Sentences with phrase «former bencher»

So is former bencher Joanne St. Lewis, who served from 2001 - 9.

Bryant also has experience as a special advisor to Norton Rose Fulbright LLP and a commercial litigator at McCarthy Tétrault LLP, and he is a former bencher at the Law Society of Ontario.

For its part, the profession was represented by benchers, former benchers and executive directors and law society staff.

Not exact matches

Also, even though this alliance forces Smith to let bygones be bygones with a guy who once reportedly tried to oust him from his majority leader post (that would be Sen. Jeff Klein back in 2008 when the leadership struggle No. 1 took place), it could hardly be any worse than being the deposed former majority leader of the Democratic conference where he's pretty much just a back bencher since losing his power in the 2009 coup.

The Commons select committee system has just received a further injection of new blood in the person of former GP and Conservative back - bencher Dr Sarah Wollaston MP.

After Silver was effectively removed from his leadership post in February, days after his arrest, the chamber elected a new leader, leaving the former speaker to serve as a conspicuous back - bencher.

«I can not accept that it's in the public interest to accredit a law school that wants to control its students in the bedroom,» said Bencher Howard Goldblatt in a remark reminiscent to one made by former prime minister Pierre Trudeau in 1967.

He is a practising criminal lawyer, co-founder of the Law Union of Ontario, a former co-president of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted, and a life bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada

Is STARE DECISIS (precedent) still part of the law in Ontario?The herein issue was dealt with in 2001, by the SCC, in a finding that the Charter does not apply to PRIVATE entities (TWU) and the Charter remains unchanged!The LSUC and lower Courts are bound by this precedent!Furthermore, the LSUC should not have proceeded herein, without specific authorization from a general Referendum and, at least for the sake of appearances, ON THIS ISSUE, the Bench, should have all been from out of Province, having absolutely no connection to the LSUC, as former Members, Benchers, etc..

Recalling an anecdote from former grammar school girl, Lady Justice Hallett, who is a contemporary of his and now a bencher at Inner Temple, he says: «She told me that because she was a bright girl, the careers mistress told her that if she did very well, she might become a domestic science teacher.»

The member should not be treated more harshly as a result of his former status as Treasurer and as a bencher.

To complicate things further, those serving four terms received life - bencher status, and former treasurers and attorney generals enjoyed ex-officio bencher status.

Professor Ish is a former Dean of the University of Saskatchewan College of Law and a bencher of the Law Society of Saskatchewan.

There has long been discussion that legal education needs to be reformed, but slow to respond to the debate have been the bodies regulating lawyers, says Harry Arthurs, former Osgoode Hall Law School dean and former LSUC bencher.

Rogers, CEO, Stewart McKelvey Montreal: Yves Fortier, chairman emeritus, Ogilvy Renault LLP Toronto: Clay Horner, partner, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Toronto: Paul Copeland, human rights lawyer and former Law Society of Upper Canada bencher Ottawa: Eugene Meehan, partner, Lang Michener LLP and former Canadian Bar Association president Edmonton: Anne McLellan, former attorney general of Canada, now counsel with Bennett Jones LLP and special faculty member at University of Alberta In - house counsel: Melissa Kennedy, general counsel, corporate secretary, and senior vice president corporate affairs, Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan Legal academia: Ian Holloway, dean, University of Western Ontario law school Internal

He is also a former LSUC bencher.

For the former, benchers would have to do the work; for the latter, other people do the work.

And as if 40 elected benchers was not unwieldy enough (unable to even fit into Convocation's chambers), there are also 8 lay benchers, a number of honorary benchers, all the former Treasurers, as well as those benchers who by 2015 will have been a bencher for more than 16 years.

Much greater bencher concern there needs to be for what CanLII's former President, Colin Lachance says, about private practice's statistics showing that the number of such lawyers per capita is shrinking; see: «Law's Reverse Musical Chair Challenge» (Slaw, June 16, 2016).

Law society benchers (elected by their fellow lawyer - members of a law society to be its managers) promote the former but not the latter.