Sentences with phrase «for public interest cases»

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She stated her hope that litigation funding could be further used for public interest cases, citing Woodsford's support of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre in Australia as a good example of what is possible.

Noel, my first sense in creating JustAccess was that it'd indeed be used primarily for public interest cases.

It has emerged that the Ministry of Defence in late 2009 convinced the Ministry of Justice to change the rules on legal aid to ensure that legal aid would no longer be available for public interest cases involving the acts of the armed forces abroad and the torture of Iraqi and Afghan nationals.

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And he was asking them to hold back, in this case, specifically because it's in the public interest for them to do so.

The case is important not only because Hogan wants $ 100 million, which could ruin Gawker, but also because it highlights how Gawker is alone among new media companies in waging the sort of public interest legal fights that were once second nature for traditional media.

Jeff Cronin, the director of communications for the Center for Science in the Public Interest and a litigant in the case, tells WTOP that this settlement is good news for consumers.

However, a budget deficit that takes the form of transfer payments to banks, as in the case of the post-September 2008 bank bailout, the Federal Reserve's $ 2 trillion in cash - for - trash financial swaps and the $ 700 billion QE2 credit creation by the Federal Reserve to lend to banks at 0.25 % interest in 2011, has a different effect from deficits that reflect social spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and services.

In this case, the Council promoted the formulation of a new authorization category for BankA companies that accept public funding up to 100 million Swiss francs, but do not invest or pay interest on those funds.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

During the election, many mainstream economists such as David Dodge, Don Drummond and former deputy minister of Finance Scott Clark argued the strong case for deficit financing of productive public investments at a time of economic stagnation and very low interest rates.

That's a tough sell at a time when public opinion has tilted sharply against cutting taxes on the rich, and when a low unemployment rate and Federal Reserve interest rate increases have eliminated the case for fiscal stimulus.

The idea of broadcasting as a force in the public interest, a display case for the best of America «s creative arts, a forum of public debate — advancing the democratic conversation and enhancing the public imagination — has receded before the inexorable force of audience maximization.11.

So last month, when the Center for Science in the Public Interest announced it was filing a class action lawsuit to stop McDonald's from using Happy Meal toys to market to children, the fierce and ugly backlash against the mother of two who was brave enough to attach her name to the case was predictable.

He said in a statement at the time that: ``... I have this morning 4th November, 2016 filed an application at the Supreme Court for leave to examine the judgment debtor as the citizen public interest plaintiff in favour of whom the case was decided for the Republic of Ghana.»

Reinvent Albany has analyzed the Freedom of Information Law requests received by numerous New York State and City agencies in an effort to identify what agency information and data the public is interested in, and to make a case for publishing that information online.

He also said security concerns were likely moot given the passage of time, and noted a 1988 case that said former New York City mayor Ed Koch's «private» schedules were subject to public scrutiny if public interests outweighed the argument for privacy.

The justice secretary had admitted this morning that he was giving «further consideration» to the case for public interest after reports over the weekend suggested reasons for the move.

Huge public interest in the case follows last year's expenses scandal, in which many MPs were questioned for their use of public money.

With a series of public corruption cases roiling the Legislature, Cuomo called for increased penalties for official misconduct and tighter disclosure rules that require greater disclosure of conflicts of interest.

The Brennan Center for Justice, Citizens Union, Common Cause New York, the League of Women Voters of New York City, and New York Public Interest Research Group submitted a friend - of - the - court brief this week, urging the federal district court hearing the case to uphold the law.

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

«The drinks industry continues to have high - level access to Government ministers and officials while no forum currently exists for the public health community to put forward its case in an environment free from vested interests.

In the wake of the Straw and Rifkind case, Sir Alistair Graham, former chairman of the committee on standards in public life, has also called for the entire parliamentary standards regime to be changed to ensure it «genuinely represents the broader public interest».

It's contrary to the public interest; inequitable, disproportionate, unfair and a clear case of conflict of interest for leaders of the National Assembly to enjoy unbridled discretion in the allocation and diversion of projects to their constituencies.»

«For the purposes of Your Lordship's record and because of the public interest that this case seems to unnecessarily attract, our proposal was made in accordance with established laws and there is no fixation on Section 270 of the ACJA.

In his Aug. 17 letter to Cuomo, Soares — citing the executive order and public comments by the governor and attorney general about a perceived conflict of interest for district attorneys in such cases — said he was stepping back.

Dr. Lloyd F. Novick, Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice comments, «This case study of public health policy practice during the Bloomberg Administration and the accompanying commentary by Dr. Pascal Imperato — NYC Health Commissioner from 1976 to 1978 and current member of the Advisory Council of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the DeBlasio Administration — are excellent resources for students and others interested in different approaches to public health policy.&Public Health Management and Practice comments, «This case study of public health policy practice during the Bloomberg Administration and the accompanying commentary by Dr. Pascal Imperato — NYC Health Commissioner from 1976 to 1978 and current member of the Advisory Council of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the DeBlasio Administration — are excellent resources for students and others interested in different approaches to public health policy.&public health policy practice during the Bloomberg Administration and the accompanying commentary by Dr. Pascal Imperato — NYC Health Commissioner from 1976 to 1978 and current member of the Advisory Council of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the DeBlasio Administration — are excellent resources for students and others interested in different approaches to public health policy.&public health policy.»

Today's decision in the Washington Alliance case demonstrates that this is not true,» says a statement by Dale Wilcox, executive director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), a nonprofit «public interest legal education and advocacy organization dedicated to advocating for the rights and interests of United States citizens in immigration - related matters,» according to its website.

For that reason, it is all the more interesting to observe that in some cases a shift in public opinion seems to be occurring.

UTLA has reached an agreement with public interest groups and LAUSD in a long - fought case that will result in millions in new funding for 3?

UTLA: Agreements reached to bring relief to schools educators UTLA has reached an agreement with public interest groups and LAUSD in a long - fought case that will result in millions in new funding for 3?

A classic case for the debate about whom the American public education system serves more — parents and taxpayers or unionized employee special interests — is the issue of tax - funded teachers union release time.

Because acceleration is almost unheard of beyond a new policy to allow for early entrance to Kindergarten on a case - by - case basis, they were all very interested in our use of grade and subject acceleration to make public schools work for our gifted children.

In case anyone's interested, this comes from the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts report (https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmpubacc/760/760.pdf) «In November 2017, ESFA wrote to 29 single academy trusts where a Trustee was paid in excess of # 150,000, requesting justification for these significant salaries.

For media, their audience is the general public, in which case you should use a pitch that ties your book to a human interest story, event, or trend their audience would be interested in.

In particular, it provides a number of concrete tools and recommendations to help interested countries, such as: an overview of international public funding sources dedicated to adaptation investments, seven fundamental eligibility criteria for accessing international public funding and guidance on how to apply these concepts to project ideas, a template for developing / presenting adaptation project ideas to international donors; and an overview of critical concepts and requirements for accessing private financing for adaptation and a number of instructive case studies.

«Sorry, but even your own work shows that this probably wasn't the case and you were deliberately lying to the media — and everyone else — about the results of your work,» Motl continued, personally attacking Schmidt for allegedly seeking to deceive journalists and the public in the interests of promoting warming alarmism.

Three days ago I was heading to the northernmost town in the United States in order to help a dedicated public interest attorney prepare for and argue one of the most important cases the Supreme Court of Alaska has ever heard, Nelson Kanuk v. State of Alaska.

I believe that the leaking of this draft is entirely legal, that the taxpayer funded report report is properly in the public domain under the Freedom of Information Act, and that making it available to the public is in any case protected by established legal and ethical standards, but web hosting companies are not in the business of making such determinations so interested readers are encouraged to please download copies of the report for further dissemination in case this content is removed as a possible terms - of - service violation.

As I said above, even if (and I'm not saying this is the case) scientists have been poor at communicating this point to the public there is no excuse for anyone who actually takes an interest in the subject to the point where they feel competent to make confident pronouncements on the state of climate science and the reality or otherwise of (C) AGW not to be aware of it.

(Well, there is another line of cases analyzing whether the speech relates to a public person or subject of public interest — conditions theoretically necessary for the application of the absence of malice standard.

«Personally I have the same approach to the two cases that I do to all others which involve the unauthorised release of information — I base my judgement on whether I think the wider public interest is served by the release of the information whilst acknowleging that the person responsible has to recognise that there may be personal consequences for their actions and accept them accordingly.

But looking forward, in light of the public interest issues these cases generate, the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Payment Services Directive (PSD2) from 2018, and the recent Equifax breach (see below), we can expect significantly heavier penalties to become the norm for both firms and their senior managers / directors under the senior managers» regime.

He continued: «Our Director also set out the criteria he would take into account when deciding which cases we should accept for investigation: the impact of the case on UK financial plc in general and the City of London in particular; the scale of losses, actual or potential; the extent of the gain, actual or potential; whether we were dealing with a new kind of fraud or whether there was some other public interest reason for taking the case on.

The creation of three designated broadcast rooms — for the provincial, superior, and appeal court — is part of a pilot project designed by the province's three chief justices and intended to «create a comfort level» with media in order to facilitate coverage of cases that have strong public interest and educational aspects.

The public interest, and the interests of others who wish to uphold the legality of the action of the public body, comes into play when the court looks at the strength of the case needed to support an application for interim relief.

Deepak Gupta of Gupta Wessler PLLC enjoys a high profile amongst market sources for his vibrant appellate practice, focusing on public interest cases and plaintiff - side representations.

Accused went to cottage of JC with whom she previously cohabited — Accused found JC with victim, another lady, in sauna — Angry words were exchanged between accused and JC — Victim testified that accused pushed her following verbal exchange, as a result victim lost balance and ended up against stove, thereby sustaining serious burns to body — Trial judge accepted victim's evidence that there was some kind of pushing — Accused convicted on one count of assault causing bodily harm, and sentenced to two - year term of probation and $ 1,000.00 fine, accused was also ordered to provide DNA sample pursuant to s. 487.04 of Criminal Code — Accused appealed — Appeal against sentence was allowed — Trial judge erred in concluding that discharge was not appropriate in circumstances, especially given conclusion that accused did not deliberately attempt to injure victim — Trial judge found that there was no need for either specific deterrence or general deterrence; prime concern was need for denunciation of her conduct — Section 730 of Criminal Code permits discharge in cases of this nature, provided that it was in best interest of accused and not contrary to public interest — Accused was responsible individual with no record whatsoever, she held position as counsellor and social worker for 25 years — Trial judge did not find that conviction would definitely affect her employment, but possibility existed, and such conviction would necessarily result in criminal record — There was no likelihood of re-offending — Conditional discharge would not be contrary to public interest.

What the team is known for Renowned as one of the first dedicated practices in the area, with a highly skilled and well - supported bench of litigators able to handle cases ranging from the most technical business cases to high - profile public interest matters.