Sentences with phrase «for appointment to the bench»

As Hampton had written in that same letter: «a high standard of excellence» had become the main criterion for appointment to the bench.

Not exact matches

Campaigning for the chairs of these committees has been under way since news of final appointments to each party's front bench confirmed who had been left on the backbenches at the start of this parliament.

Before her appointment to the federal bench in 1980, she served as a King County Superior Court judge for the State of Washington.

Mundel's appointment likely reflects the Gates Foundation's desire to apply that approach to their health and drug development projects, says Denise DeMan - Williams, founder and CEO of the biotech recruiting firm Bench International (who recruited Mundel for the Novartis job).

Recent diversity figures from the Judicial Appointments (JAC) show there is a serious problem with the appointment of black and minority ethnic lawyers to the bench and underline the need for targeted support and training, the Bar Council has said.

What do recent trends mean for new appointments to the bench?

Law societies and bar associations have been calling on the federal government to appoint a wider variety of individuals to the bench, but as Rosemary Cairns notes in her recent paper «Deliberate Disregard: Judicial Appointments under the Harper Government»: «These calls for change have elicited little substantive political response.

However this is of little consequence in the long run for the same reasons that have discussed above with regard to appointments to the Bench.

She had been a longtime federal prosecutor and served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa before her appointment to the bench.

Minister Denis encouraged Albertans to write their Members of Parliament to ask for appointments of Court of Queen's Bench Justices.

For all the talk of nominating a woman, a recent Gallup poll shows that only 38 percent of women surveyed believed that appointing a woman to the bench appointment is «essential» or «a good idea.»

It's finally a policy for the processes in appointment members to the bench to include diversity trianing.

When Linden met with Hampton, he didn't have to time present his request for the 16 new appointments before he was told by Hampton that the Court would be receiving 27 new judges as a result of the Askov decision, plus eight new judges to replace the new RSJs, for a grand total of 35 judges — representing approximately 15 % of the entire bench.

Soon after, the newspaper published an article about his hardline approach signaling a shift in a second «tough on crime» wave, and the governor called him to compliment his service and indicate that he was the model for future bench appointments.

As rumours of Toews appointment to the bench have been swirling for some months, most of the negativity arises in part from his political affiliation but also that he has been away from the practise of law for so many years that many feel he is ill equipped to sit on the bench.

Before his appointment to the Federal bench, Judge Hudson served as a Virginia circuit judge for Fairfax County, Director of the United States Marshals Service, as the Senate - confirmed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and as the elected Commonwealth's Attorney for Arlington County, Virginia.

I apologize for my actions to the public I serve, the institution I represent, my judicial colleagues, members of the bar and all persons serving the administration of justice... I will humbly continue to treat all persons that appear before me fairly and impartially as I have done since my appointment to this honourable bench in 1990.»

Sir John was a member of Essex Court Chambers for 25 years prior to his appointment as a Justice of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division -LSB-...]

This opposition is evident in a manual written in 1962 by S. Tupper Bigelow, a lawyer and magistrate, to serve as a guide for all magistrates, but particularly tailored for new appointments to the bench.

The Ontario Court of Justice organizes a one - day orientation program for newly - appointed judges shortly after their appointment which deals with practical matters relating to the transition to the bench, including judicial conduct and ethics, courtroom demeanour, and administrative procedures.

The Act further stipulated qualifications for appointment, criteria for selection and an application, review and interview process that did much to modernize the justice of the peace bench and that was much more consistent with the important role of the justices of the peace within the Court.

McLachlin pointed to Brown's previous role as a legal academic and said it's common for people to express their opinions before their appointment to the bench.

Prior to his appointment to the Ouray County Court bench in 2000, he was an owner and attorney for Attorneys Title Agency, Inc.; owner and attorney for KURA radio; an attorney at the Westfall Law Office; and owner of Westfall Construction.

And this is what I understand to be the meaning of our lawyers, when they say that these civil corporations are liable to no visitation; that is, that the law having by immemorial usage appointed them to be visited and inspected by the king their founder, in his majesty's court of king's bench, according to the rules of the common law, they ought not to be visited elsewhere, or by any other authority.53 And this is so strictly true, that though the king by his letters patent had subjected the college of physicians to the visitation of four very respectable persons, the lord chancellor, the two chief justices, and the chief baron; though the college had accepted this carter with all possible marks of acquiescence, and had acted under it for near a century; yet, in 1753, the authority of this provision coming in dispute, on an appeal preferred to these supposed visitors, they directed the legality of their own appointment to be argued: and, as this college was a mere civil, and not an eleemosynary foundation, they at length determined, upon several days solemn debate, that they had no jurisdiction as visitors; and remitted the appellant (if aggrieved) to his regular remedy in his majesty's court of king's bench.

Originally from Sturgeon Falls, Ont., Charron was a Crown attorney and went on to teach in the French common law section of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law for 10 years before her first appointment to the bench in Ontario in 1988.

«For the first time since my appointment to the bench, I kept a docket of the time which I spent on writing a judgment,» he says.

The UK government is introducing legislation that will provide, among other things, that as between candidates for the bench who are equally qualified, preference may lawfully be given to the one whose appointment would contribute to rectifying the under representation of a disadvantaged category.