Sentences with phrase «by legal advisers»

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been criticised for the costs racked up by its legal advisers at Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), by the judge overseeing the court battle over its controversial # 12bn rights issue in 2008.

In advising on settlement, no account has been taken, by the legal adviser, about the risk of future complications which may mean early settlement is not appropriate;

I still shudder when I recall the magistrates who had to be saved by their legal adviser from issuing a warrant before the officer had even finished what he had to say.

If an undertaking relies, in good faith, on — ultimately incorrect — advice provided by its legal adviser, this must have a bearing in cartel proceedings for the imposition of fines.

It is very important to obtain early legal advice about changes in employment arrangements, since some circumstances, on the careful and complete evaluation by a legal adviser, may be considered to comprise constructive dismissal.

The conference will also include a roundtable on the space occupied by the legal adviser between law and politics.

The creation of these divorce centres provided a centralised system where all uncontested petitions can be prepared and made ready for decree nisi consideration by a legal adviser, supervised by a district judge.

Not exact matches

However, The Times reported that Trump has wanted to fire Mueller twice before being dissuaded by his legal team and advisers to take such an action.

Legal experts told Business Insider that the plea deal struck by Michael Flynn, the former White House national security adviser, with the special counsel Robert Mueller was most likely evidence that Flynn has damaging information to offer prosecutors on other persons of interest in the Russia investigation.

The Solicitor is the chief attorney for the United States Department of the Interior, principal legal adviser to the Secretary of the Interior, and is assisted by a Deputy Solicitor, Special Assistant, Ethics Director, Senior Counsel for Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution, six Associate Solicitors, eight Regional Solicitors, and a staff of more than three hundred attorneys and four hundred total employees.

AAP believes that only practitioners who are regulated by the IAA should use the term adviser with an «e» because of its legal implications.

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The White House is examining several options — including issuing a new executive order or continuing its legal battle — for how to proceed on its immigration policy after a setback dealt by the courts last week, top White House adviser Stephen Miller said.

So, it has been a statement by the National legal adviser saying that he wrote a letter to the state leadership that the primary elections of the party ought to be done in accordance with the constitution, and they refused.

He said, «Our legal adviser said NEC relied on powers conferred on it by Section 13.3 of the party's constitution.

Details of the charges were confirmed by Alison Levitt, the principal legal adviser to the director of public prosecutions at the CPS, in a statement read to journalists in central London this morning.

The brazen assertion by one of Trump's lawyers that a president can not be found guilty of obstruction of justice signaled a controversial defense strategy in the wide - ranging Russia probe, as the president's political advisers are increasingly concerned about the legal advice he is receiving.

Another decision taken by the party, according to the Adeyeye was the appointment of Mr. Victor Kwom as legal adviser to the NCC Chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi.

In his letter to the APC NEC sighted by our correspondent on Monday, Banire said he was offering to step down as the party's legal adviser to protest his innocence.

«By resigning from his public position on account of the allegations of bribery against him, Muiz Banire (SAN), a former legal adviser of the All Progressives Congress, has proven to be a man who loves his character more than anything else,» he said.

«I am grateful for the work done by adjudicators, our administrative staff and legal advisers, and for their support.

Especially noteworthy are the Big Bad Wolf's letter from Red Riding Hood's legal advisers, and an illustrated supply catalog requested by the Wicked Witch.

If you are struggling to keep up with credit card, loan or debt consolidation repayments, have arrears or are facing legal action from lenders as a result of being unable to repay your unsecured or secured debts, our debt helpline advisers are standing by waiting to help.

by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Wall Street Journal The Trump administration in May began the process of replacing the small army of outside science advisers at the Environmental Protection Agency.

by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in USA Today President Trump's advisers are debating recommendations on the Paris climate treaty.

The question of jurisdiction will now have to be heard in that foreign member state, which may not deal with issues as swiftly as the English courts and may increase legal costs by requiring parties to instruct an second set of legal advisers abroad and in the translation of court documents and correspondence.

It involves, for example, contracting with guests and customers, suppliers, employees and professional advisers; complying with regulations / laws by central and local government (licensing, health and safety, food standards, consumer protection all spring to mind); also you need to be aware of the hotelier's liability as an occupier and his liability for the property of guests and of many other areas of the law such as race relations, sex equality and potential legal issues arising from the letting of banqueting rooms and the hiring of entertainers, to name just a few.

In fact, contrary to the position taken by the SFO, it continues: «If clients justifiably assert their privilege... they should not in any way be criticised or penalised for doing so, nor regarded as being uncooperative — nor should their legal advisers.»

British American Tobacco (BAT) has retained Slaughter and May as sole legal adviser on a formal investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) over allegations of bribery and corruption, Legal Week understlegal adviser on a formal investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) over allegations of bribery and corruption, Legal Week understLegal Week understands.

Thus practitioners in Scotland, in the cities and in rural areas alike, are able to serve their clients by drawing on a pool of independent lawyers who are both skilled court pleaders and also advisers on a wide range of legal problems both general and specialist.

The rankings are relied upon by corporates when selecting their legal advisers and by law firms and individual lawyers to support their business marketing activities.

He regularly advises major local and international corporate clients on all general legal requirements including corporate structuring and commercial constraints, and is treated as a trusted commercial adviser by many of his close clients.

Clients are now much more sophisticated consumers of legal services — they have responded by demanding discounts and requesting alternative fee structures from their advisers.

These partners, the legal services firms, can use these metrics to become process advisers that offer a holistic approach to cost savings by leveraging the information.

As recently as 2013, Richard Susskind, the British adviser to international law firms, reported that many businesses still sought to reduce their legal costs by up to 50 percent.

Our team of competent, highly experienced legal advisers can help smooth out the creases left by complicated legal issues unique to small businesses.

For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.

The key feature of the DFC is centralised gate - keeping and allocation using a team led by the DFJ and usually consisting of a legal adviser and a district judge.

Most of the in - house legal advisers are jack of all trades by default, the initial role of the in - house legal advisers become very broad by the time, and the rabid business development it is now very difficult to draw a line where your role will end up as a legal adviser.

Volkswagen's Dr Manfred Doss went home as Transatlantic General Counsel of the Year, while Archer Daniels Midland secured the Transatlantic Legal Department of the Year award for a technology - led overhaul that has delivered more than $ 20m in savings and seen its 700 - firm outside adviser panel slashed by 75 %.

This procedure updates and works alongside the well - established «blue - bagging» approach used for hard - copy materials that may be privileged, by which authorities will send seized documents that may be potentially privileged, sealed in an opaque bag, to the custody of an independent legal adviser (usually a barrister) for review.

It submitted that any communication by an employee who is authorised to communicate with a legal adviser for the purpose of their employer seeking legal advice is privileged on the basis that the employee should be treated as if he / she were part or an emanation of the client.

With the economy down, look for legal malpractice suits to increase, says a bulletin by Marsh Inc., a global insurance broker and strategic adviser.

«The obligation to give prior notification would not have been restricted to stories about the sexual behaviour of people in the public eye... It would have been ruthlessly exploited by the well - known and, their PR advisers and their lawyers, to control, by legal action and threats of subjecting the media to enormous legal costs, what was written and broadcast about them.»

It seems strange further still that this person is charged by statute with many important legal responsibilities, including acting as the official legal adviser to the Lieutenant Governor and to the Cabinet.

Under existing doctrine, it is difficult to reach any other conclusion other than that legal advice from a non-lawyer Attorney General is not encompassed by Solicitor - Client Privilege because a non-lawyer Attorney General does not qualify as a «professional legal adviser».

Sixteen firms including Eversheds, Pinsent Masons and Kennedys have won spots on the first panel of advisers assembled by the London Boroughs Legal Alliance (LBLA).

[A] ll communications between a solicitor and his client relating to a transaction in which the solicitor has been instructed for the purpose of obtaining legal advice will be privileged, notwithstanding that they do not contain advice on matters of law or construction, provided that they are directly related to the performance by the solicitor of his professional duty as legal adviser of his client.

In Formica Ltd v. Export Credits Guarantee Department [1995] 1 Lloyd's Rep 692, 699 Colman J framed the issue in the following terms: «The protection by common interest privilege of documents in the hands of someone other than the client must pre-suppose that such third party has a relationship with the client and the transaction in question which, in relation to the advice or other communications, brings that third party within that ambit of confidence which would prevail between the legal adviser and his immediate client....

I am also entirely satisfied that, in the words of Taylor LJ in [Balabel] the two types of ESG High Level Documents [i.e. tabular memoranda informing and updating the ESG on the progress, status and issues arising in the regulatory investigations and; confidential notes / summaries drafted by Clifford Chance concerning the discussions between the ESG and its legal advisers at the ESG meetings] form part of «a continuum of communication and meetings» between Clifford Chance and RBS, the object of which was the giving of legal advice as and when appropriate.