Not exact matches
Members of the state Commission on Legislative,
Judicial and Executive Compensation today are set to meet in New York City to determine whether to increase the
pay for 213 members of the state Legislature, hiking their salaries from the base $ 79,500 to
as much
as $ 116,900 a year.
The stories of judges becoming very wealthy on bribes
paid by litigants in election petitions and other high profile cases have become more pervasive and in matters of the sanctity of the
judicial process, appearances are at least
as important
as the substance.
As for whether the budget would be late, Cuomo suggested lawmakers would not be deserved a
pay raise — to be decided by a
pay commission with a mix of executive,
judicial and legislative appointees — if a spending plan is not approved in a timely fashion.
Buhari said this while addressing a delegation of the justices of the Supreme Court and the Appeal Court
as well
as heads of other
judicial organs who
paid him a courtesy visit at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
A week after New Yorkers go to the polls on Nov. 8, the state Commission on Legislative,
Judicial, & Executive Compensation faces its deadline to recommend potential
pay increases for state lawmakers
as well
as senior members of the executive branch.
A former Leesburg animal control officer who shot and killed a poodle owned by an 11 - year - old disabled boy was charged Thursday with animal cruelty.Doug Berwick, 33, shot the 8 - year - old poodle June 19 with a.22 - caliber rifle after he was unable to catch it.Police Chief Jim Brown suspended Berwick for five days without
pay and recommended he be transferred to another department, but Berwick resigned
as public protest grew.Bruce Haldeman, investigator supervisor for the 5th
Judicial Circuit state attorney's office, said Thursday that Berwick, if convicted, would face a maximum penalty of up to one year in the county jail, a $ 5,000 fine or both.
If you think that the Legal Services Commission has let you down, the Presidency of the Social Security and Child Support Appeal Tribunals is up for grabs from next April at # 129,900 per annum so long
as you have had
judicial experience in a salaried or fee
paid capacity.
But the raise may come with an added cost of its own: a ban on
judicial junkets (ABC.com, 2/4/08), i.e., those all - expense
paid trips and lavish gifts funded by special interest groups, and disguised
as seemingly benign «fact - finding missions» or educational seminars.
In reaching the conclusion that Frontline was bound to
pay a penalty, the Court dismissed Frontline's invitation to modify the language of Article 18 and to imply a
judicial discretion
as to whether a penalty should be ordered on the facts of each particular case and / or the amount of any such penalty.
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge has
paid tribute to
judicial independence
as scandal embroils press, politicians and police
In a
judicial review, the Federal Court of Canada disagreed, setting out the following regime for dismissals under the Code: An employer can dismiss an employee without cause so long
as it gives notice or severance
pay.
A libel case, like all lawsuits, involves the government's
judicial branch using its coercive power to make you
pay money
as a result of your speech, based on a law requiring you to
pay money for certain kinds of speech.
Judge Posner also made another important point: that
judicial salaries are not
as low
as they might appear, given that judges have the ability to earn additional
pay and also receive generous benefits, both financial and non-pecuniary:
This has not been introduced previously
as the ECJ case of Marshall v Southampton and South - West Hampshire Area Health Authority [1986] EUECJ C - 152 / 84 suggested that to
pay anything less than full compensation for losses sustained to victims of discrimination could be open to
judicial review.
The disparity between judges» salaries and those of their private sector colleagues is frequently invoked
as justification for
judicial pay raises.
Mummery LJ points out that the real purpose of the discretion in s 2 (3) is to deal with «mixed claims» where equal
pay is one of several issues before the court and splitting it off would be in the interests of
judicial efficiency; it is not really addressed to issues such
as those in these cases.
In a concise Decision [2] delivered on 21st November, a Labour Court held that the new
judicial fees are contrary to EU law and, consequently, the Labour Court could decline to declare procedures brought by citizens who have not
paid the fees
as inadmissible.
Eric Turkewitz of New York Personal Injury Blog views the recent increases
as a wake - up call for increasing
judicial pay, noting that at $ 160,000 a year plus bonus, first - year associate salaries surpass those of federal judges (who make $ 162,500 annually).
Regulation 17 of the PTWR, entitled «Holders of
judicial offices», provides that the regulations do not apply «to any individual in his capacity
as the holder of a
judicial office if he is remunerated on a daily fee -
paid basis».
There is more of a move towards the Internet because you do have a little bit more freedom of choice, people do have — when it comes to television, they find they don't need 700 channels, they just need a handful of channels that they watch all the time and that they are willing to
pay a monthly price for that, it's most of the time less than cable, and I think that's an interesting other notion that traditional services with the
judicial pricing is fading out in favor of, and I think that that was another piece that Mary Meeker brought up, is the idea of the subscription that subscription services on the Internet are also kind of all the rage being able to subscribe to things that you receive on a regular basis, Office 365, Acrobat, they are all on subscription services, a very model of how we purchase these things is changing
as well, and that's all due to the Internet.
In part
as a result of this conduct, the Michigan Supreme Court both removed Judge McCree from
judicial office and prospectively suspended him without
pay for six years if voters should reelect Judge McCree in November 2014.
We can expect similar
pay deals to come under the
judicial microscope
as a result.»
However, reg 17 excluded any individual in his capacity
as the holder of a
judicial office if he was remunerated on a daily fee -
paid basis.
As Jeremy Waldron observed in «The Core of the Case against
Judicial Review», constitutional adjudication under an entrenched text is liable to
pay more attention to the text than to fundamental principle.
On March 22, 2018, the Federal Court of Appeal (Court) published its decision in The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, Operating
as Access Copyright v Canada, 2018 FCA 58, dismissing Access Copyright's application for
judicial review of a decision by the Copyright Board (Board) certifying the royalties that provincial and territorial governments must
pay Access Copyright for the reproduction of copyright - protected works.
It was accepted that the orders had implemented the first defendant lord chancellor's prior policy decision (the decision) that the principle of «full cost recovery» in setting court fees (the principle) should be applied to public law family proceedings; that the rationale for the decision had been a wish to fix fees at a level which reflected the true cost to the courts services and to replace the then extant model which involved heavy subsidisation; and that s 92 of the Courts Act 2003 (CA 2003) was relevant insofar
as it empowered the lord chancellor to prescribe court fees by order, and that it set out obligations to «consult» specified
judicial persons, the Civil Justice Council in civil proceedings, and «persons likely to have to
pay [fees]», prior to the making of any orders.
Or,
as somebody said at a lecture I heard recently, the KEY problem with the legal systems in developing problems is
judicial salaries: that is, judges aren't
paid enough to limit,
as much
as practical, the need to take bribes to survive.
Buxton LJ agreed,
as did Sir Igor Judge, after
paying tribute to counsel in the court below, that the application to the judge was «entirely justified» and referred to the judge's conduct of the hearing itself
as evidence that he «had become too personally involved in the decision he was being asked to make to guarantee the necessary
judicial objectivity required in the trustee proceedings».
If you would like some additional information on traffic ticket basics, including common topics such
as «how to
pay a traffic ticket», «how to ask for a Trial By Written Declaration», «traffic school», or other general or frequently asked questions, you can find them in the Traffic Self Help portion of the
Judicial Council's website at: http://www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp-traffic.htm.
Massachusetts Supreme
Judicial Court has recently upheld the long standing exclusion the standard automobile insurance policy has that excludes optional coverage when a vehicle being used
as «livery or public convenience» In addition, the Massachusetts Department of Insurance has also recently approved another endorsement being used by auto insurers in the state, that further addresses car - sharing, saying in part «We will not
pay any claim for injury or property damage under the policy while your auto is being used in a personal vehicle sharing program....»
(1) A
Judicial Registrar shall be
paid such remuneration
as is determined by the Remuneration Tribunal.