Sentences with phrase «by public interest lawyers»

It took litigation to go as far as the European Court of Human Rights; an extremely brave and conscientious senior legal adviser to the Army, Lieut Colonel Nicholas Mercer; a judicial enquiry under Lord Justice Gibson; and very dedicated work by a team of lawyers led by Public Interest Lawyers in Birmingham.

The DC Bar Foundation offers a forgiveness program to increase the number of experienced, skilled lawyers working for low - income individuals, while providing assistance to the education debt held by public interest lawyers.

Not exact matches

clearly the Gay Gestapo is working overtime... they pulled out because they do nt want to be bullied in the court of public opinion and abused by the Gestapo lawyers... I personally have no respect for, sympathy for or interest in the Gay issues..

The Lawyers in an official letter addressed to members of the 5 - member ad - hoc committee tasked to investigate the alleged scandal, said: «we have been instructed by our client to convey to you, which we hereby do, his desire to appear before your committee to be heard on the above allegation and to provide evidence that would assist your Committee to reach a fair and true conclusion on this substantially important matter of public interest.»

CCT v Saraki is a matter of undisputed public concern and interest, and comments by Falana and other senior lawyers amount to honest criticism on a matter of public importance.

Grayling was criticised by lawyers on his own benches however, including former attorney general Dominic Grieve and former solicitor general Edward Garnier, the latter of whom told the justice secretary the public interest clause was «moderately nonsensical».

In his opening remarks, Paladino's lawyer Dennis Vacco said Paladino was protecting the public's interest by publicly disclosing secret information from the School Board's closed - door meeting about contract talks with the teacher's union.

In a statement, a coalition of good government groups and civic groups including Reinvent Albany, the Sunlight Foundation, and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest praised the website, which they said could save taxpayers $ 12 million a year in reduced FOIL processing fees when fully implemented by all city agencies.

The letter, first reported by the New York Observer, was co-signed by eight groups, including the Legal Aid Society, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Bronx Defenders.

In 2007, the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, acting on behalf of the Bronx Committee for Toxic Free Schools, a coalition of parents, neighborhood residents and community organizations, successfully sued the School Construction Authority and the Department of Education for violating the Public Authorities Law and the State Environmental Quality Review Act by not disclosing a Site Management Plan.

LRAP Minnesota helps reduce the education debt burden experienced by dedicated public interest lawyers who represent low income clients seeking legal services to secure essential needs like food, shelter and safety, and fundamental rights like equal access to justice.

«Public health professionals need to be aware that the «sound science» movement is not an indigenous effort from within the profession to improve the quality of scientific discourse, but reflects sophisticated public relations campaigns controlled by industry executives and lawyers whose aim is to manipulate the standards of scientific proof to serve the corporate interests of their clients.&Public health professionals need to be aware that the «sound science» movement is not an indigenous effort from within the profession to improve the quality of scientific discourse, but reflects sophisticated public relations campaigns controlled by industry executives and lawyers whose aim is to manipulate the standards of scientific proof to serve the corporate interests of their clients.&public relations campaigns controlled by industry executives and lawyers whose aim is to manipulate the standards of scientific proof to serve the corporate interests of their clients.»

Claiming he was motivated by a desire to share knowledge with «interested members of the bar and public» after being so «struck by the evidence» on display during the trial, the lawyer said he thought that «it would be helpful for individuals not in court to see and thereby gain a better understanding of the evidence.»

«OTLA believes that the profession's core values, and the public interest, can only be protected by ensuring that lawyers maintain control over the delivery of legal services.

But as you also allude to — it is also in the combined interests of the public and the profession not to have lawyers governed by «government.»

The overall argument made by the press lawyer - which convinced the judge and the court - is that if the third client's name is given to the court as sealed information, it should be public, according to the 1st Amendment and in the public interest.

Its 1994 Role Statement recognized the obligation to govern the profession in the public interest to ensure that the people of Ontario are served by lawyers who meet high standards of learning and competence.

«As lawyers in Ontario, we need to be concerned with what is legal work,» he says, and whether the public interest is being served by who is performing it.

While I have a less favourable view of ABS etc. than Mr. Mercer (though it seems to be working out okay in England, with the Clementi report that got the ball rolling produced by a non-lawyer), I do appreciate his focus on the disjunction (actual or potential) between lawyers» and paralegals» interests, and the public's interests.

But because lawyers and some other professions such as medicine and engineering can drive demand for our services, it is necessary that such professionals be regulated by profession - specific bodies mandated to act in the public interest.

In 1997, he was named Outstanding Dean of the Year by the National Association of Public Interest Lawyers.

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The lawyers, assisted by the public interest organization Public Citizen, allege that the new rules violate the First Amendment and impose vague and unfair restrictions on how lawyers can communicate with conspublic interest organization Public Citizen, allege that the new rules violate the First Amendment and impose vague and unfair restrictions on how lawyers can communicate with consPublic Citizen, allege that the new rules violate the First Amendment and impose vague and unfair restrictions on how lawyers can communicate with consumers.

I would have thought that the ban on referral fees is also motivated by a desire to ensure that legal services are offered honestly and without conflict of interest and that the public has a full choice of lawyers (or licensees) to choose from, since lawyers are not «buying» their clients from those who refer them.

An interesting article, PR - savvy stars navigate the courtroom, from the Christian Science Monitor, talks about the role of public relations in celebrity trials, and the ability of celebrities to influence trials by hiring elite teams of lawyers and jury consultants.

A decision by the Supreme Court of Canada reflects a trend toward expanding the circumstances where tribunals will grant public interest standing to people who don't have a direct private interest in the matter, according to a Toronto lawyer.

So as the public interest in the race starts to climb, lawyers may find themselves asked (in particular by friends and family who fall into that middle - of - the - political - spectrum undecided group that determines the outcome of every election) to shed some light on the issues of the day.

Our CPD Requirement is a flexible and convenient method to ensure lawyers meet both their professional duty of competence and the Society's public interest mandate, by implementing a regulatory program to ensure the ongoing competence and professionalism of lawyers in Nova Scotia.

The CPD Requirement is a flexible and convenient method to ensure lawyers meet both their professional duty of competence in the delivery of legal services and the Society's public interest mandate, by implementing a regulatory program to ensure the ongoing competence and professionalism of lawyers in Nova Scotia.

Norm Pattis of Crime & Federalism takes this position that a family that «has neither the funds for a lawyer nor the charm to seduce a public interest group» should not be barred from the courthouse door by a rule prohibiting non-lawyer parents from representing their own children in these types of cases.

Phil Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers has been celebrated by fellow lawyers and, for his contribution in exposing serious human rights abuses that would otherwise been hidden, rightly so — but he also became a hate figure, the Mail ran a front page story claiming Shiner had «caused anger and revulsion&Lawyers has been celebrated by fellow lawyers and, for his contribution in exposing serious human rights abuses that would otherwise been hidden, rightly so — but he also became a hate figure, the Mail ran a front page story claiming Shiner had «caused anger and revulsion&lawyers and, for his contribution in exposing serious human rights abuses that would otherwise been hidden, rightly so — but he also became a hate figure, the Mail ran a front page story claiming Shiner had «caused anger and revulsion».

The opponents raise many valid concerns that warrant further exploration, most significantly the risk to the public interest if a lawyer's duty to the client and her ethical obligations could be comprised by... [more]

Public Interest Lawyers (PIL), whose legal aid contracts were pulled by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) on 2 August, is likely to close its offices at the end of

The Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (OTLA), in its response to the LSUC discussion paper, argued that there is «no identified need for law firms to offer non-legal services» and that «the public interest can only be protected by ensuring that lawyers maintain control over the delivery of legal services.Lawyers Association (OTLA), in its response to the LSUC discussion paper, argued that there is «no identified need for law firms to offer non-legal services» and that «the public interest can only be protected by ensuring that lawyers maintain control over the delivery of legal services.lawyers maintain control over the delivery of legal services.»

The entity / proactive compliance based regulation work now being undertaken in NS, Ontario, the Prairies and BC by the law societies will move us much closer to truly being able to advance the public interest in overseeing what lawyers and their firms actually do and how they do it.

Others among the several blogs honored here are Above the Law as Best New Law Blog, Overlawyered for Best Blawg Theme, Likelihood of Confusion for Best Law Blog Name, Antitrust Review and PHOSITA sharing the award for Best Group Blog, TalkLeft for Best Politicio Blog by Lawyers, Althouse for Best Personal Blog by a legally oriented female blogger, SHLEP: the Self - Help Law ExPress for Best Law Blog in the Public Interest, Online Guide to Mediation for Best Law Blog by a legal mediator, and Denise Howell as Blawg Diva for her blogging at Bag and Baggage, Between Lawyers and Lawgarithms.

Lawyers, in my opinion, are more afraid of the law socities than they are served by them (and I know the socities govern in the public interest).

In response, lawyers for Bent state that there were no errors made by Dunphy in finding that the email comments were in the public interest.

The cuts to refugee health care are also being challenged by two public interest groups who bring additional expertise and resources to the fight: Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care, a group of doctors who treat refugees across the country, and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, a national organization of lawyers and academics who are concerned with refugee law and Lawyers, a national organization of lawyers and academics who are concerned with refugee law and lawyers and academics who are concerned with refugee law and policy.

Whether you are an investment company seeking help responding to the ever - changing regulations, a financial institution recently contacted by the SEC or FINRA, a public or private company interested in growth through acquisitions, or an organization concerned about protecting its intellectual property or contract rights, Stradley Ronon lawyers bring both legal ability and business acumen to bear in addressing the challenges you face.

A recent conference titled «Canada 2020: The future of public interest law» featured a keynote speech by prominent immigration lawyer and human rights advocate Barbara Jackman.

The award recognizes the trial lawyer or lawyers who have made the greatest contribution to the public interest each year by trying or settling a precedent - setting case or group of cases.

Interventions in Charter litigation and public interest litigation brought by lawyers and legal advocacy organizations play a role, not only in the courts in which the matters take place, but also within the public discourse surrounding the Charter and human rights issues raised.

On March 23, 2016, Open Media Engagement Network (OpenMedia) filed an Intervenor Submission by Tamir Israel, a staff lawyer with the Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic and Christopher Parsons, a post-doctoral fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

With the great majority of the public (including many individual lawyers) effectively unable to access the justice system because of cost and other barriers, and many lawyers seemingly undisturbed by that fact on a day - to - day basis, it's difficult to support an argument that we are operationally dedicated to the public interest.

In at least one high profile case, lawyers refused a fee to send «a signal to the public that they were motivated by racial loyalty rather than self - interest.»

wouldn't tell the public that the problem is not the Law Society's problem, as in effect it does; (15) LSUC's website wouldn't state that lay benchers «represent the public interest,» which is impossible now that we are well beyond the 19th century; (16) CanLII's services would be upgraded in kind and volume to be a true support service, able to have a substantial impact upon the problem, and several other developed support services, all provided at cost, would together, provide a complete solution; (17) LSUC's management would not be part - time management by amateurs - amateurs because benchers don't have the expertise to solve the problem, nor are they trying to get it, nor are they joining with Canada's other law societies to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authorities.

The capacity of agencies offering services pro bono could be significantly increased by bringing on board competent non lawyers, who I suggest (speaking from personal experience) might be especially interested in and committed to public interest issues.

The decision to overturn the limitation was the result of several years of work by the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association (ACLA) and the Public Interest Law Clearing House.

The Privacy Commissioner's investigation was prompted by a complaint filed against Facebook by the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC); the work of student interns and lawyers based at the University of Ottawa.