Sentences with phrase «judges have no financial interest»

Not exact matches

UPDATE: Ben Smith has the ruling in question, and Gawker reminds us of the financial interest the judge who issued it has in a GOP consulting firm.

Under the Conservatives, senior Whitehall officials would be judged on their financial performance, and all senior civil servants would have a fiduciary responsibility to act in the interest of the taxpayer.

The Supreme Court issued a landmark 5 - 4 decision today in Caperton v. Massey Coal Co., holding that due process requires a state judge to recuse himself from a case involving the financial interests of a party who has made substantial donations to the judge's campaign for the bench.

These include proceedings in which the judge has a personal bias or prejudice against a party, when the judge has served as an attorney or witness in the case or any stage of it, and when the judge or a member of the judge's immediate family has a financial interest in the case.

In accordance with the code of judicial ethics, judges frequently recuse themselves from cases where they have a financial interest that might create even an appearance of impartiality — for example where a judge holds stock in a litigant's company.

* Following up on an older story, the Fifth Circuit has withdrawn a ruling made in 2007 upon revelations that one of the judges involved had a financial interest in one of the parties.

All these fundamental principles would be violated by the vague obligation not to apply Articles 160 (3) and 161 (2) in so far as Italian judges found that the «national rule prevents the imposition of effective and dissuasive penalties in a significant number of cases of serious fraud affecting the financial interests of the European Union» (para 58; emphasis added).

The nice aspect of this published decision, with respect to 1021.5 jurisprudence, is that it held a claimant seeking no monetary award could still be held to have an overriding financial interest and, separately, that even an «indirect» financial interest — in this case, competitive survival — certainly allowed trial judges to consider such an interest (gauging whether it was real or speculative in nature).

(4) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Canon, if a judge would be disqualified because of a financial interest in a party (other than an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome), disqualification is not required if the judge (or the judge's spouse or minor child) divests the interest that provides the grounds for disqualification.

(c) the judge knows that the judge, individually or as a fiduciary, or the judge's spouse or minor child residing in the judge's household, has a financial interest in the subject matter in controversy or in a party to the proceeding, or any other interest that could be affected substantially by the outcome of the proceeding;

My view actually aligns with people who I believe are much more learned than most in this industry — the lawyers and judges who make money off of salespersons like yourself for having convinced others that it's in their best interests to hire you to represent them and the opposing side in the same financial arrangement!