Sentences with phrase «dishonest conduct of»

A claim may be made against this fund to recover a loss caused by the dishonest conduct of a lawyer.

[6] A lawyers» fund for client protection provides a means through the collective efforts of the bar to reimburse persons who have lost money or property as a result of dishonest conduct of a lawyer.

The Colorado Attorneys» Fund for Client Protection covers losses caused by the dishonest conduct of an attorney who is licensed to practice law by the Colorado Supreme Court.

The Colorado Attorneys» Fund for Client Protection is a fund established by the Colorado Supreme Court to reimburse clients who suffer a loss of money or other property from the dishonest conduct of their attorney.

If you believe you have lost money or property due to the dishonest conduct of your attorney, the Attorneys» Fund for Client Protection may be able to help.

Attorneys» Fund for Client Protection The Colorado Attorneys» Fund for Client Protection is a fund established by the Colorado Supreme Court to reimburse clients who suffer a loss of money or other property from the dishonest conduct of their attorney.

«In my opinion, the surreptitious and dishonest conduct of Edward was so highly reprehensible as to warrant an award of full indemnity, that is, solicitor and own client costs.

Not exact matches

THE Australian Tax Office has landlords firmly in its sights and is conducting a series of audits to catch out the unwary and dishonest, warns the Aust - ralian Society of CPAs.

This conduct of the NPP and its leadershipespecially Nana Akufo Addo and Dr. Mahmudu Bawumia his running mate is disgraceful and dishonest.

He said the conduct of the NPP and its presidential candidate is «disgraceful and dishonest»

On 27 August, NSF said that her «dishonest conduct» compelled them to cancel her temporary assignment immediately, at the end of the first of what was expected to be a 2 - year stint.

Because you [Wakefield] drafted and wrote the final version of the paper, and omitted correct information about the purpose of the study or the patient population, the panel is satisfied that your conduct was irresponsible and dishonest.»

Cheating is wrong for at least four reasons: it gives students who cheat an unfair advantage over those who do not cheat; it is dishonest; it is a violation of trust; and it undermines the academic integrity, the code of conduct, and the social order of the school.

The OSC says its staff have found no evidence of dishonest conduct by CIBC, which self - reported the problem.

I can understand your reluctance to directly accuse specific individuals of dishonest conduct, particularly colleagues.

The Court held that the revelation of character cases can be roughly divided into three categories: i) where misconduct is extremely serious, sometimes bordering on criminal acts (e.g. theft or fraud), just cause for termination will usually exist; ii) where conduct reveals deceit, misrepresentation or misleading of employers, cause will likely be found; and iii) where there are errors in judgment or a failure to follow rules, it can not automatically be said that the employee was dishonest for the purposes of justifying summary dismissal.

I didn't think it was so radical to suggest, as many bar association rules of conduct state, that a lawyer «should not knowingly assist or permit the client to do anything that the lawyer considers to be dishonest or dishonourable.»

There is a discernible trend in this context of relevant findings steering away from a full analysis of whether wilful or dishonest conduct is involved, with the result that dishonest act exclusions are more difficult or impossible to invoke.

Is it the quality of their legal knowledge The «something else» alluded to is the possibility of dishonest or criminal conduct.

We didn't even talk at all about lawyers that steal from their clients and that type of dishonest conduct.

Barristers from Essex Court Chambers conducted the defence of claims of bribery and corruption, dishonest assistance and conspiracy brought by two Russian state - owned companies, Sovcomflot and Novoship, against their clients in the massive Fiona Trust litigation.

Relying on the effect of the well - established rule of policy does not equate to dishonesty or dishonest conduct by the respondent, and it can not be said that not being able to put forward privileged matters makes the claimant's case in any way «dishonest».

Perhaps anticipating that eventuality, before this court the appellant changed tack somewhat and submitted that he was duped by his clients and should, consequently, have at most been found guilty of the lesser offence of failing to be on guard against being so duped instead of the more serious offence of participating or knowingly assisting in dishonest or fraudulent conduct.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice found that Wal - Mart's conduct was «misleading at best, and dishonest at worst» because the company knew Galea's career there was over long before the formal termination of employment.

In each case, the defendant's conduct must be deemed dishonest and their intention must be to gain or cause a loss, or risk of loss, to another.

In some industries and for specific jobs, honesty is of paramount importance and an employee's dishonest conduct can result in summary termination of employment for just cause.

Negotiating parties need to be mindful of conduct during negotiations that may be misleading or otherwise dishonest.

A former client of David G. Simonette was reimbursed $ 30,000 as a result of the former attorney's dishonest conduct.

Any dishonest conduct which deprives or risks depriving another person of any property, money, valuable security, or any service constitutes fraud.

The British Columbia Court of Appeal agreed with the employer finding that dishonest conduct, irrespective of its degree, is always cause for dismissal.

Employees who have been fired for just cause based on allegations that they engaged in some type of dishonest conduct represent the most common type of justification for summary dismissal.

Dishonest conduct includes theft, fraud, breach of trust, and various types of deceptions and misrepresentations.

The court must determine: (i) whether the evidence establishes the employee's deceitful (dishonest) conduct on a balance of probabilities; and (ii) if so, whether the nature and degree of the dishonesty warrant the employee's dismissal.

The disassociation of the courts from police misconduct transcends society's interest in prosecuting a defendant for possessing some marihuana plants — conduct that was aggravated in this case by dishonest police testimony.

Where the alleged fraudulent act is not in the nature of deceit or falsehood, such as a misrepresentation of fact, the causal link between the dishonest conduct and the deprivation may not depend on showing that the victim relied on or was induced to act by the fraudulent act.

your claim was filed more than three years after you knew of the dishonest conduct or more than one year after the lawyer was disciplined or died, whichever is later;

Fraudulent conduct is not limited to deception, such as by misrepresentations of fact; rather, fraud requires proof of «deceit, falsehood or other fraudulent means», encompassing «all other means which can properly be stigmatized as dishonest.»

As I have written in a recent article on the topic of shoplifting demand letters, when lawyers send letters that mislead the public as to their legal obligations, there is a strong case that these lawyers are breaching rules of professional misconduct by, among other things, knowingly assisting their clients in dishonest conduct and violating their obligations to act in good faith and practice law with integrity.

That would be appropriate in a fraud case which this was not such a case: there was no suggestion of any kind of dishonest conduct whatever on the part of PDVSA.

A barrister is to be disbarred for dishonest conduct following convictions for a range of fraud offences amounting to about # 900,000.

In 2016 Stephanie obtained a full dismissal of charges before the ARDC Hearing Board that her client engaged in dishonest conduct in his own divorce case.

The ARP achieved the desired result on the basis that the first defendant committed the dishonest acts that gave rise to the claims, and that the second and third defendants, by their condoning of general dishonest conduct, were themselves dishonest.

``... before there can be a finding of dishonesty it must be established that the defendant's conduct was dishonest by the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people and that he himself realised that by those standards his conduct was dishonest.»

However, as Walker J and circuit judges had concluded that CPR 3.4 (2) provides a discretionary power to strike out the whole of a claim as a response to dishonest conduct Smith LJ went on to consider that issue.

Under US law, the offence charged in relation to price - fixing did not require proof of dishonesty, although the trial attorney averred that the conduct in question had in fact been dishonest.

A bag of wind (1878) · A blatherskite (1890) · A cowardly slanderer and a bully (1907) · A dim - witted saboteur (1956) · A parliamentary babe and suckling (1890) · A parliamentary pugilist and political bully (1875) · A servile follower of the government (1878) · A trickster (1919) · Above the truth (1962) · Abusing his position in the House (1877) · Ass (1970) · Attempted to misrepresent (1961) · Attempting to distort the facts as he had in the past (1956) · B and B gang (1964) · Bullshit (1973) · Canadian Mussolini (1964) · Cheap political way (1960) · Coming into the world by accident (1886) · Crook (1971) · Deceive (1977) · Deceived (1960) · Deliberate distortion (1968) · Deliberate falsehood (1961) · Deliberate malignity (1962) · Deliberately deceived (1960) · Deliberately distorted (1972) · Deliberately misleading (1977) · Deliberately misled (1959) · Deliberately misstated the truth (1960) · Deliberately trying to pervert (1960) · Demagogue (1963) · Devoid of honour (1960) · Dictatorial attitude (1961) · Disgracing the House (1896) · Dishonest (1959) · Dishonest answers (1968) · Dishonest insinuations (1960) · Dishonest performance (1960) · Does not have a spine (1971) · Evil genius (1962) · Fabricated a statement (1961) · Fabrication (1959) · False (1961) · False representations (1975) · False statement (1961) · Falsehood (1976) · Falsify (1964) · Fraud (1960) · Fraudulent character (1962) · Grovelling in the dirt in order to get an office (1900) · Has not got the guts (1959) · Honourable only by courtesy (1880) · Hypocrites (1961) · Hypocritical (1961) · Hysterical (1943) · Idiot (1962) · Ignoramus (1961) · Illegal (1977) · Illegal (actions)(1976) · Insolent and impertinent (1890) · Insolent and irresponsible reply (1962) · Inspired by forty - rod whiskey (1881) · Intentional deceit (1961) · Irresponsible Members (1969) · Irresponsible reply (1962) · Joker in this House (1960) · Kangaroo court (1960) · Lacking in intelligence (1934) · Lie (1959) · Lies (1976) · Living politically by deceit (1899) · Members have aligned themselves with the murderers in Quebec (1970) · Mislead (1958) · Misleading the public (1960) · Misrepresenting his constituency (1909) · Nazi (1962) · Nefarious (1960) · Not telling the complete truth (1964) · Not telling the truth (1960) · Obstruct the operation of government (1957) · Obstructionist (1961) · Offensive (1964) · Pompous Ass (1967) · Reneged promises (1962) · Scarcely entitled to be called gentlemen (1876) · Scurrilous (1961) · Seeking cheap notoriety (1919) · Shameful conduct (1960) · Sick animal (1966) · Silly reason (1961) · Sitting for his constituency by the grace of the leader of the Government (1884) · Slanderous accusations (1960) · Small and cheap (1960) · Stealing (1960) · Stooping to pretty low motives (1956) · Talking twaddle (1898) · The political sewer pipe from Carleton County (1917) · Theft (1960) · To hell with Parliament attitude (1961) · Trained seal (1961) · Treason (1957) · Trickery (1959) · Underhanded (1961) · Untrue statement (1961) · Violated his oath (1967) · Wilfully misled (1970)

The test of dishonesty for a jury was the well - established test articulated by Lord Lane in R v Ghosh [1982] 2 All ER 689, namely whether a jury would consider the conduct in question as dishonest «according to the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people»; and, if so, whether the proposed defendant «must have realised that what he was doing was by those standards dishonest».

The conduct alleged against the appellant, a «combination... or conspiracy by traders in restraint of trade», with the added ingredient (s) of an intention financially to prejudice the conspirators» customers, was capable of being regarded by ordinary people as dishonest.

(i) Whether in its judgment the conduct complained of was dishonest by the lay objective standards of ordinary reasonable and honest people; (if the answer to that was no, the defendant would be acquitted)

Both of them engaged in conduct that was dishonest, disloyal and — most of all — a disservice to the job candidates and law firms that BCG Attorney Search so passionately tries to serve with the highest caliber recruiting services.