Sentences with phrase «canon lawyers»

It is fair to say that the canon lawyers, psychologists, bishops, and religious superiors who favored the psychological model were not acting in bad faith; they genuinely believed the psychological approach to be correct.

Giovanni de Medici, Pope Leo X, had treated the Luther affair as an administrative nuisance, something for the theologians and canon lawyers, when the first missive from the Archbishop of Mainz had arrived at the beginning of the year.

Canon lawyers and moral theologians have parsed what Francis has written in different ways.

Canon lawyers who were not at the epicenter of the panic in Dallas point out that, for all the tough talk, the charter adopted has no juridical force whatever.

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.

I prefer to conceptualize Christianity in this exemplary resurrectional fashion, as did many of the Greek Fathers, rather than in the crude Roman legalistic sense of sin - punishment - vicarious expiation, so popular with the African Fathers and particularly with Tertullian, the proto - canon lawyer, God help him.

Catholic News Service: Pope names Boston priest to be Vatican's abuse investigator Pope Benedict XVI has named a canon lawyer from the Archdiocese of Boston to be the new promoter of justice in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a position that includes monitoring and investigating cases of priests accused of sex abuse.

Canon lawyer....

Having read through the Directory with the eye of a canon lawyer, I am not sure that the document lives up to that acclamation.

Canon lawyer Edward Peters provides a handy list of 118 cardinals who are not yet 80 years of age.

Not exact matches

A certain tension is built into their official canons of ethics, e.g., «A lawyer is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system, and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.»

Lawyers for the former bishop said it was accepted Canon Pemberton felt «humiliated» by the decisions, but the tribunal was right to find there was no «homophobic harassment».

In the late nineteenth century, bar associations» power grew and these entities sought to limit infringement on their services by those outside of the profession.3 Less than 30 years after it was first published, the ABA's Canon of Professional Ethics in 1937 added a clear denunciation of UPL, stating «No lawyer shall permit his professional services, or his name, to be used in aid of, or to make possible the [UPL] by any agency, personal or corporate.»

«Many of the contingent fee lawyers were foreign born; many were the children of foreign - born parents; almost all were from poor backgrounds; and all were representing clients bringing claims against the Canon - drafter» clients.»

Regardless of the technologies and organization that might make sense in the short - term of managing a practice, it is still the lawyers» responsibility to follow and adhere to the rules, regulations and canons of ethics adopted by the bar associations, professional liability funds and malpractice insurance carriers.

More than a century after the 1908 adoption of the association's first set of guidelines, the ABA Canons of Professional Ethics, the clients whom ethics standards protect and the lawyers governed by them have changed drastically.

Philadelphia lawyer Patricia M. Dugan, who says that she is one of only a few lawyers who practice both Catholic canon law and U.S. civil law --- and one of the only laywomen in history to do so --- has launched a Web site devoted to helping people understand the process of electing the next pope.

And beyond this, for a lawyer to attempt to reap gain by urging another to engage in private litigation has also been condemned: that seems to be the import of Canon 28, which the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has adopted as one of its Rules.

It wasn't until 1908, when the ABA issued its Canons of Professional Responsibility, that individual states began to prohibit most forms of solicitation and advertising by lawyers.

It was not a disaster for those in support of limiting the actual and apparent corrupting effects of money (and judges» direct solicitation of that money from the lawyers and parties likely to appear before them), but perhaps the best possible outcomes would be either a 5 - 4 decision upholding the Canon or a narrow decision essentially carving out a First - Amendment - driven, mass - mailing - like exception to the Canon.

(1) The Brennan Center posted a good summary of the case and links to all of the briefs, including the ACLU's amicus brief (supporting judges who plan to mass - solicit money directly from anyone, including the lawyers and litigants who will appear before those judges) and the ABA's amicus brief (supporting the Canon prohibiting such solicitation, whether in person or in writing).

Doctors have their Hippocratic Oath and engineers have that metal ring on their fingers; but lawyers have only a jurisdiction - specific canon of ethics that fewer than one in ten likely has read all the way through since law school.

-- Other ABS Initiatives, Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, Amsterdam, May 5, 2008 (For some discussion of this point, see also pp.11 - 13 in the ABA Canons Centennial article «Lawyers as Service Providers»)

Laurel Terry, The Future Regulation of the Legal Profession: The Impact of Treating the Legal Profession as «Service Providers,» 2008 Professional Lawyer Symposium [Honoring the Canons Centennial](2008)(impact on domestic lawyer regulation)

In this case the Commission has concluded unanimously that Judge Hinton «violated Canon 3 A (3) of the Code of Judicial Conduct,» which provides in pertinent part: «A judge should be patient, dignified, and courteous to litigants, jurors, witnesses, lawyers, and others with whom he deals in his official capacity....»

(1) is not required to comply with Canons 4A (4), 4A (5), 4D (2), 4E, 4F, or 4H (3); (2) except as provided in the Conflict - of - Interest Rules for Part - time Magistrate Judges, should not practice law in the court on which the judge serves or in any court subject to that court's appellate jurisdiction, or act as a lawyer in a proceeding in which the judge has served as a judge or in any related proceeding.

Even for those lawyers who believe strongly in the CL process, the canons of ethics require candid advice to the client concerning the risks associated with this form of practice.

Some might wonder, for example, whether a lawyer can fulfill his / her obligation to represent a client «zealously,» as required by the canons of legal ethics, if s / he has irrevocably agreed not to litigate on the client's behalf.