Sentences with phrase «courts as a solicitor»

I was called to the Bar and I was admitted on the rolls of the Supreme Court as a solicitor.

I have worked on relocation cases through the courts as a solicitor and through mediation as a family mediator.

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YAC's solicitors told the Supreme Court of Western Australia on the 21 January that it would not continue with its intention to hold a General Meeting of Electors on 1 February following a challenge by WMYAC as to the validity of the meeting.

It seems every second solicitor has been lamenting the lack of cases making their way through the court system as the big end of town attempt to use funds to further business rather than feed lawyers.

«All our intelligence shows that courts continue to sit as usual and that the vast majority of cases requiring a solicitor at the police station have been picked up within an hour.»

Barbara Underwood, 73, the state solicitor general and the woman who will temporarily replace Schneiderman as attorney general, is a highly experienced professional lawyer who has argued 20 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

No member of the Executive Committee during his or her tenure in office shall simultaneously: (a) hold any state - wide elective public office; or (b) hold any city - wide elective public office in New York City or the Presidency of the Borough of Manhattan; or (c) serve as a judge of any court of record, attorney general or deputy or assistant attorney general or solicitor general, district attorney or assistant district attorney.

Meanwhile, Jon Black, president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors» Association, warns that if current reforms are as disastrous as expected, we may see the rise of the currently - defunct Public Defender Service, with the state both prosecuting and defending an individual.

You would never be allowed to do that in a UK court, and I say that as someone who has practiced as a solicitor for almost a decade.»

Ms Blacklaws said Cafcass are capable of doing only «the bare minimum» for children in court, claiming the system would only get worse as 46 % of children's family's solicitors firms who offer the service are not going to be able to do so from October 2010.

She was twice nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, only to see her first nomination filibustered and her second sunk by charges of judicial activism by Senate Republicans over gun industry litigation during her time as solicitor general.

As justice secretary, he saw unwelcome headlines over issues including legal aid cuts that sparked an unprecedented walkout by barristers and solicitors, mandatory court charges and an attempt to ban books being sent to prisoners, most of which were later reversed.

The Court went further in R. v. McClure and stated at para 35, «solicitor - client privilege must be as close to absolute as possible to ensure public confidence and retain relevance.»

They include Paulette Brown of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, who co-authored the landmark 2006 report, Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Law Firms; R. Ted Cruz of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the first Hispanic to be Texas solicitor general and author of more than 70 Supreme Court briefs; John W. Daniels of Quarles & Brady, one of the first African - Americans to lead a top U.S. firm; Keith M. Harper of Kilpatrick Stockton, a Cherokee who heads his firm's Native American affairs practice group; Patricia Menendez - Cambo, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig's global practice group; General Mills GC Roderick A. Palmore, who, as GC at Sara Lee, spearheaded the Call to Action urging corporate law firms to diversify; and Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU.

Our civil courts are facing increased competition from courts and tribunals overseas, «who regard the Brexit vote as «Christmas come early»,» Ed Crosse, President of the London Solicitors Litigation Association (LSLA) told lawyers at the LSLA annual dinner last week.

Since MacDonald Estate, there has been deep consideration of solicitor - client privilege and litigation privilege in the Supreme Court of Canada as can be seen from the following lengthy (and incomplete) case list:

For many «Newly Qualified» (NQ) solicitors, the first day as an official officer of the Court will be a milestone moment.

Traditionally solicitors have been appointed as executors in wills and have felt that this provides them with a stream of potential future income, as without a court order, it is extremely difficult to force an executor to renounce.

As for specific Supreme Court nominees, McCain is expected to look to Judge Michael McConnell who sits in Salt Lake City, or Washington lawyer and former deputy solicitor general Maureen Mahoney who argues frequently before the Court.

In 2012 the independent Government department spent # 4.5 m on all legal fees, defined as a combination of counsel's fees, solicitor's fees and court fees for work on all criminal investigations and prosecutions, restraint and confiscation proceedings, and advisory matters.

The court is also hearing a case involving solicitor - client privilege in Quebec, as well as a curious tax case where the authority increased its own assessment after a taxpayer appeal.

Indeed, Sir Rupert Jackson noted the problem of front - loading of costs in his 2010 Review of Civil Litigation Costs Final Report, emphasising that commercial solicitors and counsel, including Commercial Court judges, saw these protocols as unwelcome generators of additional costs and delay.

Since fee agreements became lawful, courts have had jurisdiction to tax (i.e., review and set) fees, as well as to interfere with or modify contracts between solicitors and clients: see Re A Solicitor [1931] 1 D.L.R. 315 (Ont.

The Supreme Court held that Gavin Edmondson are entitled to the enforcement of the traditional equitable lien against Haven, as the client owed a contractual duty to pay the solicitors» charges.

This week, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear five appeals including a number of significant cases that will determine the rights of the Crown to «take up» Aboriginal lands under treaty; the right of public - sector workers in Saskatchewan to strike; and the extent of solicitor - client privilege as it pertains to money laundering laws.

We will discuss all the options, such as mediation, the collaborative process, negotiating through solicitors or if required the court process and discuss your options with you.

After completing her training contract she qualified as a solicitor into the Court of Protection department in 2009.

[16] Thus, the issue is framed — can a defendant or third party who has not obtained a doctor's report by compulsion of a court order, and prior to disclosure of any medical - legal reports by the plaintiff or in the absence of any reports, obtain access to the non-treating doctor's notes and clinical findings, or are said notes and clinical records privileged as forming part of the brief of the plaintiff's solicitor until the time when the plaintiff chooses to rely on the non-treating doctor as a witness at trial and the doctor's notes must be disclosed...

If you booked your holiday as part of a package deal through a UK - based travel agent, and were injured because of a fault of that travel agent or their representatives, such as hotel staff, then Thompsons Solicitors can deal with a holiday accident compensation claim within the courts of England and Wales.

If you choose not to follow the Protocol, you issue proceedings and either your debtor is familiar with the Protocol or instructs solicitors who are, then the following sanctions can be imposed by the court: - • An order staying the proceedings which also requires compliance with the Protocol; • An order that if you have not complied you pay the costs of the proceedings or part of the costs of the other side even if you obtain judgment in your favour; • An order that those costs are paid on a more stringent basis known as an indemnity basis; • An order depriving the party who is at fault of any entitlement to interest or alternatively awarding interest at a reduced rate; • Depending on who is at fault the court can also order payment of a higher interest rate of up to 10 % above base rate.

This article followed a press release from the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers responding to a shocking disclosure that Chief Justice Jean Toal has «met with an «informal working group» of several solicitors and two lawmakers who once worked as prosecutors, Rep. Tommy Pope of Union and Sen. Greg Hembree of North Myrtle Beach, to come up with a new plan» for managing General Sessions Court dockets.

The court held that a solicitor who acts for him or herself is nonetheless entitled to all necessary costs as assessed in the ordinary way.

Lord Collins would go on to serve as a Supreme Court justice, but, as a former City law firm partner, was keen on solicitors having the opportunity to work behind the scenes in the judiciary.

«I was a judicial assistant in the Court of Appeal to Lord Lawrence Collins, who was the first solicitor to be appointed as a High Court judge from private practice,» he explains.

Examples of such organisations are for document signing, barristers, medical agencies, medical experts, courts, surveyors, government agencies and defendants such as insurance companies, local authorities, landlords or solicitors.

Moore Blatch solicitors will ensure that the initial and ongoing costs associated with the Court of Protection are recovered as part of the claim, so the involvement of the Court of Protection will not reduce the amount of compensation the injured party receives.

Jim Meyer has been elected as the junior vice president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors» Association.

Castle Park Solicitors also offers free legal services, notably in the form of weekly drop - in clinics, at different locations such as the Family Court in Leicester, the Leicester Sikh Temple, and its own offices.

Principle 2 of the Solicitors Regulation Authority Code of Conduct states that «Personal integrity is central to your role as the client's trusted adviser and should characterise all your professional dealings with clients, the court, other lawyers and the public.»

Four of our Housing solicitors (Jacky Starling, Naomi Moore, David Araya and Shazina Hussain) act as duty solicitors at the Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Court and Stratford Housing Centre.

At Moore Blatch the partners of firm acting as Deputy have years of experience acting in this role, and they have the support of a team of specialist Court of protection solicitors.

He has represented clients in more than 20 counties throughout Pennsylvania, and he currently serves as solicitor to the Dauphin County Clerk of Courts.

«The solicitor's obligations to the court and to uphold the rule of law by adhering to the money - laundering and counter-terrorist financing legislation, as well as our own accounts rules, can be discharged without impacting on privilege,» he says.

Canadian courts had long held that common - interest privilege served as a defence to an allegation that, by sharing a legal opinion with mutually interested parties in a commercial transaction, the disclosing party had thereby waived solicitor - client privilege to the shared opinion.

The Court of Appeal stated that while an appropriate case may give rise to important issues such as privacy, solicitor - client privilege, expense, and time, this was not that case as Mr. Justice Myers» order was of narrow scope.

Secondly as this solicitor was in court, her firm had sufficient notice of BDO's application and so the judge could summarily rule on it.

As the new J - Codes guidance explains: «If the advantages of the electronic production of bills are to be maximised, it is important that a fee - earner's time entries should form the basis not only of a solicitor's bill to the client but also of any bill to be presented for assessment by the courts... Otherwise, as at present, every entry in a bill for assessment is simply a manual repetition of something that has already been inputted electronically in the firm's time recording systeAs the new J - Codes guidance explains: «If the advantages of the electronic production of bills are to be maximised, it is important that a fee - earner's time entries should form the basis not only of a solicitor's bill to the client but also of any bill to be presented for assessment by the courts... Otherwise, as at present, every entry in a bill for assessment is simply a manual repetition of something that has already been inputted electronically in the firm's time recording systeas at present, every entry in a bill for assessment is simply a manual repetition of something that has already been inputted electronically in the firm's time recording system.

«He embraced the spirit of the Report of the Committee on One - Parent Families and steered many of its ideas, such as conciliation (later mediation) and unified family courts, into the blood of the new [Solicitors Family Law] Association.»

«Because of the difficulties inherent in determining the extent to which the information contained in lawyers» bills of account is neutral information, and the importance of the constitutional values that disclosing it would endanger [i.e. such as the right not to self - incriminate], recognizing a presumption that such information falls prima facie within the privileged category will better ensure that the objectives of the solicitor - client privilege are achieved and helps keep impairments of solicitor - client privilege to a minimum,» the Supreme Court found in Maranda.

«As the Supreme Court of Canada has made clear, solicitor client privilege is a principle of fundamental justice and is a civil right of supreme importance in Canadian law,» Van Ommen said in a letter to Minister of Justice Jodi Wilson - Raybould and Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale.