Sentences with phrase «call duty counsel»

5) after waiting 30 minutes without a response from the lawyer, asked Mr. B. again if he wanted them to call duty counsel for him and if he wished to wait a little longer;

This is called duty counsel.

The officer testified that he pointed to a list of lawyers in the interview room and told the accused that he had also called duty counsel if he wished to speak to duty counsel.

Not exact matches

Legislative attorney Cappy Weiner, in a May 12 letter, called comments made by former legislative counsel Langdon Chapman to a local weekly newspaper «inappropriate and a violation of your duty to a former client,» and Weiner insisted «no further comments be made contrary to the interest of the Ulster County Legislature.»

The projects included the hiring of a full - time family law duty counsel in Victoria and expansion of a family law help line, which people can call from anywhere in B.C.

11 It might have been preferable if the officer had confirmed that the accused had been satisfied with the advice given and did not wish to call anyone else, but there is a need for the accused to be reasonably diligent in exercising his right to speak to his own lawyer if he had one, or another lawyer, other than duty counsel and this was not done by the accused.

Justice Fish did not go quite so far, concluding that an amicus «clothed with all the duties and responsibilities of defence counsel,... can no longer properly be called a «friend of the court»» (para 114, emphasis added).

Further, I agree with my colleague Fish J. that «[o] nce clothed with all the duties and responsibilities of defence counsel, the amicus can no longer properly be called a «friend of the court»» (para. 114).

In most courthouses, lawyers who are present in court will have their cases called before unrepresented people (including those who are using the assistance of duty counsel).

Your lawyer or duty counsel may be able to talk to the Crown in private about your case in something called a Crown pre-trial or a resolution meeting.

He articled at HALCO, and after being called to the bar in 2002, he worked in legal aid clinics and as a duty counsel before being named HALCO's executive director in 2007.

As far back as 2013, Peter Geraghty (Director of the ETHICSearch, ABA Center for Professional Responsibility) and Susan J. Michmerhuizen (ETHICSearch Research Counsel) wrote an article for Your ABA Enews called Duty to Supervise Nonlawyers: Ignorance is Not Bliss.Although the article focused on issues with paralegals and support staff, I would suggest that computers also qualify as nonlawyers and the concerns mentioned in the article should apply to them and the technical experts who use them as well

Examples of job duties of a Legal Administrative Assistant include greeting visitors, answering phone calls, preparing legal documents, updating records and databases, preparing case files, interviewing clients to develop cases, informing clients on case progress, and liaising with the opposing counsel.

Social Worker — Duties & Responsibilities Successfully serve as a psychiatric social worker and practice manager for multiple institutions Perform crisis intervention, adult, geriatric, child, and adolescent case management and therapy Counsel patients facing depression, substance abuse, bipolar disorder, dementia, and schizophrenia Serve survivors of domestic violence, rape, robbery, child abuse, suicide, and other traumatic events Responsible for 24 hour on call crisis intervention for multiple hospital emergency rooms Complete psychosocial assessments to ensure appropriate patient diagnosis and care Design and implement treatment plans including medication and individual / group / family therapy sessions Attend weekly team meetings to assess patient progress and document in the DAP system Review psychometric and psychological reports and provide feedback to patients and families Provide clients and family members with guidance and referrals to community resources Maintain contact with family members and encouraged their involvement in patient treatment Performed discharge planning including nursing home placement, home health, medication needs, transportation and Passport screening, extended in - patient and out - patient mental health services Serve as public speaker, referral development committee member, and marketing / financial advisor

It does not do target parents justice to «equally» blame them (or also called rejected parents) given the fact that target parents obeys court orders, attends his or her child's functions, loves the child etc. while the other parent, the alienating parent, ignores court orders, refuses to participate in parental duties, refuses counseling, chronically bad - mouths within in an ear shot of the child, and in some cases — flees the state or country.