Sentences with phrase «before superior courts»

As a Q.C., Rabinder Singh appeared in some of the most significant public law cases before the superior courts of England and Wales.

Garwill Law offers legal representation before superior courts, tribunals, and boards, for trials, motions, hearings, commissions, inquests and negotiations.

Only qualified lawyers possessing the right to conduct litigation and / or a right of audience before the superior courts of the jurisdiction in which they practice civil and commercial law are currently eligible for accreditation.

Criminal prosecutions can be brought before the superior courts in each province, as well as the Federal Court.

The state's tenure and dismissal rules are also in play before a superior court judge in a lawsuit that has attracted widespread attention.

««In need» recognizes the fact that some litigants, while not destitute or impoverished, are still in need of relief or assistance in order to have their case heard before a superior court.»

A re-election to an indictable charge to proceed by summary election while the charge is before a superior court judge is permissible, but once re-election is complete the matter should be remitted to provincial court for guilty plea and sentencing.

Such fees constituted an unacceptable barrier on access to justice for those who were not «impoverished» yet for whom payment of hearing fees would nonetheless materially hinder their ability to have their case heard before a superior court.

Not exact matches

The Trans Mountain Expansion Project is still before the National Energy Board (NEB)(see the comment by Kirk Lambrecht QC here) and all the while spawning lots of litigation, some in the Federal Court of Appeal and some in the provincial superior courts.

Because of the alleged superior orders from the Vice-President's Office, you, the Solicitor - General and myself were not even consulted before the settlement was entered in Court.

Article 14 (1) Every person shall be entitled to his personal liberty and no person shall be deprived of his personal liberty except in the following cases and in accordance with procedure permitted by law; Article 19 (1) A person charged with a criminal offence shall be given a fair hearing within a reasonable time by a court; Article 19 (11) No person shall be convicted of a criminal offence unless the offence is defined and the penalty for it is prescribed in a written law; Article 19 (12) Clause (11) of this article shall not prevent a Superior Court from punishing a person for contempt of itself notwithstanding that the act or omission constitution the contempt is not defined in a written law and the penalty is not so prescribed; and Article 126 (2) The Superior Courts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitucourt; Article 19 (11) No person shall be convicted of a criminal offence unless the offence is defined and the penalty for it is prescribed in a written law; Article 19 (12) Clause (11) of this article shall not prevent a Superior Court from punishing a person for contempt of itself notwithstanding that the act or omission constitution the contempt is not defined in a written law and the penalty is not so prescribed; and Article 126 (2) The Superior Courts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constituCourt from punishing a person for contempt of itself notwithstanding that the act or omission constitution the contempt is not defined in a written law and the penalty is not so prescribed; and Article 126 (2) The Superior Courts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitCourts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitcourts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitucourt of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitution.

However, in cases where a failure to give proper disclosure has made a fair trial impossible, or prevented the court from doing justice, or in instances of a flagrant abuse of process, a superior court will exercise its inherent jurisdiction — its power to control its own procedure so as to prevent it from being used to achieve injustice — to strike out the case before or during a trial (see for example Raja v Van Hoogstraten and others [2006] EWHC 1315 (Ch) and CPR 3.4 (5)-RRB-.

Lawrence G. Theall practices commercial litigation, insurance and product liability (including class proceedings), and has appeared before all levels of the Ontario and Federal courts, as well as the superior courts of Manitoba and Alberta.

However, in general, they will look to cases considered by the same court and superior courts, before examining cases in other jurisdictions - this applies between different states, as well as between different countries.

Relatively recently in my career as a litigant I discovered that with a single link — http://www.canlii.org/en/bc/#search/jId=bc&sort=decisionDate&id=Budgell — I can access on CANLII most of the formal results of my appearances before one tribunal and in B.C.'s two superior courts.

The Government believes Canadians» confidence in superior courts will be solidified if the judiciary more closely mirrors the reality and experience of those who appear before it.

Her practice is of an advisory, regulatory litigious nature and has included judicial review, actions for damages before UK courts, the superior courts of Ireland, specialized tribunals, the European Court of Justice and General Court in cases concerning a wide range internal market issues, ranging from public procurement to goods and services, energy, agriculture competition and social and employment law.

Her practice is of an advisory, regulatory litigious nature and has included judicial review, actions for damages before UK courts, the superior courts of Ireland, specialized tribunals, the European Court of Justice and General Court in cases concerning a wide range -LSB-...]

As mentioned in Auto Equity Sales v. Superior Court before the California Supreme Court and as brought in the Wikipedia article on precedent: «under the doctrine of stare decisis, all tribunals exercising inferior jurisdiction are required to follow decisions of courts exercising superior jurisdiction.»

We add our voices to those of others who have called on the federal Minister of Justice to make it a priority to fill the vacancies in Alberta superior courts and to provide a proper complement of judges in Alberta, before matters get any worse.

In England, Marc Beaumont offers barrister services in advocacy and dispute resolution in the High Court, the County Courts and superior Appellate Courts, (the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court and the Privy Council), before professional disciplinary tribunals and in Arbitration and Mediation.

Before trial, the driver argued that evidence of his blood alcohol content (BAC) should be suppressed because his lack of privacy to freely communicate with his attorney resulted in a violation of his rule based right to counsel under CrR 3.1 of the criminal rules for superior court in Washington State.

Mr. Painter is known in the Los Angeles legal community for his superior courtroom advocacy skills and is admitted to practice before all federal and state courts within California.

The Charter, as the lawyer representing B.C. pointed out yesterday, does not protect any civil procedure rights, and section 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867, as he also pointed out, has so far only been read to protect the jurisdiction of, not to apply to the procedure before, superior courts.

Indeed, even the respondent, as well as some of the other provinces, conceded that at some hypothetical level, hearing fees would be so high as to prevent superior courts from having any litigants before them, thus infringing this core jurisdiction, although they argued that the fee regime at issue was not problematic in this way.

These large BC firms have signed on to provide affordable legal services to self - representing commercial litigants, but also to provide valuable trial advocacy experience to their junior lawyers — many of whom must otherwise wait several years before running their own superior court trial.

Before this change, online traffic schools were approved by and communicated directly with the different county superior courts.

State laws establish several steps a spouse must complete before a California superior court may grant an annulment.

At the time you file the documents with the court clerk, you will receive your hearing date, which is the date that you and the other parent will appear before a California superior court judge to discuss the custody request.

Under the civil regime of the Competition Act, certain practices may be brought for review before the Competition Tribunal, the Federal Court or the superior court of a provCourt or the superior court of a provcourt of a province.