Sentences with phrase «in judicial misconduct»

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CBA's announcement, which was made in a YouTube video by a senior bank executive a day after BuzzFeed Australia reported the data breach, puts further pressure on Australian banks already reeling from revelations of widespread misconduct in a judicial inquiry.

Could former President Clinton really be so innocent of the potential judicial misconduct implications of meeting with the person then ultimately responsible for the email investigation; in that, the maneuver allowed the Obama DOJ to absolve itself from a known controversial FBI conclusion?

No judge anywhere in Nigeria can be removed without the involvement of the National Judicial Council (NJC), no matter the level of allegations of misconduct against that judge.»

Meanwhile, in order to expedite investigations into the alleged stated misconduct by the High Court Judges, the Chief Justice in accordance with a decision of the Judicial Council has constituted a second Committee to investigate the matter against three of the Judges in line with article 146 (4).

The initial draft provided that the president would be removed from the process of naming chief prosecutors and that the Judicial Inspection, the institution in charge of investigating magistrate misconduct, would be placed under the Justice Ministry's authority.

Five other judicial staff who were incriminated in the video and found guilty of the stated misconduct have also been dismissed while some other High Court judges are going through impeachment processes.

For nine years, she has investigated complaints of judicial misconduct, and now she's looking into a crooked judge who was secretly involved in the construction of a casino on Native - American land.

The Quebec Ministry of Justice, describes the non-judicial process as a means of «of dealing with certain offences in a particular way so as to better rationalize the use of resources allocated to the judicial system and not to unduly stigmatize the misconduct of an offender whose behaviour does not warrant judicial action.»

McBroom's allegations first surfaced in 2007 in the form of a judicial misconduct complaint against Kent.

After 15 years on the bench, Keller is on the other side of the dais today in San Antonio, where she's on trial for five judicial misconduct charges stemming from her decision not to keep the CCA open after hours to accommodate the defense team for convicted killer Michael Richard, who was scheduled to be executed that night, Sept. 25, 2007.

The way in which the Trial Chamber reacted to Alternate Judge Sow's decision to make a public statement on the Taylor Trial; the exclusion of his statement from the official transcript of the hearing; and the recent information suggesting irregularities in the process which the SCSL judges invoked to discipline their judicial colleague for alleged misconduct all underscore the need for greater transparency on this issue than we have so far received from the SCSL.

In addition to his litigation practice, Richard has also served as the Executive Director and counsel to the Council on Probate Judicial Conduct, which investigates and adjudicates formal complaints of ethical misconduct against the elected Probate Judges in ConnecticuIn addition to his litigation practice, Richard has also served as the Executive Director and counsel to the Council on Probate Judicial Conduct, which investigates and adjudicates formal complaints of ethical misconduct against the elected Probate Judges in Connecticuin Connecticut.

The CJC alleges that the judge engaged in «willful misconduct» that was unbecoming of a judicial officer, AP reports.

But in Hughes v. Board of Professional Responsibility (PDF), the Tennessee Supreme Court found that his prior misconduct, combined with his felony convictions, demonstrated «a pattern of behavior over a period of years that conflicts with the standards of the bar, the sanctity of our judicial system and the public trust.

A Quebec judge will not have his day in court after the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed his application for leave to appeal last week in a case where he was accused of judicial misconduct.

Bindmans scooped two awards — Charlotte Haworth Hird won the Inquests / Actions Against State award for her work on a judicial review which led to an inquiry into deaths of 18 - 24 year olds in custody; Mike Schwarz won Criminal Defence Lawyer for his work exposing misconduct by undercover police officers.

That hearing was held in private and the anonymous judge's conduct was ruled «inappropriate,» but not labelled judicial misconduct.

In the last three years the Office of Judicial Complaints (OJC) received 5,407 complaints about misconduct (rather than corruption), though this does not represent all complaints made against the 3,600 judges, 7,000 tribunal members and 29,000 magistrates.

Yet the CJC panel, which unanimously recommended that an inquiry be struck, concluded his «actions may constitute judicial misconduct or failure in the due execution of his office, or may have placed him in a position incompatible with the due execution of that office.»

Example 1 in this question is clear judicial misconduct.

The following misconducts were most frequently observed whilst working in judicial capacity:

Although it is rare, there have been times when judges have gone beyond committing judicial errors and have committed acts of misconduct, both in and out of court.

In the face of egregious misconduct, the judicial council can make a recommendation to the government that the judge be removed from office.

Requires disclosure of number of each type of judicial misconduct or disability that resulted in sanction or censure of a judge.

[67] In this case, a judge with a lengthy and stellar record of service committed a single aberrant and inexplicable act of judicial misconduct.

(3) If an allegation of misconduct against a provincial judge is made to any other judge or to the Attorney General, the other judge, or the Attorney General, as the case may be, shall provide the person making the allegation with information about the Judicial Council's role in the justice system and about how a complaint may be made, and shall refer the person to the Judicial Council.

These include: the chief judge's obligation to «identify» a complaint based on public reports suggesting that a judge may have engaged in misconduct; judicial council authority to impose sanctions on complainants who abuse the process; disqualification of judges from proceedings under the 1980 Act; and making the Rules more user - friendly.

In 2008, the Judicial Conference of the United States — the administrative policy - making body of the federal judiciary — approved a revised set of rules for handling complaints of misconduct or disability on the part of federal judges.

(Hryciuk was ordered removed from the bench in 1993 after an Ontario Judicial Council Inquiry into the sexual misconduct allegations, but was later vindicated in 1996 by the Ontario Court of Appeal after it ruled the Inquiry judge unfairly allowed new misconduct complaints to be added to the Inquiry.

Even the Executive Director of the Canadian Judicial Council, Norman Sabourin, confirmed in a Toronto Star news article that there is no limit on the publicly - paid legal costs when Federal Court justices are defending misconduct allegations.

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Mr. Best had complained to the Canadian Judicial Council alleging serious misconduct by Justice J. Bryan Shaughnessy during a 2013 hearing where Best had asked Justice Shaughnessy to set aside his 2010 conviction obtained in absentia (in Best's absence) for contempt of court in a «trial» that Best had not be informed of and therefore did not attend.

Even if one could say that such treatment reflects some policy of the various foreign states involved, or indeed of the United Kingdom, it goes far beyond any conduct previously recognised as requiring judicial abstention... The critical point in my view is the nature and seriousness of the misconduct alleged in both cases before the Supreme Court, at however high a level it may have been authorised... Sovereign states who without justification and without permitting access to justice detain or mistreat individuals in the course or in relation to their conduct of foreign relations or affairs have sovereign immunity in foreign domestic courts.

The function of absolute immunity in the performance of judicial duties is not to shield members of the judiciary from liability for their own misconduct, but rather «to protect their offices from the deterrent effect of suit alleging improper motives where there has been no more than a mistake or a disagreement on the part of the complaining party with the decision made.»

Bamberger resigned as a senior judge in February 2006 to avoid being removed by Kentucky's Judicial Conduct Commission, in part, for alleged misconduct in the fen - phen case.

This dicta by the Supreme Court in Hardesty did not discuss the effect of SCR 4.020 (1)(d) which gives the Judicial Conduct Commission «the authority to refer any judge of the Court of Justice who, after notice and hearing is found by the Commission to be guilty of misconduct, to the KBA for possible suspension or disbarment from the practice of law.»

The General Assembly shall prescribe a procedure, in addition to impeachment and address set forth in this Section, for the removal of a Justice or Judge of the General Court of Justice for mental or physical incapacity interfering with the performance of his duties which is, or is likely to become, permanent, and for the censure and removal of a Justice or Judge of the General Court of Justice for wilful misconduct in office, wilful and persistent failure to perform his duties, habitual intemperance, conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude, or conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice that brings the judicial office into disrepute.

Quebec's non-judicial program, according to the website of the province's Ministry of Justice, is a way of «dealing with certain offences in a particular way so as to better rationalize the use of resources allocated to the judicial system and not to unduly stigmatize the misconduct of an offender whose behaviour does not warrant judicial action.»

The only ground of challenge in these circumstances was likely to be that the secretary of state could not properly arrive at a decision that it may be appropriate for the care worker to be included in the list; a listed person could not get a speedy judicial determination of the underlying facts, namely whether or not he had committed the misconduct alleged.

The question arose again in a recent High Court judicial review of a decision by the SRA to rescind the referral of a misconduct complaint to the SDT.

In addition to complaints about judicial misconduct, the Act permits any person to allege conduct reflecting a judge's inability to perform his or her duties because of «mental or physical disability.»

In the course of your answer, perhaps you could touch on whether you have reduced your caseload due to your other responsibilities as chief judge, whether you have taken advantage of the ability to have an extra law clerk, your role in considering judicial misconduct complaints, and your participation as the Tenth Circuit's representative in the Judicial Conference of the United StateIn the course of your answer, perhaps you could touch on whether you have reduced your caseload due to your other responsibilities as chief judge, whether you have taken advantage of the ability to have an extra law clerk, your role in considering judicial misconduct complaints, and your participation as the Tenth Circuit's representative in the Judicial Conference of the United Statein considering judicial misconduct complaints, and your participation as the Tenth Circuit's representative in the Judicial Conference of the Unitedjudicial misconduct complaints, and your participation as the Tenth Circuit's representative in the Judicial Conference of the United Statein the Judicial Conference of the UnitedJudicial Conference of the United States.

Given the potential impact of campaign misconduct on public trust and confidence in the courts, all candidates in contested elections for judicial office are strongly encouraged to participate.

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