Sentences with phrase «emoluments in»

And it is the primary reason why they put the prohibition on emoluments in the Constitution TWICE.

In the letter dated 14 July 2017 and signed by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni the organisation said that, «Public interest is not well served when government officials such as former governors, deputies supplement their emoluments in their current positions with life pensions and emoluments drawn from their states» meagre resources and thereby prioritising their private or personal interests over and above the greatest happiness of the greatest number.»

In the letter dated 14 July 2017 and signed by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni the organization said that, «Public interest is not well served when government officials such as former governors, deputies supplement their emoluments in their current positions with life pensions and emoluments drawn from their states» meagre resources, and thereby prioritising their private or personal interests over and above the greatest happiness of the greatest number.»

Mr Hunter was assessed to income tax for that year as having received a notional emolument in respect of the reduction in the school fee.

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He's also being sued separately for violating the Emoluments Clause — which prohibits federal officeholders from receiving gifts and payments from foreign states or their representatives — in his official capacity as President.»

If the call for divestiture to calm the Emolument Clause and / or blind trust problems is to eliminate any conflicts of interest between President elect Trump's ownership stakes in ongoing enterprises, then the remedy can't be a tax event.

Larry Tribe and others believe that President elect Trump's ownership of active business assets, even in a blind trust, would violate, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the Constitution which prevents the President from accepting «presents» or «Emolument» from foreign states.

Foreign diplomats have recently stayed at the Trump Hotel and this raises questions about whether, if this practice continues after inauguration, any lodging fees collected in connection with their stays would constitute the acceptance of a present (gift) or emolument by Trump.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

After having been sentenced to a perpetual ostracism from the esteem and confidence and honors and emoluments of his country, he will still be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law.

1) are «injuries... to the society itself,» 2) or which are «abuses or violations of the public trust,» 3) or which require a checking action to preserve separation of powers, 4) or which in general deserve «perpetual ostracism from the esteem and confidence and honors and emoluments of his country,»

But corrupt, worldly, or weak Popes used their power to appoint as abbots men who had the emoluments of the office but seldom if ever were in residence.

December 8 — Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis was paid over # 2.6 million in emoluments over the year to May 31.

But SERAP in a statement today by its deputy director Timothy Adewale said, «Rather than using their executive and legislative powers to promote good governance and abolish laws granting double emoluments and large severance benefits to former governors, the Abia State government is denigrating the judiciary and displaying contempt for the rule of law.»

Mr Thompson said Ghana spent approximately 71.4 per cent of domestic revenue in 2015 on emoluments and interest payment, which jumped to 78.2 per cent in 2016.

According to the Presidential Committee on Emoluments which was set up by President John Mahama in accordance with the constitution of Ghana, all Article 71 office holders are to enjoy a 10 % increase in their monthly salary and must be retrospective to cover 2013.

They are therefore demanding that the Committee set up by the President to determine their emoluments to present its recommendations to the House as soon as practicable to enable the MPs to know their fate before the House goes on recess in the first week of next month.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has explained that his decision to maintain the state residence he occupied while in office, contrary to recommendations made by a committee he set up to recommend emoluments of Article 71 office holders and his retirement package, was approved by the new government and Parliament.

«What the state workers are protesting, without prejudice to the Paris Club refunds, are the increment in wages to primary school teachers, local government workers and the increment of pensioners» emoluments,» it said.

Participants in a consultative meeting of the Presidential Committee on Emoluments have suggested that MPs be enrolled on the SSNIT or the other pension schemes.

Of all this, I consider the payment of salaries and emoluments of civil servants, especially teachers who are always in a tormenting majority, as the most important.

According to the Journal, Schneiderman's office is now looking into the possibility that Trump's businesses put the president in violation of the Emoluments Clause, the constitutional provision that bars an officeholder from accepting gifts, payments, or titles from a foreign state.

It also means the taxpayer continues to employ and pay persons expected to preform certain functions in the name of job, to justify their emoluments and this persons continue to pretend to be working.

GNPC, mandated to undertake the exploration, production, and disposal of petroleum in the country, has been in the news, lately, for allegedly paying some former officials hefty emoluments against the advice of their legal counsel.

A cake that could be used to invest in more productive channels and not the big salaries and emoluments of some few individuals.

I'm one of the lawyers representing CREW in the emoluments violation lawsuit.

If the Presidency does not review these «bogus» allocations in its proposed expenditure, it may lose the moral right to advise the National Assembly against spending some billions of naira on purchasing cars for its members despite the fact that the legislators have already collected their car allowances plus other sundry emoluments.

SERAP urged Malami to use his «good offices as a defender of public interest» to urgently institute appropriate legal actions to challenge the legality of states» laws permitting former governors, who are now senators and ministers to enjoy governors» emoluments while drawing normal salaries and allowances in their new political offices.»

ICPC in a 49 - count charge preferred against him and a former Chief Accountant of IAR & T, Mr. Zaccheaus Tejumola, told the court that the duo opened an unauthorized bank account titled «the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training Ibadan Staff Club and Cooperative Account» into which they transferred N204, 926, 265.35 from the personnel emolument (salaries) account of the Institute.

The Prof. Dora Francisca Edu - Buandoh committee on Emoluments and Conditions of Service for Article 71 office holders in its report on the recommendation of benefits for Presidents leaving office, named among other things an office space to be equipped with modern gadgets to be given to the retiring presidents, but President John Mahama even before being presented with the property has rejected it.

According to Mr. Agyekum, in 2001, following the Greenstreet Presidential Committee on Emoluments report, former President Rawlings for instance was allowed to make a preference for his residential accommodation and office, and he chose two bungalows at Ridge.

In November 2015, President Mahama performed the constitutional ritual of constituting a committee to review the emoluments of Article 71 class of public sector workers.

For the past four years, the school has operated the «word of the day» program, which gives students an opportunity to display their understanding of a relatively difficult word in exchange for a small emolument, usually a candy bar.

In December, a federal judge in Manhattan tossed a different emoluments suit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and a restaurant industry grouIn December, a federal judge in Manhattan tossed a different emoluments suit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and a restaurant industry grouin Manhattan tossed a different emoluments suit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and a restaurant industry grouin Washington and a restaurant industry group.

A federal judge in Maryland has ruled that Maryland and Washington, D.C., have standing to pursue a narrowed claim in their lawsuit contending that President Donald Trump is violating the Constitution's foreign and domestic emoluments clauses by accepting payments from foreign governments and states through his business empire.

Law professor Seth Barrett Tillman of Ireland's Maynooth University submitted an amicus brief arguing that the emoluments clause doesn't apply to the president of the United States, igniting an argument among legal historians, the New York Times reported in September.

Morrison concludes that: «in - house lawyers, showered with emoluments from marketing, lose objectivity less often than the givers hope, but more often than the recipient lawyers realize.»

Bloomberg notes that at least two other lawsuits accusing Trump of violating the foreign emoluments clause are pending, in federal district courts in Washington, D.C. and Maryland.

«It is a co-equal branch of the federal government with the power to act as a body in response to defendant's alleged foreign emoluments clause violations, if it chooses to do so.»

However, there are exceptions, including: the taxation of perquisites; where the employer uses the money to give a benefit in kind which is not earnings or emoluments; and an arrangement by which the employer's payment does not give the intended recipient an immediate vested beneficial interest but only a contingent interest.

Delivering the lead judgment in RFC2012 Plc (in liquidation)(formerly The Rangers Football Club Plc) v Advocate General for Scotland [2017] UKSC 45, Lord Hodge said: «The central issue in this appeal is whether it is necessary that the employee himself or herself should receive, or at least be entitled to receive, the remuneration for his or her work in order for that reward to amount to taxable emoluments.»

Geldenhuys also led the Emoluments Attachment Order case, which won Webber Wentzel the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team of the Year award in 2015.

It takes place when a person gives an official money, gifts, a privilege or benefit (all emoluments), that may tend to influence the official's behavior in office.

The Title of Nobility Clause is a provision in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, that prohibits the federal government from granting titles of nobility, and restricts members of the government from receiving gifts, emoluments, offices or titles from foreign states without the consent of the United States Congress.

Over the past year I've written about the Emoluments Clause; the No Religious Tests clause; limits on presidential power as defined in the steel seizure case; the meaning of the oath of office; how the Appropriations Clause constrains lawsuit settlements involving the federal government; how and whether gerrymandering by race and for partisan advantage affects constitutional rights; judicial independence; the decline and fall of the Contracts Clause; the application of Obergefell to issues of public employees and birth certificates; Article V procedure for calling a new constitutional convention; and too many First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment controversies to list.