Sentences with phrase «law society representative»

Instead of complete abolition, a substantial partial variety is what the Clementi Report in 2004 advocated for England and Wales, i.e., give law society regulatory powers to a separate and independent agency, because they conflict with law society representative powers — powers concerning the interests of the lawyers of those law societies.

He says a task force was formed at the time and two Law Society representatives were chosen as members, «but that task force never met.»

Not exact matches

17 Sept To Representatives of British Society in Westminster Hall: Allow me also to express my esteem for [your] Parliament... your common law tradition [etc., etc.]... Yet... if the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident... [e.g. the credit crunch lacked] solid ethical foundations... [whereas the British - inspired] abolition of the slave trade [did not].

Laws may be flawed, but if they're enacted by elected representatives and enforced in a reasonably fair manner, then society can depend on some semblance of order and justice.

Yet modern democratic societies face a peculiar paradox: they must elect representatives who enact laws and make policies even as they maintain the fiction that they are just like us.

SERAP also urged the Special Rapporteurs to «prevail on the Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo to decline to sign the bill into law; and on the House of Representatives and the Senate to exercise their legislative powers for good governance, and ensure a safe and enabling environment for civil society organizations both in practice and rhetoric, in line with the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended) and the government's international human rights obligations and commitments.»

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

For example, PIJAC and Humane Society of the United States often disagree on pet sale bans — a major issue for both groups — but PIJAC board chair Laura «Peach» Reid testified with a representative of the Humane Society's Connecticut chapter in favor of a shelter oversight law.

On Friday November 13, 2015, while two more states adopted a duty of technology competence into their codes — and while Canadian law societies maintained unanimous silence on such requirements for lawyers — British Columbia's Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner and Representative for Children and Youth, released Cyberbullying: Empowering Children and Youth To Be Safe Online and Responsible Digital Citizens.

He reviewed the provision of legal services in England and Wales, concluding that law societies have a regulatory power that conflicts with their representative powers, as to representing the interests of lawyers.

● The professional bodies, eg the Law Society (the Society) operating either in a representative function or through their regulatory arms, eg the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA).

On this occasion, it is expected that there will be remarks by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, and representatives of the Government of Canada, the Government of Manitoba, the Canadian Bar Association and the Law Society of Manitoba.

The child welfare fund had some existing money, which was combined with the cy prés award, while other contributors were the foundation's Strategic Initiative Fund, the Law Society of B.C. Access to Justice Fund, the Notary Foundation of B.C. and B.C.'s Office of the Representative for Children and Youth.

[5] Unlike our law societies, the Law Society of England and Wales is the representative of and advocate for solicitolaw societies, the Law Society of England and Wales is the representative of and advocate for solicitoLaw Society of England and Wales is the representative of and advocate for solicitors.

(7) a conflict of interest between the law society's duty to regulate the legal profession so as to make legal services adequately available, and its duty to represent the interests of lawyers, i.e., law societies» regulatory powers conflict with their representative powers, and being elected by their lawyer - members, benchers deal with the problems and complaints of those who elect them;

For example, the Law Society of England & Wales, which is the representative body for solicitors, has acted as a promoter for the use of new legal AI technology, frequently holding conferences on the subject and generally showing its members that AI is a force for good.

UK country representative and liaison to the Law Society for the ABA Section of International Law.

Interviews in Justice Sector Representatives from the Howard League for Penal Reform, Islington Law Centre, the Justice Alliance, the Law Society, Rights of Women, Simpson Millar LLP Solicitors and Women's Aid were interviewed as part of the TUC's research.

My old boss and the former CEO of the Law Society of Manitoba, Allan Fineblit has been appointed to head up the review, along with a roster of judges, lawyers and public interest representatives.

More than that, you will play a crucial role in developing CanLII's future priorities... As our representative, you would engage with courts, law societies, governments and various others...»

As part of its commitment to promote equality and diversity in the legal profession, and to ensure that the Ontario community is served by a representative profession, the Law Society of Upper Canada conducts research and collects data on the composition of the profession.

It was Hudson's lot to take on a newly - emasculated Law Society with a credibility problem with the aim of establishing a representative role.

«We do a lot of representative work ourselves,» says Alasdair Douglas, chairman of the City of London Law Society and previously senior partner of Travers Smith; adding that they are «better placed than the national Law Society to represent the City firms in a number of fields».

Not surprisingly the other representative bodies including the Law Society and the campaign group, the Justice Alliance, also expressed their support for Gove's decisions.

About 20 people represented the solicitors» profession including the President, Senior and Junior Vice-Presidents of the Law Society, a few Council members and about five representatives of local law societiLaw Society, a few Council members and about five representatives of local law societilaw societies.

LSB is governed by a territorial Board of Directors comprised of a Government of Nunavut representative, a Law Society of Nunavut representative, three regional representatives, and two members - at - large.

Accreditations: Duty solicitor accredited representative on Law Society Mental Health panel, Civil and criminal Higher Rights Advocate.

The Law Society's Money Laundering Task Force is working with representatives from across the legal sector to update [this practice note] to take into account the changes that will be brought about by the MLRs.

Ashurst litigation partner Edward Sparrow has been appointed as the new chairman of the City of London Law Society (CLLS), the representative body for the 60 leading commercial firms in the City and Canary Wharf.

He will also be meeting a range of stakeholders, and our chairman, Sir Bill Callaghan, and I have made some suggestions of people he might wish to see, including representatives from the judiciary, the Bar and the Law Society.

According to the OTLA submission to the Law Society, «Representatives of OTLA's Board has met with Andrew Grech, the managing director of Slater & Gordon, and other lawyers familiar with the ABS issue in Australia, the UK and the United States.»

Candidates are then interviewed by the 11 - member Provincial Court Nominating Committee, which has representatives from the Alberta Provincial Court, the Law Society of Alberta, the Alberta branch of the Canadian Bar Association and people from the province's legal community and the public appointed by the minister of Justice and Solicitor General.

The Society's Officers also meet through the year with representatives of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), the judiciary, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, the Public Prosecution Service, Schulich School of Law, the Law Foundation of Nova Scotia, AJEFNE, county Bar associations and others.

State Bar of Montana North Dakota State Bar Association American Bar Association (Health Law & Litigation) North Dakota Defense Lawyers Association Defense Research Institute (Member, Medical Liability Section) Defense Research Institute — North Dakota State Representative (2007) State Bar Association of North Dakota: Jury Standards Committee (2007 — present) past member of Inquiry Committee West and Fee Arbitration Panel Fellow Litigation Counsel of America Fellow International Society of Barristers North Dakota Defense Lawyers Association: Member 1995 — present (President, 2003 - 2004; Vice President, 2002 - 2003; Treasurer 2007 - 2008)

However, neither professional representative bodies (the Law Society & Bar Council) support the action and I understand that the Competition Authority has written to the CLPO threatening to seek an injunction preventing action (http://url.ie/dp65).

Towards a More Representative Legal Profession: Better practices, better workplaces, better results (Law Society of British Columbia)

Although the great majority of licensees did not respond to the survey, only 4.5 % of lawyers and 19 % of paralegals did so, we are told that the process of «weighting» the figures «results in a sample that produces representative, unbiased estimates of the views and opinions of law society licensees».

She is also a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, holding an LLB and BCL from McGill, as well as an LLM from the University of Ottawa, and is the Graduate Student Representative for the Canadian Association of Law Teachers Board of Directors.

The Law Society is a designated professional body for the purposes of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 but responsibility for regulation and complaints handling has been separated from the Law Society's representative functions.

The 7th National Pro Bono Conference will bring together lawyers, paralegals, law students, judges, politicians, government representatives, non-profit sector leaders, academics and the public from Canada, the US and abroad to share ideas and best practices for increasing access to justice for all members of society.

Artificial Lawyer is really pleased to see the support for AI from a major legal representative body such as the influential Law Society of England & Wales.

The Law Society has been joined to the action as an intervenor in both its representative capacity for the profession and in its regulatory capacity as the SRA.

She was recruited to serve on the following special committees of the Law Society: the committee that re-drafted the Code of Professional Conduct; the Independence of the Legal Profession, Communications Committee, Access Stakeholders, Elections, and Representative Capacity, Special Committee on Ethic Regulation, Special Committee on Communications, the Justicia Project.

She added that following on from previous research by the Law Society of England & Wales, the main representative body for solicitors, they had concluded: «Solicitors face a future of change.

The representatives of the law societies in particular were determined to ensure that the pattern of reporting the same case in as many as ten different publications in print would not be repeated online.

In 2010, CanLII moved from a representative board of directors comprised of appointees from each of the provincial and territorial law societies, to a skills - based, expert board that would assume responsibility for determining CanLII's strategic direction.

The Judiciary set up a Working Party on Mediation in 2006 chaired by the Hon. Mr Justice Johnson Lam, with members made up of representatives from the Law Society, Bar Association, Consumer Council, Legal Aide Department, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, HKMC and judges.

wouldn't tell the public that the problem is not the Law Society's problem, as in effect it does; (15) LSUC's website wouldn't state that lay benchers «represent the public interest,» which is impossible now that we are well beyond the 19th century; (16) CanLII's services would be upgraded in kind and volume to be a true support service, able to have a substantial impact upon the problem, and several other developed support services, all provided at cost, would together, provide a complete solution; (17) LSUC's management would not be part - time management by amateurs - amateurs because benchers don't have the expertise to solve the problem, nor are they trying to get it, nor are they joining with Canada's other law societies to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authoritiLaw Society's problem, as in effect it does; (15) LSUC's website wouldn't state that lay benchers «represent the public interest,» which is impossible now that we are well beyond the 19th century; (16) CanLII's services would be upgraded in kind and volume to be a true support service, able to have a substantial impact upon the problem, and several other developed support services, all provided at cost, would together, provide a complete solution; (17) LSUC's management would not be part - time management by amateurs - amateurs because benchers don't have the expertise to solve the problem, nor are they trying to get it, nor are they joining with Canada's other law societies to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authoritilaw societies to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authoritiLaw Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authoritiLaw Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authoritilaw students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authorities.

Essentially the Law Society of Manitoba agreed to a model split between public representatives, lawyers elected from the Bar and the last third appointed lawyers (using a skills matrix and also as a diversity tool).

The Department of Justice set up a Mediation Steering Committee with membership consisting of the Secretary for Justice (as Chair) and members from representatives of the Judiciary, HKMC, Law Society, Bar Association, Law Schools, Legal Aid Department, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre & major mediation stakeholders.