Sentences with phrase «justice bill became»

There was one new offence for every day Tony Blair was in office and the passing of a criminal justice bill became a de facto annual event.

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Olson also invoked «fundamental rights» and was queried by Justice Scalia as to just exactly when it became unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage: 1791 with the Bill of Rights, 1868 with the 14th Amendment, or some other date, perhaps after the Court declined in 1971 to review a Minnesota Supreme Court decision upholding opposite - sex marriage requirements?

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

The justice secretary made clear he wanted to press on with the bill, which the government intends to rush through parliament and become law within the next three weeks.

That said, both Smith and Moorhead are impressed by chief exec Des Hudson who arrived at Chancery Lane in 2006 to knock some shape into what was seen to be an organisation lurching from crisis to crisis — for example, a bruising encounter with the then Lord Irvine over its campaign against the Access to Justice Bill («irresponsible scaremongering») and the bitter recriminations following the departure of Kamlesh Bahl, the first Asian woman to become vice-president, who resigned following bullying allegations.

When Hudson walked into Chancery Lane back in 2006, the Law Society looked like an organisation in deep trauma that veered from one calamity to the next: a clash with the then Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, over its campaign against the Access to Justice Bill; non-stop criticism flowing from the profession's inability to get a grip on its handling of consumer complaints; and then there was the Kamlesh Bahl saga, a rancorous dispute with the first Asian woman to become vice-president.

The Criminal Justice and Courts Bill is going through the final parliamentary stages before it becomes law.

With last week's Senate approval of Bill C - 10, Canada is close to becoming the most regressive Western democracy on criminal justice.

What would eventually become known as the «Fulton Bill» was introduced as a private member's bill in the Canadian Parliament in 1948 by Davie Fulton (who would eventually become Diefenbaker's Minister of JustiBill» was introduced as a private member's bill in the Canadian Parliament in 1948 by Davie Fulton (who would eventually become Diefenbaker's Minister of Justibill in the Canadian Parliament in 1948 by Davie Fulton (who would eventually become Diefenbaker's Minister of Justice).

The Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, published this week, will also give powers to courts to ensure dangerous offenders given a discretionary life sentence serve a higher proportion of their tariff before becoming eligible for parole consideration, and create a presumption that trials in magistrates» courts will proceed in the absence of the accused.

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