Sentences with phrase «as a defence lawyer»

But as defence lawyer Michael Moon points out in our story, unless they uncover information that may negatively impact a client, there is no reason for defence lawyers to challenge these sweeping orders.

I started my career acting for personal injury clients back in the 1990s, and for the last 12 years, I have worked as a defence lawyer for insurance companies.

Can a criminal court judge who spent her entire career before being appointed to the bench as a defence lawyer or crown be reasonably expected to understand the intricacies of family support orders?

Joseph Neuberger was retained as the defence lawyer as well as Mariya Protsenko.

Mr Karteris began his career as a defence lawyer for a large Old Montreal law firm.

Joseph Neuberger was retained as his defence lawyer.

Throughout his lengthy career as a defence lawyer, Justice Clifford served as counsel in many high profile and complex criminal cases; since 1997, he served as counsel in over 18 major homicide cases in the Ottawa area.

Joseph Neuberger and Christopher Assie were retained as their defence lawyers.

Basically, that document shows how much ICBC is paying various companies or individuals such as their defence lawyers each year.

«Defending by Pointing Elsewhere» is something we all want to do as defence lawyers — to show that it could have been the «other» person who committed the crime, and not our client.

Not the grudging professional courtesy won by years of battling through countless trials as a defence lawyer but rather an instantaneous, freely - given deference extended to me as an agent of Her Majesty.

«I can tell you I did numerous trials on impaired driving cases, first as a defence lawyer and then prosecuting cases,» MacKay said Thursday, recalling his time working as a lawyer in Nova Scotia.

As always, we seek to highlight the work and achievements of female defence lawyers and offer advice and ideas on how to succeed as defence lawyers.

There was a flurry of activity on Twitter over that weekend as defence lawyers, including myself, decried the changes that Bill C - 75 proposes.

I take it, then, that there is little sympathy here for the thesis that Lamer CJ managed to use his position and the Charter to insert into Canadian law the arguments that had failed for him as a defence lawyer in private practice (or as a law reformer)?

Hon. Justice Nakatsuru has considerable experience, both in the private sector and in government, in criminal and public law as a defence lawyer, regulatory prosecutor, and constitutional / human rights lawyer.

The second and last day of the Competition Tribunal appeal hearing between The Commissioner of Competition and The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) wrapped up expeditiously Tuesday morning, as defence lawyer William Sasso made his closing remarks in a final attempt to induce the panel to overturn the previous tribunal's ruling.

Not exact matches

In a 34 - page defence filed in the Federal Court in Melbourne on Monday, lawyers for Coles rejected key claims by the ACCC, which launched legal action in May, alleging that Coles used unfair tactics and misleading information to force about 200 suppliers to pay additional and ongoing rebates to participate in the program known as Active Retail Collaboration.

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.

On his part, another defence lawyer in the case, Chief Akin Olujinmi (SAN), described as «irritating» the oversight excuse given by the agency as the reason for the failure to produce the ex-NSA in court on Tuesday.

I have experience as a pensions lawyer, in social security, foreign affairs, defence, I've served as a health minister, and have sat on a number of committees as well as negotiating in Brussels which meant I was working across government.

Anna Soubry, a combative former lawyer, was promoted to defence minister, with Claire Perry going to transport as parliamentary under secretary.

The defence lawyer further submitted that his client has a good defence to the charge as he did not commit any offences whatsoever, and is prepared to stand trial and offer his defences to the allegations, which he strongly believes are politically motivated.

As lawyers, we can work with NATO and national ministries of defence to develop new legal frameworks to tackle these issues,» explains Dr Bachmann.

AS OJ SIMPSON's defence lawyers in California tried to cast doubt on the prosecution's DNA evidence last month, government officials in Washington DC were launching a test which they hope will improve the reliability of genetic profiling.

The 45 - year - old actor stars as real - life defence lawyer Charlie Jaffey - who represented poker game organiser Molly Bloom in court - in the directorial debut of Sorkin and Elba said the filmmaker was «very pragmatic» when it came to letting the cast put their own ideas and lines into the film.

Lawyers can frequently pose completely inconsistent arguments as part of a defence — scientists can not.

He has denied me a decent legal defence in Kenya as I can no longer afford to even eat or sustain rent let alone hire and pay another lawyer!

As VFM was touted «coming soon to a courthouse near you» defence lawyers began to squirm.

The extent of the problem has grown so overwhelming that I predict, only half - jokingly, the defence lawyer of the future will not sub specialize as a «drinking and driving» or «homicide» lawyer but rather as a lawyer for all clients whose last names begin with the letter «Q».

Nevertheless, the fact that a person, below the low income cut - off, has his or her income largely consumed by those basic necessities obviously means that they do not have sufficient income to allow for extraordinary expenses, such as the fees necessary to retain a criminal defence lawyer to provide representation in a criminal jury trial.

For 40 years, starting in 1966, Ken was a criminal lawyer in Ontario and British Columbia, Canada, serving both as a Crown prosecutor and defence counsel.

Access to Justice for all, in particular those who are economically weak, is at the core of this project, as is the defence of the lawyers who seek to provide it.

Maybe I asked the wrong sort of lawyer as he, while being an accomplished practitioner in his field, is a knockabout criminal defence hack with little need for theory and sophisticated legal strategies.

She has been named in the Hot 100 2017, as a leading individual in Who's Who Legal: Investigations 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and in Business Crime Defence 2018 and in 40 under 40 published by Global Investigations Review listing the world's leading investigations lawyers.

If the accused was legally aided, or without funds to pay further fees, the defence lawyer would just have to give up another evening or two doing the unpaid work preparing the application for permission to call the real culprit as a witness.

As an aside, all of the extra work demanded of the defence lawyer in R. v. Murphy (see paragraphs 10 and 11 of the appeal decision, for example), likely would not have been services covered by Legal Aid Ontario.

As a civil liberties lawyer, I find the Crown's defence of this application troubling on two points.

I was working as a general in - house lawyer in the marine engineering, engineering and defence sectors.

Our UK Investigations and Criminal Litigation lawyers advise on all aspects of criminal and regulatory investigations, working across jurisdictions on white - collar crime matters such as fraud, insider dealing, market abuse, bribery and corruption, cartel defence, and corporate investigations.

As well, our insurance lawyers carry on a very vigorous liability defence practice, together with strong casualty, life and disability defence practises.

Judges and Crowns too have plenty of opportunities to make legal aid work financially non-viable for defence lawyers — as in this case — again with taxpayers probably unaware.

The important thing here is that if you have an old IRP review decision, it may be worth appealing it now bearing in mind that the law has changed and is still changing to recognize the defences that lawyers such as ourselves identified over two years ago.

Defence lawyers have also complained of important procedural rights for their clients being bypassed to save time, such as the Crown seeking what are known as «preferred indictments» to send an accused straight to trial without first having a preliminary hearing.

Our Oshawa criminal defence lawyers represent clients charged with anything from minor weapons offences to the most severe firearms offences such as:

In a candid and conversational Q&A, UQ students had the chance to put to Dean burning questions about the hit documentary and gain insight into his life as a criminal defence lawyer.

This tactic is often used by ICBC defence lawyers as a result of ICBC's Low Velocity Impact (LVI) policy.

If you have been charged with any of these offences, it is important to speak to an experienced criminal defence lawyer as soon as possible.

Defence lawyers, as well as the Supreme Court minority, took issue with this, as the onus to bring an accused to trial in a reasonable time has always been on the Crown.

The current cooperation pursuant to the Council Framework Decision 13th June 2002, following my observations as a practitioner in both jurisdictions, drew my attention to the necessity for a mutual cooperation, not only between the Member States» authorities, but inter alia, the lawyers from both countries as the ways of defending the requested persons are completely different; this will see the result meeting at one point, namely the successful defence.