Sentences with phrase «legal judgment every day»

But let there be no mistake here: Many, many legal secretaries and paralegals exercise legal judgment every day, and regularly receive time - and - a-half for overtime, apparently reflecting a judgment that they are NOT «practicing law.»

Not exact matches

In about 1864 (during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.

However, a court may reduce (modify) to include any of the requirements relating to probation and community control, a legal sentence imposed by it within 60 days of its imposition; after the receipt by the court of a mandate issued by the appellate court upon affirmance of the judgment and / or sentence upon an original appeal; after receipt by the court of a certified copy of an order of the appellate court dismissing an original appeal from the judgment and / or sentence; or if further appellate review is sought in a higher court or in successively higher courts, after the highest state or federal court to which a timely appeal has been taken under authority of law, or when a petition for certiorari has been timely filed under authority of law, has written an order of affirmance or an order dismissing the appeal and / or denying certiorari.

If the debtor does not pay the amount of a Small Claims Court judgment and does not work out a payment plan, a creditor must wait 30 days from the date of the judgment before using other legal means to collect.

Since I've designated today as a day to think about ethics, it's worth quoting from a recent US judgment on a issue that had and has both legal and moral implications that comes from the boomer days — the Viet Nam war and the consequences of the use of Agent Orange — and comparing that to how the Canadian government handled the problem that produced Authorson v Canada.

Since I've designated today as a day to think about ethics, it's worth quoting from a recent US judgment on a issue that had and has both legal and moral implications that comes from the boomer days — the Viet Nam war and the consequences of the use of Agent Orange — and comparing that to how the Canadian government handled the problem that produced Authorson v Canada... [more]