Sentences with phrase «by the lawyer acting»

The boy's family claim that Liverpool told the boy's father last September not to disclose the tapping - up or inducements when interviewed by a lawyer acting on behalf of the Premier League.

Twitter has been served with a privacy injunction by lawyers acting for a Premiership footballer, it is being reported.

It was a judicial review, worked by lawyers acting pro bono, which ended the policy.

In speaking about a shoplifting civil recovery letter that had been sent by a lawyer acting for a retailer to the parent of a teenager, Justice Jewers stated in a 1996 Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench decision (B. (D.C.) v. Arkin (1996), 138 D.L.R. (4th) 309):

A will - say was prepared by the lawyer acting on the immigration case for the complainant.

In respect of the order for the production of documents, we were subsequently contacted by lawyers acting on behalf of the London company, who wished to scale down the quantity of documentation requested.

Douglas's lawyer Sheila Block has asked the Federal Court to quash the inquiry, arguing questioning by the lawyer acting for the committee members, George Macintosh, was too aggressive and showed bias against Douglas.

Not exact matches

That conflict eventually led to the jailing and death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and in turn to the Magnitsky Act sanctions against certain Russian oligarchs by the U.S.

For example, in «A Short History of the Income Tax,» John Steele Gordon points out that the U.S. income tax act of 1913 was only 14 pages long; by 1942, it had blossomed to 208 pages with over three - quarters of them «devoted to closing or defining loopholes» that tax lawyers and accountants were using to «game the system.»

By requiring retirement advisers to either meet a «fiduciary» standard or put other safeguards into place, the rule holds financial advisers to the same benchmark already required of doctors and lawyers — that they act in their clients» best interests.

CrowdBouncer, a Buffalo, N.Y. - based company that launched in October 2012, was started by a lawyer who read the JOBS Act, and preemptively anticipated the regulatory pain points the new legislation would create for both entrepreneurs and investors.

On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

Browder said that to protect the vast amounts of money, some of which he said was in American banks, Putin launched a campaign to repeal the Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law that imposed sanctions on Russian officials whom the U.S. held responsible for the 2009 death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian jail after being retained by Browder to investigate corruption.

President Donald Trump's former New York doctor says Trump's lawyer and private head of security «raided» his office and took the medical files relating to Trump, an act described by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as «standard operating procedure.»

The eight - page letter written by Trump's lawyer, Joanna Hendon, accuses the Justice Department of acting in «an aggressive, intrusive, and unorthodox manner» in an attempt to «eliminate the president's right to a full assertion of every privilege argument available to him.»

The Sufis who insisted on the observation of both the external and internal acts of worship read into the external teachings of Islam meanings undreamed of by canon lawyers.

His lawyer Robert Richter told Wallington in his final submissions two weeks ago that the complainants might have testified against one of the church's most powerful men to punish him for failing to act against abuse by clerics.

It seems like they could save a lot of money (particularly the early round picks) by going the Lamar Jackson route of having your mom act as admin and getting a lawyer to look over any contract you sign, but I don't see a need for an agent until the player is a FA.

His lawyers are expected to argue that Anas, after petitioning the president to remove him from the bench because of the acts complained about on the video, violated the constitutional provisions by proceeding to make the evidence public.

* A declaration that the detention of the applicant by EFCC on January 5, 2016 at an unknown location, without access to his lawyers, family and doctors, constitutes a flagrant violation of the applicant's fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutional.

Over the weekend, de Blasio campaign lawyer Laurence Laufer, sent a seven - page letter to Sugarman and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who is investigating the issues raised in the letter, calling the leak of the memo a «highly prejudicial and perhaps politically - motivated act,» according to a copy of the letter obtained by DNAinfo.

De Blasio campaign lawyer Laurence Laufer sent a seven - page letter to Sugarman and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who is investigating the issues raised in the letter, calling the leak a «highly prejudicial and perhaps politically - motivated act,» according to a copy obtained by DNAinfo New York.

Thomson - currently suspended by the Scottish nationalists over property deals which saw the lawyer who acted on her behalf struck off - represents an embarrassment which Sturgeon can bear.

Dissenting justice campaigners, legal aid lawyers and those who've witnessed the rot setting in (from swingeing legal aid cuts, curbs to judicial review, an interpreting service in freefall, probation chaos and threats to withdraw Britain from the Human Rights Act) will be highlighting the urgent need to halt the destruction of our justice system and abide by the principles of the medieval charter.

To critics of that decision, these emails, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, reveal an administration intent on seeking negative information to doom the renewal of TPS for nearly 60,000 Haitians.»

Defense lawyers had argued those donations had to be tied to specific acts by Menendez to be considered bribes.

My lawyers are drafting a petition for me and hopefully by Monday I am going to petition the AG and I hope the Attorney General will act with speed.

Constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, has accused the Department of State Services (DSS) of acting above the law by refusing to release former Benue State governor, Gabriel Suswam, weeks after he was arrested.

The former minister first came under investigation in 2013 after a human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), wrote a petition against her for allegedly approving the purchase of two BMW vehicles worth N225m by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority in breach of the Public Procurement Act.

But in a response dated July 18, 2016 signed by Tony Lithur, lawyer for President Mahama and addressed to the Acting Commissioner of CHRAJ, the President said he is innocent of the allegations.

Constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, has accused the Department of State Services (DSS) of acting above the law by refusing to release former Benue State governor,...

The LPPC is a committee created and empowered by the Legal Practitioners Act (Cap L11 LFN 2004) to award the rank of SAN to deserving lawyers.

But in December 2005, The Washington Post reported, «Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo,» uncovered by the newspaper.

The newspaper also reported that Mr Brown's lawyers were tricked into handing over details by a conman working for the Sunday Times, that someone acting for the same newspaper posed as Mr Brown to gain details of his bank account and that Mr Brown and his wife, Sarah, were mentioned in paperwork seized from Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the heart of the phone - hacking row.

It's bad enough that some of our senators are acting out of petty vengeance and self - interested power struggles, but today the Post reveals that Senator John Sampson, the Democratic caucus leader who is a foe of the schools bill supported by the mayor, is actually working as a trial lawyer in a lawsuit against Joel Klein.

According to the lawyers led by Samuel Cudjoe, the investigation body's move to refreeze the bank accounts of Mr.Opuni after an order of the court for its release is a disrespect of the courts and contrary to section 40 of the EOCO act.

The lawyer, who spoke with journalists on the premises of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja on Friday, described as untrue the claim by the acting Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, that the whistle - blower had been paid.

His lawyers argued that co-operating amounted to an «act of recognition» by the UK of Northern Cyprus.

The plan to call Pickhardt — to make the case that Venditto acted under his lawyer's advice — led prosecutors to request correspondence from Oyster Bay that the town previously claimed was protected by attorney - client privilege.

The supporting affidavit to the suit deposed to by one of her lawyers, Sammie Somiari, stated, «The investigation into the operations of her pet project, when she was First Lady, is an unprecedented act of animosity against her as none of her projects was funded by the government at any level.

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.

But, after being addressed by lawyers on the effect of the Human Rights Act, Mr Justice Sweeney decided there was no requirement for Pryce to prove that Huhne had coerced her.

«COR's attempt in June 2016 to negotiate a check purportedly issued by the defendant, dated December 28, 2015, was knowingly and legally a vacant, illegal and ineffective act, purporting to demand payment for a non-existent debt,» the lawyers wrote.

Specter, a lawyer by training, cautioned that proponents should not count on the courts to come to their rescue: «The vicissitudes of the legal battle are very very uncertain,» he said, so «Congress had better get busy, had better act on this subject so we do not await court action.»

He then enrolled in Chicago's Northwestern University, where he briefly considered pursuing his family's traditional profession and becoming a lawyer, but by that time, the acting bug had bitten him deeply and he was committed to it.

Beginning, intriguingly, in 1949 with a young Castro (Victor Huggo Martin) as a clean - shaven lawyer incensed by certain acts of vandalism perpetrated by the American Navy in Havana, the film promises to draw an interesting connection to Gandhi's legal background and, most fascinatingly, the starkly different ways these two revolutionary leaders conduct their rebellions (and to what eventual purposes).

Change consistently comes with a price, however, and soon there's a grisly murder, a suicide, an illicit pregnancy, an alleged UFO abduction, and a troubling speech by slick lawyer Freddy Riedenschneider (Tony Shalhoub) that applies the scientific theory of uncertainty (i.e., the act of observing an object changes the nature of that object) to issues of juris prudence.

«Our movie is really about a working leader who must make tough decisions and get things done in the face of overwhelming opposition... [The film begins with] Lincoln's realization that the Emancipation Proclamation, the thing he is most known for, was simply a war powers act that would easily be struck down by any number of lawyers after the cessation of hostilities after the Civil War.

Atom Egoyan's (Exotica, Ararat) vision of the aftermath of a tragedy is vividly portrayed and realistically acted, with a standout performance by Ian Holm as the flawed lawyer.

Under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, P.L. 94 - 142, students must remain in a placement made by school officials until all due - process procedures have been exhausted, David Berman, a lawyer for the Burlington, Mass.,...