Not exact matches
Recently there was a
Court judgment in Madras which granted the contention of a person who affirmed that he was a Christian by faith without change of community by conversion and therefore entitled to benefits ofthe
scheduled castes of the Hindu community.
At the hearing of the appeal, Daudu faulted the
judgment of the appeal
court on among other grounds that it erroneously affirmed the competence of the proceedings of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, which sat on the appellant's case with only two members as against the three provided for in the provisions of Paragraph 15 (1) of the Fifth
Schedule to the 1999 Constitution.
A statement by the chairman of the campaign organization, Sir Edwin Uboo in Awka, said that the organisation was particularly angered by Umeh's alleged continued deliberate malicious misinterpretation, misrepresentation and sentimentalization of the
Court of Appeal
judgment in Enugu that Ekwunife was disqualified from contesting the
scheduled fresh election expected to hold in March, 2016.
An amended
schedule of unsecured debts identified five debts totaling $ 1,575,000, including at least one substantial
judgment against them in Los Angeles Superior
Court.
In addition to the change in approach signalled by these rulings, the
courts have recently leaned toward the use of summary
judgment motions, which in Toronto must be heard within 100 days of counsel's attendance at Civil Practice
Court, formerly called Motion
Scheduling Court.
As the House of Lords is
scheduled to vote on the Government's proposals for a residence test for access to legal aid, Angela Patrick, Director of Human Rights Policy at JUSTICE considers today's
judgment of the Divisional
Court in PLP v Secretary of State for Justice.
The important question of how much latitude judges have in Ontario to avoid trials by granting summary
judgment under Rule 20 is
scheduled to come before the Supreme
Court of Canada in March in two appeals involving an alleged investor scam.
This week the Supreme
Court handed down
judgment in R (Public Law Project) v Lord Chancellor, in which it unanimously concluded that the proposed restriction of legal aid on grounds of residence under the draft Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of
Schedule 1) Order 2014 was ultra vires the Henry VIII clause in the enabling Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
As the Divisional
Court recognised at paragraph [29] of its
judgment, «if making a donation of the kind described in paragraph 2 (1)(c) of
Schedule 15 also involves incurring a referendum expense, then only permitted participants could make such donations exceeding # 10,000, and only the designation organisation could make such donations exceeding # 700,000, without contravening the rules restricting campaign spending.»
At the end of the reasons for
judgment in Alberta's first electronic trial in 1159465 Alberta Ltd. v. Adwood Manufacturing Ltd.the Honourable Mr. Justice A.W. Germain of the
Court of Queen's Bench provided a
schedule to the reasons for
judgment in which he reflects on the process and some of the legal issues to have cropped up.
If, in the
court's opinion,
scheduling the summary
judgment motion would not be a prudent use of judicial resources, Judges should be prepared to refuse to
schedule the motion.
A few weeks ago I was in summary
judgment motion
scheduling court before Madam Justice Low.
They pointed to the fact that this was a contest between victims, and that the practical effect of the
court's
judgment was that they will recover almost nothing from the proceeds of the
Schedule C Properties in which they invested.
As the Divisional
Court recognised at paragraph [29] of its
judgment, «if making a donation of the kind described in paragraph 2 (1)(c) of
Schedule 15 also involves incurring a referendum expense, then only permitted participants could make such donations exceeding # 10,000, and only the designation organisation could make such donations exceeding # 700,000, without contravening the rules restricting campaign spending.»
The second option asks the
court to vacate or throw out your divorce
judgment and
schedule a new trial.