Sentences with phrase «high court judges»

A batch of 21 Deputy High Court Judges has been appointed to office by the Lord Chief Justice.

He is one of a few High Court Judges in England and Wales to offer mediation and arbitration services for lawyers, businesses, public and private bodies and individuals.

High Court judges are appointed to one of the 3 divisions of the High Court: Chancery, Queen's Bench or Family.

Currently, about a quarter of judges overall are women, including 21 out of 107 High Court judges and seven out of 43 Lord Justices of Appeal and Heads of Division.

This led the Lord Chief Justice to believe more than 100 new High Court judges could be required in the next five years.

Helen has undertaken a one week placement shadowing High Court Judges in the Technology and Construction Court as part of the TCC Marshalling scheme.

When the responsibility for divorce was transferred from the ecclesiastical to the civil courts, it was still regarded as a serious matter to be dealt with only by High Court judges sitting in London.

On the other hand, there have been several indications that more could be done to make economic issues accessible to High Court Judges.

Today marks an encouraging step forward for diversity in the legal sector with two female High Court Judges being appointed.

8.30 am Rugby World Cup winner Sir Clive Woodward is set to kick off the first - ever LegalWeek CONNECT conference this morning, on day one of a brand new event boasting a big - name line - up of speakers including GCs, law firm leaders and High Court judges, as well as a few less conventional contributors...

All the highlights from the inaugural LegalWeek CONNECT conference at London's Institution of Engineering and Technology, where general counsel, senior law firm partners and High Court judges discussed issues including innovation, cybersecurity, diversity and inclusion, law firm branding, legal technology and artificial intelligence

Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada wear robes similar to that of High Court judges in Britain.

More than 100 new High Court judges could be required in the next five years to fill gaps on the Bench due to a surge in retirements and a lack of suitable candidates, the Lord Chief Justice has said.

The Indian lawyers sued and last week, India's High Court judges were due to hear argument on how the rule should be interpreted.

BAILII subdivide the second category into judgments of High Court judges and of others in the family court.

Seven High Court judges took a total of 393 days off in 2016/17 but no sick days are recorded for 2015/2016.

In his book Rule of Law (Penguin, 2010) Tom Bingham (otherwise Lord Bingham of Cornhill) wrote of the role of High Court judges as moving the law «along a line»; and that most judges are reticent about doing this other than incrementally.

The retirement age for recorders, deputy high court judges, deput y district judges, deputy masters and registrars is to be raised from 65 to 70, the lord chancellor, Jack Straw, has announced.

Two High Court judges have polar opposite views on the issue.

High Court judges will have red robes for criminal proceedings all year, rather than sets for summer and winter.

The difficulty with that argument was, as the appeal judge accepted, virtually all appellate judges and many High Court judges are not at the aforesaid face.

The judiciary of the single family court will include High Court judges, circuit judges, recorders, district judges (including district judges of the magistrates» court), magistrates and legal advisers (justices» clerks).

Of 108 High Court judges, 22 are now female.

High Court judges may praise the Access to Justice Act 1999 (Destination of Appeals)(Family Proceedings) Order 2009, the Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 2009 (SI 2009/636) and the Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989)(Amendment) Rules 2009 (SI 209/637).

In Sharland v Sharland [2015] UKSC 60, [2016] 1 All ER 671 and Gohil v Gohil [2015] UKSC 61, [2016] 1 All ER 685, which were heard at the same time, the Supreme Court had to balance the importance of finality in litigation — in both cases the parties had reached agreement on all matters and had obtained consent orders approved by High Court judges (albeit that the order in Sharland had not been sealed); as against a material failure by a party to comply with their duty of disclosure.

He may be able to challenge the assertion as to arrears in judicial review; though, unsurprisingly, High Court judges have been reluctant to enter the minutiae of a spat about monthly and other payments (or not) over five years.

In this conventional view of power, Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery, high court judges legalised same - sex marriage and Angela Merkel pulled the plug on nuclear power.

Then illegal (yes it is illegal to remove / use computer data unless given permission — whistle blowing is NOT relevant according to high court judges) emails are published and all of a sudden it is OK to peruse PREIVATE communications from many people.

Let us compare that with the situation for pupils from independent schools: just five public schools send more pupils to Oxbridge than 2,000 state schools — two - thirds of the entire state sector; and despite accounting for just 7 % of school pupils, those from independent schools represent seven out of 10 High Court judges, more than half our leading journalists and doctors, and more than a third of MPs.

Two High Court judges last week ruled that magistrates were right to throw out an attempt to prosecute Jon Platt, who was issued with a fine by Isle of Wight council after taking his seven - year - old daughter to Florida last April.

One of the High Court judges dismissed for his role in the judicial corruption scandal unearthed by investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, has reportedly died of high blood pressure.

The forthcoming review is a reboot of the abandoned review in the last Parliament, being carried out under new rules that the Cameron government introduced in 2011: while the reviews themselves are scrupulously neutral, overseen by High Court Judges, the rules they carry them out by are set by Parliament.

Fugitives from British justice can not use Northern Cyprus to dodge punishment for their crimes, High Court judges have ruled in a landmark decision.

Our correspondent visited the houses of the two Federal High Court judges early Saturday morning.

The seventeen High Court judges who have been assigned to handle anticipated electoral disputes that may arise before the December 7, presidential and parliamentary elections are expected to hear cases on a day - to - day basis.

«If we do so we won't have judges collect bribes to pervert justice», the leadership guru then tore into the judicial scandal that has resulted in the suspension of some 34 magistrates, circuit court and high court judges.

With the exception of Ed Balls, politicians are still the most hated people in society (apart from high court judges with a penchant for fencing).

Under government plans to be unveiled on Wednesday, High Court judges will be able to decide when a prisoner is freed meaning convicts will no longer be granted an automatic right to parole halfway through their sentence.

... Two high court judges ruled that courts should not «micro-manage» policy decisions and that # 30m in discretionary housing payments granted local authorities enough flexibility to deal with shortfalls.»

Five other judicial staff who were incriminated in the video and found guilty of the stated misconduct have also been dismissed while some other High Court judges are going through impeachment processes.

These are the same documents two high court judges want published in the public domain and that the US reportedly threatened terminating intelligence cooperation with Britain if they were made publicly available.

The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) has detained Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn, who were, giving their submissions on Accra based radio station, Montie FM, on June 29, 2016, allegedly threatened to unleash mayhem on Supreme Court and High Court judges in the country — claiming that they know their residence.

Ofor made the commendation on Monday in Abuja at the backdrop of arrest of some high court judges over the weekend.

His intervention drew huge support from peers, many of whom are lawyers and judges and came in marked contrast to the reaction of Truss, who is also lord chancellor, who did not step in after the tabloid press attacked the High Court judges who heard the case.

Sadly, two high court judges took the view that there was nothing illegal about the contracts for emergency solicitors in police stations and magistrates» courts and that it isn't their job to interfere with government policy.

The anti-graft agency then re-arraigned Turaki and the three companies before Justice Dimgba in Abuja, being the only judge sitting as a vacation judge in the northern region of the country while the other Federal High Court judges proceed on vacation.

The two high court judges would subsequently conclude that Labour leaflets were misrepresentative when it came to how «local» the Liberal Democrats» Watkins was.

His biggest work so far is the famous corruption in the judiciary piece dubbed «Ghana Under The Eyes of God», which led to the dismissal of some High Court Judges.

The Supreme Court has dismissed the suit filed by two implicated High Court judges Justice Paul Dery and Justice Gilbert Ayisi Addo challenging the Chief Justice's decision to slash their salaries by half and also suspend their allowances except rent.

In a related development, one of the High Court judges, Justice Paul Derry has sued Anas over his findings.