Sentences with phrase «fair judiciary»

The ABA's role also extends to educating the public on the critical role of a fair judiciary in their lives and businesses.

Not exact matches

The measure, introduced by Bob Goodlatte, the House's judiciary chairman, passed 119 - 74 and is being lauded as a more fair way for ethics investigations to be carried out.

Only states that hold free and fair elections on a regular basis, safeguard the rights of the minority and possess an independent judiciary fall within the province of this definition.

There were also civilian detentions in military facilities, often based on flimsy evidence; denial of fair public trial; executive influence on the judiciary; infringement on citizens» privacy rights; restrictions on freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and movement

The judiciary should not be intimidated by what the President has just said, they should be seen to do their work fair according to the dictates of the law.»

«I endorse Streng for judge because his decision to run against the Corrupt Democrat regime is an indication to me that he will be fair and wouldn't be a proxy to corruption in the judiciary,» Mrs Edwards tells Black Westchester exclusively Monday morning.

We have confidence in our judiciary, and given the opportunity, they will deliver a fair and satisfactory judgment based on the facts and evidence adduced before them.

The former governor of Kaduna State, who said that the PDP would «fly again,» appealed to the judiciary to be fair as the party waits for the Appeal Court judgment in Port Harcourt.

Democratic Sen. Eric Coleman, the judiciary committee co-chairman and chief proponent of the bill, said the measure would lead to «a much more accurate and much more fair system» in drawing the district lines.

Renowned exiled Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gülen, who has denied allegations by the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that he orchestrated the failed coup, is calling for an international probe into the allegations, saying he does not trust the Turkish government and the judiciary to carry out a fair investigation.

Among the things that people have told us they expect to find in the United States: a judiciary where they can get a fair shake; a free press that investigates broadly and exposes wrongdoing wherever it occurs; auditors who probe accounting records and promptly report irregularities; physicians who are not beholden to pharmaceutical companies; colleges and universities where students can study widely, switch fields and not remain indebted for decades; and finally a political system where you can succeed without having to sell your soul to wealthy supporters.

The judiciary is controlled by the state and there is no right to a fair public trial.

We built the membership last September to include fair representation from the judiciary, lawyers in private and public sector practice, the Courts Administration Service, a few other areas and a journalist to represent the interests of the Canadian public.

It represents the principle that no one should be above the law — not governments, not corporations, not the rich, not anyone — and that the system of laws is fair, transparent and upheld through an impartial and independent judiciary.

An independent judiciary, including an administrative law judiciary, exists to replace these scenarios with fair, impartial and orderly due process.

The judiciary, HMCTS and the legal profession have a shared interest in ensuring that our system is fair, accessible, efficient and effective.

The purpose of the judiciary is to administer fair and impartial justice, yet we place courts in a dangerous position when we make them dependent on the funds they collect.

As you can see, social media and social media content raise serious issues for the judiciary, with regards to independence, integrity and ethical standards, admissibility of evidence, the availability of ex parte information, the extent of judicial notice, practice rules, the right to a fair trial and juror conduct.

It's probably fair to say that Donald J. Trump's and the Daily Mail's continued attacks on the independence of the judiciary are a greater threat to the legal world than AI.

Many cases feature parties and lawyers who are being reasonable, but the issues at stake are novel or subtle or otherwise difficult such that even reasonable people have trouble sorting out what a fair result would be, and so they resort to the (expensive) wisdom of the judiciary.

But despite the support shown for McLachlin and a fair amount of condemnation aimed at Harper's comments (and even his understanding of the relationship between the government and the judiciary), the PM never apologized.

But the decision of the inquiry committee to resign en masse has reinforced the perception the proceedings have gone badly awry, and are undermining public confidence in the fair and effective regulation of the ethics of the judiciary.

«No other nation in the world [has an elected judiciary],» she said at a conference on judicial independence at Fordham Law School, «because they realize you're not going to get fair and impartial judges that way.»

In the end, the principles by which Brown is guided in ultimately exercising his discretion to discharge a certificate of pending litigation to allow the moving party defendant to finance or sell a property in order to raise future legal defence costs — «fair; fast; cost - effective; finality» — are the same principles that are shared, or should be shared, by proponents of ADR and the judiciary.

[/ a] A more diverse judiciary ensures that it can more effectively carry out its duties in a fair and impartial manner, says Lynn Smith, who retired as a B.C. Supreme Court judge in 2012, after 14 years on the bench.

More recently, John has chaired DRI's national Judicial Task Force to explore and offer recommendations on how DRI can assist in maintaining a fair and impartial judiciary.

It's the kind of thing that shakes the public's confidence in the ability of the police, the lawyers, and the judiciary to provide the public a fair process.

Now Commit to this protocol and to positively promote the procurement of legal services of black and women practitioners; to actively create better access for black and women practitioners; to bridge the skill set deficits, if any, among black and female practitioners; to increase the exposure of black and female practitioners to all areas of the law; to help broaden the pool of black and women practitioners; to ensure that fair selection criteria are used in the briefing of black and women practitioners; to promote a change in attitude so as to promote the inclusion of black and women practitioners in the main stream of practice; to render bi-annual reports for the monitoring of compliance with the aims of these protocols, holding signatories to the protocols accountable; and to widen the pool of practitioners and ultimately affect the transformation of the judiciary; all in order to progressively realise the achievement of the transformation of the legal profession.

[1] An independent, fair and impartial judiciary is indispensable to our system of justice.

The tie - in to the Constitution is that this collusion deprives the affected litigant of its constitutionally protected right to a fair and independent judiciary.

The news is a bleak start to 2013 for the Quebec judiciary, which has had its fair share of bad press in recent years.

Whether or not lawyers and judges embrace change with genuine enthusiasm, I think it is fair to say the judiciary and the litigation bar recognize something has to give.

We built the membership last September to include fair representation from the judiciary, lawyers in private and public sector practice, the Courts Administration Service, a few other areas and a journalist to represent... [more]

For example, when the legislature creates a fair dealing exception for copyright, but does set out criteria for its determination, we infer that the legislature has delegated to the judiciary the task of interpreting what it means.

SG: My sense of our current judiciary is they are all earnest men and women who strive hard to get the right result in a fair way.

They remain largely unchallenged, not only through ouster clauses in particularized elections legislation, but also through the unwillingness of the judiciary to recognize the importance of the constitutional question relating to fair and equitable electoral management.

IVP is a non-partisan voter education project designed to educate voters about the importance of a fair and impartial judiciary and has appeared in numerous forums on that subject.

Not only is the judiciary expected to mete out justice in an expeditious, fair, and impartial manner, but they are also required to do so with a speedily growing docket and fewer and fewer resources from the government.

In the House of Lords committee's view «the media, especially the popular tabloid press, all too often indulge in distorted and irresponsible coverage of the judiciary, treating the judges as «fair game»».

In both sorts, one (me in concreto) must look after whether the basic rights (absolutely essential for a sovereign a lawfully state) are being followed by the authorities and judiciary, namely whether one is being treated equally and fair upon the widely interpreted law.

Finally, reaffirming the judiciary's attempts at even - handedness regarding headcoverings and the niqab, in 2012 the Supreme Court of Canada issued a judgment29 that weighed the rights of a witness to wear a niqab against the constitutional right of the accused to a fair trial, where the credibility of the veiled witness was in question.

«It is a privilege to be a part of an organization that strongly supports the independence of the judiciary, trial by jury, respect for the rule of law, access to justice, and fair and just representation of all parties to legal proceedings.»