Sentences with phrase «law society standards»

The report is relatively short by Law Society standards (less than 40 pages) and contains a mere 13 recommendations.

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The case began several years ago when First Canadian, a title insurance company, sued the Law Society of New Brunswick for amending its professional standards to require a lawyer to be present when property owners swore affidavits for the sale or mortgage of a property.

Theo So I assume you think that a society can not make laws and standards based on precedents, is that not how most societies were developed without the need of divine intervention?

Theo Your view gives absolutely no merit to the combined wisdom of a society through its history and the laws and standards developed in order to have an orderly society.

We currently ammend our laws to fit what society feels is right or punishable, is this not in a way a moral standard itself?

Society's standard (as embodied in the law) is: NOBODY should be physically attacking ANYBODY under any circumstances, and if attacked physically, you can use anything up to (but not including) deadly force (unless deadly force is used by the attacker first) to defend yourself.

While I grant that the acknowledgement of the failure of the War on Drugs is an important first step, security will not be achieved in the Americas until we take seriously the issues that create the environment suitable for insecurity — a weak rule of law, punitive judiciary systems and the inability of many members of society to achieve a dignified standard of living, among others.

It will touch on every aspect of society: workers» rights, environmental rules, chemical standards, data protection, pharmaceutical laws, veterinary training levels, meat processing regulation, age - related discrimination: all of it.

No amendment to the Constitution and By - Laws (or to the Standard for the Breed) that is adopted by the Society shall become effective until it has been approved by the Board of Directors of The American Kennel Club.

At the Annual Meeting or at a special meeting of the Society, voting shall be limited to those members in good standing who are present at the meeting, except for the annual election of Officers and Directors, delegate to The American Kennel Club, and amendments to the Constitution and By - Laws and the Standard of the Breed which shall be decided by written ballot cast by mail.

Once you've determined that birds are covered and enforceable standards exist, the next step is to identify which of your city's or state's humane society, animal shelter, animal control organization, or other law enforcement agency is responsible for investigating and enforcing the law.

The County Commissioners are authorized to enforce the Animal Welfare and Control law and standards or to contract in writing for its enforcement with a bona fide benevolent animal welfare or humane entity, such as the Caroline County Humane Society, Inc..

This policy describes how this personal data must be collected, handled and stored to meet the society's data protection standards — and to comply with the law.

The Panel's careful, closely reasoned decision has important implications for corporate legal practice and for the Law Society's standards of investigation and prosecution.

Despite the fact that the law society itself has found little evidence that past misconduct is a meaningful predictor of future behavior, the good character requirement is designed to protect the public, to maintain high ethical standards and to maintain public confidence in the legal profession.

The more law schools have to do to satisfy that standard, the less law societies have to do.

Christina Blacklaws, Law Society vice president, said: «It's important that the insurance standards are reviewed, but we need to get the balance right between protecting consumers, protecting solicitors and promoting a competitive insurance industry.

The CBA report also suggests law societies start regulating entities that provide legal services to ensure ethical and professional standards are upheld.

I know that the Saskatchewan law society has endorsed certain court decision which express a standard (and implicitly deprecating those not mentioned), which in my totally amateur opinion is a good way to do it.

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Its robust general ledger and trust accounting feature set make your daily practice easier when it comes to balancing the books and complying with the Law Society's accounting standards.

Although his firm does not rely heavily on referrals, Toronto personal injury lawyer Paul Cahill tells Law Times that in response to the Law Society of Upper Canada's (LSUC) new referral fee rules, its standard contingency fee agreement now includes appropriate language for those cases when they do come in.

The Criminal Law Standards Committee of the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society is seeking input from the membership on the introduction of the following new Standard:

«Based on the delegations of power from its constituent law societies, the federation has a duty to go beyond a strict determination of a proposed law school's compliance with the national standards.

To set such a standard in order to maintain a practicing certificate which, in the benchers» view, serves to protect the public, is in keeping with the duties given to the Law Society under the Act.

Ontario usually sets standards for the rest of Canada and this change may be a harbinger of changes by other law societies.

Citizens of British Columbia are one step closer to getting greater access to legal services after a move by the Law Society of British Columbia to merge with the Society of Notaries Public and recognize a standard for «credentialed paralegals.»

The LCCA plans to solicit feedback on the draft security standards from bar associations, law societies, legal professionals and others over the coming weeks, with the goal of publishing the final standards at ABA Techshow, which takes place March 16 - 19 in Chicago.

Because technology will continue to develop, and standards will emerge, it is important to ensure the Law Society keeps pace with these changes, and staff will play an important role in keeping the Benchers apprised of the potential need for amendments to the policies and rules recommended in this report.

«The LCCA's security standards give the legal profession certainty as to the specific steps taken by their technology vendors in keeping their data private and, we hope, provide the basis for a common set of standards that bar associations and law societies will support.»

After almost 18 years in practice, David decided to dedicate his skills to working within a law society to teach practitioners in all manner of firms how to run their businesses to the same professional, ethical and technological standards for which he himself.

I looked back at our record since we started operating the Law Society's primary insurance program in 1995 and saw how hard we have worked to contain the lawyers» standard of care.

Unlike the standard program mandated by the Law Society, the coverage limits are not refreshed annually — once claims hit the $ 250,000 threshold, there is no further coverage.

In a discussion paper published this week, the Law Society says the SDT is expected to review the standard of proof it applies later this year, as part of a wider consultation on the Solicitors Disciplinary Proceedings Rules 2007.

The appeal division panel that awarded costs to DeMerchant and Sukonick found that the proceedings were not unwarranted at the beginning, but they became so after the law society failed to provide evidence to contradict testimony by an expert witness that held the two were following standard practice in the corporate bar.

There are features of Law Society practices and the SDT procedures that are so backward, that they violate the most rudimentary standards of fairness.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

The awards include the category of Junior Lawyer of the Year, for which the Law Society is looking for demonstrable evidence of an individual who has an exceptional standard of work as well as great dedication in their role.

Law societies only have so much control and power over these labour markets, which is why many of the larger structural and experiential issues in legal practice may be properly addressed simply by applying existing societal standards to the legal industry as well.

However, the Law Society argues that it should revert to its pre-2010 position of using the criminal standard of «beyond reasonable doubt», as a solicitor's livelihood is at risk.

Ontario's Law Society Act sets out the threshold of professional competence standards.

The second claim, based on advice allegedly received from a lawyer participating in the Law Society of Alberta's lawyer referral service, failed because the plaintiff did not provide any evidence to demonstrate that the lawyer's conduct fell below the standard of care (at para 77).

The Codes of Conduct of Canada's various law societies set the standards of conduct expected of members of the profession.

Each law society has a written code of conduct that describes the minimum standards of behaviour expected of their members.

Yuen argued further that he was employed by a law firm and that the firm should be held to a higher standard of conduct because they are all lawyers, and that lawyers «have an ethical duty to uphold the law and are leaders in society.»

«The standard applicable to the review of a law society rule is reasonableness,» Justice Wagner wrote, with Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and Justices Michael Moldaver, Andromache Karakatsanis and Clément Gascon concurring.

The law society's mandate is to ensure law school graduates will meet its standard of learning, competence, and professional conduct, the submission says, adding there's no evidence TWU graduates will fail to meet this standard because of the university's religious beliefs.

From that point, the committee dug in for a great deal of research: looking at accreditation standards in other fields of professional education, studying the work of regional and national accreditation commissions outside legal education, and reviewing submissions by groups such as the Society for the Advancement of Law Teaching.

Since 1797 the society's responsibility is to provide the highest standards of law and justice to the public while making sure that it's members follow «high standards of learning, competence and professional conduct.»

Law Society President Lucy Scott - Moncrieff said that the Law Society introduced CQS to promote high standards in the home buying process.