Sentences with phrase «former jurist»

The voyagers include a widow (Judi Dench), who is lost without her partner; a much divorced flirt (Celia Imrie); a sourpuss in need of a hip operation (Maggie Smith); a grizzled Don Juan (Ronald Pickup); a distinguished, gay former jurist (Tom Wilkinson); and a long - married couple, who have settled into fixed roles as aggressor (Penelope Wilton) and exasperated victim (Bill Nighy).

Many of the new initiatives will initially affect Muslims (as noted by leading former jurists) disproportionately but they will eventually impact all Canadians.

Not exact matches

It is perhaps not without some significance that the Wittenberg jurist Hieronymous Schürpf served as best man at Luther's own wedding to the former nun Katherine von Bora.

In recent weeks, the list of potential candidates has grown to include Mohr, the county's Republican elections commissioner, Kloch, a veteran jurist; Guerra, a career prosecutor; and McCabe, a Democrat and former prosecutor now working at Delaware North.

Judge Robert Smith, a well - respected jurist appointed by former Gov. George Pataki, will leave the Court of Appeals at the end of 2014 because he's reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.

A court clerk has filed a federal suit that charges former top Staten Island Administrative Judge Judith McMahon «conspired» with her husband, the borough's district attorney, to judge shop on narcotics cases to make sure prosecutors got a sympathetic jurist.

As many of you know by now, Jones, a former U.S. Attorney and scion of a political family that includes famed judge and U.S. Senator Howell Heflin, won what was previously considered an unlikely victory over Moore, a jurist who was twice removed from his role as chief justice of the Iron State's supreme court for willfully ignoring failing to enforce federal rulings.

As Selya's former law clerk Frederick A. Brodie observes this week in The National Law Journal, among practitioners, the jurist «is best known for his erudite and arcane vocabulary, which has provoked frequent head scratching by counsel.»

This joint committee may appoint former national judges or «jurists of recognised competence» provided that they have international investment and trade experience.

Over the years, the Donahue Lecture Series has featured a number of outstanding legal scholars and jurists, including Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Stephen G. Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor, Judge Richard A. Posner, former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese III, consumer protection activist Ralph Nader, and Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Linda Greenhouse.

Authors Charlotte Gray and Roy McMurtry in particular helped draw a record crowd that included among many notable jurists, Aharon Barak, a former chief justice of Israel, and Rosalie Abella, a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and the leading cheerleader for legal research and writing in Canada.

Many American jurists and commentators, such as Justice Antonin Scalia, have talked at length about the important distinctions between «original meaning» and «original intent», the former of which is a species of textualism (and is therefore more legally sound in my view), while the latter may best understood as a species of purposivism.

«The model of secularism that we propose has the support of eminent jurists like Mrs. Claire L'Heureux - Dubé, former Supreme Court of Canada judge, and Mrs. Huguette St - Louis, the former chief judge of the Quebec Court who also agrees that the secular model we propose is quite reasonable and justifiable in a democratic society,» Drainville said.

McGill Law dean Robert Leckey moderated the panel of jurists: Jean - François Gaudreault - DesBiens, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Université de Montréal; Shahir Guindi, national co-chairman of Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP; Louise Otis, a civil and commercial mediator and arbitrator and an adjunct professor at McGill's Faculty of Law and a former judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal; Juanita Westmoreland - Traoré, a retired judge of the Court of Quebec and a former dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor; and Kim Thomassin, Executive Vice-President, Legal Affairs and Secretariat for the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.

In response, a remarkable coalition of criminal defense attorneys, prosecutors, civil litigators, current and former judges and appellate justices and 30 former San Francisco Bar Association presidents united to denounce this attack on the court and to re-elect these independent and qualified jurists.

It was Lord Bingham, a distinguished jurist and former Lord Chief Justice, who asked the famous question, which I paraphrase: «What human rights (European Convention and our Human Rights Act) would you like to dispense with?»

The Graham Gund design was selected by a distinguished panel of jurists that included George White, FAIA, former Architect of the Capitol, the position that oversees architectural work to federal buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C.; Harry Robinson III, FAIA, former dean of architecture at Howard University and chairman of the Washington, D.C., Commission of Fine Arts; Colden «Coke» Florance, FAIA, a prominent Washington, D.C. architect; Helsel; Rosenthal; Dale Colby, RPOC vice chair; Steven Leader, CRE ®, past president of The Counselors of Real Estate; and Al Mansell, CRB, NAR first vice president nominee.