Sentences with phrase «access to his lawyers in»

In December 2014 the Government chose to opt - out of many existing JHA measures, ranging from the creation of the European Public Prosecutor's Office to a Directive on the right of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings, only opting back in to those it considered to be most valuable.

Not exact matches

No matter what kind of resource you might need access to — from a recruiter or lawyer to a wealth manager — chances are your peer network will know who to put you in touch with.

Throughout her time in prison, Manning's lawyers fought to give her access to drugs for gender dysphoria and have the military refer to her by female pronouns.

And Philip Slayton, a former University of Western Ontario dean of law who recently authored Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada's Legal Profession (2007), is critical of the profession's disregard for the inability of the middle class to access the courts.

The firms that do it well give access to the lawyers — with a link to the experience database on their intranets, access to reporting features, even the ability to enter in details about a new matter.

They were moved to a maximum security prison in June, and denied access to their lawyers and family despite appealing numerous times.

Contingent fees do provide many people with access to justice, but sometimes the fee is so large that the lawyer becomes the real party in interest.

ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, addressed a Gilbert + Tobin Lawyers competition policy workshop in Sydney today to outline the Australian approach to infrastructure access regulation, which he described as working well.

Olisa Metuh was arrested by the operatives of EFCC on January 5, in his house in Abuja and has been in custody since then, without access to his family and lawyers or doctors.

Wagner, a Hudson Valley lawyer, says he's also filed 3,225 petition signatures this week with the state Board of Elections in order to achieve ballot access.

The pronouncement of Justice Baba Yusuf followed a complaint by Dasuki's lawyer Mr Adeola Adedipe that the legal team for Dasuki had not been allowed to have direct access to him in spite of a court order made on April 6.

Damning judgement attacks lack of access to lawyers and inclusion of torture victims in controversial programme

The court ordered that ex-NSA must be allowed to access and brief his lawyers at a neutral place instead of the premises of the DSS headquarters in Abuja so as to enable him prepare adequately for his defence in the trial.

The counsel insisted that because of the confidentiality required in such a briefing between a client and his lawyer, the DSS letter could not be acted upon, hence the defence was not ready for trial until it has been afforded opportunity to access Dasuki on a neutral ground for proper briefing.

«In the last one month that I was detained, I was denied access to my personal lawyers, doctors and my family and I want to say that I am committed to the interests of Nigerians even as I posed no threat to the nation's national security,» he said.

While recounting his ordeal in detention, he regretted the crude treatment meted on him as well his denial to have access to his family, lawyers and his personal doctors.

A New Scotland lawyer has gone to court in an effort to halt the review of bids in a $ 500 million program created by the Cuomo Administration to expand broadband access across the state.

Human rights groups claim most have been held in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions in military detention facilities, without access to lawyers or ever having appeared in court.

A New Scotland lawyer has gone to court in an effort to halt the review of bids in a $ 500 million program created by the Cuomo administration to expand broadband access across the state, saying the guidelines that Empire State Development is using to award the competitive bids are «arbitrary and capricious.»

Lawyers for Michael Cohen are asking a federal judge to deny Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, access to case materials in the Southern District...

Several corporations admitted to paying President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen in hopes of gaining access to Trump or his thinking after financial records of the transactions were released by a lawyer representing Stormy Daniels.

The report found that access was denied to City Hall computers, documents sought by the DOI were redacted, and in one instance the DOI received 1,000 pages of documents — of which some 990 were blank because the mayor's lawyers said the DOI was not entitled to the information.

«This is the first access matter that I can recall in my career,» the NBC lawyer, Daniel M. Kummer, told the judge, «in which we came in with absolutely no idea what it is we are seeking access to.»

The Right to Counsel Coalition estimates that half of evictions would be prevented with access to a lawyer — which could make a significant dent in the record 60,000 homeless New Yorkers currently staying in shelters at a cost of nearly $ 2 billion per year.

It is not about restricting people's access to the law school that will churn out quality lawyers in Ghana.

Almost a decade later, a group of lawyers from around the country developed a draft uniform law they encouraged all 50 states to adopt, which would allow people to specify in their wills that the executor of their estate can access their email and social media profiles.

In a statement, Amnesty called on the public to write Iran's top leaders to ask that Djalali be released or «charged with a recognizable criminal offense,» and to ensure that he has access to medical care and to his lawyer.

In a rural state like North Dakota, where schools are often 25 miles or more from a family's home, said the lawyer, Duane Houdek, access to a school bus «is very much access to education, especially when a family has no money» to pay transportation fees.

As a young lawyer defending poor inmates on Alabama's death row, Stevenson uncovers unconscionable flaws in the criminal justice system — racial bias, abuse of power, excessive punishment, denied access to legal counsel — concluding that «the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.»

Walsh said that because her group was also perceived as overly aggressive in its search for data, the council had to hire lawyers in nine states to get institutions to provide access to public documents.

Following a recent post on «Data Secrecy Violating Data Democracy in DC Public Schools (DCPS),» the lawyer (s) from Washington DC sent me an email, including the actual complaint they filed in DC Superior Court to get access to the DC teacher evaluations.

In a big company they should have lawyers or tax accountants or access to such people so that they can do all this correctly.

Public interest lawyers working for legal services and other nonprofit organizations ensure that these interests have access to representation in our legal system.

Jeannotte says, «There is a perception that EAPs are counselling plans, but they do a lot more than that in terms of access to professionals like lawyers, dieticians, financial advisers, and eldercare specialists.

While property management companies have the benefit of in - house lawyers, you as a private landlord might be limited in your ability to access that advice.

United Spay Alliance (USpA), whose purpose is to eliminate pet suffering and homelessness by promoting affordable access to spay / neuter resources in partnership with state referral programs, has hired experienced Washington, DC lawyer Bruce Myers to lead the recently formed nonprofit organization.

When you are in a bad spot while traveling anywhere, you have access to this hotline any time to be connected with someone who can find you the services you need, whether this is a lawyer, medical assistance, or anything else.

Secondly, the other comments were about the front «access» page, which ahd a lot more to do with (A) corporate lawyers and (B) the legal minefield that is internation liquor laws... both which IMHO they addressed upfront in this comment section, and with candor.

His lawyers claimed in the court documents that his emails, mobile phone and WhatsApp messages were hacked and that criminals accessed his computer and phone to send the messages in an attempt to malign him.

Her lawyers in Cabinda are still unable to gain access to the relevant documentation relating to her charges and bail conditions but are actively pursuing this.

Lawyers ability to access Facebook information of a party other than their client in pending litigation.

As reported in a recent article in The Lawyers Weekly, Hadfield has been exploring the relationship between law and technology and how it impacts access to justice.

If those files, documents and other records are stored, either in paper form or electronically, in a way that prevents the Law Society from gaining access to those files, then the rules envision a process by which lawyers who are unable to provide such requested records can be suspended until able to do so.

In order to prove their case for copyright infringement at trial, Gaye's lawyers needed to show that i) Williams and Thicke had access to «Got to Give it Up», and ii) that the two songs were substantially similar.

Lucinda Orr, Chair of the Employed Barristers» Committee said: «Pro bono has a vital role to play in assisting members of the public who can not afford or access the legal advice they often desperately need — the employed bar has many talented lawyers whose skills can now be deployed to help such people, and I am thrilled that the employed bar will now be able to contribute in this critical area.»

This tenet is a variation of Richard Susskind's similar comment in The End of Lawyers — it should be the starting point of every solution to access to justice in this country.

With the Directives on the right to information in criminal proceedings and the right to access to a lawyer successfully passed, the Proposal for a Directive on the strengthening of certain aspects of the presumption of innocence and the right to be present at trial in criminal proceedings marks a new step in the recent efforts of the Commission to create common EU framework of defence rights which minimally need to be respected by the Member States.

It is variously seen as an operating expense, a library service, and access to justice contribution, support of legal studies, a contribution to lawyer competence and professionalism, or as overhead associated with membership in the Federation of Law Societies of Canada.

Clients now wield more power in the relationship with their lawyer, as they have benefited from greater access to information about cost, greater ability to unbundle services and an expanding array of alternative law firms from which to source work.

More recently, Emery Lee [10] published a journal article in the University of Miami Law Review entitled «Law Without Lawyers: Access to Civil Justice and the Cost of Legal Services» [11]