Sentences with phrase «of justice lawyer»

Last time we had reached the point where the company had won the case with CRA, which elected not to go to Tax Court on the advice of the Ministry of Justice lawyer, as it was felt they had a losing case.

I blogged about it here and have summed up my concerns in the following letter to the Department of Justice lawyer who is heading up this initiative:

The B.C. Court of Appeal said the 19 pages — primarily unvetted email exchanges between a Ministry of Justice lawyer and RoadSafetyBC staff, in part instructing adjudicators how to rule in IRP cases — were protected by solicitor - client privilege.

Another Ministry of Justice lawyer, Neena Sharma, was also appointed to the bench.

At the event, Sharon Eubanks, the former Department of Justice lawyer who led the historical suit against Big Tobacco, echoed the call for a federal investigation into Exxon.

Sylvain Ouimet, a Department of Justice lawyer, joins the Tax Court to replace Justice Paul Bédard, who resigned in August 2014.

At least that's the assertion offered by U.S. Department of Justice lawyer Wendy Ertmer, representing the DEA at a federal court hearing Nov. 14 in Bismarck, where she insisted before U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland that the agency's «administrative process» for granting the permits to grow the crop is, in fact, «not futile.»

Here, too, are some of the most influential figures of the era — Babe Ruth; Eugene O'Neill; leftist activist Jack Reed; NAACP founder W. E. B. DuBois; Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's ruthless Red - chasing attorney general; cunning Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge; and an ambitious young Department of Justice lawyer named John Hoover.

Department of Justice lawyer Elizabeth Chasson said Loblaw Financial Holdings took steps to have Barbados - based Glenhuron Bank Ltd. appear to be a foreign bank in order to avoid paying tax.

And a second time in the now - infamous Footnote Nine, copied below, in which Department of Justice lawyers cite Levison (In re Under Seal...) as precedent for seizing Apple's source code and its private electronic signature.

More than 25 percent of CO2 released globally between 1850 and 2012 came from the United States, Department of Justice lawyers said.

As well, in the case of the RCMP, it is relying on advice from federal Department of Justice lawyers, most of which the government then maintains is privileged and inaccessible to the public, notes Fraser.

But when it comes to the Guantanamo defendants now filing for habeas corpus in United States courts, the tables are turned, with Department of Justice lawyers struggling against an army of elite law firms and law professors who represent the detainees, according to the Wall Street Journal's editorial page:

Last week on the blog The Free for All, civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate issued a call for an ethics investigation of the Department of Justice lawyers who advised the CIA on the legality of its torture practices.

The decision names five Department of Justice lawyers who made «appearances» at the hearing of this matter but does not specify on whose specific advice CSIS was acting.

The Court specifically found that agents of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service — on the advice of and with the concurrence of their Department of Justice lawyers — misled the Federal Court of Canada in order to obtain a warrant or warrants under the CSIS Act.

I understand that, unlike United States Department of Justice lawyers, Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers are not allowed the benefit of surveillance evidence or wiretaps gathered by agencies on the same suspects during investigations.

The Ottawa Citizen is reporting on this (Spy agency admits it spies on Canadians «incidentally») as well as the recent Federal Court decision that found CSIS and Department of Justice lawyers deliberately misled the Court in order to obtain warrants.

The defendant in vaccine injury cases is the United States government, which is represented by a special unit of Department of Justice Lawyers in Washington, D.C., where the Court itself is physically located.

Not exact matches

Former Western Australian lawyer Michelle Gordon has been appointed as the next Justice of the High Court of Australia, replacing her husband, Justice Kenneth Hayne, who soon reaches the mandatory age

To avoid such a danger, the Justice Department creates a «taint team» of lawyers not involved in the case to review records and decide which ones shouldn't be seen by prosecutors on the case.

There is a recent case that provides a roadmap for what could happen to President Donald Trump and his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen after the FBI conducted raids on his office, home, and hotel as part of a Justice Department investigation.

But company lawyer Jesse Binnall said the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the lower ruling, did so on procedural grounds, so that the Justice Department's win would not influence much elsewhere.

«Pulitzer Prize - winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties» biggest names on Wall Street — Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine — created the greatest insider - trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America's most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice.»

Richard Painter, former White House lawyer, and Kevin Arqiut, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, discusses the Department of Justice suing to block the merger deal between AT&T and Time Warner.

But Eisinger reserves his sharpest barbs for what he sees as the clubby culture that has emerged between the top levels of the Justice Department and white - collar defense lawyers.

But he said the European Court of Justice should review the matter, a process that could take around a year, according to a lawyer for the publishers.

It's a lawyer from outside of government named by the attorney general to take over an investigation that poses a conflict of interest for the Justice Department.

So Trump's tax return could tell how much income they made, offering fresh information about the financial health of his organization, according to Robert Kovacev, a lawyer at Steptoe & Johnson and former Justice Department Tax Division official who represents taxpayers in high - profile tax disputes with the IRS.

Gorsuch has received praise from defense lawyers and other legal experts for often intrepreting laws in favor of defendants, a tendency similar to that of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

The 67 - year - old lawyer served in the Bush administration from 2001 to 2005, but resigned after he was indicted by a grand jury on five counts for perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to the FBI.

But she said she expected some of the priorities she established to remain intact through career lawyers at the Justice Department.

In the case of Mr. Hsiaw, the American born in Taiwan, lawyers say the Justice Department chose a particularly aggressive approach.

«Based on the extensive public comments and evidence garnered during that process, the department determined that such conflicts of interest are widespread and could cost investors in individual retirement accounts (in one segment of the market alone) between $ 95 billion and $ 189 billion over the next 10 years,» wrote the Justice Department lawyers.

Two lawyers who have never met can nevertheless combine efforts to defend a complete stranger because they both believe in the existence of laws, justice, human rights — and the money paid out in fees.

20.02.18... The Estonian state needs to understand the necessity of a state reform that would cut the number of officials exercising public authority by half, prominent lawyer and former Minister of Justice Jüri Raidla said in a speech at a meeting dedicated to the centennial of the Republic of Estonia on Monday.

The searches open a new front for the Justice Department in its scrutiny of Mr. Trump and his associates: His longtime lawyer is being investigated in Manhattan; his son - in - law, Jared Kushner, is facing scrutiny by prosecutors in Brooklyn; his former campaign chairman is under indictment; his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to lying; and a pair of former campaign aides are cooperating with Mr. Mueller.

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

On Saturday, Trump lashed out on Twitter over a New York Times report that reported speculations that Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer who is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, could end up cooperating with government officials.

«That ruling will wrongly delay the marketing of every biosimilar,» Sandoz's lawyer Deanne Maynard told the justices.

According to Department of Justice policy, an application for a search warrant of a lawyer's office such as this is so serious that it usually requires approval of either the U.S. attorney for the district, or the assistant attorney general.

One official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said that Mr. Trump was sympathetic to the plight of the young immigrants, known as Dreamers — many have known life only in the United States and have few connections to the countries of their birth — but had been told by Justice Department lawyers that his predecessor's program would not survive a court challenge.

The eight - page letter written by Trump's lawyer, Joanna Hendon, accuses the Justice Department of acting in «an aggressive, intrusive, and unorthodox manner» in an attempt to «eliminate the president's right to a full assertion of every privilege argument available to him.»

Back in December, Trump lawyer John Dowd claimed that it was impossible for Trump to be guilty of obstruction of justice, simply because he's the president — an assertion that was roundly derided by legal experts.

An Argentinian lawyer who made his fame prosecuting generals of Argentina's «Dirty Wars» of 1976 to 1983, he has, more than anyone, given the ICC a public profile of an organization assertively pursuing arch-war criminals and insisting upon justice.

A certain tension is built into their official canons of ethics, e.g., «A lawyer is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system, and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.»

The American Center for Law and Justice - a group «specifically dedicated to the ideal that religious freedom and freedom of speech are inalienable, God - given rights» - was asked by the pastor's lawyers last year to help publicize Nadarkhani's case, according to Jodran Sekulow, executive director of the group.

i disagree, it is only justice when capital punishment is hat the hands of the victim, and to many time are murders over look because of a good lawyer (want some Orange juice)

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

We can not expect a document from nearly stone age times to get into every paragraph that we would like to see today with the kind of justice appratus we have in place nowadays keeping an army of lawyers busy and employed.