Sentences with phrase «legal roles of judge»

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From January 1996 to May 2007, he served as the Chief Administrative Judge of all New York State Courts — the longest tenured person ever to serve in that position — and played a central role in many far - reaching reforms of the Judiciary and legal profession.

The legal battle that exposed Adam Werritty's role at the heart of government has been settled by a high court judge.

What this means to the modern practitioner is that all players in the game (attorneys, clients, judges and juries), now share the same understanding and appreciation of not only the meaning of the term legal malpractice, but its role in maintaining the balance between the attorney's prerogatives in selecting strategy and tactics and the clients» right to competent, ethical representation.

In turn, «the judge's role in the legal culture is expressed through the two components of judicial style: (1) institutional style (the way judicial opinions are presented to the relevant audience); and (2) individual style (the way the individual judge explains the decision).»

The Role of the Chief Judge: The current chief judge, when he was appointed in 2009, made increasing funding for civil legal aid a prioJudge: The current chief judge, when he was appointed in 2009, made increasing funding for civil legal aid a priojudge, when he was appointed in 2009, made increasing funding for civil legal aid a priority.

Recent years have witnessed the use of litigation finance expand rapidly across the globe, as practitioners become more familiar with its many advantages, judges and arbiters recognize its positive role in promoting meritorious claims, and claimants realize its potential to hedge risk and manage ever growing legal costs.

Beyond underscoring just how powerful a role location plays in shaping perceptions, this argument is specious as it assumes that a nebulously defined standard of quality is the only benchmark on which legal services can and should be judged, and implicitly concludes that a retail firm can't measure up to its full service downtown firm counterparts.

For me, by far the most intriguing story in the Review involved The Legal Reader's possible role in the apprehension of Darren Mack, a family court litigant accused of murdering his wife and shooting the judge assigned to his case.

«As the 15th judge advocate general, my vision of legal service delivery is one that will be very much driven and focused on my institutional clients» needs,» says Bernatchez, whose role involves advising military decision - makers, such as the minister of National Defence, on legal actions touching on military law.

There is a real risk that such a disregard of the separation of powers and the constitutional role and institutional capacity of the different branches of government could undermine the legal aid system and cause a lack of public confidence in judges and the courts.

Recall that the reason these cases came to the Supreme Court was that the Attorney General of Ontario took the position that the amici played a role similar to that of defence counsel and should accept legal aid rates, but the amici refused to accept those rates, and the judges fixed rates that exceeded the legal aid tariff and ordered the Attorney General to pay those higher rates.

Star alumni: Former Nova Scotia Court of Appeal judges Doane Hallett and J.E. (Ted) Flinn; Nova Scotia Court of Appeal Justice Duncan Beveridge; former MP and premier of Nova Scotia Russell MacLellan; former president of the Nova Scotia Barristers Society Ted Wickwire, who played a major role in developing the Nova Scotia Legal Ethics Handbook

Richard Susskind painted his vision of how technology is a disruptive force to the legal system and how change must occur within the profession at a rapid rate otherwise the changes from outside the legal system will greatly limit the role that lawyers (and judges) will play in dispute resolution.

The result will be a web - based exercise where law students — taking on the decision - making roles of the forensic scientist / police investigator / legal representatives (defence / prosecutor) and ultimately, judge — will work through a realistic forensic - case study and present their findings in both written and oral form.

Lawyers, law professors and judges all have important roles to take on in the transformation of Canadian law to include Indigenous legal orders.

Currently, chartered legal executive lawyers are eligible for judicial roles up to the level of District Judge.

[14] Contrary to common law tradition, in which judges play a prominent role in the development and reformation of law, professors are instrumental to legal reform and development in civil law tradition.

(correct test for Barrister appeals; whether outside the ex improviso rule, prosecutor may call evidence after prosecution and defence case closed; use of debarring orders against prosecutor; whether tribunal may «enter the arena» and strongly request the attendance of a prosecution witness; whether BSB has power to summons witnesses; whether prosecutor may communicate with disciplinary judge behind the back of the defence; whether such communication redolent of actual bias of judge where judge wishes prosecutor good luck on appeal; whether apparent bias doctrine can be engaged by post-trial conduct of judge; legal effect of serving BSB prosecutions department officer being 1 of 4 appointing members of the COIC «Tribunals Appointments Body» (TAB); whether TAB ultra vires the Bar's Constitutions; whether open - ended power of removal of member of COIC pool without cause, unlawful given position of BSB Chair and senior staff on COIC; whether ECHR Article 6 guarantees against pressure on disciplinary judges to conform with a prosecutorial mentality; whether disciplinary judges Art. 6 «independent» within Findlay v United Kingdom given key role of BSB prosecutions department in appointing disciplinary judges; serious non-disclosure by BSB of notes of secret meeting between BSB and disciplinary judge until day before appeal and despite requests and application for disclosure by defence)

Jim's article, «Teaching Lawyers to Revise for the Real World: A Role for Reader Protocols,» 7 offered an important contribution, not only because it focused specifically on how judges read and understand briefs, but also because it implicitly nudged us away from teaching platitudes about good legal writing and more toward looking at how real readers respond to the principles of writing that we commonly teach.

«Federal Criminal Law Practice: The Roles of Prosecutor, Defense Counsel, and Judge,» FBA Southern Utah Legal Symposium (May 2016)(panel moderator)

Although not all adjuncts have other employment, this discussion refers to those «lawyers and judges with full - time occupations who also teach part - time in law schools in non-tenure track positions...» David M. Siegel, The Ambivalent Role of Experiential Learning in American Legal Education and the Problem of Legal Culture, 10 German L. J. 815, 816 (2009).

Marianne Short Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer UnitedHealth Group September 15, 2017 Marianne Short, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at UnitedHealth Group, discusses UnitedHealth Group's pro bono efforts and the role providing pro bono legal services played in her own career, including 12 years as an appellate judge on the Minnesota Court of AppLegal Officer UnitedHealth Group September 15, 2017 Marianne Short, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at UnitedHealth Group, discusses UnitedHealth Group's pro bono efforts and the role providing pro bono legal services played in her own career, including 12 years as an appellate judge on the Minnesota Court of AppLegal Officer at UnitedHealth Group, discusses UnitedHealth Group's pro bono efforts and the role providing pro bono legal services played in her own career, including 12 years as an appellate judge on the Minnesota Court of Applegal services played in her own career, including 12 years as an appellate judge on the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

The primary role of law clerks, at both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, is to provide assistance to judges in a variety of ways, including conducting legal research, preparing written memoranda, discussing matters with their judges, and editing and proofreading draft judgments.

Imagine my interest and surprise when the first panel of the morning, comprised exclusively of women in leadership roles in academia, government, legal services, and the judiciary, [1] quickly turned to issues of implicit bias among judges and stereotype threat in classrooms.

I am afraid it is the adequate description of the decision, which is difficult to explain in legal terms and which in my view has much more to do with the psychology of the Court and its individual judges, although other domestic actors, the Supreme Administrative Court and the Government, also played an important role.

Judges must also take a more active role to «manage the legal process in line with the principle of proportionality.»

Bennett Jones — The Honourable John C. (Jack) Major, retired Supreme Court of Canada judge, rejoined the firm as a consultant in 2006 upon his return to private legal practice.In that role, he provides strategic and tactical reviews of significant matters for the firm's clients and is a senior mentor to the lawyers and staff of the firm.

Criminal Law: Dangerous v. Long - Term Offender Designations R. v. Sipos, 2014 SCC 47 The S.C.C. took a somewhat narrower view of the role of fresh evidence in relation to the question of whether the sentencing judge's legal error was harmless, and held the C.A. was correct to uphold the dangerous offender designation in this case.

It is a unique event which will introduce law students, as well as professionals within the legal community (lawyers, judges, court administrators, etc.) to different IT related themes such as the impact of new technologies (e-discovery and videoconference) on traditional justice mechanisms and ADR; the role already played by technology in Canadian courtrooms and around the world; as well as a look at what the future holds.

The role of the NNTT in relation to the resolution of native title application proceedings should be kept simply to mediation, with the presiding judge having control over whether mediation is to continue or whether the proceedings are unlikely to be resolved other than by judgment on the hearing of the evidence and legal argument.