Sentences with phrase «of appointment to the bench»

From the time of his appointment to the bench in 1986, former Chief Justice Brian Lennox was involved with education programming.

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Harman made a return to the front bench after the 2001 general election, with her appointment to the office of Solicitor General, thus becoming the first female Solicitor General.

«The Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, is pleased to announce the appointment of Sarah Champion MP, who is re-joining the Labour's front bench as Shadow Home Office Minister, focusing on women, equality and domestic violence.»

He appoints people like Keir Starmer (part of the Front Bench coup) back to the Front Bench and people like Momentum praise this appointment.

Campaigning for the chairs of these committees has been under way since news of final appointments to each party's front bench confirmed who had been left on the backbenches at the start of this parliament.

Before her appointment to the federal bench in 1980, she served as a King County Superior Court judge for the State of Washington.

Mundel's appointment likely reflects the Gates Foundation's desire to apply that approach to their health and drug development projects, says Denise DeMan - Williams, founder and CEO of the biotech recruiting firm Bench International (who recruited Mundel for the Novartis job).

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The final Manitoba appointment is Shane I. Perlmutter, who joins the Court of Queen's Bench to replace Justice M. Kaufman, who elected to become a supernumerary judge.

Recent diversity figures from the Judicial Appointments (JAC) show there is a serious problem with the appointment of black and minority ethnic lawyers to the bench and underline the need for targeted support and training, the Bar Council has said.

He was a partner in two prominent V.I. firms and president of the Virgin Islands Legal Assistance Foundation before his appointment to the bench in 2006.

The image was intended to reinforce the subject of the cover article — the lack of transparency in the judicial appointments process and the resulting limited diversity on the bench — but as we have heard from a number of readers, it conveyed a very different message and undermined this important discussion.

Law societies and bar associations have been calling on the federal government to appoint a wider variety of individuals to the bench, but as Rosemary Cairns notes in her recent paper «Deliberate Disregard: Judicial Appointments under the Harper Government»: «These calls for change have elicited little substantive political response.

However this is of little consequence in the long run for the same reasons that have discussed above with regard to appointments to the Bench.

The event, co-sponsored by the Women Lawyers Forum and Equality Issues section focused on providing practical information on the process of seeking an appointment to the provincial or federal bench.

The fourth chapter analyses the constitutional bench, i.e. such factors as appointment procedures, numbers of judges, eligibility requirements to become a constitutional judge or tenure.

She had been a longtime federal prosecutor and served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa before her appointment to the bench.

After reading this TalkLeft post about Sarah Palin's one Alaska Supreme Court appointment, I dug into the site of the Alaska Judicial Council and identified Palin's 10 appointments to the state's trial court bench.

Minister Denis encouraged Albertans to write their Members of Parliament to ask for appointments of Court of Queen's Bench Justices.

For all the talk of nominating a woman, a recent Gallup poll shows that only 38 percent of women surveyed believed that appointing a woman to the bench appointment is «essential» or «a good idea.»

However given almost life - long appointments, and the rarity with which members of the bench are removed, a markedly conservative judiciary is far more difficult to change than a markedly conservative government.

Seems lawyers like to read about what's going on with their collegues, from appointments to the bench to lawyers in trouble and more, here are the 10 most read stories of 2011 from the blog.

Author McInnes unravels Hughes» early life in Saskatchewan, the events leading to his marriage to Helen Hughes (nee Larmouth), the beginnings of his legal career and political involvement, and his eventual ascension to first the Saskatchewan District Court at age 35, and his soon after appointment to the Court of Queen's Bench.

As Hampton had written in that same letter: «a high standard of excellence» had become the main criterion for appointment to the bench.

The data reflects the ongoing need to compile statistics on the appointment of judges of color to the federal bench.

When Linden met with Hampton, he didn't have to time present his request for the 16 new appointments before he was told by Hampton that the Court would be receiving 27 new judges as a result of the Askov decision, plus eight new judges to replace the new RSJs, for a grand total of 35 judges — representing approximately 15 % of the entire bench.

Before his appointment to the bench, Mr Justice Coulson was a practitioner at the construction Bar and as a QB judge had covered the full range of QB work including crime.

As rumours of Toews appointment to the bench have been swirling for some months, most of the negativity arises in part from his political affiliation but also that he has been away from the practise of law for so many years that many feel he is ill equipped to sit on the bench.

Before his appointment to the Federal bench, Judge Hudson served as a Virginia circuit judge for Fairfax County, Director of the United States Marshals Service, as the Senate - confirmed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and as the elected Commonwealth's Attorney for Arlington County, Virginia.

I apologize for my actions to the public I serve, the institution I represent, my judicial colleagues, members of the bar and all persons serving the administration of justice... I will humbly continue to treat all persons that appear before me fairly and impartially as I have done since my appointment to this honourable bench in 1990.»

Sir John was a member of Essex Court Chambers for 25 years prior to his appointment as a Justice of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division -LSB-...]

Justice Minister Peter MacKay announced a number appointments March 7, including the controversial elevation of former Conservative cabinet minister Vic Toews to the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba.

It was nearly eight months after the federal election before the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced its first judicial appointments, in the wake of an increasing call, even from senior members of the bench, to fill a number of vacancies across the country.

Yet, members of the public often express skepticism as has most recently been expressed over the appointment of former Tory cabinet minister Vic Toews to the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench.

Any changes to the appointment process should place importance on the role and the makeup of the advisory committees, says Smith, who was the first female dean at UBC law school, before she was appointed to the bench in 1998.

Another former drug dealer, Yvon Lamontagne, also told police Girouard was his client as early as 2010, and he's sold cocaine to him just days before Girouard's appointment to the Superior Court bench in September of that year.

The allegations all stem from the fact that ACJ Douglas» husband posted nude photos of her on the internet back in 2002 - 2003, before her appointment to the bench.

«This education is premised on the fact that the justice of the peace bench is a lay bench, and that justices of the peace on appointment usually do not have legal education,» according to Chief Justice Bonkalo.»

The Ontario Court of Justice organizes a one - day orientation program for newly - appointed judges shortly after their appointment which deals with practical matters relating to the transition to the bench, including judicial conduct and ethics, courtroom demeanour, and administrative procedures.

The Act further stipulated qualifications for appointment, criteria for selection and an application, review and interview process that did much to modernize the justice of the peace bench and that was much more consistent with the important role of the justices of the peace within the Court.

The process was further hastened by fundamental changes made to the bench in the mid-1990s that saw the retirement of many justices of the peace and the consequent influx of many new appointments.

With so many judges owing their tenure on the New York bench to political connections and opaque methods of appointment, it's a wonder there aren't more subpar performers [New York Post]

Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Smith was successful in the practice of real estate, environmental, and business transactional law.

Although we've seen blogging lawyers appointed to the bench in recent years, and Slaw is one of the few sites where we've had guest judge bloggers, there's increased scrutiny of this trend with the appointment of Justice Russ Brown.

Prior to his appointment to the Ouray County Court bench in 2000, he was an owner and attorney for Attorneys Title Agency, Inc.; owner and attorney for KURA radio; an attorney at the Westfall Law Office; and owner of Westfall Construction.

On Thursday, February 15, 2018, the governor's office announced the appointment of Sean Finn to the District Court bench in the 17th Judicial District.

The vacancy on the bench of the Seventeenth Judicial District Court will be created by the retirement of Hon. Chris Melonakis, effective January 12, 2015, and the vacancy on the Ouray County Court bench will be created on January 13, 2015, due to the appointment of Hon. David Westfall to the district court.

He was appointed to the bench in December 2014, and prior to his appointment he was a sole practitioner at The Cory Jackson Company, LLC and the founder of the Alpine Near - Miss Survey.

On Tuesday, April 15, 2014, Governor Hickenlooper announced his appointment of Joshua Blake Lehman to the county court bench in Larimer County.

And this is what I understand to be the meaning of our lawyers, when they say that these civil corporations are liable to no visitation; that is, that the law having by immemorial usage appointed them to be visited and inspected by the king their founder, in his majesty's court of king's bench, according to the rules of the common law, they ought not to be visited elsewhere, or by any other authority.53 And this is so strictly true, that though the king by his letters patent had subjected the college of physicians to the visitation of four very respectable persons, the lord chancellor, the two chief justices, and the chief baron; though the college had accepted this carter with all possible marks of acquiescence, and had acted under it for near a century; yet, in 1753, the authority of this provision coming in dispute, on an appeal preferred to these supposed visitors, they directed the legality of their own appointment to be argued: and, as this college was a mere civil, and not an eleemosynary foundation, they at length determined, upon several days solemn debate, that they had no jurisdiction as visitors; and remitted the appellant (if aggrieved) to his regular remedy in his majesty's court of king's bench.