Sentences with phrase «justices dealt with the case»

The remaining four justices dealt with the case based on administrative law principles.

Not exact matches

The eight - justice court is hearing arguments Monday in two cases that deal with the same basic issue of whether race played too large a role in the drawing of electoral districts, to the detriment of African - Americans.

But these deals failed to go through when the federal courts sided with the Justice Department's case that they would harm competition.

Before he became Pope, he oversaw a tightening of procedures and reform of the way that the Vatican deals with sexual abuse cases that come to it in order to deal with more cases, more efficiently and with greater justice for the victims.

When we seek instead to «pay something back to the victims and bring them closure,» we are doing a justice either lower (as in civil - court cases) or higher (as in repaying blood with blood)» but, in any case, something that should not be a model for how we deal with criminals.

Or, in the case of John Rawls, they are behind a pre-social «veil of ignorance» making deals with one another according to their calculated self - interest and thus bringing «society,» with its key idea of justice, into being.

The Philadelphia scandal could open a historic chapter in the abuse crisis, church watchers say, changing the way the American criminal justice system deals with such alleged cases.

I am confident that the prosecutors in Florida have ample statutory authority to deal with the case and that the Florida law on self - defense will not be an impediment to achieving justice.

He said: «Persons who violate the laws of the land in a manner akin to what has happened in the late Captain's case would be dealt with accordingly,» adding: «The police is prepared to collaborate with stakeholders to cure this canker of instant justice» and ensure that it is «permanently stamped out of the society.

These cases are often dealt with outside the criminal justice system: a woman filmed crushing a kitten and the video's cameraman both lost their jobs following a «successful» human flesh search and a man recorded arguing with a foreigner over a traffic violation was forced to make an apology on national TV.

Fees for a tribunal to deal with asylum or immigration cases had risen from # 80 to # 490, a decision taken by previous Justice Secretary Michael Gove.

Tony Blair was criticised in the Commons for his government's role in rendition, with Joanna Cherry, the SNP's justice spokeswoman, asking whether the case revealed part of the «dark side» of his deal in the desert with Gaddafi in 2004, and the Tory MP Sir Edward Leigh calling on him to apologise.

She called for the party to «uphold the strongest principles of natural justice» including giving people a timeline in which their case will be dealt with, offering the identity of any complainant and telling people why they are being suspended.

Might have something to do with: 1) knowing that there is less chance of being caught than years ago: 2) you will be dealt with leniently, unless of course you are a former Tory minister, in which case our lefty justice system tries to make an example of you.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo disbanded the Moreland Commission in a deal with legislative leaders in March 2014, and a number of cases were taken up by the Department of Justice.

Although never fully explained, most of the action sets off from a secret that Louise harbors regarding a possible experience dealing with rape in the past, and the lack of sympathy or understanding on the part of the legal system that, one presumes, did not do justice in her case.

The book summarizes a great deal of psychological research to reach this point which I can not do justice to, but roll with this in any case:

The justices appeared to focus most of their attention on the first case they heard, one dealing with whether the law is unconstitutional because it siphons off state funds that can only be used for the operation of public schools.

In some positive news for publishers Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins, who have been dealing with the shift in the ebook market and the litigation settlements in the Apple price fixing case brought on by the Department of Justice, the publishers announced a partnership with Worldreader to bring their titles to... [Read more...]

According to Justice Asua, in cases like this, where the Court deals with an area of law that is fully harmonised at the European level, EU law can not be only an interpretive criterion, but has to be the sole basis of the decision.

«The difficulty is that the Supreme Court has said on a number of occasions that Aboriginal people face systemic discrimination in the criminal justice system,» says Rudin, «and this case doesn't really let us figure out how we're going to deal with that question.

«Mediation will not be suitable for all cases however and it would be hoped that the reforms to the family justice system proposed by Mr Justice Ryder will be properly resourced and implemented by the government so that those cases that are dealt with by the courts will be subject to less delay than at present.justice system proposed by Mr Justice Ryder will be properly resourced and implemented by the government so that those cases that are dealt with by the courts will be subject to less delay than at present.Justice Ryder will be properly resourced and implemented by the government so that those cases that are dealt with by the courts will be subject to less delay than at present.»

On July 26, 2017, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued Opinion 1/15 (the Opinion of the Advocate General on this case had been discussed previously in this blog, part I and part II) pursuant to Article 218 (11) TFEU on the draft agreement between Canada and the European Union (EU) dealing with the Transfer of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data from the EU to Canada.

In relation to Scottish Speculative Agreements it is clear again from Lord Gill's Review that there is a significant issue relating to Access to Justice; this is discussed on pages 98 and 99 and para 107 «as far as Access to Justice is concerned, speculative fee arrangements were said to have been responsible for a reduction in the number of firms taking on personal injury litigation, resulting in less choice for consumers but a concentration of expertise in those firms dealing with such cases... Another respondent was of the view that speculative fee arrangements were being entered into where there was little risk».

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Busseri v. Doe, 2014 ONSC 819, dealt with the defendant's motion to set aside default judgment against him in an internet defamation case.

On the back of all this, the differently constituted Court of Appeal dealing with the damages case held that the collection of errors by the judge did amount to gross and obvious irregularity which meant that flagrant denial of justice did not have to be addressed.

If that is the case, then using the mark in a comparative advert does not damage that guarantee as long as it is not used in such a way as creates confusion between the advertiser and the mark owner or their goods (something which is dealt adequately in the CAD); one is tempted to agree with Lord Justice Jacob's view that trade mark law has no place in this arena.

Richard A. Posner, the outspoken justice on the Seventh Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals and University of Chicago law professor, has written a short piece for The New Republic, entitled «In Defence of Looseness,» in which he takes the U.S. Supreme Court to task for its decision in District of Columbia v. Heller [PDF], the case involving the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution dealing with arms and militias.

For case law cited in the BC Court of Appeal, or if you're dealing with federal laws, online is fine: the Court of Appeal's Practice Directive on the Citation of Authorities from 2013 accepts electronic sources with neutral cites; and Justice Canada made online acts and regulations official in 2009.

Condominium Plan No. 931 0520 v Smith, relied on by Justice Stevens in Davis, dealt with an age - based restriction in condominium bylaws, so section 3 of HRCMA, which governed at the time, was clearly inapplicable in that case.

Justice Brown drives home the point that the system is less focused on adjudicating the merits of a case, and far more focused on the procedure itself (57 of 74 rules deal with interlocutory matters and only 17 with final determinations).

I mentioned last month the raft of legislation filed in the Wisconsin Assembly dealing with judicial recusal, including proposals to require recusal for certain campaign contributions as well as giving the supreme court the ability to force a justice off a case.

Mr Justice Collins in the Administrative Court handed down a judgment which dealt not only with the particular case before him, but laid down general matters of procedure for the future.

The recommendations in this report — described as to deal with «family justice» — dealt in its recommendations only with children cases in all but three paragraphs.

Two ironies emerge from UL: first, that the statutory provision which codifies the jurisdiction the court is dealing with — Mareva injunctions — is not mentioned at all (namely Civil Procedure Act 1997 (CPA 1997) s 7); and second that the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 37 (2)(also considered) specifically does create a fresh injunction jurisdiction (a point understood by Mr Justice Anthony Lincoln in Shipman v Shipman [1991] 1 FLR 250, [1938] 4 All ER 732 but a case which Mostyn J erroneously seeks to side - line).

MR JUSTICE AIKENS: As a matter of construction of CPR Pt 44.3, it was clear that the judge had a general discretion on how to deal with costs if he decided that, on the facts of the case, it would not be appropriate to follow the «general rule» under Pt 44.3 (2)(a).

This is the case even if the court deals with that application after the expiry of the relevant period... This still remains the case following the recent civil justice reforms.»

Justice Frances Kiteley recently dealt with the question of mental capacity to reconcile in the 2018 decision of Chuvalo v. Chuvalo, a sad case between George Chuvalo and his family.

Strangely, given the genesis of the EU protection of privilege in antitrust cases, a field in which joint defence agreements are commonplace, there is little case law of the Court of Justice dealing with joint defence arrangements.

Justice Abella's decision highlights a more general point: the practical cases coming before the courts today are, by and large, not «core» human rights issues that deal with basic human dignity.

«Yet it was those judges, working in isolation, who over the years, day by day, case by case, developed the knowledge and expertise, the ability to deal with real people in real time and who made the court what it is today: a proud and independent institution, dedicated to justice and to public service, peopled with judges who could easily grace any courtroom in the country.

16 In the case of Aquilini v. Aquilini, 2012 BCSC 1616, Mr. Justice Smith dealing with an application for the appointing of a business valuator (similar to the case at bar) identified the following relevant factors for a court to consider when determining whether to exercise its discretion under Rule 13 - 4 (3) to appoint a joint expert in absence of an agreement at para. 43:

In my view, while this case does not deal substantively with the issue as to whether the requirement that one pay the costs of the transcription of the proceedings below results in a barrier to access to justice, it raises tangentially the question as to whether access to justice has become an illusory concept for most Canadians.

Those who wish to apply should have an idea that bridges the access - to - justice gap in the U.S.; utilizes technology to deal with a vital legal need; designs or builds a more effective way of delivering legal services; provides the public with easier access to legal information; reduces the backlog of cases in various courts throughout the country; creates tools that allow lawyers to better represent their clients; or helps pro se litigants represent themselves more effectively.

In more recent years, we have represented clients in every major case in which the Supreme Court of Canada has dealt with the Charter equality rights of gay men and lesbians including, among others, Egan v. Canada, Vriend v. Alberta, M. v. H., and Little Sisters Book & Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice).

«Judge Eiler did not cut deals with litigants behind closed doors, accept bribes or otherwise demonstrate that her decisions were governed by anything other than the law and the facts of the cases,» the justice continued.

David Wells has dealt with some of the UK's most high - profile cases and is a leading specialist in criminal appeals and miscarriages of justice and is involved with Mark in trying to help solve a number of unsolved deaths both here in the UK and internationally.

As Toronto lawyer Leora Shemesh prepares to defend herself against charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, other defence counsel say they've also been dealing with issues surrounding the existence — or not — of a video that surfaced in a drug case she acted in.

It has had significant involvement in all the high profile SFO investigations since that office was established in 1987 and the CMA, and increasingly finds itself dealing with cases having an international element, particularly with the US Department of Justice.

The justice part of access to justice requires that those lawyers and judges dealing with family law cases and criminal law cases have the interest in, aptitude for, and the professional experience and expertise required to deal with the complexities of, and multifaceted nature of, IPV [intimate partner violence].