Instead, as in In the Matter of J. Cameron Halford, 392 S.C. 66, 708 S.E. 2d 740 (2011), the Supreme
Court imposed discipline on an attorney for depositing a flat fee into a personal account because the attorney stipulated that doing so was a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct.
He must also file proof of compliance with
the court imposing discipline.
The Review Panel has the power to receive special master reports and recommend that the Supreme
Court impose discipline.
Through the use of strict time limits, appellate
courts impose this discipline on counsel.
Not exact matches
A number of 2015 cases establish that arbitrators, tribunals, and
courts will support employers who
impose a serious
discipline for breaches of workplace safety rules, as long as the employer considers the totality of the factual circumstances.
Given the lawyers» response and their lack of any prior
discipline, the
court decided to
impose the minimum «sit - out» period of 90 days.
While he sees good reasons for justices to draft their own opinions, he questions whether they are sufficient «for Congress to
impose such
discipline on Supreme
Court Justices by cutting off clerk - salary appropriations.»
The
court on its own has
imposed a higher
discipline, so we have seen that trend.
Rai argued before the
Court of Appeal on behalf of LSBC that the rule permitting benchers to
impose discipline summarily does not violate the Charter.
The B.C.
Court of Appeal concluded in The Law Society of British Columbia v. Zoraik, that a bencher panel failed to consider the Charter implications of whether it could
impose discipline summarily against Malcolm Hassan Zoraik.
The Supreme
Court is responsible for reviewing the board report and case record and
imposing discipline.
Of interest is the fact that the Supreme
Court of Canada did imply in McKinley v. B.C. Tel26 that an employer might be able to
impose a suspension as a lesser form of
discipline when the employee's misconduct does not amount to cause for dismissal.
The Supreme
Court is responsible for reviewing the Board report, case record, and any objections filed by the parties, and
imposing discipline.
A recent decision of Ontario's Divisional
Court is important for members of regulatory colleges because it further clarifies what
discipline is and how and when it can be
imposed on members.
The Code of Judicial Conduct provides that, although such opinions are not per se binding on the Judicial Conduct Board, the
Court of Judicial
Discipline, or the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, action taken in reliance thereon shall be considered in determining whether
discipline should be recommended or
imposed.
Upon receipt of a petition filed under subsection 4 of this rule, demonstrating that an attorney has been convicted of a serious crime, the supreme
court shall, in addition to suspending the attorney in accordance with the provisions of subsection 7 of this rule, refer the matter to the appropriate disciplinary board for the institution of a hearing before a hearing panel in which the sole issue to be determined shall be the extent of the
discipline to be
imposed.
The
court affirmed the determinations and
discipline imposed by the Commission.
Thus, the
court affirmed both findings and so upheld the
discipline imposed upon the licensees.
A California appellate
court has considered a member's challenge to
discipline imposed upon him by a REALTOR ® association.
A New Jersey appellate
court upheld
discipline imposed by a real estate commission on licensees for their role in selling a new home to a second buyer before the underlying transaction had closed.
A Texas appellate
court has considered a member's challenge to
discipline imposed by a professional association in which the member had voluntarily become a member.
Looking at existing Mississippi law, the
court found that while private organizations are generally free to
discipline members who violate prescribed rules of conduct, private organizations must also describe possible punishments which can be
imposed for various rules violations, in order to alert the member as to the possible punishments when he / she joins the organization and also avoid arbitrary disciplinary actions by the organization against its members.
In addition, the
court found that the
discipline imposed by the panel conformed to the association's rules, according to the Code of Ethics and Arbitration Manual.
The
court ruled that the Association had not followed its own rules in
disciplining the Morfs and so had acted arbitrarily, causing the
court to vacate the
discipline imposed on the Morfs by the Association.