Sentences with phrase «bill in a reasonable time»

To pay off a high bill in a reasonable time - frame, usually a consumer will be required to pay more than only the minimum payment.

Not exact matches

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

I honestly don't know why time and energy are being spent offering and debating such a bill, other than (a) to make Thom Tillis and the other GOP backers look good and reasonable without real consequence for doing so, and (b) to maybe lock in the GOP to setting up such a select committee / reappointing Mueller before it becomes necessary to do so.

While the Assembly appears perfectly content to return to the Capitol tomorrow at a reasonable time to pass the revenue bill that becomes live at 12:01 a.m. tonight (or, technically speaking, this morning), the Senate — as usual — is completely up in the air as to what it will do.

And considering that the ongoing «Special» session looks like it may go on for quite some time, it is safe to say that in terms of enacting labor oriented bills to help working families in New York State, the legislature and Governor have fallen well short of reasonable expectations.

Specifically, POGO's study shows that the federal government approves service contract billing rates — deemed fair and reasonable — that pay contractors 1.83 times more than the government pays federal employees in total compensation, and more than 2 times the total compensation paid in the private sector for comparable services.

I like this idea a lot, unless the annoying bill is too large to pay off in a reasonable time frame... too frustrating then.

A reasonable person might assume that the bill would be processed and delivered shortly after the statement date in order to give enough time to make a payment within that period and before the due date.

Jackson LJ has said that the court should first make an assessment of reasonable costs, having regard to the individual items in the bill, the time reasonably spent on those items and the other relevant factors and then sit back and consider whether the total figure is proportionate, making an appropriate direction if it is not so.

HAMALENGWA — Findings of Professional Misconduct — While representing a difficult client who was charged with first degree murder, the Lawyer was eligible to bill the Ministry of the Attorney General for fees and disbursements pursuant to a Fisher order — The Lawyer's accounting, billing and docketing systems were deplorable and bore no relationship to his billings to the Ministry — The Lawyer engaged in professional misconduct by billing the Ministry for attendances at court when he had not attended or attended for less time than he claimed; overbilling for legal research; billing for services that were not properly billable as legal services; overbilling for student assistance disbursements he had not incurred; overbilling for fees and disbursements that were not fair and reasonable; and submitting a document to the Ministry purporting to be an invoice from a student working under his direction when the invoice was not prepared by the student and the services were not rendered as described in the document.

Good lawyers spend time listening to their clients this is «quality» time, reasonable amounts of which should appear in a legal bill.

This is the fourth time that the Quebec government (under different leadership) has tried to pass a bill to clarify the religious neutrality of the state and set guidelines for the granting of reasonable accommodation in the public and broader public sector.

While we can handle data in almost any form (even bills handwritten on note cards) or establish a reasonable fee based on benchmarks without time records of any kind, we also have the state of the art electronic tools to scan, convert («OCR»), and analyze bills quickly and accurately.

For an article that criticizes using the Laffey Matrix in the class action context versus the actual billing rates of attorneys in the relevant community, see W.B. Rubenstein, Reasonable Rates: Time To Reload The (Laffey) Matrix, CLASS ACTION ATTORNEY FEE DIGEST 47 - 51 (Feb. 2008).

Although clients complain about high legal bills, the law firm that makes a large capital investment in efficiency has a very difficult time capturing a reasonable portion of the value created.