Sentences with phrase «former justice minister»

In its final report, published this week, the commission, chaired by former Justice minister Lord Willy Bach, warned the poorest in society are being failed by a two - tier system, with thousands effectively cut off from legal advice and representation.

On 14 September, at a Politeia event featuring former Minister for Legal Aid Shailesh Vara, the Liberal Democrat former Justice Minister Lord McNally intervened from the audience to say that «bandying about the term «access to justice» is really quite fraudulent» and criticised legal aid lawyers for «looking like 1970s trade unionists» when protesting outside the Ministry of Justice.

Other likely entrants are finance critic Lisa Raitt, foreign affairs critic Tony Clement and former justice minister Peter MacKay.

Payne was first elected in 2015 when she unseated former Justice Minister Jonathan Denis.

Arsenault was originally supposed to meet with former justice minister Rob Nicholson, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet shuffle earlier this month meant that meeting had to be cancelled.

Lippert, who is a former Senior Fellow and former Director of the Law and Markets Project at The Fraser Institute, also wrote speeches for former B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm and former justice minister Kim Campbell.

The Supreme Court has temporarily granted businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome's application for a stay of proceeding regarding his examination by Former Justice Minister Martin Amidu.

Dominic Grieve's departure as government's legal adviser was a shock but in his place comes former justice minister

Among those members that have already been appointed are the DFG's president, Ernst - Ludwig Winnacker, and the president of Germany's Association of National Research Centers (Helmholtz Gemeinschaft), Detlev Ganten, as well as former justice minister Hans - Jochen Vogel.

The commission that he led had been created by Quebec Premier Jean Charest after the province's former Justice Minister Marc Bellemare alleged that he been forced to name three judges to the bench at the behest of Quebec Liberal Party organizers and fundraisers.

Former justice minister Shailesh Vara, a solicitor, and former junior minister Dominic Raab, a solicitor, return to the back benches.

Within weeks of Rehtaeh's death, former justice minister Ross Landry was in a Halifax high school unveiling the new legislation.

Committee chair and former Justice Minister Bob Neill leads the debate.

Former justice minister Michael McDowell was honest enough to warn an extension of tax breaks to a significantly higher number of people would have colossal implications for the Exchequer, and therefore consequences for married couples.

A former prosecutor in Vancouver's downtown eastside, Wilson - Raybould also brings to the portfolio a «considerable experience in poverty law and some of the real issues like drug abuse, prostitution, and predatory actions,» says Morton, calling it «a dramatically different life experience, to say the least,» from the one former justice minister Peter MacKay brought to the position.

Former Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly warned he could «only see downsides» to a fixed date.

Last month, former Justice minister Lord Bach's report into legal aid found that LASPO cuts have gone too far, and called for an independent body to replace the Legal Aid Agency.

He called the trial political and objected to the judge's friendship with a former justice minister.

The former justice minister talks about backing the wrong horse for the Tory leadership, his new life on the backbenches and next steps for Brexit.

Raab, the former justice minister, was one of the 17 - person casualties of the PM's ruthless reshuffle.

Fellow Tory MP Dominic Raab, a former justice minister, added: «The public will be shocked to learn that Labour's deputy leader in Brussels is telling the EU it doesn't need to respect the referendum result, and is manoeuvring to engineer its reversal.

Simon Hughes, former justice minister and deputy leader, was one of the most high - profile losses.

Hughes is one of the Lib Dems» battalion of returning knights and the former justice minister is strongly fancied to regain a constituency he had held since 1983.

It is understood that David Laws, the former education minister, Simon Hughes, the former justice minister, and former Treasury chief secretary Danny Alexander have also decided to reject a chance to sit in the House of Lords.

(Shahid Malik, the former justice minister, repaid # 1,050 to local good causes — but not to parliamentary authorities — for a home cinema system)

Justice Rothstein was selected by new Prime Minister Stephen Harper from a short list of three candidates provided by the former justice minister Irwin Cotler.

Former Justice Minister the Honourable Vic Toews has been named President of the Treasury Board... [more]

Former justice minister, Lord Faulks, has resigned after voicing concerns about the appointment of another non-lawyer as Justice Secretary.

Liberal MP Irwin Cotler, a former justice minister who created the first Parliamentary committee for screening Supreme Court candidates in 2004, said Ms. Côté is an eminent lawyer, but that Parliament's exclusion from the process shows disrespect for the public.

Former Justice Minister the Honourable Vic Toews has been named President of the Treasury Board.