Sentences with phrase «about judicial decisions»

The government has yet to name a replacement for Nadon J. With respect, it would be far more profitable for it and the Canadian legal system to go about naming a new judge rather than anonymously sniping about judicial decisions that displease it.

Provides information about judicial decisions, legislative changes, regulatory rulings, and the economic landscape affecting companies doing business or seeking to do business in South Carolina.

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Alschuler points out that the «bad man» whose perspective was decisive for Holmes does not really care about predicting judicial decisions as much as he cares about what the law enforcement agencies will do if he tries to get away with a crime.

The importance of the second and third issues is obvious for decisions about a written constitution, which later was interpreted as involving judicial review of acts of Congress, and for a federal union of states having partial autonomy under a national government.

American judicial decisions and public conversations about religious freedom, however, tend to focus on individuals» rights, beliefs, consciences, and practices.

Read the OSA's decision: https://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/AD2410The-London-Oratory-Hammersmith-Fulham-28August13.docx Read the BHA's previous press release on the OSA decision: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/08/29/schools-adjudicator-london-oratory-school-must-overhaul-admissions-criteria-after-bha-complaint/ Read the BHA's press release on the threat of judicial review: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/11/05/london-oratory-school-challenges-schools-adjudicators-decision-must-rewrite-admissions-policy/ Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools View the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

You see, the New Jersey branch of Americans for Prosperity recently launched a judicial elections initiative, promoted via a press release that also touted the website «NJDisrobed.com» as a source for «information about decisions and implications on the electorate.»

The charge against him read in part, «That you, Robert Obuoha, on or about the 12th day of February, 2016 in Port Harcourt at the Port Harcourt Judicial Division did corruptly give N150, 000 only to Mr. Ishaq Salihu, a public officer and Zonal Head of Operations, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, South - South Zone, for the purpose of recharge cards and with a view to influencing his decision in a case wherein you are being investigated and thereby committed an offence, official corruption, contrary to Section 13 (1)(a) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2003 and punishable under section 13 (1) of the same Act.»

The decision by U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of Washington came in a lawsuit over public records brought by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal watchdog group, regarding its May 2013 request for information about the employment arrangement of Huma Abedin, a longtime Clinton aide.

Asked about the Wandering Dago case and whether the importance of emails can be assessed in 90 days, he said: «There are any number of situations that have arisen in which a record, or for that matter, a judicial decision might appear to be less than significant but would take on additional significance with the passage of time or the occurrence of events.

The judge said the decision about whether to hold a judicial review should be heard in open court, after privately considering the merits of the application.

So, for example, instead of just utilizing money to arm police officers in schools, we also are allowing individual school communities to make decisions about putting more mental health for students, to provide advocacy in the support system and not just move kids out of school or automatically engage them in the judicial system that we know can happen too often.

To make a decision about whether or not to disclose a crime or violation and participate in the judicial or conduct process and / or criminal justice process free from pressure by the School;

To add to the public's frustration, Gov. Inslee has chosen to appeal the judicial decision in the youth's favor, after he made public statements that he was happy about it.

Two years ago, I wrote a post titled, In Litigation and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, in which I discussed three products — Lex Machina, Ravel Law and ALM Judicial Perspectives — that were extracting data from court dockets and applying analytics to reveal insights about judges, such as how they might rule on a specific type of motion or how long they might take to issue a decision.

Other key points to note about the new format include the fact that using it will make file sizes larger, and that hyperlinking to webpages or judicial decisions will not be possible «because the file must be self - contained.»

This article, while not about opinion writing, does venture into the minds of lay and judicial decision - makers.

Thank you to each of you who used the judicial evaluations of the Chicago Council of Lawyers to make informed decisions about judicial elections.

We lawyers, academics and law - students write about judges and their decisions often, so it is encouraging to learn that a judge has read and given some thought to our perspectives on the law and the proper judicial function.

But the sensitive issue of using intelligence as evidence in court has not only caused severe judicial headache in Luxembourg: On 21 March, the UK Supreme Court took the highly controversial decision and went into secret session for the first time ever to hear sensitive intelligence about Bank Mellat of Iran.

In recent years, there has been growing judicial emphasis on hearing and exploring the «voice» and «wishes and feelings» of the child when making decisions about their welfare.

Judge Your Judges, a project of public radio station WNYC in New York that will focus on enabling voters to make more knowledgeable decisions about New York judicial elections.

We still teach you the underlying principles of law and make you read judicial decisions about the application of these principles to various to legal problems — and we still don't give you the opportunity to apply those principles yourselves.

I review all administrative and judicial decisions relating to trademarks in Japan and write about interesting decisions and topics relating to trademarks in my blog post every week.

In turn, that data should be used to make decisions about the composition of the judicial nominating commission.

In a recent decision, Justice Stratas of the Federal Court of Appeal raised a host of questions about the applicability of the Supreme Court of Canada's re-shaping of judicial review doctrine to decisions taken by discretionary decision - makers: [19] I am inclined to find that the Director is subject to this «normal» or -LSB-...] Read more

While Williams maintained judicial protocol in not discussing her legal decisions in public interviews during her time on the bench, she also avoided the public spotlight regarding speculation about a seat on the high court.

They do not work for the judges of the court, they can not make legal decisions about your case, and they do not have the authority of a judicial officer.

We hear and read long soliloquies from the courts about mutual respect, deference to each other's decisions and judicial comity.

While a tribunal's substantive decision - making under its home statute may survive a judicial review merely by being reasonable, a tribunal must still be correct about questions of general law, and must still reach decisions on a foundation of procedural fairness; legislatures do not authorize tribunals to decide matters through unjust processes (Dunsmuir at 128 - 129).

What is unusual about the case described above is that the applicant brought judicial review proceedings, challenging the police decision to disclose information about her son.

In the news you often read about differing philosophies of judicial interpretation, especially when important cases are decided (like several recent US Supreme Court decisions).

The Alberta Court of Queen's Bench recently granted Suncor Energy Inc.'s application for judicial review and quashed an arbitration award about Suncor's decision to institute a random drug and alcohol testing policy for certain employees.

We've barely scratched the surface in terms of statistical and theoretical techniques which can uncover new insights about litigation and judicial decision making.

Evans and Robinson declined to answer questions about how the judicial nominating process may change, saying the new members of the JNC will soon have an organizational meeting to make decisions and plan procedures.

The decision throws into sharp relief questions about the effectiveness of judicial review in criminal causes or matters where PII is claimed.

The case involves private rights of value, and constitutional principles of the highest importance about which there had [p455] become such a difference of opinion, that the peace and harmony of the country required the settlement of them by judicial decision.

The majority held that decisions about professional discipline are akin to prosecutorial discretion, such that errors «must likely approach an abuse of process to invite judicial intervention» (at para 47).

Deference is about the way in which a court treats an administrative decision, primarily on judicial review but also in other contexts, where the legitimacy of the decision is in question.

The long title explains the result in Conseil des montagnais de Natashquan c. Malec, 2012 CF 1392, a case about alleged discrimination against Aboriginal educators.An initial decision unfavourable to the applicant was made, but quashed on judicial review.

Nothing Dunsmuir says about the rule of law suggests that constitutional compliance dictates how many standards of review are required; the only requirement is that «there be judicial review in order to ensure, in particular, that decision - makers do not exercise authority they do not have» (emphasis in original).

The puzzle of a representative judiciary is that many want a diverse bench because more varied experience will enhance judicial decision - making, and yet many worry about a representative judiciary precisely because it may mean judges will decide based on their identity or community affiliation rather than based on the facts and law before them.

While there are reasons to be concerned about consistency and fairness at both the leave stage and the merits stage of judicial review, inconsistency at the leave stage affects far more applicants, and the decision - making process at the leave stage lacks even the modest accountability and transparency found at the merits stage.

In telling students this, I think I inevitably left the (mistaken) impression, by inference, that one did not need to worry about noting up Supreme Court of Canada cases after 1949 for judicial history (i.e., to see if the case was reversed on appeal)(but I am consistent in telling students that one should always noteup all Supreme Court of Canada decisions from any period of time for judicial and academic commentary and to find «like» cases, which would have, in the situation that follows, have caught the mistake in any event).

The court relied on the leading statement about the availability of Rule 39.03 examinations in the context of judicial review applications in the Ontario Court of Appeal's decision in Payne v. Ontario (Human Rights Commission), 2000 CanLII 5731:

Plus, just be talking about here, commenting on its significance, are we not partaking in this whole affair of public recognition of such judicial decisions?

HELD While decisions of a Home Secretary under the scheme are susceptible to judicial review, intervention by the courts should be highly guarded and limited to cases where there is an issue about the reach and meaning of a policy where a minister, in his application and / or interpretation of it, strays outside the reasonable range of meaning, or where there is ambiguity.

In a (somewhat) recent post commenting on Justice Brown's appointment to the Supreme Court, Paul Daly wrote about «an interesting paradox» in the world of judicial review of decisions by the «political branches» of government: «[t] hose [who] would defer to Parliament would not defer to the executive.»

I want to come back to the issue of judicial review — both of legislation and of administrative decisions — and deference, about which I wrote earlier this week.