Sentences with phrase «force on conflicts of interest»

[In the interests of disclosure I should mention that my then partner Gavin MacKenzie acted for the McKercher firm and that my finger prints are on the respondent's factum; and that I've been involved in the Canadian Bar Association's Task Force on Conflicts of Interest, since its inception — though obviously not in its Wallace intervention.]

The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) has adopted the recommendations of its Task Force on Conflicts of Interest.

Malcolm has been a member of the CBA Task Force on Conflicts of Interest, is a past chair of the CBA Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and was the regulatory team lead for the CBA Futures Initiative.

A leader in professional ethics, Mercer is also an LSUC bencher, chairman of the Canadian Bar Association's ethics and professional responsibility committee, and a member of the CBA task force on conflicts of interest.

Presumably all Canadian Bar Association members received an email early this morning updating members on the work of the Task Force on Conflicts of Interest (Simon Chester is a consultant to the Task Force), which has just published a consultation paper «Practical Difficulties with Today's Conflict of Interest Rules».

«The issue is whether or not that rule is a presumptive,» says Mercer, a partner in McCarthy Tétrault LLP's Toronto office, and a former member of the CBA's task force on conflicts of interest.

Not exact matches

There is a campaign to accuse Sheppard of a conflict of interest on the grounds that higher purses at one track would force higher purses everywhere.

Compare this model with that of the current government, whereby we have an unelected body of wealthy individuals, laden with conflicts of interest running the country and forcing through policies made up in a closed room that not one member of the electorate has had an opportunity to vote on.

It makes for an interesting companion to Christopher Nolan's summer hit, showing the desperation on the other side of the conflict and the belief that, should the forces fall, the war effort would be all but lost.

While there was strong bipartisan support, NCLB was tempered as always by the conflicting political forces of interested parties, including the one anachronism about teacher quality that was based on inputs rather than outputs.

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The American Lawyer is reporting that four of the six law firms asked to submit proposals to advise the U.S. Treasury on the bailout plan declined to participate, concerned that stringent conflicts of interest requirements in the procurement process might force the firm to give up a more lucrative client.

We at Slaw have had postings on the CBA Task Force Report on Conflicts of Interest and the Federation of Law Societies response.