Sentences with phrase «parliamentary justice committee»

Yet he says while he remains in limbo a year later, Vaz has landed a plum Parliamentary Justice Committee job.

The Parliamentary Justice Committee had recommended special consideration for pregnancy and maternity discrimination claims in 2016 but as no government action followed, the trade union Unison took the issue to court.

Not exact matches

I'm vice-chair of the APPG (All - Party Parliamentary Group) on mental health and I'm on the justice committee as well.

Current Conservative officeholders who are members of the group include the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith; David Cameron's PPS, Desmond Swayne; Nick Clegg's Parliamentary Under - Secretary, Mark Harper; the Minister of State for Transport, Theresa Villiers; a Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, Jonathan Djanogly; three government whips, Angela Watkinson, Mark Francois and Greg Hands; the Chairman of the Procedure Committee, Greg Knight; and the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, John Whittingdale, who was Mrs Thatcher's Political Secretary in the late 1980s.

Keith Vaz, the former chair of the home affairs select committee, has been appointed to the justice committee despite a rare parliamentary manoeuvre to stop him by a Conservative MP.

The Ranking Member on the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament, Inusah Fuseini, has called on the Chief Justice to hurriedly determine whether a prima facie case has been established against the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Charlotte Osei, in order to clear any lingering doubts about the integrity of the Commission's leadership.

[12] Kawczynski was recorded as having attended only 12.5 % of all Justice Select Committee meetings and 31.3 % of International Development Select Committee meetings during that last Parliamentary session.

He'd like smaller, fewer parliamentary select committees and proposes a new committee dedicated to social justice.

The draft bill had amendments proposed for it by a parliamentary committee — to include the government's own definition of low carbon, to guarantee the independence of the Climate Advisory Council, and to include the principle of climate justice — none of which were included in the final legislation.

During the televised Justice Committee parliamentary session, Neill addressed Green with a genial smile: «You and I know each other well and have known each other for many years.»

Mr. Strayer, as he then was, testified before a joint Parliamentary committee about what was understood and intended by the drafters in respect of the phrase «fundamental justice».

The nominations of Ontario Court of Appeal justices Michael Moldaver and Andromache Karakatsanis will be subject to review by an ad hoc parliamentary committee on Wednesday, but it has no power to reject them.

In the United Kingdom, for example, judges are sometimes invited to appear as part of parliamentary committees looking into legal and justice issues.

But another key date was July 29, 2013, when McLachlin met with the parliamentary committee putting together a short list of potential nominees to fill one of the three slots reserved for justices from Quebec.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was the first to ask new Supreme Court judges to appear before a parliamentary committee for questioning, beginning with the 2006 appointment of Justice Marshall Rothstein of Manitoba.

Parliamentary consideration of the issue resulted in a report from The Standing Committee On Justice, Human Rights, Public Safety And Emergency Preparedness, remarkable for its lack of agreement between the members of the various political partiesThe Conservative members of the Committee (including Vic Toews) made four recommendations: RECOMMENDATION 1: There must be substantive input from all the provinces and territories into the compilation of a list of suitable Supreme Court of Canada nominees.

The traditional way is law reform: a committee filled with mostly lawyers, legal drafting experts from ministries of justice, civil society consultations, advice from councils of state, parliamentary commissions, and adoption of a rule regime in parliament.

Similar calls for official investigation came from several other U.S. lawmakers, the European Union's justice commissioner and a British lawmaker, Damian Collins, head of a parliamentary committee that has been investigating Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.

-- Overseas, a British parliamentary committee has summoned CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify, Israel says it is launching an investigation into Facebook, and Germany's justice minister says she is calling in Facebook's European leadership to explain the scandal.

Failure to recognise the social determinants of health and failure to respond effectively to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody has developed into a situation where even the Chief Justice of Western Australia, Wayne Martin, told a parliamentary committee in August 2015 that «young Aboriginal people consider jail a «rite of passage»».

Appendix 2: Submission of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner to the Inquiry into Indigenous Land Use Agreements by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund

Appendix 2: Submission of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner to the Inquiry into Indigenous Land Use Agreements by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...

Submission of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund, see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Native Title Report 2000, Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, 2001, p187 - 188 (footnotes omitted).