Sentences with phrase «giving legal advice which»

Does that constitute giving legal advice which might have dissuaded the accused from continuing any efforts to obtain counsel?

It is argued that where counsel is compelled to work for free, he or she may be tempted to give legal advice which will expedite the process in order to cut counsel's financial losses even though wrapping up a criminal matter as quickly as possible may not be in the best interests of the accused.

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In a separate statement, Abbott said: «It is of critical importance that we are able to scrutinise the conditions in which people are held, especially given the allegations of appalling treatment, abuse, and a lack of legal advice and medical support in this centre.

The Committee would find it very helpful to be provided with copies of the legal advice on the scope of the offence given to you in relation to your review of the Mulcaire case last autumn: both before and after the 1 October case conference at which you first learned of the DPP's willingness to test a broader interpretation of the section 1 offence.

(When a reporter posited that the legal advice the mayor had gotten may have been up against the line, which would seem to be a given since it's led to formal criminal inquiries, Mr. de Blasio accused him «editorializing.»)

That inquest opens today but legal advice given to the Sargeant family suggests an inquiry into the wider issues surrounding the former minister's death can run at the same time which means the work to set it up could begin as soon as this week.

ITV News has obtained legal advice given to the party by union Unite which said: «The rules by which the Labour Party is governed are unambiguous.

Grisham appeared on «Today Show» yesterday to promote his new (and his first) children's book, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer which is about a 13 - year - old who gives legal advice to his friends.

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If lawyers are protected under the First Amendment concerning the legal advice given in which they are paid, what happens to others who give opinions or advice on legal matters when they are not paid?

How many people, for instance, know that James Hansen, a man billed as a lonely «NASA whistleblower» standing up to the mighty U.S. government, was really funded by Soros» Open Society Institute, which gave him «legal and media advice»?

Knowing how your potential clients behave when looking for legal advice will give you a leg - up on your competition, which means more business for you!

In this sense, there is much scope to muddy the waters regarding in which capacity in - house lawyers are acting at any given moment, and any work dealing with generic business, management, administration, strategic or commercial advice that is not legal in nature would therefore fail to attract legal advice privilege under UK law.

The lawyer who gives advice in this area will find an array of legal and procedural principle — none of which is assisted by the inscrutable s 31F (6) of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (in operation in the new Family Court as of 22 April).

Mediators like accountants plainly fall outside the protection of legal professional privilege, which attaches to communications between lawyers and their clients by virtue of the status of the lawyer as such, rather than merely because a person is giving legal advice.

The Solution Explorer — like MyLawBC and the Dutch Rechtwijzer programme — represents a major step forward in the use of the net to provide legal assistance because the programme is tailoring the advice to the user; giving only what the user needs; and, in the process, framing the questions asked by the user into problems that are susceptible to solution rather than a mess which is not.

The Claimants relied on the leading authority for legal advice privilege, Three Rivers (No. 5), in which the Court of Appeal had concluded that, in a corporate context, information gathered from an employee is no different from information obtained from third parties, even if the information is collected by or in order to be shown to a solicitor to enable fully informed advice to be given to that solicitor's client.

If value to the client is to be truly understood, then it requires some degree of personal or institutional relationship that can fully inform the business or commercial context within which legal advice and services are given.

Since I was able to tell her which law was underpinning my contemplated action, she was able to guide me in finding the correct forms to use, while still following her mandate not to give legal advice.

I am also entirely satisfied that, in the words of Taylor LJ in [Balabel] the two types of ESG High Level Documents [i.e. tabular memoranda informing and updating the ESG on the progress, status and issues arising in the regulatory investigations and; confidential notes / summaries drafted by Clifford Chance concerning the discussions between the ESG and its legal advisers at the ESG meetings] form part of «a continuum of communication and meetings» between Clifford Chance and RBS, the object of which was the giving of legal advice as and when appropriate.

Ridge, [1997] O.J. No. 1804 (Prov Div): 2 Defence counsel argues that Constable Archambault proffered false or misleading advice to the accused, indicating that a fail on the roadside would be the same as a refusal to provide a sample, and, further, that this false advice was in the nature of legal advice given in a situation where Mr. Ridge did not have the right to counsel and which misled Mr. Ridge into refusing to provide a breath sample.

Yet whether the driver was the parties themselves or their choice to rely on the legal advice they received (which in one party's case was declared to be substantially wrong, despite being given in good faith) does not matter.

It seems a bit of a stretch to say that the information she learned, which was not communicated by Kent, which had no obvious connection to the matters on which she gave him legal advice, and which she learned while working on his campaign in a variety of ways, was nonetheless «acquired in the course of a professional relationship».

And there are serious questions about unauthorized practice when non-lawyers in effect give legal advice via software, or lawyers advise people over the Internet concerning jurisdictions in which they are not admitted to practice.

As all employees have rights under the common law, which typically gives them greater rights than under the ESA, employers and employees should obtain legal advice.

Clients might not always like the legal circumstances they find themselves in but our goal is to give advice and provide representation which a client can always rely on.

Sources commented that: «The lawyers provide high - quality legal advice and strategies, as well as excellent response times, which gives us complete confidence in the outcome.»

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It was suspected that improper legal advice had been given which was confirmed by a secondary medical expert.

I do want to give you one example though, which is at the Rise Women's Legal Centre we've had clients come in with literally suitcases full of documents from over a decade of not having a lawyer and what means is that something that could have been resolved fairly simply at the front end, if they had been able to access even summary advice at the beginning, let alone some minimal representation, they might have had their family law issues resolved much earlier.

(3) Whether the (mis) use to which Lord Goldsmith's opinions were put shows a fundamental problem with the position of the Attorney General and their ability to give genuinely informed, independent and competent legal advice.

[14] The Texas Supreme Court also allowed out - of - state attorneys to practice in Texas for a period after the hurricane, which allowed lawyers throughout the United States to give free and quick legal advice to those in need.

Under the Evidence Act, legal practitioners may not, except with the consent of the client, disclose «communications made to him in the course and for the purpose of his employment as such legal practitioner by or on behalf of his client, or to state the contents or condition of any document with which he has become acquainted in the course and for the purpose of his professional employment or to disclose any advice given by him to his client in the course and for the purpose of such employment».

Legal practitioners may also not disclose the contents of documents with which they have become acquainted, or the contents of any advice given, in the course and for the purpose of their employment as legal practitioLegal practitioners may also not disclose the contents of documents with which they have become acquainted, or the contents of any advice given, in the course and for the purpose of their employment as legal practitiolegal practitioners.

It is important to obtain good legal advice as quickly as possible, as there are numerous defences, particularly given the changes in the medical marijuana regime, which may be used for a Client's benefit.

We have established many strong relationships with accountants, IP agents, banks and investors, which helps us to give you not only first - class legal advice but strong business advice.

In that position, she supervised and participated in the work of the Commission's Legal Division, which included writing legal opinions and giving legal advice to public officials and employees, serving as legal advisors to the Commissioners in adjudicatory hearings, and representing the Commission in litigaLegal Division, which included writing legal opinions and giving legal advice to public officials and employees, serving as legal advisors to the Commissioners in adjudicatory hearings, and representing the Commission in litigalegal opinions and giving legal advice to public officials and employees, serving as legal advisors to the Commissioners in adjudicatory hearings, and representing the Commission in litigalegal advice to public officials and employees, serving as legal advisors to the Commissioners in adjudicatory hearings, and representing the Commission in litigalegal advisors to the Commissioners in adjudicatory hearings, and representing the Commission in litigation.

FINDER is an expert system which gives legal advice on problems involving the right to possession of unclaimed goods of the finder of those goods.

However, lawyers usually give each other the benefit of the doubt, constrained as we are by the limits of our own expertise, and bound as we are by a sense of professional responsibility, collegiality, and rules of professional conduct — such as Rule 6.03 (1) of the Rules of Professional Conduct of the Law Society of Upper Canada, which bids us to «avoid ill - considered or uninformed criticism of the competence, conduct, advice, or charges of other legal practitioners.»

But they can not be expected to give legal advice; and mistakes are often made in the back office which it takes a long time to correct.

Debbie Farman, the head of legal practice, said the move was «a natural progression» for Jordans given the range of services it already provided, on top of which it can now offer legal advice.

The wife argued that given the husband's conduct, which would be inequitable to disregard, the terms of the 1993 agreement, which the husband had agreed to after obtaining legal advice, and the origin of the wealth, no financial provision should be given to the husband who would be adequately provided for as a result of his interest in the overseas property and his likely inheritance.

[62] «Self - help» legal service providers must take care not to cross the line into giving advice, in order to avoid «unauthorized practice of law», which in the U.S. is the unlawful act of a non-lawyer practicing law.

In my opinion, and I can't give legal advice, the deposit is for move - out only, not repairs made during tenancy for which the tenant is responsible.

If, for instance, there are certain issues that your lender has brought up which are rather technical and legal in nature, a good agent would refer you to a trustworthy lawyer instead of giving baseless advice.

I find most try to give legal advice for which they are not trained nor qualified, and that their approach is formulaic.