Sentences with phrase «legal adviser said»

He said, «Our legal adviser said NEC relied on powers conferred on it by Section 13.3 of the party's constitution.

Without even the legal adviser saying it, the constitution is

So, it has been a statement by the National legal adviser saying that he wrote a letter to the state leadership that the primary elections of the party ought to be done in accordance with the constitution, and they refused.

Legal adviser says Nick Clegg knew about the apology weeks ago but at the peer's insistence it was not released

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Edwin Williamson, a former State Department legal adviser who has reviewed the agreement, said that Tillerson agreed to put the cash he gets from Exxon in a trust that will invest only in Treasury securities and diversified mutual funds.

Borza said Hidroelectrica had already appointed listing and legal advisers.

Germany is less than enthusiastic and the European Commission's own legal advisers have said that this might require a change in EU treaties and country ratification.

Giuliani, who joined Trump's legal team last week, conveyed the ongoing resistance of Trump and his advisers to an interview with federal investigators, but did not rule out the possibility, the people said, adding that Giuliani pressed Mueller for clarity on when the probe is expected to end.»

Shulkin said he had no involvement with his chief of staff's actions and didn't realize the woman who gave him the tickets, Invictus Games adviser Victoria Gosling, might not meet the legal bar for personal friendship.

Working behind the scenes, members of the old establishment, some of them close to Mr. Mubarak and the country's top generals, also helped finance, advise and organize those determined to topple the Islamist leadership, including Naguib Sawiris, a billionaire and an outspoken foe of the Brotherhood; Tahani el - Gebali, a former judge on the Supreme Constitutional Court who is close to the ruling generals; and Shawki al - Sayed, a legal adviser to Ahmed Shafik, Mr. Mubarak's last prime minister, who lost the presidential race to Mr. Morsi.

Navdeep Singh, a policy adviser to the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, says Sikhs believe in freedom of religion, community service and inclusiveness.

SWA legal adviser Alan Park said: «I have been involved in actions against many fake Scotch whisky products in Australia in recent years.

Netsch said the new lawyer would run the park district «s legal department, while attorney Alexander Polikoff would continue to act as legal adviser to the board.

In a letter to the Prime Minister, Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey said: «Our legal advisers are reviewing the extent to which the government's approach to this consultation has been lawful.»

The White House is examining several options — including issuing a new executive order or continuing its legal battle — for how to proceed on its immigration policy after a setback dealt by the courts last week, top White House adviser Stephen Miller said.

Wiley, who will take over as chair next month, calls herself a racial and gender justice advocate and says those roots make her move from legal adviser inside City Hall to head of the outside agency — as well as professor at the New School — a kind of homecoming.

not do primary according to law which the court said no it is wrong of them to have challenged the primary of APC but in a situation of this nature when that thing happened in 2014/2015 and the National legal adviser insisted that constitution be followed, why in 2017 we are now doing it contrary to the constitution again?

Otherwise we'll end up with every platoon taking a legal adviser out on patrol and that is simply unacceptable,» he said.

The APC legal adviser continued: «I must say that I do not want to believe that the essence of seeking to centralize the conduct of the primaries is to manipulate and rig the process in favour of certain imposed candidates.

Lord Carlile, a legal adviser to Lord Rennard, said the deputy prime minister knew about his friend's apology weeks ago, but that it was not released at the insistence of the peer.

In his letter to the APC NEC sighted by our correspondent on Monday, Banire said he was offering to step down as the party's legal adviser to protest his innocence.

«By resigning from his public position on account of the allegations of bribery against him, Muiz Banire (SAN), a former legal adviser of the All Progressives Congress, has proven to be a man who loves his character more than anything else,» he said.

Ndam, who is a legal officer in the office of the national security adviser (ONSA), said he started working in the legal department of the ONSA in 2012.

Mark Rosen, senior legal adviser at CNA Corp. who is not affiliated with environmental groups, said there should be a requirement in the code that ships operating in polar regions carry a certain level of insurance, based on their cargo.

«We will check every single case after the total of 12 years», says Oliver Herrmann, legal adviser of the personnel department at Bielefeld University.

«Since the EU's report... the ministry improved its animal welfare law issued in 2007,» said David Wernery, the legal adviser for the CVRL.

The storm of litigation could have a broad impact if it succeeds in holding fossil fuel companies accountable for the kinds of damages they foresaw decades ago, said Harold Koh, a professor of international law at Yale Law School who served as senior legal adviser to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

«There is a long legal history supporting the principle that the president should have the candid advice of his advisers,» Mr. Fratto said.

«The biggest tragedy of 9 - 11 is the political polarization of our country,» said John Bellinger III, a former legal adviser to the National Security Council and later the State Department.

Mr Justice Nelson in Thames Trains said that there was no general duty upon one party to litigation to point out mistakes of another party or his legal advisers.

Speaking to Legal Feeds from London, U.K., Talwar, a futurist and strategic adviser at Fast Future, says we haven't yet created software that's as intelligent as humans, but «we're getting there.»

With the economy down, look for legal malpractice suits to increase, says a bulletin by Marsh Inc., a global insurance broker and strategic adviser.

I still shudder when I recall the magistrates who had to be saved by their legal adviser from issuing a warrant before the officer had even finished what he had to say.

«The Gideon decision was a huge unfunded mandate,» says Lefstein, a special adviser to the ABA's Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants and a past chair of the Criminal Justice Section.

Although point (iii) does not go as far as to say that a respondent - paid adviser always acts for the claimant as a matter of law, it does go a long way in practice to giving strong legal backing to this common employer technique for achieving valid compromise agreements, and will come as a relief to employers» representatives.

The solicitor - and - client privilege is based upon the notion of confidence and honour that permits a legal adviser to communicate quite freely without the inhibiting influence that would exist if what was said between him and his client could be used as evidence or used unfairly against them before a court.

As I said in my evidence, I think that there ought to be a Cabinet sub-committee to consider issues relating to the legality of government policy, and that legal advisers should be closely involved in the policy - making process.

At the practice's peak, just before the financial crisis hit in 2008, the firm says that it had around 50 of these legal advisers in Shanghai.

That said, the system will not necessarily cut out lawyers when needed for more value - added input and instead may actually help communications between funds and legal advisers, as well as other parties such as accountants and other professionals involved in fund oversight.

But Christopher Sweeney, CEO of ZSA Legal Recruitment, says rainmakers have increasing influence at a time when corporate clients are placing their faith in a smaller group of trusted advisers.

Richard Susskind, a technology adviser and co-author of The Future of the Professions, says the global legal profession is on the brink of unprecedented upheaval and believes some of the more repetitive work in law — such as reviewing documents — will soon be automated at a much cheaper cost.

«Sutherland is committed to being at the forefront among legal advisers in the post-Dodd-Frank derivatives regulatory regime,» said Energy and Environmental Practice Group Leader Herbert J. Short, Jr. «With David and Michael on board, Sutherland has extensive depth and breadth in the newly regulated swaps markets.»

A Barnardo's spokesperson said: «We are taking time to consider the outcome and the options with our legal and financial advisers.»

Of those adults who did not obtain help from a legal or professional adviser, 16 % said they did not do so due to cost.

said Michele Landis Dauber, a law professor at Stanford and the adviser for the project, called Building a Better Legal Profession.

I shall leave the last word on this brief post to... «Lord Colin Boyd QC, a former Lord Advocate under the last Labour coalition government in Edinburgh and a legal adviser to the current UK government, said the supreme court had a clear and necessary role to protect fundamental legal rights.

Jeff Weaver, Sanders» top adviser, said the pair have sought legal protection over federal agents» allegations from a complaint in January 2016 that accused Ms. Sanders of distorting donor levels in a 2010 loan application for $ 10 million from People's United Bank for the purchase of 33 acres of land for the Burlington College, of which she was president between 2004 and 2011.

When I hear of local bar associations in the U.S. taking legal action against the providers of reputable online legal services on the ground of their unauthorized practice of law, or when I hear that senior general counsel in the U.S. have said that nonlawyers should not be permitted to deliver legal services because only lawyers can achieve the requisite ethics standards required of a legal adviser, or when I hear of opposition to various forms of liberalization on the part of members of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, I want to challenge whether this is about protecting clients or protecting lawyers.

However, a co-founder of Flexpat says that the company «works closely with legal advisers, and we wouldn't let our flexpats be in illegal situations while working with us.»

In Denmark, Michael Landberg, chief legal adviser at the Financial Supervisory Authority in Denmark, said the most likely outcome for bitcoin exchangers would be an «amendment to existing financial legislation so that we have regulation covering it.»