The survey was carried out after the lord chief justice's announcement in July that
court dress worn by judges sitting in civil and family cases would be changed in January 2008.
Not exact matches
Not long after his victory over
Court, Riggs got a lot of mileage out of an application to the Virginia Slims tour («since there is no sex after 55 anyway») where he said he would
wear a
dress if need be.
But then who could possibly care about women who are Willis Reed on the
court (Sun guard Lindsay Whalen played Game 1 with a broken bone in her left knee) and Donna Reed off it (McWilliams - Franklin owns three sewing machines and made the
dress she
wore to Game 1)?
Whether you prefer to
wear dainty
dresses in the evening, or you're more of a skinny jeans and smart top kind of girl, with a pair of ankle strap pointed
court shoes on, the world will quite literally be at your feet.
The ANC party asked Mr Zuma's supporters not to
wear its colours outside
court on Friday, but many did not follow this advice, and were seen
dressed in black, green and yellow.
This
dress is my favourite from the collection and can be
worn with sandals or sneakers but here I paired it with a classic
court shoe and a mini bag.
Featured Photo: Arissa is
wearing a lace detail black
dress underneath a full skirted black skirt, teamed with simple black heeled
court shoes.
Even if I were a marathon runner or Pilates instructor, I still wouldn't be
wearing a thigh - revealing skirt or
dress anywhere except on the tennis
court or by the side of a pool.
It's probably acceptable, but I personally wouldn't
wear a non-suiting
dress to
court (unless I was pregnant).
For non
court events I just
wore a maternity
dress with a non maternity blazer on top.
I mostly
wore maternity
dresses with my regular blazers to
court.
In warmer weather I would
wear the
dress with either orange sandals or pale grey
court shoes and bag for a more neutral theme.
* Coats with shorter sleeve lengths that can be
worn with longer gloves * Anything Audrey Hepburn
wore * «
Court shoes» with substantial heels but no more than 2.5 ″ high * Sheath
dresses * Classic Chanel - style suits and jackets * Pearls * Headscarves
When in
court, a QC will typically
wear a black coat and waistcoat or a simple long - sleeved waistcoat in the style of 18th century
court dress.
In a recent opinion in People v. Martinez, Criminal
Court Judge Ruben Franco held that» [w] hile most of us may consider it distasteful, and indeed foolish, to
wear ones pants so low as to expose the underwear... «people can
dress as they please,
wear anything, so long as they do not offend public order and decency.»»
The list of no - nos for
court attire includes»
wearing anything obscene» and «
dressing like a prostitute».
A Royal Decree was passed on
courts dress — known as the Judges Rules of 1635 — which aimed to regulate the attire
worn by judges.
Amongst other things, the
court was told that workers had not been provided with health and safety training; fall protection equipment was not provided by the company; the injured worker was
wearing dress shoes not safety footwear; the modified platform on the order picker was on an angle and did not have any features to prevent slipping; further safety concerns involving the use of order pickers were observed by the Ministry of Labour following the accident; the MOL was told that the father of a third director would direct workers to work without safety precautions; and there was evidence that an unknown person had attached a safety lanyard to the involved order picker before the Ministry of Labour arrived to investigate the accident.
On such an afternoon some score of members of the High
Court of Chancery bar ought to be... engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee - deep in technicalities, running their goat - hair and horse - hair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might... between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters» reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them... This is the
Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its
worn - out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare
dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man's acquaintance, which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning, «Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!
Mike Fox describes a 1st U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals decision upholding Costco's dress code: The court upheld «Costco's dress policy against a challenge by an employee who argued her right to wear her eyebrow piercing was required by her religious beliefs as a member of the Church of Body Modification.&r
Court of Appeals decision upholding Costco's
dress code: The
court upheld «Costco's dress policy against a challenge by an employee who argued her right to wear her eyebrow piercing was required by her religious beliefs as a member of the Church of Body Modification.&r
court upheld «Costco's
dress policy against a challenge by an employee who argued her right to
wear her eyebrow piercing was required by her religious beliefs as a member of the Church of Body Modification.»
We have seen the
Court of Appeal's rejection of the appeal in the case of British Airways and the employee wanting to wear a cross necklace in defiance of the company's dress code (Eweida v BA plc [2010] EWCA Civ 80, [2010] All ER (D) 144 (Feb)-RRB- and also that court's decision in the Buckland case which was widely reported in the press in terms of «Professor wins case about dumbing down university degrees» but which was of much greater legal significance for ridding the law on constructive dismissal of the heresy that the range of reasonable responses test applies to such dismissals, under which the ex-employee could only succeed in showing constructive dismissal if he could prove that the employer's behaviour was so bad that no reasonable employer could possibly have behaved in that way, ie that the employer had not just behaved as too much of an Alan (B'Stard) but as a grade one Olympic standard Alan (Buckland v Bournemouth University [2010] EWCA Civ 121, [2010] All ER (D) 299 (Feb)-
Court of Appeal's rejection of the appeal in the case of British Airways and the employee wanting to
wear a cross necklace in defiance of the company's
dress code (Eweida v BA plc [2010] EWCA Civ 80, [2010] All ER (D) 144 (Feb)-RRB- and also that
court's decision in the Buckland case which was widely reported in the press in terms of «Professor wins case about dumbing down university degrees» but which was of much greater legal significance for ridding the law on constructive dismissal of the heresy that the range of reasonable responses test applies to such dismissals, under which the ex-employee could only succeed in showing constructive dismissal if he could prove that the employer's behaviour was so bad that no reasonable employer could possibly have behaved in that way, ie that the employer had not just behaved as too much of an Alan (B'Stard) but as a grade one Olympic standard Alan (Buckland v Bournemouth University [2010] EWCA Civ 121, [2010] All ER (D) 299 (Feb)-
court's decision in the Buckland case which was widely reported in the press in terms of «Professor wins case about dumbing down university degrees» but which was of much greater legal significance for ridding the law on constructive dismissal of the heresy that the range of reasonable responses test applies to such dismissals, under which the ex-employee could only succeed in showing constructive dismissal if he could prove that the employer's behaviour was so bad that no reasonable employer could possibly have behaved in that way, ie that the employer had not just behaved as too much of an Alan (B'Stard) but as a grade one Olympic standard Alan (Buckland v Bournemouth University [2010] EWCA Civ 121, [2010] All ER (D) 299 (Feb)-RRB-.
Solicitors and other non-barrister advocates authorised under the
Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 can
wear wigs in
court, following a practice direction on
court dress handed down by the lord chief justice.
Supreme
Court president Lord Phillips has dropped the requirement that barristers and other advocates wear traditional court dress when appearing before the just
Court president Lord Phillips has dropped the requirement that barristers and other advocates
wear traditional
court dress when appearing before the just
court dress when appearing before the justices.
Advocates will be free, by prior agreement with the
court, to
wear no legal
dress or to opt for a simple gown.
In the employment context, the crucifix has come into question in recent years, with various
courts upholding
dress codes that prohibited the
wearing of necklaces carrying crucifixes.
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