Sentences with phrase «legal professional bodies»

With the support of Book Aid International, this important new initiative has a simple goal: to provide printed core legal texts to legal professional bodies, pro bono groups and law schools involved in access to justice in common law jurisdictions of Africa, Asia and... [more]

Speaking about proposals for a new education programme in development with the JAC, Ministry of Justice and other legal professional bodies, Robin Allen QC said: «The Bar Council is working in partnership to develop a programme of Pre-Application Judicial Education (PAJE), open to all who are thinking about applying to the bench, but with a high proportion of reserved places for BAME, women and disabled lawyers.»

The QC designation may provide for qualitative comparisons as between lawyers, or be perceived as extending some expertise or special influence in particular matters, both of which are usually frowned upon by legal professional bodies.

«We will be working with legal professional bodies and business to champion one of the UK's greatest exports, our legal system.

the legal professional body (who issued the practising certificate to the legal practitioner considered not to have acted in good faith).

Not exact matches

«We think that it is an amorphous and illegal body which is unfit to conduct examinations for professional legal education or any examination of any form in this country.

They also call for professional bodies, institutions and trusts to provide accurate information, advice and guidance, and legal regulation to enforce the safe collection, processing and shipping of human breast milk.

Whether you're an amateur or a professional, legal steroids can have a huge impact on building the body you want.

to the auditors and professional advisors of the Receiving Party, or any other persons or bodies having a legal right or duty to have access to or knowledge of the same;

The survey carried out by SGOSS Governors for Schools, a national charity that links up schools with skilled volunteers from professional sectors, found that one in three schools who register with the body are seeking a governors with legal skills.

Many academies have governing bodies of ten or fewer and governors are expected to have professional expertise including in the key areas of legal, financial and human resources.

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.

As barristers return to man the metaphorical barricades to protest the latest round of legal aid cuts and the solicitors» professional body gloomily predict «extinction» for its ageing members (according to Law Society research, the average age of duty solicitors is 47 years), few lawyers would take issue with the oft - repeated assertion in the legal Twittersphere: #TheLawIsBroken.

They aren't — but a grade system that shows participating lawyers and firms a system of ranking would encourage legal professionals to partake in a cause that concerns administrative legal bodies, the legal profession, and most importantly, the very people we are meant to serve, our neighbours.

Advocates offer specialist legal representation and advice to clients of solicitors and of members of certain other professional bodies.

statements made in disputes between members of professional bodies, including the legal, medical, and engineering professions.

We can offer legal services to all regulated professionals, including matters before the following regulatory bodies in BC:

We can offer legal services to all regulated health professionals, including matters before the following regulatory bodies in BC:

Such a body would be charged with overseeing promotion, professional standards, training, negotiation with government regarding legal aid payments and also cases to be excluded from family mediation.

As legal professionals, put aside such thinking and help expand the legal professions» well - defined, yet passive body of knowledge.

Furthermore, the ability to report a legal representative to his or her professional body can be done whether or not tribunals are empowered to do this pursuant to the LCIA Rules.

Finally, Free the Law will make available to the public a huge body of information previously perceived as the private domain of legal professionals.

Rachlis practiced with TDS Law from 1987 through 2007, and has resumed her private practice of law in providing strategic legal advice and representation to companies, agencies, professional bodies, tribunals and individuals, in particular in matters involving all forms of dispute resolution.

Because we are members of the Law Society of England & Wales, which is a designated professional body for the purposes of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, we may provide certain very limited investment advice services where these are closely linked to legal work we are already undertaking for our clients.

In the test case that came before the Supreme Court in 2010, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the Court held that it was constitutional to prohibit a group of humanitarian legal professionals (including a retired U.S. judge) «from engaging in certain specified activities, including training PKK members to use international law to resolve disputes peacefully; teaching PKK members to petition the United Nations and other representative bodies for relief; and engaging in political advocacy on behalf of Kurds living in Turkey and Tamils living in Sri Lanka.»

2 - 23.2 (1) A lawyer must not practise law in an MDP unless (a) the lawyer and all members of the MDP are in compliance with Rules 2 - 23.1 to 2 - 23.12 and the Professional Conduct Handbook, (b) all lawyers who are members of the MDP have obtained express permission under this Division to practise law in the MDP, (c) all non-lawyer members of the MDP are of good character and repute, (d) all members of the MDP agree in writing (i) that practising lawyers who are members of the MDP will have actual control over the delivery of legal services by the MDP, (ii) that non-lawyer members of the MDP will not interfere, directly or indirectly with the lawyer's (A) obligation to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (B) exercise of independent professional judgement, (iii) to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (iv) to cooperate with and assist the Society or its agents in the conduct of a practice review, examination or investigation, and (e) all members of the MDP who are governed by the regulatory body of another profession agree to report to the MDP any proceedings concerning their conduct orProfessional Conduct Handbook, (b) all lawyers who are members of the MDP have obtained express permission under this Division to practise law in the MDP, (c) all non-lawyer members of the MDP are of good character and repute, (d) all members of the MDP agree in writing (i) that practising lawyers who are members of the MDP will have actual control over the delivery of legal services by the MDP, (ii) that non-lawyer members of the MDP will not interfere, directly or indirectly with the lawyer's (A) obligation to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (B) exercise of independent professional judgement, (iii) to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (iv) to cooperate with and assist the Society or its agents in the conduct of a practice review, examination or investigation, and (e) all members of the MDP who are governed by the regulatory body of another profession agree to report to the MDP any proceedings concerning their conduct orProfessional Conduct Handbook, and (B) exercise of independent professional judgement, (iii) to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (iv) to cooperate with and assist the Society or its agents in the conduct of a practice review, examination or investigation, and (e) all members of the MDP who are governed by the regulatory body of another profession agree to report to the MDP any proceedings concerning their conduct orprofessional judgement, (iii) to comply with the Act, these Rules and the Professional Conduct Handbook, and (iv) to cooperate with and assist the Society or its agents in the conduct of a practice review, examination or investigation, and (e) all members of the MDP who are governed by the regulatory body of another profession agree to report to the MDP any proceedings concerning their conduct orProfessional Conduct Handbook, and (iv) to cooperate with and assist the Society or its agents in the conduct of a practice review, examination or investigation, and (e) all members of the MDP who are governed by the regulatory body of another profession agree to report to the MDP any proceedings concerning their conduct or competence.

It was difficult to see how a responsible professional body would wish to authorise a person to perform services for which being a practising barrister provided legal eligibility while at the same time abdicating any regulatory control over the performance of such services.

Moreover, just weeks after St. Simons and RFF were decided, the ABA House of Delegates passed a resolution urging all «federal, state, tribal, territorial and local legislative, judicial and other governmental bodies» to support applying the attorney - client privilege to protect from disclosure «confidential communications between law firm personnel and their firms» designated in - house counsel made for the purpose of the rendition of professional legal services to the law firm» and to reject any claim that conflict of interest principles or the «fiduciary exception» undermine that claim of privilege.

To become a member of CDV, you must be a licensed legal, mental health or financial professional in good standing in the administrative body that governs or regulates your profession.

María Jesús González - Espejo, founding member of the Instituto de Innovación Legal along with Laura Fauqueur, made several requests to the Minister: the review and modernization of law degree studies so that new lawyers can meet the technological challenges; more investment in technology that will benefit both legal professionals and citizens; more support for initiatives such as #HackTheJustice; the promotion of partnerships between public and private sector; more transparency and open data from institutions and finally, policies that promote greater diversity and in particular an increased presence of women in the governing bodies of organizations and companies in the legal induLegal along with Laura Fauqueur, made several requests to the Minister: the review and modernization of law degree studies so that new lawyers can meet the technological challenges; more investment in technology that will benefit both legal professionals and citizens; more support for initiatives such as #HackTheJustice; the promotion of partnerships between public and private sector; more transparency and open data from institutions and finally, policies that promote greater diversity and in particular an increased presence of women in the governing bodies of organizations and companies in the legal indulegal professionals and citizens; more support for initiatives such as #HackTheJustice; the promotion of partnerships between public and private sector; more transparency and open data from institutions and finally, policies that promote greater diversity and in particular an increased presence of women in the governing bodies of organizations and companies in the legal indulegal industry.

Rather confusingly, the Law Society is both a corporate group (consisting of The Law Society, Solicitors» Regulation Authority (SRA) and Legal Complaints Service (LCS)-RRB- and the professional body which forms part of that group.

What is clear from the responses generally to the consultation, is that the current system is not enough, and it must be made more robust and greater sanctions should be introduced to ensure compliance - this view was supported by two thirds of the respondents, which included legal professional and legal profession representative bodies.

(1) the foreign lawyer must be a member in good standing of a recognized legal profession in a foreign jurisdiction, the members of which are admitted to practice as lawyers or counselors at law or the equivalent, and subject to effective regulation and discipline by a duly constituted professional body or a public authority; or,

A small number of our lawyers are regulated by other professional legal bodies including The Bar Standards Board, the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, and in the case of lawyers admitted in other jurisdictions, the relevant regulatory body of their place of admission.

ICRL's Target Audience The quarterly journal addresses everyone who is concerned with chemical law and policy issues such as academics (in the field of (law, biologists, biochemists, chemists and pharmacists and other relevant research fields), legal practitioners in national and international law firms offering their services to businesses in the EU and globally, government officials working in public administrations and other relevant policy - making and enforcement bodies, Legal experts and judges in domestic, European and international courts as well as consultancies and business professiolegal practitioners in national and international law firms offering their services to businesses in the EU and globally, government officials working in public administrations and other relevant policy - making and enforcement bodies, Legal experts and judges in domestic, European and international courts as well as consultancies and business professioLegal experts and judges in domestic, European and international courts as well as consultancies and business professionals.

The Institute of Paralegals is a professional membership body that connects individuals with the shared purpose of providing professional legal services.

Our in - depth legal expertise, commercial experience and multi-disciplinary approach coupled with our extensive high level contacts with professionals and trade bodies, means we have a proven track record in consistently offering clients with a comprehensive support service in locating business in the UK.

I'm happy for you to share my details with law firms, professional legal bodies and other carefully chosen third parties.

Addressing a selection of UK suppliers and chaired by the chairman of one of the suppliers, it claims that it models and maintains professional criteria within the industry and manage areas of shared interest between legal professionals and software providers — including the Land Registry, LSC, Legislation Society & other legal bodies.

Before joining Beale & Company, David had accumulated a wide body of experience in advising professionals - firstly as a claims handler on behalf of several Professional Indemnity Insurers and secondly providing in - house legal and commercial advice to a large international firm of Consulting Engineers.

Ed Whittington commented; «Under David's stewardship Moore Blatch has not only grown but also climbed the legal industry rankings with many of our lawyers and professional teams receiving national and local recommendations from professional bodies for the quality of their work.

Dan began his legal career with a small Chicago firm that concentrated its practice on defending professionals — primarily lawyers — before regulatory bodies and in malpractice and fiduciary claims.

Under English law «legal professional privilege» entitles a party to withhold evidence (electronic, written, or oral) and not disclose it to either the other side, the court, or regulatory bodies (subject to certain exceptions).

Scott also acts for professional clients facing complaints made to their professional bodies or regulators including the ICAEW, Financial Ombudsman Service and the Legal Ombudsman.

I'm really hoping the LSUC will seize its present opportunity to lead regulatory bodies throughout North America in supporting the delivery of appropriate legal services by law - related professionals such as paralegals.

It strikes me that HR areas of interest are not as well defined as other professional bodies such as; accountancy, legal, medical etc..

More than four out of five adults in England and Wales support Treasury proposals to separate legal regulators from professional bodies, according to research conducted by ComRes.

The appointments panel is expected to publish a new policy on implementing the new equal merit provision, he said, and it will also work with professional bodies and government legal departments in England and the devolved nations to promote vacancies.

The association represents more than 1,000 legal professionals working for various Quebec government bodies.

IFLP can help fill this void by identifying industry - leading practitioners and distilling their know - how and experience into an organized body of knowledge that can be taught to law students and mid-career legal professionals.