Sentences with phrase «judiciary at»

The second is the determination of the legal profession and many within the judiciary to do whatever it takes to retain talented women at the Bar so that the senior Bar and the judiciary at all levels exhibit a stronger representation of women.

It undermines public confidence in the federal judiciary at a moment in history when that confidence is needed urgently.

At the time the parenting project was first proposed, I, on behalf of the Scarborough judiciary at the time, was immediately supportive.

«We have a judiciary at the highest level, the Texas Supreme Court, that gets 40 to 50 percent of its campaign money from the very people who are practicing before that court,» said Craig McDonald, head of Texans for Public Justice, a follow - the - money political watchdog.

Sen. John DeFrancisco said senators were set to consider bills on aid to localities and funding the Legislature and judiciary at an 11 p.m. meeting, and further debate.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen assumed the leadership of the judiciary at a time when the institution was in the eye...

Not exact matches

After his stint at Verizon, Pai had gone to work in various roles at the Senate judiciary committee (advising Jeff Sessions and Sam Brownback) and at the justice department, before becoming FCC deputy general counsel in 2007.

The new President is systematically trying to undercut any institution that poses a challenge to his power — the judiciary, the Senate, intelligence agencies, etc. — and the news media, with its power to synthesize, interpret, and amplify all these challenges, ranks at the top of this list.

This is a more serious complaint: The battle over abortion is fundamentally a battle over the judiciary, at this point.

Church - state decisions by the Supreme Court, and by the judiciary more generally, sometimes seem to be aimed at replacing this inconveniently religious people with another people more to its secular fancy.

For some reason, the May issue's Public Square chose to pick two sentences out of my review of Jefferson Powell's book on the Supreme Court and twist those few words to portray both Powell and me as at least «confused» and perhaps as defenders of an imperial judiciary.

But since our federal judiciary has tremendous informational and economic resources at its disposal, it has been able to engineer fairly solid constructions.

And businesses need security of contract and some notion of property rights, so they generate a judiciary which is at least somewhat separate from the government.

Open murder of political dissidents and opposition both at home and abroad, ww2 style land grabs, purposely bombing syrian hospitals, censorship of the entire populace with intelligence services meting out punishments, having a sham of a judiciary and media while telling more lies than truth to its populace thereby eroding their confidence in any information to enlighten them (much like what the authoritarian right is trying to do here).

Politicians need to emphasise that public safety «must come first», and say «loud and clear that human rights do not compromise public safety», Lord Falconer concluded - but at the same time ensure the independence of the judiciary is not undermined.

In what could be described as deliberate attempts to frustrate the Chief Justice's effort at cleaning the judiciary of miscreants; plaintiffs, complainants and attorneys are fuming over what they see as clever moves by court clerks and registrars to extort monies from them.

Last week, Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike at stakeholders» meeting at the Government House, Port Harcourt, declared that he never authorised any aide to make uncomplimentary remarks on the judiciary.

Justice Dery has filed an avalanche of cases at the High Court since a bribery scandal that hit the country's judiciary broke.

He later rose through the judiciary to become a justice at the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

Had the Conservatives had a Parliamentary majority (or had formed a coalition with a certain party whose name shall go unmentioned), they might have found a way back to the status quo ante on at least (some of) the reforms that are practically reversible, viz. the House of Lords, the Human Rights Act, the Lord Chancellor's jurisdiction over the judiciary.

Are you pointing at a flaw in the institutional design of the legislative and judiciary branches in CEE, or at an existing contest of power between courts and parliaments?

You argue that the judiciary has been empowered at the expense of parliaments in CEE.

Speaking on the exposé at this year's Ghana Bar Conference in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, former President Kufuor said «nothing is more detrimental to the security of a nation than a compromised judiciary».

Although the phenomenon is not confined to post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the dormancy of Parliaments seems to be particularly acute in this region, at least in the policy domain of judiciary governance.

Mr President, the desperation so far exhibited by your person and your government in manipulating sensitive agencies of state like the judiciary and now the electoral commission to further your bid to win the 2020 election is totally against the spirit of democracy and peace bestowed by the NDC in conceding defeat at the Presidential election.

A prerequisite for holding offices of trust in the government, especially in the military, at court, and judiciary

A pay commission appointed by the governor, state lawmakers and the judiciary will consider a pay increase at the end of this year.

He said, «In view of our belief in the judiciary and avalanche of evidence against the declaration of Senator Abiola Ajimobi as the duly elected governor in the April 11, 2015 governorship election in the state, Senator Rasheed Ladoja, the gubernatorial candidate of Accord after wide consultations, has resolved to appeal the judgment of Justice Muhammed Mayaki - led tribunal at the Court of Appeal.

More importantly, the denial of justice at the lower court can not also make Senator Rasheed Ladoja to lose hope in the judiciary.»

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

In his speech at the ocassion, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, expressed dismay that the judiciary is underfunded.

But another spectre loomed: that of socialist efforts to enhance state power at the expense of individual freedoms and an independent judiciary.

At a critical pass, when corruption either kills Nigeria or Nigeria kills it, vital segments of the media, the judiciary and an errant parliament are marooned in Distraction - land.

Get rid of the Dream Team of Zucker and Martens while we are at it, and let's give gold watches and hearty handshakes to all the Sheldon Silver members of the judiciary....

The judiciary was independent at that time because Jonathan did not interfere.

At its plenary on Thursday, the lawmakers accused the judiciary of «crossing the line» regarding its constitutional role.

They are not saying that the judiciary is corrupt because they have won,» Governor Wike said at a meeting with leaders of Okirika and Ogu - Bolo local government areas.

At 6 p.m. Tuesday, the New York City Bar Association will host «The State of Criminal Discovery in New York State,» discussing «the current law applicable to criminal discovery in New York State courts; responses to the Criminal Law Committee's statewide survey of the judiciary, defense bar and district attorneys regarding current practices; criminal discovery law in other states; and proposed reforms.»

The governor, who spoke at the Government House in Port Harcourt during a courtesy visit by the Port Harcourt Branch of the Nigeria Bar Association, warned lawyers against allowing the «deliberate» destruction of the judiciary under any guise.

It assured the judiciary, Ghanaians in general and the diplomatic corps that «we shall continue to work with all the other State Security Agencies to ensure their safety at all times».

Following the arrest and release of PREMIUM TIMES publisher, Dapo Olorunyomi and judiciary correspondence, Evelyn OKakwu on Thursday, the duo have been re-arrested by the Nigerian police, Abuja headquarters at the early hour of Friday.

He also promised a moderate vision and an outward - looking Iran and, at rallies, openly attacked the conservative - dominated judiciary and security services.

President Buhari, who spoke at a town hall meeting with Nigerians living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, yesterday, said: «On the fight against corruption vis - à - vis the judiciary, Nigerians will be right to say that is my main headache for now.

For the starry - eyed romantics thundering as if impunity and institutional subversion debuted with the military, Awo provided many examples of such in his book, The Travails of Democracy and the Rule of Law: CJN Adetokunbo Ademola letting off a cocktail jab at someone «who must oppose for opposing sake» (judiciary playing politics); PM Tafawa - Balewa who grumbled that Awo «called himself» Leader of Opposition (head of government subversive of the Constitution); and East Premier Michael Opara who snapped the Federal Government had powers to «abolish» misbehaving regional governments (executive outlawry against Nigerian federalism).

Generally, these social forms have sat like the British parliament has at times, as a simultaneous executive legislature and judiciary.

«Commissioners should be nominated by a bipartisan panel and then selected by elected officials, much like the judiciary,» Cherkasky said in a statement he read Thursday at the close of what's likely to be his final meeting as chairman.

The legislature's marathon budget hearings continued Wednesday and on the docket was public protection, which included testimony from several people including the new state police superintendent, corrections officials, and also the judiciary, which has been at odds with Governor Cuomo since his budget was introduced.

«What I hope I've done is create the profile of what judicial leadership looks like, in this day and age, in the world we live in today, where the problems of the world are not distinct from the judiciary,» said Lippman, in an interview at his Midtown office earlier this month.

«His policies have often leaned to the left philosophically, and at times I felt he was a judicial activist who would rather have been a legislator than a judge,» said State Sen. John Bonacic, a Republican who has chaired the chamber's judiciary committee since 2011.

The Bureau assures the judiciary, the good people of Ghana and all foreigners within the jurisdiction that we shall continue to work with all the other State Security Agencies to ensure their safety at all times.