Sentences with phrase «current legal interest»

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«You will need political leadership today because governments come to office, and you will need that chief executive of the country to say that I am interested in making sure that that part of my country, which I preside over has a lasting peace and I will allow for independent and proper adjudication of justice by the application of the traditional or customary wheels of justice and current or legal means of justice to run in tandem, to bring whatever impasse that has existed over the period to a halt,» he told host Ekow Mensah - Shalders.

«Receiving a $ 60,000 gift from a business which lobbies is perfectly legal under the current campaign - finance law; that's why we support Gov. Cuomo's attempts to change this law,» said Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

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Each share class represents an interest in the same assets of the Funds, has the same rights and is identical in all material respects except that (i) each class of shares may be subject to different (or no) sales loads, (ii) each class of shares may bear different (or no) distribution fees; (iii) each class of shares may have different shareholder features, such as minimum investment amounts; (iv) certain other class - specific expenses will be borne solely by the class to which such expenses are attributable, including transfer agent fees attributable to a specific class of shares, printing and postage expenses related to preparing and distributing materials to current shareholders of a specific class, registration fees paid by a specific class of shares, the expenses of administrative personnel and services required to support the shareholders of a specific class, litigation or other legal expenses relating to a class of shares, Trustees» fees or expenses paid as a result of issues relating to a specific class of shares and accounting fees and expenses relating to a specific class of shares and (v) each class has exclusive voting rights with respect to matters relating to its own distribution arrangements.

«We believe that... Connecticut was already capable of fairly adjudicating animal cruelty and other animal issues without, in a larger sense, potentially jeopardizing the current legal status of animals and without, on the smaller level, involving outside organizations and interests to influence the adjudication of individual cases,» Goffe said.

The 2009 Climategate emails and the current effort to prevent public debate through legal action have increased interest in two questionable models that appeared in 1946 as consensus science [1]:

This blawgger opines on Illinois statutes, law - related current events, links to content on other legal blawgs he finds interesting.

These are pages organized around practice areas and interests where lawyers can contribute analysis, meet others in their fields, and engage in discussions about current legal developments.

It also includes interesting news regarding the recent acquisition of Novitas by Close Brothers, a move which proves the importance of alternative funders to the legal sector in the current market.

Please submit a letter expressing your interest, a current resume, and a list of three references to Eileen Messier, HR Manager, or mail to Community Legal Aid, 405 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01608.

One of the more interesting parts of Guy Joubert «s recent interview with the Canadian Lawyer is his observation that there is only scant accurate and current statistical information on the Canadian legal profession.

Classical and current formulations of how to appeal to an audience's sometimes - conflicting senses of justice, fair play, and naked self - interest correspond generally to my observations and personal and professional experience about how people make decisions in legal and non-legal situations.

Interesting but I am not sure that this («no one will drop by to discuss my politics, no one will search my computer files, and no one will put me under house arrest») is not a straw man argument or even applicable to the current social and legal situation in the «developed» countries.

However the Commissioner favored a purposive and contextual reading to conclude the 1997 transitional provision was not intended to apply to the current ATB regime, but rather the legislature intended this transitional section to apply to references to the former branch of the Treasury Department known as the Government of Alberta Treasury Branches to ensure legal interests transitioned from this prior structure to the new corporate ATB entity established at that time.

Or, on the other hand, are we willing to examine current arrangements for legal work with a view to adapting the work, where possible, to accommodate the needs and interests of lawyers, many of whom wish to participate in both meaningful work and family life?»

«In this role, Larry will be responsible for shaping and developing site content we produce around current legal news and topics of interest to consumers and attorneys across the United States,» said the announcement.

I became interested in refugee law and worked at the Refugee Legal Centre in the early 1990s, in a very different funding climate to the current one.

Current Awareness aims to provide up - to - date information regarding new case law, changes in legislation, and legal news of interest to lawyers in the United Kingdom.

One interesting current awareness publication I was not aware of is their Global Legal Monitor.

Actually, two of the most striking things about the current situation seem to me (by comparison with recent history) the convergence of interest by people and institutions traditionally separate within jurisdictions (e.g. inhabiting the worlds of PLE, legal aid, self represented litigants) and the degree of international linking helped by HiiL's entrepreneurialism (you can go to few countries in the world and not find that they have been there the week before) but also exampled by links the licensing of material from the Justice Education Society of British Columbia by California courts.

Throughout the year, Jim has been asked to present, moderate and participate in panel discussions and seminars throughout the country with other judges and lawyers on current topics of interest to the legal community.

Colin Rule: Well, it's interesting, we are building a new society out in cyberspace, it's cross-border, I mean, any of us can pull our phone out of our pockets and swipe, swipe, swipe, we buy something from someone on the other side of the planet and the justice systems that we have are tied to geography, if it's a dispute between a buyer in Argentina and a seller in Paris based on an e-commerce marketplace in the US and the item is drop - shipped out of China, I mean, our current legal system really can't make heads or tails out of that because it's the jurisdiction, it's just too confused.

We protect our clients» interests while also keeping them current and compliant with evolving legal requirements.

Attendees will then break into small groups based on areas of interest to discuss current and potential developments in information technology affecting legal information, research, and libraries; the implications of those technological developments; and possible courses of action for the Canadian law library community.

With the current self — regulation of the legal profession, non-lawyers aren't allowed to have any ownership interests in a firm.

In the case of Stanford & Stanford (2012) 247 CLR 108 the High Court held that property settlements are concerned with the alteration of «parties» existing current legal and equitable interests in the property» and therefore, add backs should not form part of the property pool because the parties no longer have an existing interest in that specific asset.

It is interesting to see large law firms attempt to emulate the well - established model of the global legal networks in their current approach to international expansion and realise the importance of deep local expertise for their clients.

There was an unspoken current of radical politics underneath the stated goals of the Legal Hackathon; Askin, a longtime member of the National Lawyers Guild, referred more than once to the increasing need for active, tech - savvy public interest lawyers.

There is a rebuttable presumption that continuing the current allocation of decision making under a legal custody order or continuing the child's physical placement with the parent with whom the child resides for the greater period of time is in the best interest of the child.

Show a wider interest in the legal sector: whether that is current global issues or more specific issues to the sector.

Revealing the latest news and gossip on, for example, the Brexit legal challenge, terrorism laws and Liz Truss, his Facebook profile is a must for law students interested in current affairs.

During their time at WilmerHale, interns are given the chance to put theory into practice by working with the International Arbitration Group's lawyers on factual and legal assignments stemming from current cases, as well as the opportunity to further academic interests with involvement on research projects in conjunction with lawyers in the practice.

The Report focuses on current events in the law, as well topics of general interest to the Greater Cincinnati legal community.

You speak to a lot of lawyers and legal tech people, do you feel that the current surge in interest in legal tech is sustainable and a change in the status quo, or is this just a blip that won't last?

At a moment at which there are many serious criticisms of liberalism and / or questions about its future, combined with substantial unanimity among legal academics about various progressive values (as seen, to be clear, through an establishment lens) and the routine invocation in current scholarly and public writing of things like «rule of law,» faith in judicial review, and so on, there is a lot of room for interesting and valuable work questioning those assumptions and premises.

It's very interesting to consider the current state of the legal industry with this lens as the threat of new entrants, substitutes, competing peers and other pressures are more prevalent among the incumbents than any other time in history.

Topics of particular interest are those which, perhaps, have not seen as much traction in the current practice of law or legal education such as authentic emotional leadership, innovation, and creativity.

Current CAJT projects include the law school's Public Interest Certificate program; A2J Author, a collaboration with the Center for Computer - Assisted Legal Instruction to build new computer interfaces for self - represented litigants; and the Self - Help Web Center at the Cook County Courthouse in the Daley Center, where law student volunteers help self - represented litigants to use technology tools developed at CAJT.

The target audience would include (in something like this order): future and current law students, current law faculty, all legal practitioners, the blogging community in general, anyone else w / an interest in blogging and / or developments in the law.

But the Federation argued in McKercher that the intent of the Model Code was to specifically prohibit retainers directly adverse to the immediate legal interests of current clients.

But your readers who are interested in legal education might want to take a look at Radical Proposals to Reform Legal Pedagogy, a mini symposium in the current Harvard Civil Rights — Civil Liberties Law Review legal education might want to take a look at Radical Proposals to Reform Legal Pedagogy, a mini symposium in the current Harvard Civil Rights — Civil Liberties Law Review Legal Pedagogy, a mini symposium in the current Harvard Civil Rights — Civil Liberties Law Review (Vol.

The In Custodia Legis blog has started posting FALQs — Frequently Asked Legal Questions — on foreign and international law issues of current interest.

The publisher's note about the vision for the current iteration of the site is interesting reading and tracks the evolution of the technological and legal information environment since the site's inception.

In light of the extent of foreign ownership and control, combined with outsourcing and offshoring, the question should be asked whether the current approach of the National Library and Archives in granting exemptions to databases of legal information is in the public interest.

Arguments requiring legal intervention, which I expect would be significantly diminished from current volumes, may very well be confined to enforcing the caregiving and support responsibilities of former members of cohabiting families and sorting out property interests when the family members can not resolve those issues themselves.

One way lawyers pass the time (as we wait for the lawyer in front of us to plead his case, or wait for the court probation officer or a client to complete paperwork, or wait to be let into the jail, etc.) is to talk about interesting current cases we have pending, and various legal issues raised by our clients» cases.

Justice Belobaba's decision, while uncontroversial in its application of current legal principles, stands as an interesting commentary on future potential developments regarding the threshold to be applied in the test for leave under s. 138 of the Act.

It provides that a lawyer can not act directly adverse to the immediate legal interests of a current client.

We encourage current judicial clerks interested in practicing with Covington to provide a current resume, law school transcript, legal writing sample, and list of references (including faculty and past legal employers) to the recruiting contact for the firm office in which they are interested.

The bright line rule holds that a lawyer can not act directly adverse to the immediate legal interests of a current client, without the clients» consent.