Sentences with phrase «legal opinions for»

Such an advisory institute would be paid for by enabling CanLII, the provider of court decisions and statutory materials, to provide at cost, legal opinions for every lawyer and judge in Canada.

By its ninth year of development (1988), LAO LAW was producing legal opinions for lawyers in private practice at the rate of 5,000 per year — because those lawyers could make more money using LAO LAW instead of billing Legal Aid for their own legal research hours.

I'm constantly writing legal opinions for use in criminal court by other lawyers for judges so that they can understand the immigration consequences when they sentence somebody.

This provides clients with single point of contact for all cross-provincial work required in Atlantic Canada and single, all - inclusive Atlantic Canadian legal opinions for transactional work.

At Will Davidson LLP, I was given the opportunity to argue contested motions, attend all available proceedings and was taught to draft legal opinions for institutional clients.

By specializing my staff, materials used, and principles of database management, by 1988 we were producing more than 5,000 complete legal opinions for lawyers in private practice who do legal aid cases.

For example, LAO LAW at Legal Aid Ontario is exactly that — a centralized legal research unit providing legal opinions for those lawyers willing to do legal aid cases.

It is not intended as a comprehensive statement or legal opinion for any particular purpose.

Prepared a legal opinion for a South African bank concerning the validity of a guarantee given in relation to bulk imports of South African wine by an English company.

First, where clients want a legal opinion for a document they have built with our Document Builder, we can refer the document to a lawyer for an Independent Lawyer Review.

SmartOne is also partnered with LegalOne, Switzerland's first digital law firm, providing robust legal opinion for the implementation and analysis of TGE's, thereby enabling crypto enterprises to launch with solid legal foundations.

Not exact matches

Friedman was of the opinion that all drugs should be legal, and he believed that the fact that they were illegal was the largest reason for the problems surrounding drug use.

The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views as the confidentiality of the Justice Department's legal advice to the president.

Acosta, in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, which was also shared with Reuters, said there was «no principled legal basis to change the June 9 date while we seek public input.»

The legal basis for deriving implied powers from the penumbra of other express powers is best seen in Justice Douglas classic opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut.5 In the Griswold case, the United States Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut law prohibiting the use of contraception.

The American Bar Association has a collection of articles for attorneys regarding legal opinions.

It was the Universal opinion of the Century preceding the last, that Civil Govt could not stand without the prop of a Religious establishment, & that the Xn religion itself, would perish if not supported by a legal provision for its Clergy.

The past decade has seen a rapid transformation in public opinion and legal norms around sexuality, same - sex marriage, transgender rights, and religion in the public square — changes that have caused anxiety for a great number of traditional religious believers, including Christians, Muslims, and Orthodox Jews.

Their conservative leanings are part of a broader trend increasingly documented in freshman surveys, federal statistics, and public opinion polls, which have found declining rates of approval for casual sex and legal abortion among the young and a rise in the percentage of teenagers who say they are virgins.

You would end up backtracking and clarifying your point so much; attempting to account for every possible logical path, that your point would be lost and the article would seem more like a legal contract than an opinion piece.

A legal analysis by Managing Your Church, a CT sister site, looks at the uncertainty created for churches and pastors because the majority opinion «stopped short of stating a religious exemption.»

More over, any religious organization who's pastors collect millions of dollars buying personal jets and running mega churches for profit without paying one dime in taxes do not have the right to dictate any political, legal, or even moral opinion in this country.

But once the law - finding power passed to judges, who began to exercise it by rendering written opinions that remained available for all to read, precedent threatened to impose a straight - jacket on future legal development and to bar all future legal change.40

Imagine the ipse dixits that passed for legal reasoning in this case, and you will grasp the unsatisfactory character of an opinion that closes down discussion on the implausible fear that critical thinking about the origins of life in the universe is unconstitutional.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

Lately, I've been reading about sweet sixteen parties, and over-the-top Pinterest - inspired events including catered celebrations for people who are still under the legal driving age, and while it may not be the popular opinion, I do think it's all too much.

Nestlé's contempt for UNICEF's legal opinion is shown by it using exactly this excuse in its quote in the Leicester Mercury,

In a letter to AIMS Ireland, Ms Laffoy clarified that in the opinion of the legal expert, Emily Egan SC, the 8th amendment can not serve as a legal justification for carrying out a procedure or treatment without consent, if the life of the foetus is not in danger.

There are no legal standards for baby amber chains, so many chains on the market are not recommended in my opinion.

There are high levels of public support for this move, with a recent opinion poll citing 77 % support for a lower legal limit.

England and Wales left with the highest drink - drive limit in Europe after Malta announces plans to lower legal blood alcohol content for drivers Road safety groups and emergency services call for England and Wales to follow suit No progress on UK drink driving deaths since 2010 Public opinion polls show 77 % in favour of a lower legal limit

An imbroglio over cash stipends for state senators with committee leadership positions veered into the legal weeds as attorneys for mainline Democrats and the Senate's top Republican offered differing opinions on the legality of the payments.

In the context of shifting public opinion on cannabis legalisation and a growing number of states with legal recreational cannabis, election day 2016 is poised to represent a milestone for cannabis legalisation.

We are satisfied to note that the Chief of Staff asked for a legal opinion from the Attorney - General, not on whether or not Ghana had committed to acquire that 24 % stake (which would be false), but on whether the government could issue the directive to SSNIT as demanded by Woyome.

The opinion released yesterday was prompted by a letter from Cuomo's top legal aide Mylan Denerstein who sought to clarify how and when Cuomo can use the state aircraft when traveling for official business.

David Lewis, counsel for Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, released an opinion in May detailing why he believes the stipends are legal.

Instead, Venditto was willing to try to work out a «legal way» — evidenced by the seeking of lawyers» opinions — for the town to guarantee Singh's loans in order for him to make upgrades to the beach and golf course where he was a concessionaire, Agnifilo said.

So there was no room for a second opinion or legal representation.

Clearly, such speech would be legal for US citizens if it is their own opinions.

The Vice-President at the time (now President) acted in concert with Dr. Oteng Adjei, (the Minister for Energy) in by passing my legal opinion to them on the EO Group case and smuggled a memorandum to the President for an executive consent to enable the EO Group to assign their shares to a buyer.

Do you know that after suspending the payment, Government now writes to the Attorney General for legal opinion on the suspension.

Citizens are locked up in dehumanising detention centres without access to medical care and legal assistance just for holding political opinions that run contrary to the views of those in power at the centre.»

Prosecutors contend there was in fact no ethics opinion or legal clearance, and Finnerty said when he asked for backup documentations from Kelly he was told it was «not going to be shared with me.»

The Senate Democrats have turned to their former colleague, Eric Schneiderman, for assistance in their rules fight, asking the ex-senator-turned-AG for an opinion on whether the Republicans» effort to take away LG Bob Duffy's tie - breaking leadership vote is legal.

«We received a clear legal opinion from Tim Owen QC and Julian Knowles, the barristers at Matrix Chambers specialising in human rights and extradition law, that the scope for the exercise of discretion by the home secretary is greater than you believe,» Keith Vaz, chairman of the committee, wrote.

An imbroglio over cash stipends for state senators with committee leadership positions veered into the legal weeds Monday as attorneys for mainline Democrats and the Senate's top Republican offered differing opinions on the legality of the payments.

There is obviously not going to be a legal opinion from a judge for a law that hasn't passed yet.

In 2015, the IDA was informed by the New York State Authority Budget Office of the State Comptroller's Formal Opinion No.2014 - F1 which stated that Industrial Development Agency's did not have the legal authority to create subsidiaries for purposes outside of those specifically authorized in their enabling legislation and that IDA's are not authorized,» to make grants or loans of its money to any type of entity.»

The state Democratic Party asked the Federal Election Commission on Oct. 1 for a legal opinion to support its contention that it's OK under federal law to spend an undisclosed amount of money from its «federal account» to pay for a proposed mass mailing that says, «On November 4th, vote for Dan Malloy.»

Rath said he changed his mind after receiving a legal opinion from the lawyer for the Legislature's Democratic majority a short time before the Legislature session started.