Sentences with phrase «court duty work»

A year after solicitors successfully fought off plans to introduce competitive tenders for police station and magistrates» court duty work, the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has announced a consultation on introducing price competitive tenders for Housing Possession Court Duty Schemes (HPCDS).

Not exact matches

Enbridge's Northern Gateway project, in the works since 2005, was likely dealt a fatal blow on June 30th when the Federal Court of Appeal threw out its 2014 conditional approval because the Crown (read: Harper government) failed in its «duty to consult» aboriginals as required by the Constitution.

Can you imagine the Founding Fathers comtemplating a court telling an employer that he or she had to accept someone who did not want to perform their work duties?

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

Olusegun Obasanjo worked more for setting up the Interim National Government (ING) Trojan horse, than revalidating the election; and Ernest Shonekan, another Egba son, assumed subversive duty as «Interim Head of State», on account of that contraption, that a court later declared illegal.

John Murphy, who had worked as a political organizer and lobbyist for the Public Employees Federation of white collar state workers, contends in court papers that he was «ridiculed, harassed and humiliated» after he had to cut back his duties and hours to attend physical therapy sessions following an August 2014 accident.

A Rochester City Court judge continues to draw a $ 174,000 - a-year paycheck despite being stripped of her judicial duties after driving drunk to work, being jailed for skipping a court date and taking an extended trip to a monastery in the mountains of ThaiCourt judge continues to draw a $ 174,000 - a-year paycheck despite being stripped of her judicial duties after driving drunk to work, being jailed for skipping a court date and taking an extended trip to a monastery in the mountains of Thaicourt date and taking an extended trip to a monastery in the mountains of Thailand.

According to Alhaji Muntaka, the police invitation to the MPs undermines the authority of parliament and also interferes with the work of a parliamentarian, who is insulated under Article 117 of the Constitution and Order 22 of the Standing Orders of Parliament from any arrest or court orders in the performance of his or her official duties.

I have mixed feelings about it, because a part of me thinks it would be a great experience to be selected for a jury but then another part of me was really relieved to not have been chosen both because of the timing (it never seems like I there is a good time to get chosen for jury duty — there's always a critical project at work) and because I am afraid of what I might hear / see during a court case.

[36] The court found that the University could properly protect «prepublication critical analysis, unpublished data, analysis, research, results, drafts, and commentary» as well as prepublication peer review work because the University was justified in concluding that, as is prohibited by Arizona law, «release of [the] information would have an important and harmful effect on the duties of a State agency or officer.»

In December 2016, the Federal Court of Appeal allowed the appeal of the Governor General in Council and six federal government ministers, after the Federal Court found they had breached their duty to consult the Mikisew Cree on the development and introduction in Parliament of two omnibus bills that reduced federal regulatory oversight of works and projects that might affect the Mikisew Cree's treaty rights.

The Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled that an employer may terminate a worker for just cause when he violated a fitness for duty policy by attending work under the influence of drugs.

I have had the opportunity to work both as an Administration Volunteer at the WLS» office and at the Ipswich Magistrates Court as a Duty Lawyer Paralegal.

Morden J.A. of this court expressed the matter this way in a 2001 address to the Call to the Bar: «Civility is not just a nice, desirable adornment to accompany the way lawyers conduct themselves, but, is a duty which is integral to the way lawyers do their work.»

You, and thousands more like you, can protest «I can't take time off work», but the odds that such a plea will matter to the court is very low: you have a duty to serve on a jury, if called.

In 1925, she wrote, «Some idea of the extent of the work in this Court may be gained from the fact that during the past year over sixty thousand dollars was collected from husbands who were trying to shirk their duty.

Josie has lived in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia with her active duty Army spouse and has worked for two state bar associations, the US Army, a rural legal aid practice, a district court judge, and the executive branch of the US government.

Successive legal aid administrators have been attracted to the idea of putting duty work for police and magistrates» court work out to tender.

Leaving no question as to the scope of its holding, this Court stated: «We merely hold that where the government's activities have already worked a taking of all use of property, no subsequent action by the government can relieve it of the duty to provide compensation for the period during which the taking was effective.»

A more therapeutic view of the promotion of the welfare of children whose parents disagree about their upbringing was enshrined in the Children Act 1989, and courts expect to work closely with other professionals in order to discharge the duty to respect private and family life.

They include television in the waiting rooms, more advanced pre-screening work through jury questionnaires, a procedure for jurors to notify court officials of dates during which they are available for jury duty, and consequences, such as suspension of a driver's license for failure to serve.

This week the Legal Services Commission (LSC) announced a further consultation setting out alternative options for duty solicitor slot allocation for police station and magistrates» court work from October 2007.

Prof. Brian Slattery argues that the Court is actually the third line of defence against Charter violations: the drafters have an obligation to work within the framework of the Constitution and parliamentarians, in both Houses, have a duty to pass only legislation that is plausibly constitutional.

Before delving into its analysis, the Court pointed out that employers do not have a duty to change their working conditions in a fundamental way — rather, they only have a duty (to the point of undue hardship) to ensure that it arranges an employee's workplace / duties in a way that will enable the employee to do his or her work.

Clearly, the Court in Deputat, by overturning the trial judge's finding that there was no duty to look for similar work during the first seven months of the plaintiff's working notice period, did not intend such a result.

As a volunteer for a PBSC project, you can expect to work three to five hours a week doing legal research and writing, assisting duty counsel at the Courts, or casework advocacy, depending on your specific project.

Stephen Smith is renowned for his work in civil fraud litigation (typically claims for breach of fiduciary duty, deceit and misrepresentation), especially in connection with freezing injunctions, asset tracing, disclosure orders, jurisdictional and forum disputes, sham trusts and committals to prison for contempt of court.

In determining the appropriate notice period, the Court stated that «regard should be had to the employee's duties and responsibilities, salary, length of service, and the time it would reasonably take the employer to have others handle the employee's work or to hire a replacement.»

Federal courts apply a «need to know» test to determine if the employee's work duties reasonably include being privy to the privileged communication with the attorney.

Speaking at the latest Commercial Court Users» Group meeting working group member Ed Crosse, partner at Simmons & Simmons, reported that, while some of the feedback disagreed with the proposals, there had been detailed debate on subjects such as the duty to disclose adverse documents, improving basic disclosure, the need for training in the professions and aspects of technology.

[4] At the Federal Court, the Mikisew Cree argued that the duty to consult was triggered by the development and introduction of new legislation because it constituted executive action that reduced federal regulatory oversight on works or projects that may affect the Mikisew Cree's treaty rights to hunt, fish, and trap.

This work led to changes in the relationship between Ontario, First Nations and the forestry sector and a major Supreme Court of Canada decision strengthening the role of the duty to consult and clarifying that both federal and provincial governments must honour and implement treaties.

On April 16, 2018, a Rhode Island court addressed for the first time whether an entity owes a duty of care to protect non-employees from exposure to the asbestos - tainted work clothes of the entity's employee.

In denying summary judgment to GE and granting summary judgment to Boston Edison, the Court found that: (1) while the construction work performed by GE met the definition of an improvement to real property for purposes of the statute of repose, public policy considerations necessitated an exception to the application of the statute in cases involving alleged asbestos - related disease; (2) the installation of asbestos insulation was not an abnormally dangerous activity; (3) Boston Edison did not exercise sufficient control over the work at issue to be held negligent; and (4) a premises owner, such as Boston Edison, has no duty to warn where the subcontractor has knowledge of the hazard which is equal to or greater than that of the premises owner.

His job duties, according to the court's opinion, often involved working with or near butter flavorings containing the chemical diacetyl.

In reaching this decision, the Adjudicator cited the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Hydro - Quebec v. Syndicat, 2008 SCC 43 at para. 16 in which the Court stated, «the employer does not have a duty to change working conditions in a fundamental way, but does have a duty, if it can do so without undue hardship, to arrange the employee's workplace or duties to enable the employee to do his or her work.»

c. Inclusion of a NAFTA Indigenous Peoples» Chapter that would work along the lines of these sections of the Trans - Pacific Partnership, but that would replace mention of the Treaty of Waitangi with reference to s. 35 of Canada's Constitution Act, 1982, the mandated Supreme Court of Canada duty to consult and accommodate Indigenous concerns, and to recognize Aboriginal Title as part of the common law as it stands in Canada.

However, in Farwell v. Citair, Inc. (General Coach Canada) 3 the Ontario Court of Appeal clarified that an employer is obliged to offer the dismissed employee a clear opportunity to return to work to trigger this form of mitigation duty.

; (4) taxpayers would not have to pay for a justice system that provides lawyers a good place to earn a living but doesn't provide affordable legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?»

Despite the 2006 ruling, the parties have struggled to agree on how to implement it and, as such, the government has maintained the existing regime that essentially treats court reporters as employees for their regular courtroom duties and independent contractors for transcription work.

Many in the legal profession believe that a lawyer working as a shareholder - employee of a publicly traded law firm might be tempted to evaluate decisions in terms of their effect on the stock price and the shareholders, which would directly conflict with the lawyer's duties to the client and to the courts.

â $ cents Minimum 5 years of Litigation experience â $ cents Confident and dependable, with strong initiative and ability to work both independently and in a team oriented atmosphere â $ cents Organize and maintain client files â $ cents Experience liasing with clients, insurance adjusters and defence counsel â $ cents Prepare and edit correspondence and legal documents â $ cents Assist with authorizations, undertakings, discoveries and productions â $ cents Drafting pleadings, routine motions, affidavits of documents, pre - trial / mediation memos, etc. â $ cents Reviewing and summarizing medical documentation â $ cents Trial preparation â $ cents Responsible for tracking limitation periods â $ cents Prior experience working with Ontario & Superior Court of Justice â $ cents Draft and respond to correspondence â $ cents Initiate follow - up as required and communicate with clients â $ cents Calendar management, scheduling meetings and arrange examinations for discovery and mediations â $ cents Coordinate and monitor administrative functions to ensure completion of work accurately and in a timely manner â $ cents Act as liaison between clients and lawyers â $ cents Other duties as required

The parties had an agreement regarding damages, although it was left for the court to determine Paniccia's likely age of retirement, when, if ever he could have returned to work and his household duties, and his life expectancy...

The board found the duties court reporters perform in typing and certifying transcripts of court proceedings was bargaining - unit work rather than additional freelance - type duties beyond their regular courtroom activities.

Recently, concerns have been voiced by a number of member states about judgments of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) which defined any on - call duty at hospitals by doctors and medical staff as working time.

When you're dealing with a jury duty summons, misdemeanor, traffic ticket or even a foreclosure, you'll likely work with the Bradford County Clerk of the Court.

If you need a marriage license, information about jury duty or you need to pay child support, you will work with the clerk of the court.

I also previously worked at Boston Court Yard Hotel where I learned the basics of general duties like dusting, cleaning, vacuuming, and completing other tasks.

However, the common duties include carrying out land and property surveys or valuations, liaising with professionals in other fields, such as real estate agents, writing technical reports, advising clients, offering legal advice and proof for court cases, and overseeing construction work.

They perform many administrative and clerical duties that facilitate the court staff's work in terms of efficient courtroom procedural management.