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Concerns are raised by Tory MPs about cuts to legal aid as Ken Clarke's justice bill gets its Second Reading

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Ashley Schapitl, a spokeswoman for Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the committee, said the senator is working with the Justice and Treasury departments to get technical assistance as the bill moves forward.

«When a youth gets into the juvenile justice system, everybody thinks their sins are forgiven when that youth turns 18, and I will assure you that doesn't happen,» the bill's sponsor, Florida Sen. Stephen Wise (R - Jacksonville), said before the legislation was passed.

She has been the lead and the inspiration, tirelessly campaigning to get Lib Dem MPs to do the right thing and kill part two of the justice and security bill — the provision for secret courts in civil cases relating to national security.

Advocates for a bill to make it easier for child sex abuse victims to seek justice as adults got help from television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz.

The measure, criticised by civil liberty campaigners as a «snooper's charter», has been taken out of a more general Home Office and Ministry of Justice - sponsored crime and courts bill, which ministers need to get on to the statute book as fast as possible.

Senate Democrats made a last - ditch effort to get legislation to make it easier for survivors of sexual abuse to seek justice as adults into the budget by trying to attach it as a hostile amendment to one of the bills.

Billed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn as a move toward environmental justice, the East 91st Street project has long gotten flak from locals — who claim it will bring pollution, noise, rats, and wreak havoc on the overall quality - of - life.

«The governor has an opportunity to dig deeper and ensure even more justice in New York State by insisting that this has to be done across the board, and then he can be very useful to justice by insisting that making sure that the bills promoting transparency are signed into law or get past the Republican stumbling block,» Sanders said.

Recycling chants from past protests like «No justice, no peace, no racist police» and «Shut it down, shut it down, Eric Garner, Mike Brown,» the left - wing crowd even took aim at Mayor Bill de Blasio, a liberal Democrat, briefly crying «This Bill de Blasio has got to go» in Foley Square.

«When I hopefully get to the Senate in January I will immediately file this as my first bill and will co-sponsor this legislation with whomever is ready to stand up for justice and to protect our kids.

NASA would get $ 5 billion for its Science Mission Directorate under a bill approved today by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies.

Snyder still gets solo director billing on Justice League, with the former Buffy creator sharing a screenplay credit with Chris Terrio, but the upbeat tone of the movie — snappy patter blending with action unburdened by subtext — is definitely Whedonesque.

And some school boards — including those overseeing the Los Angeles and San Diego unified school districts — are passing measures like a «school climate bill of rights,» which, among other things, mandates that schools employ restorative justice as an alternative to traditional discipline when students get into fights or cause other trouble.

Noting that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to take action on the issue of minimum sentences, Spratt fears that «the closer we get to the next election, the less time there is for a bill to get through, and the less likely this government will want to expend capital on these important justice issues.»

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.

It represents an injustice, rather than justice that an injured father who lost 12 months of wages because of his injury will only get 9 months wages back, or that an injured person will only get part of her medical bills paid for because she had to pay for part of her own legal bill out of her compensation.

Our civil justice system leaves the door open for injured people to get the compensation they need from the responsible parties for medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering.

Had the government got its way during the passage though Parliament of the Justice and Security Bill in removing judicial discretion, Lord Nueberger would have probably given a rather different judgment.

``... there have been powerful last - ditch efforts to get Clause 76 removed from the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill... There has been widespread support for the government's decision to strengthen the law, and — if data protection is to be taken seriously — it is vital that the government and other parties should stand firm against any possible amendments.

Those efforts got a big boost in early December when Justice Minister Stéphanie Vallée tabled bill 168.

Justice minister Park Sang - ki spoke of the executive was getting ready a bill to ban buying and selling of the virtual foreign money on domestic exchanges.