Sentences with phrase «as a duty counsel»

«Given that the class is now confirmed to be predominately female, [LAO] has to do a gender - neutral job evaluation... to make sure that the predominantly female lawyers working as duty counsel at LAO are not being underpaid relative to their male comparators,» Barrett says.

Just as the same standards of practice apply to all doctors, the same standards apply to all legal aid - funded lawyers, whether they're retained on a certificate or acting as duty counsel.

Sidney Linden was acting as duty counsel that day.

But it is very difficult for someone as a duty counsel lawyer to provide the kind of one - on - one engaged service that a private lawyer can do for someone.

Linden told Judge Bolsby that he was appearing as duty counsel.

The Committee concluded by acknowledging its considerable debt to those lawyers who had acted as duty counsel, «often at great personal sacrifice,» and observing that «the ends of justice are not well served when those counsel are subjected to unnecessary embarrassment and unwarranted criticism.»

Ben has dedicated his career to the problems of homelessness and low - income housing, articling with Ontario's Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, serving as duty counsel at the Landlord and Tenant Board, and practicing as a staff lawyer in four other community legal clinics between Hamilton and downtown Toronto.

He articled at HALCO, and after being called to the bar in 2002, he worked in legal aid clinics and as a duty counsel before being named HALCO's executive director in 2007.

After recently spending the day with Andrea in her role as duty counsel to self - represented litigants, one undergraduate student rated the experience a «10», and explained, «Andrea was very busy and yet periodically checked on me to see if I was confused or overwhelmed.

Members of the Law Society of BC may serve as duty counsel.

However, the Crown argued the appeal lacked merit and that Rafferty could receive assistance from the lawyers who appear as duty counsel and assist with inmate appeals.

Jasmine volunteered as Duty Counsel (civil litigation) at the Toronto courthouse for Pro Bono Law Ontario for years.

(a) legal services or summary advice provided as a duty counsel under the Legal Aid Services Act, 1998 or through any other duty counsel or other advisory program operated by a not - for - profit organization;

(4) Every lawyer who is not an employee of the Corporation who acts as duty counsel shall be paid by the Corporation a fee for the services rendered, determined in accordance with the regulations.

(3) An area director appointed under subsection 22 (3) may establish, in accordance with the regulations, a panel of lawyers who agree to provide professional services as duty counsel on a contract basis.

20 (1) The Corporation may employ lawyers to act as duty counsel on a full or part - time basis or may enter into contracts for the regular or occasional services of lawyers as duty counsel.

Small Claims Court Duty Counsel Project RBC lawyers partner with the law firms of Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP and McMillan to serve as duty counsel at the small claims court.

As duty counsel, RBC lawyers assist eligible individuals in a range of ways, from providing advice and assessing the merits of their cases to advocating at brief appearances in small claims actions.

Not exact matches

The Committee shall have the authority, in its sole discretion, to retain and obtain the advice and assistance of outside legal counsel and such other advisors as it deems necessary to fulfill its duties and responsibilities under this Charter.

To those that are against a minister receiving a return, are the pastors supposed to do all the «duties» such as visiting the sick, counseling, discipleship, etc. full time, plus work full time and have a family and just suck it up and run themselves in to the ground?

It should be noted that the funds in question, paid to then candidate - Thomas» personal account, were legal and justified, and made on the advice of counsel, as compensation for his own campaign duties.

The commission shall make such expenditures as may be necessary in exercising its authority and powers and carrying out its duties and responsibilities, including expenditures for personal services, general counsel or access to counsel, and rent at the seat of government and elsewhere; for books of reference, periodicals, furniture, equipment, and supplies; and for printing and binding.

The insurance company will pay for your counsel, but the lawyer has a duty to you as the client — not to the insurance company.

As a brief overview, the Management and Board have embarked upon a failed merger that garnered virtually no support from its shareholders, and was opposed by ISS, and continued on that path until the date of the special shareholders meeting and scheduled vote, spending lavishly in a failed effort to close it; attempted to implement substantial new options to itself, a plan opposed by ISS and the shareholders, which was withdrawn; continually paid itself outrageous sums of the shareholders money over the past three years; rejected highly qualified outside board members with deep, broad healthcare company experience supported by its shareholders; held many Board and Committee meetings with nothing to show for it; formed a new Strategic Transactions Committee that is highly paid but that has produced no deals for the shareholders to consider or for any outside valuation experts to formally review; spent lavishly on accountants, auditors and counsel; failed to successfully hire any outside professional negotiators and finally extinguish or remove the outstanding lease obligations; distributed no cash to the shareholders despite holding excess amounts; formed no special purpose entity to hold any royalty and milestone rights and payments for the benefit of its shareholders; and thus generally failed in its fiduciary duties to shareholders.

David serves as General Counsel to the Company, where his duties include oversight of the Company's legal and regulato...

In response to counsel's argument that a duty to give reasons could be justified on various grounds such as the public interest, transparency, public confidence and accountability, and proportionality, Lord Justice Judge did, however, observe that such principles «lack definition and are hard to tie down».

The consequence to our justice system will be increased delays and expenditures as judges, crowns and duty counsel struggle to provide fair trials in complex cases where the stakes are high to self - represented individuals.

Rankin says the withdrawal of duty counsel has resulted in further delays in processing court cases, as now 25 to 30 per cent of individuals today are self - represented.

Ms. Pooler's practice focuses on shareholder fiduciary duty and securities litigation in courts throughout the country, as well as counseling public company boards, board committees, and senior management with respect to a broad range of corporate governance and business matters.

Med Mining v Nusantara: acted as sole counsel in a substantial Commercial Court trial (against leading counsel for both other parties) relating to the activities of a mining company in the Far East, involving contractual claims and alleged fraudulent breaches of fiduciary duty.

Med Mining and Minerals Limited v Nusantara (2015): acted as sole counsel in a substantial Commercial Court trial (against leading counsel for both other parties) relating to the activities of a mining company in the Far East, involving contractual claims and alleged fraudulent breaches of fiduciary duty.

The Third Circuit in In re Bevill Bresler & Schulman Asset Management Corp., developed a five - part test (the Bevill test) to examine the merits of such an assertion by an individual employee against company counsel.50 Under this test, employees must show that (1) they approached corporate counsel for the purpose of seeking legal advice; (2) they made it clear that they were seeking advice in their individual capacity; (3) counsel sought to communicate with the employee in this individual capacity, mindful of the conflicts with its representation of the company; (4) the communications were confidential; and (5) the communications did not concern the employee's official duties or the general affairs of the company.51 The Bevill test has been recognised by other jurisdictions as a means of assessing whether a company employee may assert attorney — client privilege in an individual capacity arising out of communications with corporate counsel.52 (See also Chapter 13 on employee rights.)

Med Mining and Minerals Limited v Nusantara: acted as sole counsel in a substantial Commercial Court trial (against leading counsel for both other parties) relating to the activities of a mining company in the Far East, involving claims for breach of directors» duties under Indonesian law.

CCH Conflicts of Interest Webinar on Professional Duties and Best Practices for In - House Counsel: A discussion of key case law and provincial law societies» rules on conflicts of interests, as well as special challenges and best practices for in - house counsel, co-presented by Lisa C. Fong and Kate Parisotto of Ng Ariss Fong and Madeleine Ménard of NAV Canada on November 21Counsel: A discussion of key case law and provincial law societies» rules on conflicts of interests, as well as special challenges and best practices for in - house counsel, co-presented by Lisa C. Fong and Kate Parisotto of Ng Ariss Fong and Madeleine Ménard of NAV Canada on November 21counsel, co-presented by Lisa C. Fong and Kate Parisotto of Ng Ariss Fong and Madeleine Ménard of NAV Canada on November 21, 2013.

The ethical and professional rules, and the solemn duty of defence counsel are not negotiable; nor is Mr. Clark's reputation as counsel who puts his client's interests above all else.

During his 21 - year legal career, Mr. Goldberg has litigated hundreds of cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States involving claims of retaliation, discrimination, wrongful termination, fraud, defamation, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract, as well as commercial contract disputes, civil RICO, ERISA, trade secrets and restrictive covenants, corporate governance disputes, minority shareholder disputes, partnership disputes, Madoff counseling and defense, advancement and indemnification proceedings, whistleblower actions (SOX and CEPA), executive compensation counseling, litigation, and arbitration, international litigation and arbitration, antitrust litigation and arbitration, products liability litigation, environmental and toxic tort litigation, and securities fraud.

Duty counsel in British Columbia will take collective job action against the B.C. government starting in January and completely withdraw services after April from a system described by B.C. Trial Lawyers Association's legal aid committee co-chairman Phil Rankin as suffering from «atrophication that has been happening slowly like dementia» from continuous funding cuts.

What helps I've served as family court duty counsel, and I've assisted in the local Family Law Information Centre.

Outside counsel must refrain from influencing possible witnesses (a principle seen as a professional duty under Article 12 (a) of the Free Movement of Lawyers Act) and are therefore in general not authorised to conduct formal interviews of witnesses.

As with workers» compensation liens (G.L. c. 152, § 15) and Medicare liens 42 C.F.R. § 411.37, which provide a specific statutory framework for sharing attorney's fees, medical lien holders consistently recognized the equitable duty to share the burden of counsel fees.

The duty to preserve evidence can start as soon as counsel becomes aware of an issue, but the consequences of failing to preserve increase with litigation.

Sometimes, there may be a couple more, but you certainly are getting a level of service that duty counsel, try as they might, aren't able to provide.

The counsel was my colleague Mark Power who appeared for Marie - Claire Paulin and the New Brunswick Acadian Society, in a case about whether the RCMP, as a federal institution, was responsible for discharging the province's duty, under s. 20 (2) of the Charter, to offer all government services in both official languages.

The specific question I was researching was when an attorney is retained to make a special appearance in place of counsel of record when counsel of record is unavailable for some reason, does the specially appearing attorney owe all the same duties to the client as he would if he were counsel of record?

«As legal leaders in Canada, we are duty - bound not only to advocate for greater inclusion, but also to act to generate the positive impact we want to see in our businesses and communities,» said Desjardins, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, corporate social responsibility chairman, with Bombardier.

We even handle the more complex cases that most smaller and solo firms won't handle, such as breach of fiduciary duty, wrongful death, complex real estate disputes, mergers and acquisitions, asset sales agreements, and general counsel services.

It it occurs to me that this vision of advocacy — the lawyer as champion, resolutely engaged in battle within the confines of an obscure chivalric code — is perhaps incompatible with the broader duties owed by counsel in the context of family law disputes.

The lawyers will accompany litigants as they fill in forms, consult with duty counsel, and speak in court.

As I read the statement of claim, he alleges that this in turn has been construed by Department counsel to mean that, with respect to a statutory provision, «no advice is given to the Minister that he or she... has a duty to report to the House...» so long aAs I read the statement of claim, he alleges that this in turn has been construed by Department counsel to mean that, with respect to a statutory provision, «no advice is given to the Minister that he or she... has a duty to report to the House...» so long asas:

The Managing Attorney will supervise and mentor attorneys, paralegals and other staff and volunteers; handle administrative duties; and handle cases as sole counsel or co-counsel for low - income individuals and families in a wide variety of poverty law areas including family law, housing, public benefits, and consumer issues.