Sentences with phrase «supreme judicial council»

[107] Otherwise, the Supreme Judicial Council is responsible for appointments by promotion within the niyaba itself.

On April 6, the king of Morocco formally appointed the elected and pro-forma members of the Supreme Judicial Council, a new government body whose creation and composition was mandated by the 2011 constitution to manage the courts and judicial affairs directly in place of the Ministry of Justice.

The final word in Libyan law lies with a political (not a legal) body called the Supreme Judicial Council.

After all, this state of affairs was built into the rationale for same - sex marriage when it was installed by the Supreme Judicial Council of Massachusetts back in 2003.

Not exact matches

So the Supreme Court, when it practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.

The five - member Committee comprises a Justice of the Supreme Court who is the Chairperson with two Justices of the Court of Appeal appointed by the Judicial Council and two other persons appointed on the advice of the Council of State, who are neither members of the Council of State, nor members of Parliament, nor lawyers.

A statement by the Director of Information in the National Judicial Council (NJC) Mr. Soji Oye indicated that the new judges will be sworn - in by the Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman, National Judicial Council, Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, on Friday, July 14, 2017, by 3.00 pm at the Supreme Court.

Citing a similar case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the President was not bound by the advice of the Council of State, Yaw Oppong stated that, it was however vital that the President is seen to have sought the advice of the Judicial Council on the issue, as stated by the Constitution.

The tribunal, in its ruling, agreed with the argument of Justice Ngwuta that, as a serving Justice of the Supreme Court, he could not be tried in any court or tribunal, except after he had been subjected to the investigatory and disciplinary processes of the National Judicial Council (NJC).

The plaintiffs prayed the court to declare that upon true and proper construction of Article 144 clauses (2) and (3) of the 1992 Constitution, all appointments made by the President of the Republic of Ghana to the Supreme Court were valid on the condition they were made in strict accordance with the advice of the Judicial Council.

Final Appeal is to Her Majesty's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, Magistrate's Court.

The bills could result in the retirement of about 40 percent of sitting supreme court judges and the removal of current judges from the judicial council.

After reading this TalkLeft post about Sarah Palin's one Alaska Supreme Court appointment, I dug into the site of the Alaska Judicial Council and identified Palin's 10 appointments to the state's trial court bench.

House of Representatives: http://www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/index.htm [Available in Spanish] Federal Judicial Weekly: https://sjf.scjn.gob.mx/SJFSist/Paginas/tesis.aspx [Available in Spanish] Supreme Court of Mexico: http://www2.scjn.gob.mx/ConsultaTematica/PaginasPub/TematicaPub.aspx [Available in Spanish] Federal Judicial Council: http://sise.cjf.gob.mx/consultasvp/default.aspx [Available in Spanish] General Unit of Legal Affairs — Secretariat of the Interior: http://www.ordenjuridico.gob.mx [Available in Spanish]

In a letter released today, the Canadian Judicial Council says Supreme Court of Canada Justice Suzanne Côté acted well within her mandate in her previous role as independent counsel at the inquiry into the actions of Manitoba Justice Lori Douglas.

The Canadian Judicial Council has cleared Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Ted Scanlan of all but one of the complaints against him.

Farris made a name for himself as one of the few western Canadians to act for clients at the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Supreme Court of Canada.

This seventh and final installment looks at efforts to change state constitutional grants of rulemaking authority to courts of last resort, typically called the «supreme court», or judicial councils.

The appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords and the devolution jurisdiction of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council transfer over to the new Supreme Court on 1 October 2009.

Judges of the superior courts (Courts of Appeal, Supreme Courts and Courts of Queen's Bench) are governed by the Canadian Judicial Council.

Links to relevant sites: Supreme Court of Canada Federal Court of Canada Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Ad Hoc Committee to Review a Nominee for the Supreme Court of Canada [no website yet] Canadian Judicial Council

The not for profit publisher was established in 1865 and they have 29 law reporters that cover cases decided by the following courts and tribunals: the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom; the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; the Court of Justice of the European Union; the Court of Appeal (Civil and Criminal Divisions); the High Court; the Court of Protection; the Employment Appeal Tribunal; the Upper Tribunal; the Court Martial Appeal Court; and the English ecclesiastical courts.

His report and recommendation to North Yorkshire County Council in a village green case on a tricky point of prescription was upheld by the Supreme Court on judicial review: R (Barkas) v North Yorkshire County Council [2015] AC 195.

Continue reading Efforts to change state constitutions to remove / alter Judicial Council or Supreme Court rulemaking authority — Part 5

The judicial council forwarded to Governor Parnell the names of two potential appointees for the supreme court vacancy created by Justice Morgan Christen's move to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

They include making a complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council, seeking McLachlin's recusal from the Nadon matter before the Supreme Court, and, in the most extreme and unlikely of cases, trying to have a judge removed from office.

Efforts to change state constitutions to remove / alter Judicial Council or Supreme Court rulemaking authority — New Hampshire

Efforts to change state constitutions to remove / alter Judicial Council or Supreme Court rulemaking authority — Pennsylvania

Andrew C. Cook, 2013 Guide to the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Judicial Evaluation, Wisconsin Civil Justice Council, January 2013.

The Supreme Court of Canada's unanimous decision in Pintea endorsed the Canadian Judicial Council's Statement (henceforth «Statement») for dealing with self - represented litigants (SRLs), and implicitly acknowledged the procedural challenges -LSB-...]

The Wisconsin Supreme Court in December adopted a proposal from the state's Judicial Council that makes federal Rule 23 the guiding principle for courts in the state.

If any person being or having been Chief Justice or a Judge of the Supreme Court... of any of the Australasian colonies mentioned in the schedule to this Act,... or of any other Superior Court in Her Majesty's Dominions named in that behalf by Her Majesty in Council, is a member of Her Majesty's Privy Council, he shall be a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

We all know that civil appeals from the Supreme Court of Canada to the Judicial committee of the Privy Council were abolished in 1949.

Also published during this period was the Digest of British Columbia Case Law, a three - volume series of summaries of cases from the Reports, as well as from publications of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom.

The Supreme Court, in London's Parliament Square, is staging an exhibition that tells the story of its sister court, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which at one stage could hear appeals from about a quarter of the world's population.

The landmark decision is The Matamajaw Salmon Club v. Duchaine, since deceased, [1921] UKPC 94, [1921] 2 AC 426, with the opinion delivered by Viscount Haldane for the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, at that time the court of last resort for the Empire, overturning a decision from the Supreme Court of Canada, [1919] S.C.R. 223, on appeal from 27 Que.

Note that the fee is reduced to 20p per page for cases granted leave to appeal at the UK Supreme Court or the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

From 2009 - 2010 he served as one of the first Judicial Assistants at the UK Supreme Court, where he worked for Lord Collins of Mapesbury, with whom he has more recently written The law on international custom in the case law of the UK Supreme Court, published by the Council of Europe.

It shows, with a variety of example drawn from the decisions both of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Supreme Court Canada, spanning most of our constitutional history since Confederation, that our jurisprudence is replete with examples of originalist reasoning of various sorts.

Effective January 1, 2001, and superseding former Supreme Court Rule 8, there is hereby created a regional judicial council in each region.

Each regional judicial council shall, subject to the direction of the chief justice, rule or order of the supreme court:

Today the Idaho Judicial Council announced 15 candidates for the position of Idaho Supreme Court Justice.

Supreme Court of Canada Nova Scotia Court of Appeal Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canadian Judicial Council

The President of the Supreme Court has today announced that advocates appearing before the Court or the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council may, by agreement, dispense with any or all of the elements of traditional court dress.