Sentences with phrase «justice commission local»

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Justice Sadiq Umar led tribunal in its judgment delivered on October 21, nullified elections in 18 out of the 31 local government areas of the state and ordered a re-run to be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

In the meantime please keep writing to the policy commissions (copying me in) at: Britain in the World, Sustainable Communities (for housing, environment, local government, transport, culture, media, sport), Crime, Justice, Citizenship and Equalities, Education and Skills, Health and Prosperity and Work (for economy, welfare, pensions, workers» rights).

Other members of the commission are a retired Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government, Onaolapo Ajibola; the state's Solicitor - General and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Mr. Wasiu Gbadegesin; Joseph Oladele; Paul Ayoola; Ogunniyi Ogunjinmi; and Abiodun Adegbaye.

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According to a press release, the commission is charged with «advising state entities on environmental justice; analyzing the impact of state and local laws and policies on environmental justice and sustainable communities; developing criteria to assess whether communities in the state may be experiencing environmental issues and recommending options to the Governor's office and legislators for addressing these issues.»

The environmental justice lobby's concerns about local air pollution are justified: A new report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights acknowledges that low - income and minority communities face disproportionately high air pollution.

State laws and local standards exist, but only national, numeric caseload standards for public defen - ders were developed in 1973 by the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, a project organized by the DOJ.

As a member of the firm's Government Investigations, Corporate Compliance + Criminal Defense Team, she represents businesses and individuals in civil and criminal investigations by local, state and federal authorities, such as state attorneys general, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, and local law enforcement.

Those recommendations include «The Court should form a standing committee to maintain accountability for closing the justice gap and to monitor the effectiveness of reform initiatives,» «The Court should encourage the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Access to Justice Commission, and local bar associations to create pipelines of services for modest - means clients,» and «A primary objective of future rulemaking projects should be to make the civil justice system more accessible to modest - means clients.justice gap and to monitor the effectiveness of reform initiatives,» «The Court should encourage the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Access to Justice Commission, and local bar associations to create pipelines of services for modest - means clients,» and «A primary objective of future rulemaking projects should be to make the civil justice system more accessible to modest - means clients.Justice Commission, and local bar associations to create pipelines of services for modest - means clients,» and «A primary objective of future rulemaking projects should be to make the civil justice system more accessible to modest - means clients.justice system more accessible to modest - means clients.»

At ROSS, we are committed to partnering with national and state bar associations, like the New Hampshire Bar Association, state and local - level access - to - justice commissions, the courts, pro bono and public interest groups, legal services organizations and law schools throughout the country, to not only enhance the delivery of legal services to those in need but to offer support to the heroic work already being performed by those on the front lines.

Evidence of this could be found, for example, in the large amount of materials posted on the Commission's website (videotaped presentations, webinar, written submissions,...) and the Commission's efforts to facilitate a large number of what it termed «grassroots meetings,» which the Commission described as «local conversations [to] create new avenues for access to justice for all and open doors to new career opportunities for current and future lawyers.»

Random drug and alcohol testing for most Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) employees can proceed following a decision of Justice Marrocco denying the ATU Local 113's application for an injunction earlier this week.

Support from the Indigent Defense Commission is done through cost sharing with local governments, and grants awarded by the commission are carefully administered, Landau told the Executive Offices and Criminal Justice Appropriations Subcommittee Commission is done through cost sharing with local governments, and grants awarded by the commission are carefully administered, Landau told the Executive Offices and Criminal Justice Appropriations Subcommittee commission are carefully administered, Landau told the Executive Offices and Criminal Justice Appropriations Subcommittee on Monday.

We know from attending to numerous Royal Commissions, participating in local group actions, building upon the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation process, listening to the Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, taking part in Survival Days and NAIDOC celebrations.

The Australian Law Reform Commission identified»... the acceptability of the proposals to the local community as a whole...» as one of four criteria by which the suitability of local justice mechanisms should be assessed.

In addition to the difficulties discussed above in relation to defining customary law in general law, the Commission argued that matters of Aboriginal law could be better considered at the level of local self - government with an emphasis on a flexible approach to developing justice mechanisms.

Principally these include the commitment of the Northern Territory government to the outcomes of the 1997 National Summit on Deaths in Custody (and the development of a framework for implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody); the recommendations relating to contemporary removals in the Bringing them home report; the Social Justice package proposals for principles to underpin the negotiation of local or regional agreements with Indigenous peoples; the recommendations and national strategies of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation; and in future consideration of an appropriate statehood model (and Constitution) for the Northern Territory.

It should be noted that community consultations primarily with Indigenous women in April 2003 led the Commission to conclude that legislative approaches to facilitate community justice mechanisms based in the recognition of customary law (such as the establishment of a system of Indigenous tribunals) should not be pursued without adequate modeling at a policy level or without extensive consultation and local level participation of Aboriginal communities.