Sentences with phrase «interest litigation»

Its aim is to facilitate the funding of public interest litigation by enabling small donors to give via its website.

Public interest litigation allows a person or organization to bring a case notwithstanding their lack of direct involvement in the matter, or any infringement of their personal rights.

The blog has led to speaking engagements, media opportunities, and potential clients for our group's public interest litigation division.

One which recognizes that public interest litigation assists everyone, including the government, by ensuring the constitutional validity of their decisions.

Third party funding of public interest litigation has been slower to take off.

It would bind the court to order costs against charities, NGOs and other organisations which offer their assistance to the court in public interest litigation in a wide set of ill - defined and broad circumstances that could rarely be predicted at the beginning of a case.

The development came about during the resumed hearing of a public interest litigation filed by advocate Monica Dudani Mehtab seeking framing of a policy to provide insurance cover for the treatment of infertility.

Stream A: Longer paper covering an issue or related issues in public interest litigation with expected length of approximately 8,000 words.

CrowdJustice is a platform for crowdfunding public interest litigation which is one of the startups featuring on the Legal Geek Startup Map.

They are presenting the paper this Friday at a Symposium on the Role of Intervenors in Public Interest Litigation at the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto.

Conferences in Birmingham (organised by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG)-RRB- and Belfast (the Public Interest Litigation Support project) discussed the future for legal aid practitioners.

We're also in litigation in India, where we are the plaintiff in a public interest litigation suit with two Indian co-petitioners.

David has also acted on behalf of taxpayers in the ongoing compound interest litigation, both in the High Court GLO and the CIP Tribunal proceedings.

Public interest litigation does not automatically entitle a claimant to an advance costs award, and the Court has no interest in becoming a «proxy for the public inquiry process» (at para 39).

Interventions in Charter litigation and public interest litigation brought by lawyers and legal advocacy organizations play a role, not only in the courts in which the matters take place, but also within the public discourse surrounding the Charter and human rights issues raised.

Roger is a member of the advisory, steering or other boards of a number of organisations including The Rights Practice, Inquest, the Public Interest Litigation Service, Northern Ireland and the Centre for Professional Legal Education and Research at the University of Birmingham.

Prior to leading FAIR, Mr. Stein was the Executive Director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a public interest litigation group that has represented a variety of organizations in immigration and administrative law matters.

The division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice A V Mohta was hearing a public interest litigation filed by social worker Gaurang Damani about hardships faced by Mediclaim policy holders.

In that matter, class counsel would be paid $ 825,000 while the class itself would fork over its intellectual property rights, receiving only a $ 350,000 fund for public interest litigation in return.

KOLKATA: A city - based lawyer has filed a public interest litigation with Calcutta High Court demanding a proper framework for cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin in the country, in the absence of which digital currencies were enjoying a free run in the underworld.

In 2007, The Atlantic Philanthropies approached two legal practitioners, Gilbert Marcus SC and Steven Budlender, to conduct an evaluation of public interest litigation in South Africa, following The Atlantic Philanthropies» substantial investment in the field.

This was driven in part by the rise of public interest litigation — think, for example, of an environmental group finding a third - party plaintiff to sue a company to stop an environmentally sensitive development project.

After all, Thiel portrays his campaign against Gawker as a kind of public interest litigation.

The Supreme Court is currently in the process of hearing two Public Interest Litigations (PILs) that challenge this section on the ground of violating the right to equality under the Constitution of India.

Appeals, Business Disputes, Civil Litigation, Civil Rights, Criminal Defense, Defense of Professional Licenses, Disability Rights, Election Law, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death, Professional Malpractice, Public Interest Litigation; Resident Physician Disciplinary Issues

There may also be the opportunity to expand the civil litigation practice in our Ottawa office, including our public interest litigation.

Tyler Cowen tries putting the shoe on the environmentalist foot, while Eugene Kontorovich at the Volokh Conspiracy observes that «Thiel's conduct fits into the «public interest» or «ideological» litigation paradigm» and claims that «By current standards, Thiel's funding should raise no eyebrows — unless one also wants to revisit public interest litigation, class actions and contingent fees.»

Thomson Reuters has agreed to pay $ 350,000.00 to provide seed money for an innovative legal scholarship fund (the «Fund») that will benefit lawyers, law students and the public: the Fund will provide financial assistance to lawyers involved in public interest litigation, provided that the lawyer receiving money agrees to work with a law student enrolled in a complementary program at a participating Canadian law school.

His practice areas include class actions, franchise, antitrust, appellate advocacy, and public interest litigation.

There is a recognition if you are into litigation there is interesting litigation to be had in B.C., beyond just commercial litigation.

Appeals; Civil Rights; Disability Rights; Election Law; Employment Law; Housing Discrimination; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights; Personal Injury / Wrongful Death; Products Liability; Public Interest Litigation; Wage and Hour Violations

And by exposing charities and other interested parties who act in the public interest to greater financial risk these proposals will discourage public interest litigation.

Business Disputes; Civil Litigation; Civil Rights; Disability Rights; Housing Discrimination; Personal Injury / Wrongful Death; Professional Malpractice; Premises Liability; Public Interest Litigation

Appeals; Business Disputes; Child Sexual Abuse; Civil Litigation; Civil Rights; Class Actions; Employment Law; Housing Discrimination; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights; Personal Injury / Wrongful Death; Premises Liability; Products Liability; Professional Malpractice; Public Interest Litigation; Randolph - Sheppard Act; Wage and Hour Violations

«This case constitutes public interest litigation: the respondents have raised issues of public importance that transcend their immediate interests.

Which brings us to the latest legal startup, CrowdJustice, a crowdfunding platform allowing ordinary citizens to fund public - interest litigation.

His comments were directed at a particular subcategory of what we call pro bono — so - called public interest litigation — not at all pro bono of any kind.

We heard unease from some participants on Alternative Business Structures and their likely chill on public interest litigation; those participants asked the CBA to consider how ABS can be structured beyond the profit motive to allow lawyers to work towards the public good.

It has delivered judgements on many legal subjects: i.e. constitutional law, fundamental rights, human rights, environmental law, private and public international law, to name a few, and of course, the famous concept of public interest litigation (PIL).

«Public interest litigation which has now come to occupy an important field in the administration of law should not be «publicity interest litigation» or «private interest litigation» or «politics interest litigation»... The courts of justice should not be allowed to be polluted by unscrupulous litigants by resorting to the extraordinary jurisdiction.»