Sentences with phrase «in appointments of judges»

In 2016, there was a small flurry of concern about the delays in appointments of judges by the federal government.

«I hope that we don't go down the route in this country where political considerations play a part in the appointment of judges,» Lidington told MPs in response to calls from his own party for a debate on giving MPs a say in the selection of the judges ahead of the Art 50 case.

He also took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the delay in appointment of judges to the Supreme Court.

Gandhi had also taken a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the delay in appointment of judges to the Supreme Court.

Not exact matches

On January 17, 2012, Judge Carol E. Jackson of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri granted the SEC's request for emergency injunctive relief (including an asset freeze and appointment of a receiver) against Burton Douglas Morriss as well as several investment management companies and private equity funds operated by Morriss in response to the SEC's complaint alleging that Morriss misappropriated more than $ 9 million in investor assets from 2005 through 2011.

And, of course, it is crucial to secure the appointment of judges who, in fidelity to the Constitution, will one day overturn it.

Even in the depths of the Warren Court era some of us thought that the Court's performance, though profoundly illegitimate, could be brought within the range of the minimally acceptable by logical persuasion or the appointment of more responsible judges, or both.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has reached into Republican ranks with his appointment of Jeremiah J. Moriarty III, a Court of Claims judge and former Cattaraugus County Republican chairman, to a vacancy in State Supreme Court.

At this conference, the Court requests that the parties be prepared to discuss, inter alia, special directives or suggestions, if any, this Court should give to the Magistrate Judge to assist her in preparing a redistricting plan, deadlines, and the appointment of experts.

Geoffrey Berman's interim appointment as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York is set to expire in a matter of weeks, shouldering Manhattan federal judges with the responsibility of appointing Berman until a formal nomination is made by the White House and confirmed by the Senate, finding someone else or even opting out entirely.

Disqualification of peers convicted of a serious criminal offence or who are subject to a bankruptcy restriction order Provide power for House of Lords to expel or suspend a member Allow peers to resign and disclaim their peerage Repeal legislation that limits protest around parliament Remove prime minister from process of appointments to President, Deputy President and judges of the Supreme Court Inclusion of spending of non-departmental public bodies in Estimates and Accounts of responsible govt department

... and [the President] shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

A number of Island judges and attorneys would be in the running for the new appointment, including some who have a Cuomo family connection or are alums of the district attorney's office.

«And of course then they're all going to want positions with you and stuff,» Mr. Modi said, alluding to earlier conversations in which the county leaders and Mr. Halloran were asking Mr. Smith for Republican appointments as judges and commissioners should Mr. Smith be elected mayor.

The new Free Press can authoritatively report that, the high court Judge, Justice Anthony Yeboah, who ruled against NPP National Chairman Paul Afoko, was the campaign coordinator for Nana Akufo - Addo in 2008 at his hometown in Osino, even before his appointment as a Justice of the high court.

He has already made two appointments: Jenny Rivera, a Latina and law professor, (replacing Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, his father's appointee and the first Hispanic judge on the court); and Sheila Abdus - Salaam, an associate justice in the appellate division, who is the first black woman to serve on the court, (she replaced the late Theodore Jones, an African - American appointee of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer).

In line with his avowed commitment to the rule of law and approved order of seniority in the appointment of Acting Chief Judge, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Friday swore in Justice Adama Iye Iyayi - Lamikanra as the Acting Chief Judge of Rivers StatIn line with his avowed commitment to the rule of law and approved order of seniority in the appointment of Acting Chief Judge, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Friday swore in Justice Adama Iye Iyayi - Lamikanra as the Acting Chief Judge of Rivers Statin the appointment of Acting Chief Judge, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Friday swore in Justice Adama Iye Iyayi - Lamikanra as the Acting Chief Judge of Rivers Statin Justice Adama Iye Iyayi - Lamikanra as the Acting Chief Judge of Rivers State.

In 2014 high court judge Baroness Butler - Sloss resigned within a week of her appointment after questions were raised over her links to the establishment she would be investigating.

According to them, «Since the 1992 Constitution came into force, Presidents after Presidents have not acted fully on the advice tendered by the Judicial Council in the appointment of Superior Court judges.»

She was nominated in 2011 by President Barack Obama to serve as a federal judge, but that appointment was blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate who complained of excessive liberal activism in her previous legal work.

State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman cited Newsday's stories in naming a monitor to oversee the system of court appointments in which judges select lawyers to carry out court directives in foreclosures and other matters.

In calling for Rebekah Brooks» head, the scrapping of the press complaints commission and then pressing for the appointment of a judge to lead the hacking-gate inquiry, Ed was on the front foot throughout.

«The appointment came after the harassment and the intimidation of the judges who were working tirelessly to address the country's injustice perpetrated by the government of the day in Nigeria.»

Before her appointment to the federal bench in 1980, she served as a King County Superior Court judge for the State of Washington.

For now, the effect of Trump's appointments on environmental policy is limited because his appointments have not tipped the balance of liberal and conservative judges in any of the key appeals courts, including the 9th Circuit in California that encompasses Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Trump's judicial appointments rank «pretty high» in terms of his climate change legacy, said Glenn Sugameli, who runs the Judging the Environment project, which tracks judicial nominees» environmental records.

Additionally, patients had to be judged «mentally reliable» — able to follow instructions and keep appointments — in order to qualify for the clinical trials, so their emotional scores might not represent the full spectrum of psychological states among cancer patients.

The appointment of Michael Bromwich as the person charged with overseeing Apple business from the outside didn't sit too well with the company, who is still in the process of appealing the judge's decisions.

By my reckoning, anyway, the emergence of Frank Cohen as the Frick or Guggenheim of Manchester, to say nothing of his appointment as a judge of this year's Turner prize - a force, now, in the formation no less than the corroboration of taste, for whoever buys must inevitably influence - is a great tonic for a milieu notoriously shrinking and uncommunicative.

He also led Sierra Club's work on judicial nominations, including the filibusters of 2003 — 2006 and litigation over the constitutionality of recess appointments for federal judges, and was counsel in In re Chenein In re CheneIn re Cheney.

In exercising its power of appointment, governments look for judges who, yes, are talented and fair - minded, but also align with the particular worldview of the government of the day.»

Milanes initially filed his lawsuit in federal court in Puerto Rico, where he also filed a motion to recuse all the district's judges and asked for appointment of an outside judge to hear the case.

Indeed, the most recent round of federal appointments of judges across the country included 9 new appointments, of which 3 were women, and in Manitoba, only 1 woman has been appointed out of 6 judicial appointments made in 2013.

In light of the most recent round of federal judicial appointments announced last week, I wasn't surprised to find 24 women and just one man attending the Manitoba Bar Association's lunch & learn event, So You Want to be a Judge?

Several changes are being made to the role of the prothonotaries as well new appointments for judges in the Federal Court.

The Council also evaluates state judges and judicial candidates in order to promote the election and appointment of qualified candidates and to give sitting judges constructive feedback on their performance.

There are several anticipated efforts in 2014 to alter processes for selecting state court judges, particularly in states with commission - based gubernatorial appointment of appellate judges.

Consider paragraph 6 of Friday's Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Nadon reference: [6] The practical effect is that the appointment of Justice Nadon and his swearing - in as a judge of the Court were void ab initio.He remains a supernumerary judge of the Federal Court -LSB-...] Read more

Between waiting for those appointments, and getting the new judges up to full speed, this year is one of the bigger transition years in recent history.

Opponents of commission - based appointment of judges — also known as the Missouri Plan, for the state in which the judicial selection process originated — have obtained approval from the secretary of state for two identically worded proposed constitutional amendments that would establish contested elections for Missouri's appellate judges.

So it's not surprising that any differences in quality between elected and appointed judges (if such differences ever existed) have now been eliminated with the politicization of the appointment process.

Nosey neighbours still do their stuff (the practice of some local newspapers in listing decrees pronounced has made this a more active source of information) and petitioners who have secured a decree on the strength of their special procedure affidavit can find on the children's appointment that the judge discovers more than they had bargained for and directs the papers to be sent to the QP.

Nearly a dozen lawyers have become judges in the past week, after Justice Minister Peter MacKay made a series of judicial appointments across Canada.

The appointments of Rita Jean Maxwell and Lori Beth Montague last Friday increase the number of black women judges in the province to eight.

Galati, who's launching a court application, says Quebec judges must be from the Quebec bar, an issue he successfully argued in his challenge of Justice Marc Nadon's appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Commodore Geneviève Bernatchez has been appointed the 15th judge advocate general for the Canadian Armed Forces and officially took over the role in a «change of appointment» ceremony in Ottawa yesterday.

However, most bar rules prohibit attorneys from giving something of value in exchange for referrals and Stroemer gave the judge a discount to keep the appointments from him flowing.

That said, a review of the applications of the judges she named suggests that her appointments have been based on merit, not politics, and reflect a range of experience in criminal defense, criminal prosecution and civil practice.

The notice alleges Douglas «knowingly participated» in the sexual harassment of Chapman; that she failed to disclose anything about the situation in a personal history form related to an application for judicial appointment; that she is incapable as a judge because the nude photos question «the image and concept of integrity of the judiciary»; and that she did not fully disclose facts to independent counsel by modifying a personal diary entry that was relevant to the investigation.

Since his appointment to the Court in 1975, Stevens has decided cases in the manner of the quintessential common law judge.