Sentences with phrase «civil legal proceedings»

This case has had such a significant impact on civil legal proceedings in the courts in Ontario, including with respect to the access to justice, that it has, in the course of three years since the decision was released, been cited in more than 2,300 reported decisions of the courts in Canada and over 1,400 cases in Ontario alone.

The Fifth Amendment creates a number of rights relevant to both criminal and civil legal proceedings.

Americans generally disapprove of binding arbitration provisions in consumer contracts as an alternative to civil legal proceedings involving a judge or jury, according to a recent national poll by survey firm Peter D. Hart Research Associates Inc..

The key takeaway is that apologizing for a perceived wrong often reduces the likelihood of civil legal proceedings.

, court - appointed translators can be crucial to both criminal and civil legal proceedings.

In a state like California where more than 8 million cases are heard each year and more than 220 languages are spoken, court - appointed translators can be crucial to both criminal and civil legal proceedings.

This case has had such a significant impact on civil legal proceedings in the courts in Ontario, including with respect to the access to justice, that it has, in the course of one year since the decision was released, been cited in more than 400 reported decisions of the courts in Canada.

Most notably, all victims of domestic violence or sexual assault will find themselves in civil legal proceedings related to housing, child custody or divorce.

Low - income families must fight these battles on their own because — despite the fact that civil cases can result in people going to jail, or losing their home, health care, custody of their children or sense of safety — there is no right to an attorney in civil legal proceedings as there is for criminal defendants.

Not exact matches

As part of this initiative and its participation in Governor Andrew Cuomo's Liberty Defense Project, the State Bar Association will continue to offer continuing legal education (CLE) programs for attorneys seeking to represent immigrants in civil detention, administrative and removal proceedings.

In March, Staten Island Judge William Garnett denied requests to release the minutes from the Eric Garner grand jury proceedings, but James, the Legal Aid Society, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP filed an appeal in the state over the decision.

(a) Whenever the Attorney General receives a complaint in writing signed by an individual to the effect that he is being deprived of or threatened with the loss of his right to the equal protection of the laws, on account of his race, color, religion, or national origin, by being denied equal utilization of any public facility which is owned, operated, or managed by or on behalf of any State or subdivision thereof, other than a public school or public college as defined in section 401 of title IV hereof, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly progress of desegregation in public facilities, the Attorney General is authorized to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section.

(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged in such complaint, to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.

If they do, these legal proceedings will be civil rather than criminal, and will have nothing to do with the police or the possibility of jail.

In cases with the potential to significantly improve legal protections for companion animals, the legal advocacy department will bring legal proceedings corollary to the criminal prosecution including writs, declaratory judgments and petitions for injunctive relief, and will initiate or support civil litigation on the state and federal level to promote those heightened legal protections.

NCSE distancing themselves from Gleick is probably a legal ploy so that they are not culpable in some way for his actions in either criminal or civil proceedings.

During his 21 - year legal career, Mr. Goldberg has litigated hundreds of cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States involving claims of retaliation, discrimination, wrongful termination, fraud, defamation, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract, as well as commercial contract disputes, civil RICO, ERISA, trade secrets and restrictive covenants, corporate governance disputes, minority shareholder disputes, partnership disputes, Madoff counseling and defense, advancement and indemnification proceedings, whistleblower actions (SOX and CEPA), executive compensation counseling, litigation, and arbitration, international litigation and arbitration, antitrust litigation and arbitration, products liability litigation, environmental and toxic tort litigation, and securities fraud.

Under s 222 (1): «Where a local authority consider it expedient for the promotion or protection of the interests of the inhabitants of their area --(a) they may prosecute or defend or appear in any legal proceedings and, in the case of civil proceedings, may institute them in their own name.»

The report includes the recommendation that all cases «concerning legal support for children should be brought back into the scope of civil legal aid» and that cases within certain criteria, including local authority involvement in private law family proceedings, should be covered (see p 28 of the report).

Note, however, that for proceedings in the High Court, only civil legal aid is available, subject to eligibility.

Being represented by experienced legal counsel throughout your civil proceedings can ensure that you recover what the law entitles you to recover.

We help clients in gaining approvals for transactions, domestic and international investigations, regulatory enforcement proceedings and civil and criminal litigation, authorizations and arbitration arising from breaches of applicable legal, regulatory, antitrust and compliance requirements and investigations before all financial regulatory agencies.

Two sets of proceedings before the court concerned the new unified contract, introduced on 1 April 2007, for the provision of publicly funded civil legal aid work.

What IA 2005 does not do, however, is to grapple with the difficult interplay between such inquiries — which, by virtue of IA 2005, can have many of the features of legal proceedings — and other civil and criminal proceedings that are contemplated or already on foot.

Under the applicable procedural rules in Switzerland, investigators or the court may neither ask for documents that relate to the professional legal representation of a party or of a third person in civil proceedings nor for correspondence between an accused person and the defence lawyer in criminal proceedings.

Hence, legal professional privilege can now generally be asserted in answer to any demand for documents by a public or other authority; it is not limited to a right that may be asserted only in the context of civil or criminal proceedings.

In 2006, the American Bar Association house of delegates unanimously approved a report calling for a national civil Gideon to «provide legal counsel as a matter of right at public expense to low - income persons in those categories of adversarial proceedings where basic human needs are at stake, such as those involving shelter, sustenance, safety, health or child custody.»

In support of this: Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) Regulations 2012 governs the conduct of civil legal services including reg 38 (3)(emphasis added): «(3)... the Director must issue a separate certificate for each --(a) form of civil legal services for which the individual qualifies; and (b) set of proceedings to which a determination relates, unless the Director decides that the proceedings are so closely connected that they should be covered by a single certificate.&rCivil Legal Aid (Procedure) Regulations 2012 governs the conduct of civil legal services including reg 38 (3)(emphasis added): «(3)... the Director must issue a separate certificate for each --(a) form of civil legal services for which the individual qualifies; and (b) set of proceedings to which a determination relates, unless the Director decides that the proceedings are so closely connected that they should be covered by a single certificate.&rLegal Aid (Procedure) Regulations 2012 governs the conduct of civil legal services including reg 38 (3)(emphasis added): «(3)... the Director must issue a separate certificate for each --(a) form of civil legal services for which the individual qualifies; and (b) set of proceedings to which a determination relates, unless the Director decides that the proceedings are so closely connected that they should be covered by a single certificate.&rcivil legal services including reg 38 (3)(emphasis added): «(3)... the Director must issue a separate certificate for each --(a) form of civil legal services for which the individual qualifies; and (b) set of proceedings to which a determination relates, unless the Director decides that the proceedings are so closely connected that they should be covered by a single certificate.&rlegal services including reg 38 (3)(emphasis added): «(3)... the Director must issue a separate certificate for each --(a) form of civil legal services for which the individual qualifies; and (b) set of proceedings to which a determination relates, unless the Director decides that the proceedings are so closely connected that they should be covered by a single certificate.&rcivil legal services for which the individual qualifies; and (b) set of proceedings to which a determination relates, unless the Director decides that the proceedings are so closely connected that they should be covered by a single certificate.&rlegal services for which the individual qualifies; and (b) set of proceedings to which a determination relates, unless the Director decides that the proceedings are so closely connected that they should be covered by a single certificate.»

Pro bono costs are just like ordinary costs and can be claimed in civil proceedings where the successful party benefited from free legal advice or representation, whether for all or part of their case.

In the UK, an online court will be operating by September and broadly deployed to a wide range of civil court proceedings by May 2020, Legal Futures reports.

On the justices deciding, for example, to make a liability order in their civil or family jurisdiction, legal aid is applied for as if it were criminal proceedings.

Just when most magistrates» legal advisers had cracked the question of what type of proceedings are child support proceedings in their court (they are not «family proceedings» because they are not listed in MCA 1980 s 65 (1) among those statutes which do give rise to «family proceedings»); just when the more alert had resolved that they are therefore civil proceedings, heard in open court and by the procedure set out in MCA 1980, s 53 and under the appropriate non-family procedural rules; along comes s 111A (5).

Business Development: Brokering various business dealings that further the diversification of Indian economies Developing and accessing commercial financial programs and services for tribal governments, including tax - exempt offerings and federally - guaranteed housing loans Serving as issuer or underwriter's counsel in tribal bond issuances Ensuring tribal compliance with Bank Secrecy Act and other federal financial regulatory requirements Handling federal and state income, excise, B&O, property and other tax matters for tribes and tribal businesses Chartering tribal business enterprises under tribal, state and federal law Registering and protecting tribal trademarks and copyrights Negotiating franchise agreements for restaurants and retail stores on Indian reservations Custom - tailoring construction contracts for tribes and general contractors Helping secure federal SBA 8 (a) and other contracting preferences for Indian - owned businesses Facilitating contractual relations between tribes and tribal casinos, and gaming vendors Building tribal workers» compensation and self - insurance programs Government Relations: Handling state and federal regulatory matters in the areas of tribal gaming, environmental and cultural resources, workers» compensation, taxation, health care and education Negotiating tribal - state gaming compacts and fuel and cigarette compacts, and inter-local land use and law enforcement agreements Advocacy before the Washington State Gambling Commission, Washington Indian Gaming Association and National Indian Gaming Commission Preparing tribal codes and regulations, including tribal court, commercial, gaming, taxation, energy development, environmental and cultural resources protection, labor & employment, and workers» compensation laws Developing employee handbooks, manuals and personnel policies Advocacy in areas of treaty rights, gaming, jurisdiction, taxation, environmental and cultural resource protection Brokering fee - to - trust and related real estate and jurisdictional transactions Litigation & Appellate Services: Handling complex Indian law litigation, including commercial, labor & employment, tax, land use, treaty rights, natural and cultural resource matters Litigating tribal trust mismanagement claims against the United States, and evaluating tribal and individual property claims under the Indian Claims Limitation Act Defending tribes and tribal insureds from tort claims brought against them in tribal, state and federal courts, including defense tenders pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act Assisting tribal insureds in insurance coverage negotiations, and litigation Representing individual tribal members in tribal and state civil and criminal proceedings, including BIA prosecutions and Indian probate proceedings Assisting tribal governments with tribal, state and federal court appeals, including the preparation of amicus curiae briefs Our Indian law & gaming attorneys collaborate to publish the quarterly «Indian Legal Advisor ``, designed to provide Indian Country valuable information about legal and political developments affecting tribal riLegal Advisor ``, designed to provide Indian Country valuable information about legal and political developments affecting tribal rilegal and political developments affecting tribal rights.

Represent clients in criminal and civil litigation and other legal proceedings, draw up legal documents, or manage or advise clients on legal transactions.

Civil legal aid connects Americans with a range of services - including legal assistance and representation, free legal clinics, court - based services, pro bono assistance, and access to web - based information and forms — that help guide them through complicated legal proceedings.

South Dakota HB 1093 (2007) Allows Chief Justice to suspend, toll, extend, or otherwise grant relief from deadlines, time schedules, or filing requirements imposed by otherwise applicable statutes, rules, or court orders, whether in civil cases, criminal cases, administrative matters or any other legal proceedings as determined necessary.

The Children & Youth Law Clinic (CYLC) is an in - house, live - client clinic that represents children in foster care and former foster youth in dependency, health care, mental health, disability, independent living, education, immigration and other general civil legal matters, ensuring that they have a voice in court proceedings.

The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act protects members of the military from legal action, including divorce proceedings, while they are on active duty.

It oversees the provision of legal representation to indigent persons in criminal and civil cases and administrative proceedings in which there is a right to counsel.

When an injured accident victim makes a legal claim for financial damages, this refers to civil law proceedings.

As an expert witness involved in civil proceedings in England and Wales, you need to understand the basics of law and legal procedure.

That the federal government earmark specific funds for civil legal aid in order to promote women's access to justice and safety, and ensure that women are not further economically disadvantaged after relationship breakdown by having to represent themselves in court proceedings.

Our clients can always rely on our skilled and dedicated legal support in disputes regarding e.g. individual and collective dismissals, industrial safety, discrimination (including civil, administrative and criminal proceedings), management liability as well as enforcement of confidentiality obligation and post-termination restrictive covenants.

EU Regulation 1215/2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (Brussels Recast Regulation) applicable to legal proceedings instituted on or after 10 January 2015.

Whether your case is isolated to professional discipline or it progresses into criminal proceedings or a civil suit, our lawyers can advise you throughout the various legal processes.

EU Regulation 44/2001 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (Brussels Regulation) applicable to judgments given in legal proceedings instituted before 10 January 2015.

Legal aid means representation by a barrister or solicitor in civil proceedings in court, in addition to the preparatory work this entails.

Legal aid means representation by a solicitor or barrister in civil proceedings in the District, Circuit, High and Supreme Courts.

«It is often observed that it is very easy to get into court in African states and can be much more difficult to get out of court,» with proceedings taking many years, he said; there being a variety of legal traditions across the continent, from common, to civil and Islamic law, as well as hybrids, such as those in South Africa and Mauritius.

While we must wait to see what happens with the appeal, and whether the pre-approval procedure adopted by the motions judge is confirmed or modified, criminal and civil counsel need to be cautious how they treat productions when there is a multiplicity of legal proceedings arising from the same events.