Sentences with phrase «in intervener in the case»

The BCCLA is in intervener in the case and will make oral submissions urging the Court to apply a stringent evidentiary standard when considering limits on individuals» fundamental rights.

Not exact matches

John Ciampoli — an attorney representing the state Republican Party, an intervener in the case that is against closing the LLC loophole — suggested that if the loophole were closed by the judiciary, every legislator who failed to pass a bill could run to the court seeking relief.

The questions were really probing around the salient issues,» said John Suttles, a lawyer for the Southern Environmental Law Center who represented the American Lung Association as an environmental intervener in the case.

In a remarkable 54 - page Opinion and Order, which, for its clarity and scholarship, will surely be a historical document, Judge Aiken rejected the request by the Federal Government and fossil fuel interveners to dismiss the case.

A large number of interested persons want to intervene in the case — see CBC News, September 26, 2017, «Tracadie Man's Beer Case Before Supreme Court Overflows with Potential Interveners&raqcase — see CBC News, September 26, 2017, «Tracadie Man's Beer Case Before Supreme Court Overflows with Potential Interveners&raqCase Before Supreme Court Overflows with Potential Interveners».

Jonathan Rudin is the program director and founder of Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, which was an intervener in the case.

I acted on behalf of the intervener in the recent important Privy Council case of Williams v Bermuda Hospitals Board [2016] which considered the doctrine of «material contribution» in causation.

«If victims are mad at anybody, they should not be mad at the courts, they should be mad at governments, which have consistently made business decisions to underfund the system in the expectations that judges will let them off the hook,» said lawyer Frank Addario, who represented Ontario's Criminal Lawyers» Association as an intervener in the Jordan case.

Joanna Birenbaum, director of litigation for the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, an intervener in the case, says if the SCC orders N.S. to remove her niqab, it could have far - reaching implications for sexual assault victims.

Currently, there are 29 groups listed as interveners in the case between the Law Society of Upper Canada and Trinity Western University, including LGBTQ groups who disagree with the school's policies and say they are discriminatory.

Rob De Luca, staff lawyer for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, an intervener in the case, suggests that privacy concerns remain from this decision.

As a coalition of interveners in the Supreme Court of Canada case, R. v. Lloyd, we applaud the Court for recognizing that a mandatory minimum sentence (MMS) for certain drug offences is not only harsh and damaging, but also unconstitutional.

He recently represented the Indigenous Bar Association when it participated as an intervener before the Supreme Court of Canada in the Tsilhqot» in Nation v. British Columbia land claim case.

(Ontario did not challenge the appointments in these cases, but the issue of whether it was appropriate to appoint amici to, in effect, act as defence counsel, was raised by two of the six interveners, the Attorneys General of British Columbia and Quebec).

Joanna Birenbaum, the legal director of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, an intervener in the case, said her group was pleased with the result after noticing a recent trend of the Crown charging women with murder rather than infanticide.

Over the previous year, Anand also acted as Constitutional Litigator in Residence at the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, representing the centre in a number of high - profile cases, including as an intervener at the Supreme Court of Canada in the constitutional test case of Jessica Ernst v. Alberta Energy Regulator.

Delivering judgment in R (on the application of TG v London Borough of Lambeth and Shelter (Intervener)[2011] EWCA Civ 526 Lord Justice Wilson said the facts of the case «reveal a serious absence of co-ordination» between the housing and children's services departments, and that he had been persuaded that «such absence of co-ordination was positively unlawful».

Under Chief Justice McLachlin the Supreme Court of Canada has allowed an average of 176 interventions per calendar year and interveners have cumulatively made submissions in half of the cases heard by the Court.

Some interveners argued that the effects of the government (in) action at issue in this case disproportionately affected vulnerable minorities.

Besides West Coast LEAF, other interveners in the B.C. case include the Canadian Council of Christian Charities; the Christian Legal Fellowship; the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms; and OUTlaws.

Among the interveners is West Coast LEAF, which says it's seeking to an advance a less talked - about issue in the case: women's equality.

Nathalie Des Rosiers, general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, which was an intervener in the case, says the ruling applied the test for freedom of religion in Canada in a slightly different way.

49... Although I agree... that mental injury may be compensable in some form at international law, neither the intervener nor any other party has established that a peremptory norm of international law has now come into existence which would completely oust the doctrine of state immunity and allow domestic courts to entertain claims in the circumstances of this case.

Lawyer Frank Addario, who represented the Criminal Lawyers Association, another intervener in the case, said that in his experience, lawyers have not necessarily become ruder.

The case has drawn interest from more than a dozen interveners, including the Attorneys General of Ontario and Canada, as well as a number of civil rights and media organizations, who have weighed in on how such an order would affect free speech rights, international comity, and access to justice.

Notable mandates: Represented physicians involved in providing care to Ashley Smith during the 2013 coroner's inquest; acted for Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne in a defamation action against Ontario Progressive Conservative party leader Tim Hudak and energy critic Lisa MacLeod; in Wise v. Iran, acted for a Canadian victim of a suicide bombing (executed by individuals who received material support from Iran) who sought leave to intervene in ongoing proceedings commenced by United States plaintiffs in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice seeking orders recognizing the enforceability in Ontario of judgments they obtained from a U.S. court against Iran totaling about $ 370 million; in Khadr v. Edmonton Institution, acted as lead counsel for an intervener, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, to argue that in interpreting Omar Khadr's sentence for the purpose of enforcing it in Canada, Correctional Services Canada was obliged to consider Khadr's right to liberty and principles of fundamental justice; acted for a physician in a malpractice claim in Moore v. Getahun, a precedent - setting case about restrictions on communication between counsel and experts in preparation of expert reports.

A legal team from the Ontario Legal Clinics» Workers» Compensation Network represented ONIWG and obtained standing as an intervener in the cases of Martin and Laseur from Nova Scotia.

Another key case in which the Howard League have been involved is the case of R (on the application of HC) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department and Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2013] EWHC 982 (Admin), in which the Howard League were interveners to the proceedings.

Acting for an Intervener in the Supreme Court appeal case of R (on the application of Miller and another) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

It is quite usual for several interveners to seek leave to intervene in major human rights and Charter cases.

Likewise, it has been argued on occasion that the refusal to allow interveners in some cases has been detrimental.

Hopefully, the SCC will also benefit in the Trinity Western University case by increasing the number of interveners it will hear from 9 to 26.

There are a number of similar cases where it could be argued that the submissions made by interveners were quite influential and assisted the SCC in arriving at its decision.

The case was supported by a coalition of interveners who argued that defamation disputes should be handled under civil law and that criminal prosecutions should be brought only in matters such as incitement to violence.

Benjamin R.D. Alarie and Andrew J. Green examined empirically the role of interveners in all of the cases heard by the SCC between January 2000 and July 2009.

Berger J.A. expressed concern that the traditional justification for denying intervener applications in criminal matters — that other voices can distort an appeal — is gratuitously invoked to deny apposite interventions by a party who could assist that court but whose submissions may also happen to prove useful to the defendant in the case.

As an intervener in the case, West Coast LEAF will argue that human rights law must recognize and remedy sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination as expressions of power that do not necessarily map neatly onto workplace hierarchies.

We have been actively in involved in Charter litigation since the Charter's earliest days, and have represented parties and interveners in many important Charter cases before a various tribunals and at all levels of the courts.

Eric Metcalfe acted on behalf of the NGO intervener JUSTICE in a landmark judgment by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Al Khawaja and Tahery v United Kingdom.

Elizabeth - Anne Gumbel QC, Henry Witcomb and Duncan Fairgrieve appear as interveners in the Supreme Court cases on Deprivation of Liberty - Oct 2013

The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed the appeal of a Québec student who had brought a contempt charge against a spokesperson over student protests in that province in 2012; but the most interesting aspect of the case was the split in the court over the decision, says a lawyer who represented one of the interveners in the case.

For example, in 2001, The Advocates» Society (which is an intervener in this case) published The Principles of Civility for Advocates, which was revised and reissued in 2009.

«What I can say to you is that I find it very, very interesting that the court broke on a 5 / 3/1, and that is really, really rare,» says Ranjan K. Agarwal, a partner at Bennett Jones in Toronto who represented an intervener in the case, the Alberta Public Interest Research Group.

Another intervener in the case was the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, represented by Grey, Casgrain s.e.n.c in Montréal.

She was previously the International Legal Adviser at REDRESS which acted as a third party intervener in the case.

When I commented on the oral arguments in Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 59, the B.C. hearing fees case, I argued that although there was a good deal of support among the various parties and interveners for the proposition that it was section 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867, that rendered (excessive) court fees unconstitutional, this argument was problematic.

Eleanor has experience representing parents, children through their Guardian, interveners and Local Authorities in public law proceedings at all stages of a case.

If the Court can reach back to the 19th century and to common law to deal with the jurisdiction of the CRTC in 2012 concerning the internet, then it would not be surprising if it were to do so regarding the K - 12 fair dealing case, for example, in which I and Prof. Ariel Katz filed an intervener brief urging consideration of important 19th century common law jurisprudence.

Their clients are among the interveners that filed factums in the case last week, including the federal attorney general, which is arguing the law society's decision not to accredit the school was unreasonable.

«We applaud the CJC majority report to the minister that properly confirms that the question here was not whether the judge was apologetic, but rather whether the conduct under review is of such a nature that a reasonable person would lose confidence in the judiciary,» says Kim Stanton, legal director at the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, which was an intervener in the case.