional basis of the RDA under the external affairs power is put into question.

[89] The Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee recommended that the Amendment Bill (No 2) be amended «to include the provision of staff housing as part of the new future acts process».

[46] Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Submission to the Senate Committee of Legal and Constitutional Affairs on the Inquiry into the Native Title Amendment (Technical Amendments) Bill 2007, 26 April 2007, pp8 - 9 as cited in the Senate, Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Native Title Amendment (Technical Amendments) Bill 2007 [Provisions], May 2007, pp16 - 17.