Sentences with phrase «given legal evidence»

He has authored many hundreds of expert reports and given legal evidence on 48 separate occasions.

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If Perkins is involved in any «criminal or legal process» that requires her to give evidence about Weinstein or Miramax, his production company at the time, she'd need to give 48 hours» notice to a designated lawyer first.

Rudolph W. Giuliani's media blitz to convince the public that neither Donald Trump nor his lawyer had violated the law by paying a porn star to keep quiet about an alleged affair might have backfired, giving investigators new leads to chase and new evidence of potential crimes, legal analysts said.

My conclusion from my work with sexual and domestic violence is that porn is a serious danger to public safety, akin to shouting «Fire» in a crowded theater; but given legal rules of evidence, there may be little hope of convincing courts of this analogy.

They must litigate without the power to cross examine witnesses giving evidence against them, who may remain anonymous and absent from the court, without publicly funded legal representation, without any restriction as to the material placed before the fact - finding court, and can be found responsible for conduct on a mere balance of probabilities.»

Also giving evidence will be Jonathan Chapman, former director of legal Affairs at News International, and Daniel Cloke, former group HR director.

The BHA was called to give evidence to the Commission's inquiry into whether there should be a change in law to legalise assisted dying in the UK and made the case that there are good ethical reasons not to limit legal assisted dying only to terminally ill people but to others who are incurably suffering, and to permit voluntary euthanasia as well as assisted dying to maximise autonomy of patients who wish to end their lives but are unable to do so themselves.

However, legal experts have warned against scrapping the reduction for a guilty plea, saying it is the only incentive for offenders to confess, thus ensuring victims do not have to give evidence in court and speeding up the whole justice process.

The budget also removed the requirement for individuals in correctional facilities to give written consent for HIV testing, encouraged high - risk populations to use condoms by prohibiting prosecutors from using them as evidence in prostitution cases, and made it legal to possess syringes obtained through a syringe access program.

Witnesses before committees are protected by parliamentary privilege and any attempt to punish a witness or bring legal proceedings against «any person on account of evidence which he may have given in the course of any proceedings in the House or before one of its committees» would be treated as a contempt of Parliament.

The legal guidance on the applicability of EU competition law that Prof Steve Field referred to while giving evidence to the Health Select Committee must be made public.

Yesterday Chris Grayling, who is both Minister of State for Justice (dismantling the legal aid system) and Lord Chancellor (sworn to uphold the rule of law), gave evidence before the House of Commons Justice Committee.

He knew the legal system enough to know that the evidence he had to implicate the president for her murder would not stand up in court, so he gave his life hoping it would lead to what he believed was justice.

WASHINGTON, DC — A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today provides some of the first rigorous peer - reviewed evidence that giving indigenous communities formal legal title to their land protects tropical forests.

NOAA scientists gave evidence that they were given legal advice by named NOAA attorneys that IPCC work done by scientists were records of the IPCC, not NOAA.

Given his age and his achievements, his layoff provided striking evidence of just how hard the economy had hit the legal profession and his suicide showed just how painful its effects could be.

The programme is carried out in courtrooms to give the children real court experience and help them become credible witnesses, by teaching them about the legal process and how to cope with stress and fear during and after giving evidence in court.

Given the similarity in type and backgrounds that, in my opinion, tends to exist as between those in legal publishing and their customers, evidenced by frequent career movement from one to the other, it seems to be such a missed opportunity not to have more harmonious relationships across the divide.

Given that we all depend upon records of all types for all proper transactions, any one of which could become evidence related to a legal proceeding or service, or a decision made about any of us, there can not be a national standard of greater importance.

Again, this applies at the inception of the private prosecution, where, for example, the defence might be able to demonstrate that the evidence in the information laid before the Magistrates Court has been obtained in breach of undertakings given in other legal proceedings, such that no summons or arrest warrant should be issued.

March 31, 2015)(finding that the correct legal standard for preservation of evidence occurs once notice of litigation has been given).

Rather than intervene and make a determination in favour of the Applicant, the Court prefers that, should SDAB grant the appeal and reconsider the matter, Applicant's counsel is then given the opportunity to present evidence as to the legal status of the cabin.

The reality is that no client is going to give their external law firms a blank cheque, but what is manifestly obvious from our anecdotal evidence and an increasing body of empirical evidence is that price sensitivity diminishes in inverse proportion to the reputation of a legal team, the firm's demonstrable sector focus and equally demonstrable intimate insight into the client's business operations and commercial objectives.

Giving evidence in any legal hearing (Civil or Criminal Court, Arbitration, Tribunal, Coroners Court, Fatal Accident Inquiry, Public Inquiry, Professional Conduct Hearing etc.), is something that you are not likely to do often in your life.

The Washington Post is reporting that legal analysts are saying Rudolph W. Giuliani's media blitz to convince the public that neither Donald Trump nor his lawyer had violated the law by paying a porn star to keep quiet about an alleged affair might have backfired, giving investigators new leads to chase and new evidence of potential crimes.

Bond Solon specialises in providing support for all witnesses including witnesses of fact, professional witnesses and expert witnesses giving evidence in a wide variety of legal hearings including: High Court, County Court, Magistrates Court, Crown Court, Arbitration, Employment Tribunal, other Tribunals, Coroners Court, Fatal Accident Inquiry, Public Inquiry, Planning Inquiry, Professional Conduct Hearing, through our Witness Familiarisation Service.

Lawyers giving evidence for the report highlighted the lack of access to legal help.

However, once you have that raw data, other steps must be taken to insure that the information is given legal respect as concrete proof and formal evidence of your injuries and the damages you have suffered as a result.

«We have here no defence counsel, there are no legal aid representatives, there are no members of the public present, including the press and there can be no witnesses present to give evidence or speak on behalf of the accused.

Evidence and legal arguments can be given to the arbitrator in writing, to cut down on the hearing time.

She stated, at para. 98, that article 402 of the Code of Civil Procedure does not give a trial judge «carte blanche to order disclosure of communications protected by an almost impermeable legal coating» and «evidence gathered through electronic surveillance... is not amenable to a balancing contest».

YLAL committee members Connor Johnston and Carita Thomas gave evidence to the Justice Select Committee as part of their review of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).

We want to give lawyers and law enforcement agencies easy to use tools to turn webpages & social media in strong legal evidence.

Given the important role played by DNA and other forensic evidence in criminal investigations, the report stated that it is «wholly inadequate to rely on the interest and self - motivation of the legal profession to take advantage of the training on offer».

Process refers to the act of giving evidence in a legal forum, either orally or in written form.

In history, a secondary source like a newspaper account of an election result can become a primary source, if the question is «what sort of coverage was given to elections back in...» The differences between legal and historical criteria for evidence and related issues is treated in excellent detail in a work I'm constantly recommending to Slawyers: Duranti's Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science, and in addition Heather MacNeil's Trusting Records: Legal Historical and Diplomatic Perspectives is fundamelegal and historical criteria for evidence and related issues is treated in excellent detail in a work I'm constantly recommending to Slawyers: Duranti's Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science, and in addition Heather MacNeil's Trusting Records: Legal Historical and Diplomatic Perspectives is fundameLegal Historical and Diplomatic Perspectives is fundamental.

The Defendants did not challenge his qualifications to give this evidence, however, at the conclusion of the expert's testimony the Defendants brought a motion to rule the testimony inadmissible arguing that the expert's «underlying methodology and science are so flawed that the evidence (does not meet the legal test for admissibility)» and that the expert was «biased and purposely misled the court to assist the plaintiff ``.

This includes familiarising the witness with the layout of the legal forum, the likely sequence of events when the witness will be giving evidence and a balanced appraisal of the different responsibilities of the various people at the hearing.

Given that text documents are still very much the core material produced by legal professionals, and that references to text documents will remain the basis for grounded and verifiable legal reasoning regardless of the actors and technologies employed, current generation standards in the legal domain are providing a layered organization of their offerings: presentation - oriented XML is being replaced with structured XML with ample room for metadata and annotations; naming mechanisms based on URIs and IRIs provide linkable anchors both to entire documents and to smaller fragments; and document - oriented ontologies provide the necessary glue between abstract legal reasoning and the textual pieces of supporting evidence.

To ensure the court gives proper consideration to such documents on the breakdown of a relationship, they need to be accurately drafted and legal advice is imperative at the outset, together with evidence that full disclosure has been presented by both parties.

The primary function, he says, is to give evidence that the signatory (an individual or another legal entity) approves and adopts the content of the signed document, probably agreeing to be bound by it.

The development of such legal infrastructure is necessary given: (1) the dependence of every legal service upon e-records; (2) e-records are the most frequently used kind of evidence; and, (3) other widely used areas of the law such as privacy and access to information, electronic commerce, taxation, and criminal law, are dependent upon e-records.

If you have an upcoming case where you are being called to give evidence, and have been requested to undertake recognised training from your instructing party (law firm, insurance company or your in - house legal department) please call our office on 0207 549 2549 before booking.

(correct test for Barrister appeals; whether outside the ex improviso rule, prosecutor may call evidence after prosecution and defence case closed; use of debarring orders against prosecutor; whether tribunal may «enter the arena» and strongly request the attendance of a prosecution witness; whether BSB has power to summons witnesses; whether prosecutor may communicate with disciplinary judge behind the back of the defence; whether such communication redolent of actual bias of judge where judge wishes prosecutor good luck on appeal; whether apparent bias doctrine can be engaged by post-trial conduct of judge; legal effect of serving BSB prosecutions department officer being 1 of 4 appointing members of the COIC «Tribunals Appointments Body» (TAB); whether TAB ultra vires the Bar's Constitutions; whether open - ended power of removal of member of COIC pool without cause, unlawful given position of BSB Chair and senior staff on COIC; whether ECHR Article 6 guarantees against pressure on disciplinary judges to conform with a prosecutorial mentality; whether disciplinary judges Art. 6 «independent» within Findlay v United Kingdom given key role of BSB prosecutions department in appointing disciplinary judges; serious non-disclosure by BSB of notes of secret meeting between BSB and disciplinary judge until day before appeal and despite requests and application for disclosure by defence)

Please review the use of experts with your MacLean Law family lawyer and learn more about how some judges and legal counsel have become somewhat skeptical of the use of experts, who now are often giving argument under the guise of «expert opinion evidence.»

Basically then, a conviction gives rise to a legal presumption of wrongdoing which, unless rebutted with evidence, is conclusive against all affected parties in a civil suit.

As trial neared the Plaintiff brought an application for an adjournment and this was granted in order to give the Plaintiff time to gather appropriate medico - legal evidence.

Under Ken Crook, the Legal Reform Project visited the Edmonton Institution to give lectures to inmates about criminal law, administrative law and evidence.

The fact of advice given by the independent legal counsel to the panel being consistent with the prosecutor's argument on admissibility of certain evidence did not reveal any impropriety.

Both parties will be required to give evidence under oath and face questions from the other party's legal representative.