Sentences with phrase «by junior counsel»

Legal aid files are not neccessarily simple files that can be handled by junior counsel.

Not exact matches

At Garfield — the site of a 2013 testing boycott led by teachers that gained national attention — student - government leaders visited classrooms to explain that the test was not required for graduation for juniors, and that students could fill out a refusal form at the school counseling office at any time.

His recent cases include defending the former President and majority shareholder of VAB Bank against charges of contempt of court (sole counsel); acting for Mercuria Energy Trading in its successful defence of a US$ 270 million claim by Citibank in one of the biggest High Court banking trials of 2014, acting for the Claimant in an on - going US$ 830 million fraud claim in the Commercial Court (Russian banking sector), a US$ 800 million joint venture dispute in the BVI and acting as junior counsel to the Claimants in Hulley & ors v.

The majority of in - house lawyers have reservations about Deutsche Bank's plan to stop paying panel law firms for work carried out by junior lawyers, but believe the move is likely to start a trend, according to a new Legal Week survey of corporate counsel.

One good sign would be when said general counsel recommends «hiring a junior lawyer to «oversee» litigation,» writes The Wired GC in response to this post by blawgger Patrick Lamb.

R. (on the application of T) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester [2015] A.C. 49 (Supreme Court): Junior counsel for the Equality and Human Rights Commission in the Supreme Court in case concerning disclosure of personal information by police.

Dixons Retail Limited and another v. MasterCard Incorporated and ors [2015] EWHC 3673 (Ch): Acting as junior counsel for the Claimant in High Court strike out proceedings brought by MasterCard Incorporated and ors, raising issues, inter alia, of private international law.

Costa Rica v. Nicaragua (Certain Activities Carried Out By Nicaragua in the Border Area)(Reparation Phase): instructed as junior counsel to Costa Rica in claim for reparation before International Court of Justice arising from, inter alia, environmental harm caused by breach of international obligations by NicaraguBy Nicaragua in the Border Area)(Reparation Phase): instructed as junior counsel to Costa Rica in claim for reparation before International Court of Justice arising from, inter alia, environmental harm caused by breach of international obligations by Nicaraguby breach of international obligations by Nicaraguby Nicaragua.

AMEC v The Secretary of State for Transport (Instructed by the Treasury): Rachel acted as Junior Counsel for the Secretary of State for Transport in multi-million pound heavy contractual dispute.

John appeared for the same lender as junior counsel in a case in the High Court in which it proved that a guarantee and sundry personal loans were enforceable notwithstanding the guarantor / borrower's allegation that her consent to enter into them had been procured by undue influence.

Rather, the lawyer should be involved in a junior or supporting role in the case or, if acting as senior counsel, should ensure that there is supportive expertise provided by someone with the knowledge and competence the lawyer acts.

He is mainly instructed by the Crown and was appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown (A Panel) in March 2010.

Jessica was instructed by the Government as junior counsel in Othman (Abu Qatada) v United Kingdom (2012) 55 EHRR 1, before the European Court of Human Rights and in the subsequent domestic proceedings before SIAC, the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

Junior criminal counsel, in particular, have been hard hit by cuts to legal aid fees.

I accepted the first (in accordance with the Bar rules) and found myself engaged in my first long - running construction arbitration as junior to a leading senior counsel instructed by Allens.

LMAA Arbitration No. 2 — bare boat charter / hire purchase / entitlement to proceeds of hull insurance on total loss - acted as Junior Counsel for owners in resisting claims by demise charterers to a share in the proceeds of insurance following total loss of a bitumen carrier and in resisting an application to appeal under s. 69 of the 1996 Act.

Jonathan is ranked by the legal directories as a leading practitioner in public law, local government law, education law and environmental law, and until he took silk in 2017, Jonathan was a long - standing member of both the Attorney General's and the Welsh Government's A panels of junior counsel, representing government bodies on some of their most important and difficult cases.

Nikolaus Grubeck, was instructed by Debevoise and Plimpton as junior counsel in the proceedings for a coalition of intervenors (Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Rights Watch UK).

Jonathan is one of the leading juniors in this field at the Bar, listed by Chambers & Partners in the top tier of counsel for community care law every year since that directory's creation of a listing in this field.

Recent instructions include: • Acting as Junior Counsel to Roddy Dunlop QC in a seven figure claim relating to failure by solicitors to obtain a standard security in relation to loan funds advanced by a commercial lender • Acting as Junior Counsel to Alistair Clark QC (as he then was) on behalf of the pursuers, a major commercial lender, in pursuing seven figure negligence claims against solicitors and surveyors relating to their advance of loan funds for the purchase of commercial property • Acting as Junior Counsel to Heriot Currie QC for one of the defenders (a firm of architects) in a seven figure multi-party claim relating to construction and design defects at a major shopping centre • Acting as Junior Counsel to Alastair Duncan QC for one of the defenders in a claim against both solicitors and counsel relating to alleged negligence by family lawyers relating to the preparation of a settlement agreement • Acting as sole counsel for the pursuer in a claim against solicitors for allowing the time bar of her clinical negligence action against a healtCounsel to Roddy Dunlop QC in a seven figure claim relating to failure by solicitors to obtain a standard security in relation to loan funds advanced by a commercial lender • Acting as Junior Counsel to Alistair Clark QC (as he then was) on behalf of the pursuers, a major commercial lender, in pursuing seven figure negligence claims against solicitors and surveyors relating to their advance of loan funds for the purchase of commercial property • Acting as Junior Counsel to Heriot Currie QC for one of the defenders (a firm of architects) in a seven figure multi-party claim relating to construction and design defects at a major shopping centre • Acting as Junior Counsel to Alastair Duncan QC for one of the defenders in a claim against both solicitors and counsel relating to alleged negligence by family lawyers relating to the preparation of a settlement agreement • Acting as sole counsel for the pursuer in a claim against solicitors for allowing the time bar of her clinical negligence action against a healtCounsel to Alistair Clark QC (as he then was) on behalf of the pursuers, a major commercial lender, in pursuing seven figure negligence claims against solicitors and surveyors relating to their advance of loan funds for the purchase of commercial property • Acting as Junior Counsel to Heriot Currie QC for one of the defenders (a firm of architects) in a seven figure multi-party claim relating to construction and design defects at a major shopping centre • Acting as Junior Counsel to Alastair Duncan QC for one of the defenders in a claim against both solicitors and counsel relating to alleged negligence by family lawyers relating to the preparation of a settlement agreement • Acting as sole counsel for the pursuer in a claim against solicitors for allowing the time bar of her clinical negligence action against a healtCounsel to Heriot Currie QC for one of the defenders (a firm of architects) in a seven figure multi-party claim relating to construction and design defects at a major shopping centre • Acting as Junior Counsel to Alastair Duncan QC for one of the defenders in a claim against both solicitors and counsel relating to alleged negligence by family lawyers relating to the preparation of a settlement agreement • Acting as sole counsel for the pursuer in a claim against solicitors for allowing the time bar of her clinical negligence action against a healtCounsel to Alastair Duncan QC for one of the defenders in a claim against both solicitors and counsel relating to alleged negligence by family lawyers relating to the preparation of a settlement agreement • Acting as sole counsel for the pursuer in a claim against solicitors for allowing the time bar of her clinical negligence action against a healtcounsel relating to alleged negligence by family lawyers relating to the preparation of a settlement agreement • Acting as sole counsel for the pursuer in a claim against solicitors for allowing the time bar of her clinical negligence action against a healtcounsel for the pursuer in a claim against solicitors for allowing the time bar of her clinical negligence action against a health board

Christopher is a member of the Attorney General's Panel of Counsel and is ranked as a leading junior in Administrative & Public Law and in Data Protection by both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.

Neil was first appointed by the Attorney General as junior counsel to the crown in 2002, and has been on the A Panel since 2010.

My decision to study marriage counseling and family therapy was influenced by a class I took my junior year in college, «Intimate Relationships».