Sentences with phrase «lawyers further acted»
These lawyers further acted incompetently by advising superiors to approve interrogation techniques that were in violation of U.S. and international law.
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Justice Aikawa further agreed with the submission of ICPC's counsel, E. A. Shogunle, that the 1st Respondent, ICPC, had established that there were reasonable grounds to suspect that certain high - ranking public officials and lawyers acted in abuse of their offices to facilitate a breach of contract with Chief Afe Babalola in order to confer corrupt advantage upon themselves in violation of sections 19 and 25 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000.
Sophie Feal, who directs the immigration program at the Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project, says attempting to move on millions more cases, in addition to acting on existing backlogged cases, would only further stall an already strained system.
The lawyer and conservative activist Chris Horner, whose legal clients have included the coal industry, gathered documents through the Freedom of Information Act to try to embarrass and further undermine the climate change research.
Further, it is not at all clear that lawyers ought to decline to provide advocacy for their clients, even when those clients have acted badly.
I suggest that lawyers have a further duty to refrain from acting on unreasonable instructions.
Take a law firm for instance... (T) here is a disincentive for lawyers to act in a way that assures the long - term interest of the firm, because acting in the long - term interests of the firm will reduce the amount of money that each lawyer makes in the short term... And success further compounds the problem... (E) ach successful year perpetuates a sense that this is the correct model... This gives law firms a distorted sense of reality... (where) greed rather than proper business practice, is driving pricing to clients... (and creates) a firm that (will) be blown apart by the greed of a new group of partners... years from now (pp. 115 - 16).
Our staff and our lawyers provide far more than legal services, giving our clients the support they need to survive following tragic medical accidents and other acts of negligence.
«Even recognizing that with the advent of technology, a testator may wish to create and sign a will on a tablet, computer, or in another electronic form, the Proposed Act in its current form goes far beyond merely recognizing the validity of electronic signatures on electronic wills,» according to David M. Goldman, a lawyer who publishes the Florida Estate Planning Lawyer Blog.
In dealing with the claimant's further request for an order that anyone who had read the privileged documents or was aware of their content should be removed from further involvement in the relevant FSA investigation, the judge held that, while the approach identified in the private law context to the question whether a lawyer in possession of privileged material should be restrained from acting is a useful guide, when the question arises in judicial review proceedings there will necessarily be a public law element in the underlying dispute.
Perhaps these changes do not go as far as the Legal Services Act in the UK, but they do represent a break in terms of BC, from the traditional view that only lawyers can be an owner of any entity that delivers legal services (and share in the revenues).
Where is the benefit in that to the clients of lawyers who, by law, must act in the best interests of the clients (and most of us do though probably to a far greater extent than lawyers in giant firms with their mindboggling billing targets)?
The evidence was contradictory but defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger obtained further evidence demonstrating the complainant as having been involved in an attack on R.M. and W.M. which supported the defence position that the complainant was the aggressor and the two clients merely acted in self - defence.
Further, expert psychiatric evidence obtained by Defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger demonstrated that the complainant was acting in a highly provocative manner prior to and during her recording of the private discussion in an attempt to provoke a confrontation for the purposes of her laying charges.
To this end, courts should generally be prepared to bless a contingency fee agreement, provided it complies with the Solicitors Act, even where the fee far exceeds what the lawyer would have earned on an hourly basis.
This further evidences that the billable hours system facilitates law firms acting in pursuit economic gain whilst compromising the professional obligation of lawyers to act in their clients» best interests.
In further commentary, the Code advises lawyers to «avoid acting in a way that suggests the lawyer is providing full services to the client,» and to carefully assess in each case whether it's possible to render limited scope services in a competent manner:
Anyone who believes that that they have been injured by the wrongful or negligent act of another should talk to an experienced Orange County personal injury lawyer who can evaluate the claim and further advise the injured person.
Further, Gerald Lapkin reached out to lawyers and academics to write textbooks designed for use by justices of the peace in preparing themselves to undertake their new responsibilities; the Annotated Provincial Offences Act, authored by Murray Segal and Justice Rick Libman being one such text.
However, the Court said that the corporation «did not act with sufficient dispatch» and «adopted an unfortunate attitude toward the owners, who were quickly branded as complainers who had far too quickly ran off to their own lawyers».
The Charter, as the lawyer representing B.C. pointed out yesterday, does not protect any civil procedure rights, and section 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867, as he also pointed out, has so far only been read to protect the jurisdiction of, not to apply to the procedure before, superior courts.
Lawyers don't act out of far and some do not act because they don't want to put in the effort.
o As Michael pointed out, despite what lawyers might think or how they may currently be acting, we are not immune to the forces that have transformed far larger industries
The more elite the lawyer's craft becomes, the further the law society drifts from its moorings under the Law Society Act.
Further, while the lawyer must obtain consent from the new client before disclosing the potential retainer, if the client does not grant that consent the lawyer «must decline to act for the new client» (para 47).