Sentences with phrase «hearing panels»

Also, see Section 13 (b), Power to Take Disciplinary Action; Section 19 (c), Appeals from the Decision of the Grievance Committee Related to an Ethics Complaint; Section 42 (c), Appeals from the Decision of Grievance Committee Related to a Request for Arbitration; Section 20 (c) and (d), Initiating an Ethics Hearing; Section 23, Action of the Board of Directors; Sections 24 and 49, Initial Action by Directors; Sections 25 and 50, Preliminary Judicial Determination Prior to Imposition of Discipline; Section 45, Board's Right to Decline Arbitration; Section 47 (c), Manner of Invoking Arbitration; Section 55, Request for Procedural Review by Directors; Part Fourteen, State Association Professional Standards Committee, Composition of Hearing Panels and Appellate or Review Panels.

While arbitration awards may, at times, involve significant sums of money, they differ from the decisions rendered by ethics hearing panels in two significant ways.

Interpretations of the Code of Ethics has been developed by the Professional Standards Committee of the National Association of Realtors ® to help Realtors ® understand the ethical obligations created by the Code of Ethics, and as a reference work for Grievance Committees, ethics and arbitration Hearing Panels, and Boards of Directors.

, State Association Professional Standards Committee, Composition of Hearing Panels and Appellate or Review Panels.

The arbitration guidelines in the Code of Ethics and Arbitration Manual explain the factors hearing panels use to determine entitlement to cooperative compensation in disputes.

REALTORS enforce the Code and conduct dispute resolution through grievance committees and professional standards hearing panels of local and state associations.

Important Note: These are not sentencing rules or requirements, but rather simply suggestions to guide Hearing Panels in determining appropriate discipline based both on the current violation and the violator's previous record of ethical conduct.

Appeal panels may modify discipline proposed by Hearing Panels only in instances where the discipline proposed is not authorized or where the appeal panel concludes that the Hearing Panel abused its discretion.

Associations may, but are not required to, convene hearing panels that include one or more alternate members.

In addition, hearing panels now have the authority to prohibit the use of cell phones and other communications devices during hearings.

The policies and procedures established in the National Association's Code of Ethics and Arbitration Manual contemplate that parties and their witnesses will participate in ethics and arbitration hearings in the physical presence of hearing panels and the respective parties.

Where membership is provided under board of choice across state lines, Hearing Panels must be conversant with and apply the relevant state's laws and regulations in determining how the Code of Ethics will be interpreted / applied in instances where the underlying transaction occurred out of state and involved a respondent licensed in that state.

Hearing Panels can not consider past violations in deciding whether the conduct currently complained of violated the Code.

In deciding those cases, hearing panels make their decision on the basis of which REALTOR ® was the procuring cause of the sale.

In arbitration cases, hearing panels often want to split the commission or fee to resolve the case.

A. Most often, hearing panels in arbitration cases are called on to decide monetary disputes between two REALTOR ® principals regarding which one is entitled to the co operative commission offered by the listing broker.

The chair or vice chair shall assign hearing cases to hearing panels and designate a lawyer as chair of each.

Formal inquiries are adversarial proceedings which place great demands on members of hearing panels who may need legal expertise to assist in their duties.

When one envisages the evolution from discipline by senior lawyers in Convocation reflecting their views and experience as to what was proper conduct to disciplinary adjudication by hearing panels of lawyers, paralegals and lay people, some of whom are benchers, applying regulatory codes of conduct, it is clear that much has changed.

Addendum: On this same note, today, the Law Society of British Columbia started a campaign inviting the public to apply to sit on disicipline and credentials hearing panels.

For most of the long history of the Law Society, discipline proceedings were not by hearing panels applying the Rules of Professional Conduct.

Over the next six months we will be posting one short hearing tip each month, to help hearing panels run smoothly.

Hearing panels that need legal assistance can and should retain their own lawyer, an action typically expressly provided for in a regulator's enabling statute or bylaws, but normally available in any event as a power necessary to a panel carrying out statutory duties.

The AER's home statute is REDA, although one wrinkle is that REDA contemplates differing hearing panels.

Bencher Malcolm Mercer agreed the issue is something «for us and the federation to consider» as some hearing panels» decisions on good character and rehabilitation may surprise the public.

The existing term should continue to be used as long as it is clear to hearing panels that it does not represent an open - ended inquiry, «but rather focused on the standards of professional conduct required by lawyers and paralegals,» the law society also said.

Among other committees, she served for more than a decade on the Complaints Investigation Committee, and chaired the Credentials Committee and Hearing Panels.

They often saved Convocation from silly blunders, and they filled out discipline panels by bringing over 16 years» experience on hearing panels to the proceedings.

Bill Trudell, who often represents lawyers before law society discipline hearing panels, says duty counsel should first intervene and reach out to the lawyer who is the subject of investigation.

Also, the Supreme Court of Canada has given guidance on a modified «Oakes» test that professional regulatory hearing panels must use when deliberating on challenges based on Charter rights and freedoms.

Courts, including a number of appellate courts, have reviewed human rights tribunal decisions, and spoken to the obligation of professional regulatory hearing panels to address alleged discrimination, unless such issues are expressly excluded from their scope by enabling legislation.

It was the unanimous opinion of this hearing panel that forcing a regional bank engaging in safe and sound banking and lending practices with $ 50 billion in assets to undergo stress tests and other regulatory rigors as a systemically important financial institution placed in the same league as a $ 2.5 trillion bank like JPMorgan, is nonsense.

The Nasdaq Hearings Panel will now consider the company's appeal, but Root9B has warned shareholders that there is no guarantee the appeal will be successful.

A Division I Committee on Infractions hearing panel could not conclude that the University of North Carolina violated NCAA academic rules when it made available deficient Department of African and Afro - American Studies «paper courses» to the general student body, including student - athletes.

Rangers goalkeeper Steve Simonsen has been handed a two - match ban for breaching Scottish Football Association gambling rules, and will undergo an independent hearing panel, reports the BBC.

Tensions flared in the union recently when a five - member hearing panel appointed by Kent determined that Lee's alleged misuse of a union debit card did not amount to a misappropriation of funds.

According to a PEF ethics hearing panel, Kent and Garcia tried to stall and block a full accounting of Lee's alleged misuse of a union debit card to make undocumented payments at stores such as Bed Bath & Beyond and Dunkin Donuts, plus a liquor store, pharmacy and local supermarket.

If Dirschberger had refused to quit, removing him would have been complicated because the commissioner serves a fixed term and firing him would involve a quasi-judicial hearing panel involving the county executive, County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw and the chair of the County Legislature.

«We would never have entered our child in this study if we'd know about the risks,» Shawn Pratt, whose daughter Dagen entered the SUPPORT trial at Duke University in 2007, told the hearing panel.

Every once in a while, I will attend an event or hear a panel that truly inspires me to continue chasing my dreams.

The Tribeca Film Festival announced this week that audiences will have an opportunity to hear panel and one - on - one conversations with some of the industry's...

During the recent 2012 - 2013 APPR Conference held in Albany, 200 educators heard a panel representing school districts from around New York State share reflections on their experience in developing a working APPR agreement for teachers and principals.

Ed Hughes, president of the Madison school board, came out to hear the panel discussion and said afterwards that the need for voucher school accountability is clear to him.

But it's getting really irritating to see the Deseret News and other Utah outlets insist on describing Common Core education standards as «voluntary» («Full house hears panel's criticism of Common Core,» July 10).

They can be dismissed following a termination hearing before the board of education or an impartial hearing panel.

(A) The board of education or a subcommittee of the board, (B) an impartial hearing panel, or (C) a single impartial hearing officer chosen by the teacher and the superintendent.

Third member of hearing panel (when a panel is chosen rather than a single hearing officer) must be chosen up to five days by the two other members (those appointed by the teacher and the superintendent); if no agreement, the third member is chosen under American Arbitration Association selection process.

If you hear the panel say «front door», it means the sensor is working correctly.

Come hear a panel of CVM upperclassmen discuss finding / applying to externships and / or opportunity blocks in the field of zoo / wildlife / exotics

Each representative has his or her own alternate so that the proper balance of class years is maintained on the hearing panel; representatives must pass materials directly to the alternate if the representative can not attend a hearing.