Sentences with phrase «of access to a lawyer»

Damning judgement attacks lack of access to lawyers and inclusion of torture victims in controversial programme

It would be recalled that similar orders had been made by Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High as well as Justice Baba Yusuf of an Abuja High Court for the same purposes due to complaints of denial of access to lawyers by Dasuki even after all of them had granted him bail.

In this case and in Christie (British Columbia (Attorney General) v Christie, 2007 SCC 21, [2007] 1 SCR 873), the SCC has shown a real reluctance to monitor the government's decisions with regards to the provision of access to lawyers.

In December 2014 the Government chose to opt - out of many existing JHA measures, ranging from the creation of the European Public Prosecutor's Office to a Directive on the right of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings, only opting back in to those it considered to be most valuable.

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Eighty percent of those polled say it's more important to have access to the cheaper legal advice that A.I. might offer than to preserve the jobs of lawyers.

No matter what kind of resource you might need access to — from a recruiter or lawyer to a wealth manager — chances are your peer network will know who to put you in touch with.

FBI agents sought communications related to the infamous Trump «Access Hollywood» tape when they raided the office and hotel of lawyer Michael Cohen, NBC News reported.

FBI agents searched for communications related to the infamous «Access Hollywood» tape involving President Donald Trump when they raided the New York City office and hotel room of Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

But above all, be sure to limit the other party's access, especially people on a «need to know» basis, such as accountants, lawyers, or a board of directors.

And Philip Slayton, a former University of Western Ontario dean of law who recently authored Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada's Legal Profession (2007), is critical of the profession's disregard for the inability of the middle class to access the courts.

Shareholder democracy activists should not get carried away by the arrival of proxy access proposals north of the border, according to a Toronto lawyer.

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As many journalists and commentators have argued, agreements like the TPP have dubious benefits for citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying access to Internet users».

«The company has designed a 10 - foot - wide pedestrian access sidewalk to help facilitate the students, to try to keep them out of the interior or the inbound drive aisle,» said Henry Stillwell, the lawyer for the project.

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* A declaration that the detention of the applicant by EFCC on January 5, 2016 at an unknown location, without access to his lawyers, family and doctors, constitutes a flagrant violation of the applicant's fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutional.

Olisa Metuh was arrested by the operatives of EFCC on January 5, in his house in Abuja and has been in custody since then, without access to his family and lawyers or doctors.

Wagner, a Hudson Valley lawyer, says he's also filed 3,225 petition signatures this week with the state Board of Elections in order to achieve ballot access.

The pronouncement of Justice Baba Yusuf followed a complaint by Dasuki's lawyer Mr Adeola Adedipe that the legal team for Dasuki had not been allowed to have direct access to him in spite of a court order made on April 6.

There is no requirement to be a lawyer to access the text of any law.

The court ordered that ex-NSA must be allowed to access and brief his lawyers at a neutral place instead of the premises of the DSS headquarters in Abuja so as to enable him prepare adequately for his defence in the trial.

At 1 p.m., NYC Council members Carlos Menchaca and Rory Lancman and others denounce the mayor's executive budget proposal that would restrict access to lawyers to immigrants convicted of certain crimes, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The counsel insisted that because of the confidentiality required in such a briefing between a client and his lawyer, the DSS letter could not be acted upon, hence the defence was not ready for trial until it has been afforded opportunity to access Dasuki on a neutral ground for proper briefing.

«In the last one month that I was detained, I was denied access to my personal lawyers, doctors and my family and I want to say that I am committed to the interests of Nigerians even as I posed no threat to the nation's national security,» he said.

A New Scotland lawyer has gone to court in an effort to halt the review of bids in a $ 500 million program created by the Cuomo Administration to expand broadband access across the state.

The speaker and the mayor have also sparred over the budget, with the speaker appearing to blindside the mayor with a last - minute maneuver this week meant to insure that immigrants facing deportation, even those convicted of serious crimes, get access to city - funded lawyers.

It found that the process of indefinite detention with heavily - restricted access to a lawyer was mentally traumatic for many detainees and that there should be a «presumption against detention» for victims of rape and sexual violence, people with learning difficulties, and those with post-traumatic stress disorder.

A New Scotland lawyer has gone to court in an effort to halt the review of bids in a $ 500 million program created by the Cuomo administration to expand broadband access across the state, saying the guidelines that Empire State Development is using to award the competitive bids are «arbitrary and capricious.»

And I was like, «If we lose access to the server and they delete it...»» says Janos Marton, a lawyer who was one of Moreland's investigators.

Since taking over from the rather more liberal, Kenneth Clarke Grayling has attacked human rights as «political correctness», proposed dramatic restrictions to the right of individuals to challenge the state through judicial review, imposed significant restrictions on access to lawyers with no - win no - fee cases, moved the government back on to the course of building more (and bigger) prisons — despite the evidence against them — and is set on dramatically privatising up to 70 % of the probation service ceding state responsibility for offenders to commercial enterprises.

According to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearing House that was provided by the Council, 91 percent of children facing removal proceedings without a lawyer are deported, while only 22 percent of children who have proper representation are deported.

Several corporations admitted to paying President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen in hopes of gaining access to Trump or his thinking after financial records of the transactions were released by a lawyer representing Stormy Daniels.

According to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearing House, 91 percent of children facing deportation proceedings without a lawyer are deported, compared to only 22 percent of children who have representation.

The report found that access was denied to City Hall computers, documents sought by the DOI were redacted, and in one instance the DOI received 1,000 pages of documents — of which some 990 were blank because the mayor's lawyers said the DOI was not entitled to the information.

Justice Peter Affen of an Abuja High Court on Wednesday, ordered the Federal Government to grant the detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, access to his lawyers.

Metuh, through Adegboruwa, sought a declaration that his detention by the EFCC without access to his family and lawyer, and without being charged to court, amounted to a violation of his fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution.

The Right to Counsel Coalition estimates that half of evictions would be prevented with access to a lawyer — which could make a significant dent in the record 60,000 homeless New Yorkers currently staying in shelters at a cost of nearly $ 2 billion per year.

Almost a decade later, a group of lawyers from around the country developed a draft uniform law they encouraged all 50 states to adopt, which would allow people to specify in their wills that the executor of their estate can access their email and social media profiles.

As a young lawyer defending poor inmates on Alabama's death row, Stevenson uncovers unconscionable flaws in the criminal justice system — racial bias, abuse of power, excessive punishment, denied access to legal counsel — concluding that «the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.»

Lawyers of the Crown Prosecution Service will have access to 35 HP TouchPads into which the police will be feeding information directly.

Jeannotte says, «There is a perception that EAPs are counselling plans, but they do a lot more than that in terms of access to professionals like lawyers, dieticians, financial advisers, and eldercare specialists.

Mortgage brokers Unionville have knowledge of the local real estate market, access to real estate agents and lawyers.

A Woodbridge mortgage broker has knowledge of the local real estate market, access to real estate agents, lawyers, etc..

While property management companies have the benefit of in - house lawyers, you as a private landlord might be limited in your ability to access that advice.

And current state laws permit incumbent board members access to the corporate treasury, allowing them to spend millions of dollars, to hire lawyers and public relations firms, run ads and mail materials to prevent shareholders from adding their designees to the board of directors.

We have set up for all our customers, regardless of which product they purchase, access to bankruptcy lawyers nationwide who will answer your bankruptcy questions for free.

It's a generally professional, traditional level of access to the public via the press that enjoys many privileges and has the support of press lawyers and professional editors and institutions.

One of the greatest challenges of dealing with legal reform and public members demanding access to justice is the perception that lawyers are rather indifferent to the problems.

Aside from the merits of the decision, which puts the cost of the courts not just on the users but on all the taxpayers (which may be the appropriate place for them), it is amusing to see high - priced lawyers say that access to justice is greatly improved because of the abolition of hearng fees that are less per day than the lawyers charge per hour.

This means that if the lawyers were unable to get onto their premises, eg as a result of fire or flood, then access to systems and documents would, at best, be limited, and at worst, work would have to cease altogether.