Sentences with phrase «large numbers of its judges»

In December, Poland passed laws that threatened the independence of its and other Supreme Courts by enhancing the power of the executive branch to replace large numbers of its judges.

Remember the clients — quite a large number of the judges are in - house lawyers and they are particularly keen to see how a particular transaction has helped the client

Maricopa County Superior Court has the largest number of judges in Arizona.

Not exact matches

Daily Mail: Judging by sales of Durex, large numbers of Brits have decided to hide from the credit crisis by tumbling into bed — or they have decided they can't afford children.

Rather than judge Canada's success on abstract measures, which have little meaning to average folk — GDP, productivity, trade balances — Trudeau's candidacy is built on a pragmatic mantra: «A strong economy is the one that provides the largest number of good jobs for the largest number of Canadians.»

Let us see a large number of Muslim Clerics stand up and say, «You have dishonored Allah, but because you an infidel and do not know our ways, we will let Allah judge you.»

This narrative says not that a tiny number of clergy, shamefully, have had their share in the paedophile guilt of society at large (though if anything, judging by the figures for the general male population, a somewhat lesser share) but that there is some essential connection between paedophilia and the Catholic priesthood.

The judges were excited by the high quality of known wines submitted as well as the large number of new wines looking to break into the Asia Pacific Market.

Using a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging methods, he and his colleagues examine how children develop foundational number - processing abilities, such as the ability to judge which of two numbers is larger or to estimate numbers» position on a number line; why these basic cognitive processes sometimes go awry; and how to help children with serious deficits in numerical processing.

Usually dating among Muslims is considered to be something wrong and inappropriate, and what is more it is judged by a large number of people.

Last May, Tes revealed «secrecy» surrounding pay packages in the sector, with a number of MATs that awarded their CEOs large pay increases refusing to share the metrics that were used to judge the executives» performance.

FUNN, the Sharjah - based foundation dedicated to promoting media arts for and among children and youth in the UAE, has announced that the jury of the 3rd edition of the Sharjah International Children's Film Festival (SICFF) is challenged by the large number and impressive quality of many of the submissions in the process of judging and shortlisting the films nominated for the SICFF awards.

Emirati filmmaker Abdullah Hassan Ahmed, who has over 12 years of experience in the cinema industry, said: «The jury was challenged by the large number of movies and impressive quality of many of the submissions that made the judging process somewhat complicated.

This is what it boils down to: many of California's school districts thought it was unfair to judge their schools as failing because they served large numbers of challenged students whose growth and progress wasn't fairly measured by a narrow set of tests.

That number, along with my large number of MySpace followers, my business plan, the novel itself, and my website, were enough to convince the judges that the novel WOULD fly in a traditional publishing setting, and I won.

Because of these large submission numbers, we are able to break down our contest into 140 + genres, and each genre is judged separately, ensuring you only compete against books of your specific genre for a fairer and more accurate competition.

Archos didn't tell us the price of this model, but judging by the larger G9 101 tablet's numbers, it'll retail for around # 349.

Because of the large number of bassets in this show, there are five judges.

Extrapolating this observation to evaluation of individuals in the legal profession, it is difficult for any individual lawyer or judge to have sufficiently large numbers of matters of any particular type to have a viable record for statistical analysis to assess effectiveness with a high level of confidence.

Zuber is among a growing number of former judges and other notable professionals who are being courted by large firms, mainly in Ontario, and are bringing a new sophistication to the age - old art of mentoring.

I can't claim my research was exhaustive, but of the judges I found with public profiles on LinkedIn, the five with the largest numbers of connections were:

The Court presides in 52 locations across the province, and is the largest superior trial court in the country, both in the volume of cases and the number of judges.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

However, the number of appellate judges in those Courts is much larger.

Ian has also drafted claims for a large number of fee paid part - time judges in the Employment Tribunal under the Public Access Scheme.

Otherwise the Supreme Court is telling 17 million British people that the whole thing was a waste of time and that the largest number of votes ever recorded on any issue in the history of the British Isles was in fact a bad joke played by the «liberal elite» on a public judged by them to be to dumb to know their own best interests!

He also represents a large number of fee paid judges in different jurisdictions making protective claims.

It also led to the formal training of a large group of judicial educators, among them a number who have gone on to national and international education programs: judges such as Katherine McLeod, Miriam Bloomenfeld and Joseph Bovard, to name but three.

She and her associate chief judges understood well that justices of the peace were the «face of justice» for large numbers of people.

Given the significant number of such disputes, some of the judges of the 25th Civil Division of the District Court in Warsaw are more exposed to large construction disputes.

If the court had ruled that the 2007 date was applicable, then a large but unknown number of judges would likely have retired early to benefit from the program.

Robin Allen QC, Chair of the Bar Council's Equality and Diversity Committee, said: «The progress made in recruiting more female judges is to be welcomed; but there is an urgent need to increase the number of part - time salaried posts which offer a useful combination of certainty and flexibility for the large number of lawyers with caring responsibilities.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

As judges are hearing bankruptcy cases, large numbers of technical issues have arisen [I can testify to this, based on the questions raised on one of my Wechat chat groups.]

Furthermore, the McLachlin Court includes a larger number of female judges, a fact that makes an idiosyncratic or personality - driven explanation less plausible.

The electronic records management system technology (ERMS technology) that controls their existence, accessibility, and integrity will need a larger and more complex legal infrastructure of laws, and increased number of varieties of specialized personal such as lawyers, judges, administrators, and enforcers, than do motor vehicles.

And how do you respond to those who say that the best way to remedy the problems associated with the Ninth Circuit's large size is to reorder the size and composition of all the federal appellate courts, a remedy that would increase the number of judges serving on, and the geographical boundaries of, the First Circuit?

But for Judge Ann Aiken, the rate of re-incarceration is data, and it is alarming — a large number of those inmates are in prison for parole violations, many involving drugs.

Judging by screenshots posted by Facebook users (below), the update brings the build number up to 8.0.0.360 (C636) for the dual - SIM international model of both the standard P10 (VTR - L29) and the larger P10 Plus (VKY - L29).

The training was sponsored by the Maryland Administrative Offices of the Court with the goal of getting a large number of attorneys and judges trained in Collaborative practice.