Sentences with phrase «legal power services»

With its own markets and shops, Kibera is almost a city unto itself, except that inside of the slum there are no government schools or health services, running water or legal power services.

Not exact matches

In essence, the FCC has given ISPs the legal power to blackmail any content provider that does not pay them with the threat of a slowdown in service delivery.

Mining services provider Viento Group has entered a trading halt after a legal dispute with a minority shareholder in its 65 per cent owned subsidiary, Power Infrastructure Sservices provider Viento Group has entered a trading halt after a legal dispute with a minority shareholder in its 65 per cent owned subsidiary, Power Infrastructure ServicesServices.

Facebook has not always made it easy to export user information, and when start - ups like Power Ventures have sought to access user data with consent to power services that compete with the social network, Facebook aggressively combatted these features through technical measures and legal action under the Computer Fraud and AbusePower Ventures have sought to access user data with consent to power services that compete with the social network, Facebook aggressively combatted these features through technical measures and legal action under the Computer Fraud and Abusepower services that compete with the social network, Facebook aggressively combatted these features through technical measures and legal action under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

Any society in history will need structures which balance enhancement of freedom and self - determination with checks on it by long - established legal and moral traditions of keeping power in the service of order and mutual responsibility, as well as creation of new structures of public morality.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

Initially the Tenant Services Authority (the TSA) will operate under the legal powers of the Housing Corporation whilst it consults on the powers set out in the 2008 Housing and Regeneration Act.

The veteran Nassau County legislator, a Democrat from Merrick, suddenly dropped out of one of the year's most closely watched races, one on which the Senate's balance of power might hinge, after his former law firm alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that he defrauded a client of $ 2 million by billing for legal services he never performed.

«I will continue to do everything in my power to not just fight this executive order, but to protect the families caught in the chaos sown by President Trump's hasty and irresponsible implementation — including pressing DHS and CBP to provide a full list of those still detained and allow them access to legal service providers,» Schneiderman said.

Unfortunately, this just part of the pattern of Schneiderman avoiding prosecuting those with political power,» said Jimenez, a graduate of Harvard Law School who provides legal services to low - income residents of the Bronx.

The General Attorney occupation covers professional legal positions involved in preparing cases for trial and / or the trial of cases before a court or an administrative body or persons having quasi-judicial power; rendering legal advice and services with respect to questions, regulations, practices, or other matters falling within the purview of a Federal Government agency (this may include conducting investigations to obtain evidentiary data); preparing interpretative and administrative orders, rules, or regulations to give effect to the provisions of governing statutes or other requirements of law; drafting, negotiating, or examining contracts or other legal documents required by the agency's activities; drafting, preparing formal comments, or otherwise making substantive recommendations with respect to proposed legislation; editing and preparing for publication statutes enacted by Congress, opinions or discussions of a court, commission, or board; drafting and reviewing decisions for consideration and adoption by agency officials.

Representatives with Microsoft, Sony Electronics, Nintendo of America and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) recently met with two FCC commissioners» legal advisors to discuss Globalstar's proposed terrestrial low power service (TLPS)-- a service they say has the potential to degrade service to millions of video game consumers.

Tips and Tricks for Turbine Supply and Service Agreements Paul Varga, Senior Legal Counsel, Renewables and Power, Enbridge Inc..

Welcome to the new legal profession, powered by collaboration, innovation, and client service.

It then proceeded to applied this principle to case before it: «[20] It follows from the foregoing that a body, whatever its legal form, which has been made responsible, pursuant to a measure adopted by the State, for providing a public service under the control of the State and has for that purpose special powers beyond those which result from the normal rules applicable in relations between individuals is included in any event among the bodies against which the provisions of a directive capable of having direct effect may be relied upon.»

(2) Any law society has power to create economies of scale by establishing support services in regard to particular parts of the work of producing legal services.

A new Web site aims to use the power of the Internet to deliver post-conviction legal services to prisoners throughout the United States.

Plus, that sort of processing power should be able to make serious inroads on actual legal work (estate planning lawyers, your days are numbered) by online legal services, which may be increasingly free.

I started LAO LAW in 1979, and therefore know the purpose and power of support services methods of production, and the technology of centralized legal research.

In «The Great Disruption: How Machine Intelligence Will Transform the Role of Lawyers in the Delivery of Legal Services,» the authors note that «the disruption has already begun» and take a look at «the weakening of lawyers» market power over providing legal services.&rLegal Services,» the authors note that «the disruption has already begun» and take a look at «the weakening of lawyers» market power over providing legal servicesServices,» the authors note that «the disruption has already begun» and take a look at «the weakening of lawyers» market power over providing legal services.&rlegal servicesservices.»

Therefore, the failure of law societies to take action against a problem the size and duration of unaffordable legal services, justifies government intervention under the federal government's «trade and commerce» power of s. 91 of The Constitution Act, 1867.

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.

Driven by a desire to stand up for the consumer against corporate giants, enhance its efficient claims processing power and to provide a range of legal services, the Group successfully submitted an application to the Solicitors Regulation Authority for Stanton Fisher Legal Limited T / Alegal services, the Group successfully submitted an application to the Solicitors Regulation Authority for Stanton Fisher Legal Limited T / ALegal Limited T / A S...

In its Judgment of 20 September 2012 in case T ‑ 154 / 10 French Republic vs. European Commission, the General Court of the EU (GC) has established a new test of «bankruptcy - proofness» as an advantage contrary to Article 107 (1) TFEU that may generate a significant shake up in the control of State aid granted (implicitly) to establishments of an industrial and commercial character (EICC, or EPIC in their French acronym)-- ie legal entities governed by public law which have distinct legal personality from the State, financial independence and certain special powers, including the performance of one or more public service tasks.

He recommended that the power to regulate the legal profession so as to make legal services adequately available, be given to a separate, independent agency.

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«A big driving factor of this model's success is the power of the PwC brand,» says Peter Workman, managing director of PwC's Flexible Legal Resources (FLR), the new on - demand lawyering service offered by the Big Four accountancy firm.

(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;

http://www.slaw.ca/2016/08/09/a2j-unaffordable-legal-services-concepts-and-solutions/ We must change law societies» management structure substantially, or get rid of them, or go on serving out the rest of our careers in a very seriously depressed profession — a profession that is rapidly losing its size, power, purpose, and prestige to, inter alia, the commercial world of LegalX and LegalZoom, and to law society - sponsored «alternative legal services,» which are charity instead of affordable lawyers provided in exchange for that majority's paying for the justice system whereat benchers earn a very good living.

The power of a legal directory listing is that you know the consumer is looking specifically for the legal services you provide.

re-mortgage work, powers of attorney, equity release, complex wills, probate and other legal services

Pavel provides legal support for Russian and foreign clients in such economic sectors as the power industry, oil and gas, financial services, industrial production, trade, etc..

According to the court's opinion enforcing a two - year suspension [pdf], Ms. Guste provided legal services to prepare a power of attorney and represent her client in the matter of a hit - and - run accident.

NASHVILLE, TENN. — Three attorneys from Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP, a leading provider of legal services to the healthcare, financial services, retail and hospitality industries, were honored as part of the Nashville Business Journal's 2018 Power Leaders of Commercial Real Estate.

His consultative style and strong leadership will ensure our sales team are best placed to help legal service providers unlock the immense power and value of the Peppermint platform.»

In a statement the legal tech and publishing giant said that eBrevia's AI engine powers Thomson Reuters contract remediation services by identifying three critical data points based on the client's remediation plan: clauses needing revision, the absence of clauses required by the regulation, and the components required to generate a contract amendment.

General counsel who are seeking to build a culture of innovation should not overlook their power as buyers of legal services.

In 1979 he was tapped to start the legal department of Stewart & Stevenson Services, a newly public manufacturer and distributor of industrial, oilfield, military and power generation equipment, where he remained to oversee all legal aspects of the company as it grew from $ 300 million to over $ 1 billion in revenue.

are seeking to build a culture of innovation should not overlook their power as buyers of legal services.

For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.

The Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (Modification of power to make rules about licensed conveyancers) Order 2008 (SI 2008/537) which burst into force on 6 April 2008 is more insidious than you could have imagined.

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The law societies do not give sufficient importance to the interactions among: (1) the problem and its consequences — the thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of affordable legal services provided by competent lawyers; (2) the power of the internet, the social media, and the news media together, to make those consequences into a public and political issue so quickly that there will not be time for the law societies to publish a persuasive response, and which issue will compel government intervention by way of programs on the way to socialized law; (3) the fact that self - regulation of the legal profession has been lost by the law societies in several jurisdictions of the common law world and the U.S; [7] and, (4) the fact that the consequences of the unavailability of legal services at reasonable cost will motivate the many non-lawyer legal service providers to offer legal services that should be provided by lawyers, to people desperate for a lawyer's services that they can not afford.

Ken, Virtually everybody who needs legal services for real estate transactions (because you either own or are able to buy an asset worth hundreds of thousands of dollars), wills (because you have assets), powers of attorney (usually ditto), estates (ditto), notarizations, incorporations and small business transactions (because you have the wherewithal to be starting, buying or selling a business) can easily afford the very modest fees charged for those services (fees that are less than and often far, far less than, as applicable, the government charges, the realtor charges, the accountant's charges, the moving van company, the new appliances, etc. etc. etc.).

The note reminds practitioners that pursuant to ss 27 and 28 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 the court has a discretionary power to grant lay individuals rights of audience.

It's been the more sophisticated clients — usually institutional, experienced in buying legal services, and with a lot of purchasing power — that we thought would lead the change.

There is an argument under the US federal trade and commerce power for seeing legal services as having a national dimension, but in Canada, you've almost 150 years of entirely provincial legislative action and a ton of caselaw to overcome.

Scott focuses on legal issues in virtually all aspects of the energy sector, including oil and gas exploration, production, transportation, storage, power, chemical, petrochemical, energy marketing, and well service.

The legal work provided by technology powered services is basically «one size fits all.»