Sentences with phrase «cab rank»

The Chief Coroner, Judge Mark Lucraft QC has taken the unprecedented step of backing a judicial review against his colleague's decision to apply a «cab rank rule» to burials.

Assuming (for argument's sake) the cab rank rule applies in Canada, a strict application says that EG was obliged to take the gamblers» case provided they met his fee.

The «cab rank» approach ignores religious concerns for early burial — Jewish and Islamic beliefs require the deceased to be buried on the same day as death or as soon as possible thereafter.

It's called the cab rank rule.

I think it is safe to assume God wouldn't need to resort to the cab rank rule (if it applies in Ontario).

The Bar has the long tradition of the cab rank principle — where all, no matter how unsavoury, are entitled to good legal representation.

Adath Yisroel Burial Society & Anor, R (On the Application Of) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner North London: the High Court has quashed a senior coroner's «cab rank» policy, which prevented the prioritisation of burials on religious grounds.

This «great debate» features two accomplished advocates staking out their position on the «cab rank» rule, under which a lawyer is obliged to take on the next client «in line at the queue,» irrespective of the lawyer's view of the morality of the client or the client's conduct.

A decision by a coroner to introduce a «cab rank» rule for burials has been held by the High Court to be unlawful and discriminatory against Muslim and Jewish families, in R (Adath Yisroel Burial Society) v Senior Coroner for Inner North London [2018] EWHC 969 (Admin).

Paraphrasing from Wikipedia: the cab rank rule declares the obligation of a barrister to accept any work in a field in which the barrister he professes himself or herself competent to practise, at a court at which the barrister normally appears, and at the barrister's usual billing rate.

Earlier, the Bar Council criticised accused the LSB of «mission creep» and of spending too much money on research «of questionable quality», such as # 21,367 researching the cab rank rule.

He was running late for an appearance on The Project after the premiere of X-Men: Days Of Future Past ran over-time and decided a train was a better bet than the cab rank.