Sentences with phrase «justice principles at»

Yet, given the vital public interest and access to justice principles at stake, nothing short of a systemic, profession - wide strategy will do.

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At this time, when the people are moved by a strong urge for social equality and economic and political justice, there is a great need for a country - wide agency to look after their religious needs and to guide them to an understanding of the principles of Islam.
It may be worth emphasizing that the substantive principle of justice in a teleological ethic (or, for that matter, any ethic at all) is invalid unless it consistently implies the formative human rights of communicative respect.
Liberal professors and commentators at once feigned hysteria at the thought that a justice might invoke extra-constitutional principles.
At the same time it acts in the belief that testifying to the principles of freedom and justice is a mandate that can not be avoided, and that — potentially — action based on these liberating principles can indeed transform structures built upon human selfishness.
... strange reconciliation of justice and mercy, each somehow an ultimate principle of value, but... the single aim at one primary good, which is that the creatures should enjoy rich harmonies of living, and pour this richness into the one ultimate receptacle of all achievement, the life of God.
Moskop thus makes at least three important claims in his brief essay: I) that the five theses adequately and unambiguously represent the framework of Hartshorne's moral philosophy, 2) that Hartshorne's metaphysics justifies not only a broad understanding of altruism but rather a dependence upon an understanding of the principle of utility quite similar to that of utilitarianism, and 3) that in both Hartshorne's moral philosophy and his metaphysics the claims of justice are necessarily subordinate to those of utility.
Instead, however, and as the best substitute, the Church would need to give the individual Christian three things: a more living ardour of Christian inspiration as a basis of individual life; an absolute conviction that the moral responsibility of the individual is not at an end because he does not come in conflict with any concrete instruction of the official Church; an initiation into the holy art of finding the concrete prescription for his own decision in the personal call of God, in other words, the logic of concrete particular decision which of course does justice to universal regulative principles but can not wholly be deduced from them solely by explicit casuistry.
Believing in a person's innocence until he or she has been proven guilty is an important legal principle that is at the very bedrock of the American justice system.
I can swallow insults, but I can also give them back and when I give them back, I often get victimised on a one - sided basis, the principles of natural justice often do not apply in cases pertaining to «insults» from KickAssFan, so u rather avoid my comments which are directed at Wenger, or amiably reply.
In the 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, Joseph Boakye Danquah, one of the revered founding fathers of our nation, stated, when defining the vision and policy of our party, that: «Our duty is to liberate the energies of the people for the growth of a property - owning democracy in this land, with a right to life, and freedom and justice as the principles to which the government and laws of the land should be dedicated to in order specifically to enrich the lives, property and liberty of each and every citizen.»
Egyptian rights activists have resourcefully incorporated transitional justice principles into their campaigns, while aiming at more far - reaching goals and showing their international colleagues how to support them.
There was never a better chance than in 1981 when four substantial national figures launched a left - of - centre party built on principles of social justice and internationalism in a yawning political vacuum, with Labour and Tories at their most extreme.
Asked by Mr Iddrisu if she would abide the seniority principle at the bench during her tenure as Chief Justice, Justice Akuffo said: «I really don't understand the import of that question but yes, seniority at the bench is an established practice and one gives respect to everybody.
«Kristy Mazurek embodies everything that is wrong with politics, and the contrast could not be greater between her and Monica Wallace, a principled leader who brings a unique perspective to the seat and has spent her entire career fighting for justice and teaching ethics at UB Law School,» Zellner said.
With each and every growing controversy, we have seen that the government's changes to the criminal justice system have been rooted in the panacea of cutting costs, with little regard to preserving the integrity and the fundamental principles of equality before the law and access to justice that sit at the heart of our legal system.
«With each and every growing controversy, we have seen that the government's changes to the criminal justice system have been rooted in the panacea of cutting costs, with little regard to preserving the integrity and the fundamental principles of equality before the law and access to justice that sit at the heart of our legal system,» he said.
Agree the basic principles of a workable system based on academic excellence and social justice, possibly with pupil choice at 14, and at least both parties could demonstrate that Irish and British people who call this region home can agree on important issues.
While the principle of «innocent until proven guilty,» also known as the «presumption of innocence,» isn't explicitly mentioned in the United States Constitution (though it is part of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a key document of the French Revolution), it is long considered one the most fundamental principles of the American justice system.In 1895, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Coffin v. United States that «the principle that there is a presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is the undoubted law, axiomatic and elementary, and its enforcement lies at the foundation of the administration of our criminal law.»
Advancing the idea of a British constitutional court at an EU justice select committee hearing in the House of Lords earlier this month the justice secretary, Michael Gove, said it could give British judges the power to decide not to enforce EU law if it was contrary to basic principles.
In 2016, LMU's School of Education received AACTE's Best Practice Award in Support of Multicultural Education and Diversity.131 According to AACTE, all of the teacher preparation programs at LMU are «grounded in principles such as the promotion of social justice, cultural responsiveness, inclusion, value and respect for all individuals, and leadership that is moral, intellectual, responsible, and caring.»
«The various AQA English specifications have as their spine texts - To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, The Crucible, An Inspector Calls - where ordinary but principled people stand up for social justice at whatever cost.
Because principles of distributive justice require that differences in allocations from equal per capita shares to use the atmosphere be justified on the basis of morally relevant criteria, at a minimum, sub-national governments and groups should be required to explain how their emissions levels are just if they assert that they are already below what justice requires of them.
Any global climate treaty must, however, at least not make global inequality worse, and ideally should embody desirable principles of justice.
After all, we would argue that being able to read at an advanced level, or having access to a lawyer are far greater advantages than access to a computer and, if such is the case, then the status quo is much more problematic with regard to the equality of arms principle that is a building block towards access to justice than any well conceived online platform could ever be.
Justice Newbury examined the background behind the integrity principles at stake, while emphasizing the need for contingency fees to facilitate access to justice, sJustice Newbury examined the background behind the integrity principles at stake, while emphasizing the need for contingency fees to facilitate access to justice, sjustice, stating,
Although the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) long ago characterised the deliberate refusal of a Member State to implement EU law as a «failure in the duty of solidarity» that «strikes at the fundamental basis» of the EU legal order (Case 39/72, para. 25), it has not been clear whether the principle of solidarity among Member States can be enforced in European courts.
I suspect you would now challenge the notion that Charter and quasi-constitutional principles are at the core of the administration of justice, given that your interpretation above would absurdly allow lawyers to treat quasi-constitutional principles differently than the general public.
For Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice the First Amendment «journalistic principles» aren't as clear - cut, particularly where a guy's reputation is ruined and the newspaper itself presented only part of the story by failing to note that all charges against Feyissa were dismissed.
While the disclosure obligations imposed on the Crown make the preliminary inquiry less important as a forum for disclosure of the Crown's case against the accused, the constitutional principle that evidence should be made available to the defence if there is a possibility that non-disclosure will impair the accused's right to make full answer and defence, by extension, would seem to direct the justice presiding at the preliminary inquiry to ensure that the defence is given the widest latitude in obtaining disclosure during the course of the preliminary inquiry.
Here at the Law Offices of Mark Eiglarsh we take to heart the American principles of equal justice and the right of every human being to have a powerful legal defense!
The Tribunal looked at two approaches in this respect; one relied on the concept of a technical breach and the other applied the real merits and justice principle.
The Court, then, is convinced that the values of openness and access to justice must outweigh all other interests in principle, at least.
While Mr Justice Beatson, at first instance, determined that the claim was statute - barred, he held that Shore had first suffered loss not in 1997, but in 1999, when his pension rights were demonstrably less valuable (applying principles reiterated in Sephton).
33 To function effectively in the case - dialogue approach, students are often forced to separate their personal sense of fairness and justice from their understanding of legal rules and principles.34 In other words, exclusive reliance on the case - dialogue method fragments legal education.35 Traditional legal education, therefore, emphasizes the abstract and technical aspect of legal practice at the expense of a more holistic vision of the attorney as both private advocate and social regulator.36
Beyond the important constitutional principles involved, this case is also noteworthy because the judge at first instance in the Ontario Court of Justice made the ruling without resort to the Charter.
``... The principle of fundamental justice which recognizes that the lawyer is required to keep the client's confidences — solicitor - client privilege» and «[a] client must be able to place «unrestricted and unbounded confidence» in his or her lawyer; that confidence which is at the core of the solicitor - client relationship is a part of the legal system itself, not merely ancillary to it» given these two statements in the case of an ABS does this mean that non-lawyer owners / managers would be restricted from accessing client files — in other words, who would «own» the information in a client file when a solicitor is working for an organization with non-lawyer ownership assuming that the solicitor - client privilege doesn't apply to the owner (s) or does this privilege apply to non-lawyer owners as well?
Then in 2011 Justice Rothstein, this time writing for the majority in Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v Alberta Teachers» Association, 2011 SCC 61, wrote that the principle of judicial deference asserted in Dunsmuir had evolved to the point where there is a presumption the standard of review is reasonableness where a statutory decision - maker applies and interprets its home statute (at para 39).
I am also prepared to concede that it is at least plausible that certain limited substantive guarantees would be captured by a reasonably generous reading of «principles of fundamental justice
While the original intent of section 7 as a whole is arguably irrelevant, the framer's intended meaning of «principles of fundamental justice» is surely relevant since the phrase had no «public» meaning at the time of its adoption, and, aside from its inclusion in the Canadian Bill of Rights, was not a familiar term of art.
In my paper, I offer three important textual constraints that courts have, at times, ignored or marginalized: first, that the interpretation of section 7 should not extend beyond the protection of «Legal Rights» — meaning that it should only be applied in the context of the administration of justice; second, that a law should only be struck down where it «deprives» an individual of life, liberty or security of the person; and third, that the principles of fundamental justice should only concern the very basic tenets of the legal system.
In FPR 2010 the rules committee has restricted the common law open justice principle (see eg R (on the application of Guardian News and Media Ltd) v City of Westminster Magistrates» Court [2012] EWCA Civ 420, [2012] 3 All ER 551 per Lord Justice Toulson at [66]-RRB- in a way which is not expressly permitted by the 20justice principle (see eg R (on the application of Guardian News and Media Ltd) v City of Westminster Magistrates» Court [2012] EWCA Civ 420, [2012] 3 All ER 551 per Lord Justice Toulson at [66]-RRB- in a way which is not expressly permitted by the 20Justice Toulson at [66]-RRB- in a way which is not expressly permitted by the 2003 Act.
The essence of this requirement is, as with all of the principles applicable to proper consultation, fairness, and what fairness demands will depend upon the particular facts of the case: see, for example, R v Secretary of State for Education, ex parte M [1996] ELR 162 at 206 — 7, in which Lord Justice Simon Brown warns of the need to avoid a «mechanistic» approach to the requirements of consultation.
It seems to me that there are at least three principles that should be applied to the design and drafting of legislation on family law subjects if access to justice is a goal worth pursuing:
A major in pre-law subjects — including law and society and criminal justice — will teach you the basic principles of law and show that you're committed to studying the law at postgraduate level.
Having practised at Macfarlanes he may be a little rusty on legal aid practice but at least he should have familiarity with our work and business and the principles of access to justice and the rule of law.»
In R v MBP, [1994] 1 SCR 555 Chief Justice Antonio Lamer elaborated on the foundation principles governing the pretrial stage as follows, at paras. 36 - 38:
R, looked at from the perspective that Apprendi is about two things and two things only — what is a crime, and who convicts people of crime - Justice Scalia's position is perfectly coherent and, to me, principled.
However, the SIA did not violate the principles of fundamental justice under section 7, as there was no international consensus that article 14 of the Convention Against Torture, which requires state parties to provide means for redress, was fundamental to the operation of the international legal system (at para 147).
In the first section on the tradition and context of open justice, Geoffrey Robertson QC, the keynote speaker at the event, sets out the history of the principle and argues that the government's Justice and Security recommendations are simply not compjustice, Geoffrey Robertson QC, the keynote speaker at the event, sets out the history of the principle and argues that the government's Justice and Security recommendations are simply not compJustice and Security recommendations are simply not compatible.
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