Sentences with phrase «of judicial responsibility»

After appointment, the two areas of judicial responsibility are conduct and continuing education.

Based on this meager sample, Mr. Garrow uses his purblind analysis to trump up a charge that Justice Blackmun committed a «scandalous abdication of judicial responsibility.»

Outside of his judicial responsibilities he is also a little league team sponsor and coach.

Florida's opinion even echoes the earlier S.C. one when it says, «Judges can not isolate themselves from the real world and can not be expected to avoid all friendships outside of their judicial responsibilities.»

Not exact matches

James Bradley Thayer warned nearly a century ago that «common and easy resort» to judicial review would tend «to dwarf the political capacity of the people, and to deaden its sense of moral responsibility.»

This right of democratic choice and the responsibility of democratic governance is not promoted by judicial imperialism, even if justified as showing some responsiveness to popular sentiments or public virtues.

A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.

The first, thus may be considered as the military responsibility and the second the judicial responsibility of the sovereign, the state or the public authority.

The Vatican therefore has the authority and responsibility to conduct judicial hearings for breaches of civil law.

The Common Foreign and Security Policy is moribund, the police and judicial cooperation (the former third pillar) does not work too well and the Euro has been in an almost continuous state of crisis for half a decade now (which should be obvious no matter your take on the responsibilities and the way forward).

The Committee is saddled with the responsibility of implementing the Judicial Commission of Inquiry report set up in 2016 by governor Yahaya Bello to look into how the resources of the state were expended between May 2003 to January 2016.

«Members of the New York State Senate should take seriously their responsibilities with regard to judicial nominees,» said NYFC Executive Director Rev. Jason McGuire said in a statement released late last night.

Nana Kwesi Gyan - Appenteng, the Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), says press freedom without responsibility is a threat to democracy and judicial independence.

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.

The responsibilities of judicial delegates include getting to know the people running for NY Supreme Court and attending the judicial convention (likely this year between September 18 - 24).

Someday, however, they could transform judicial views of personal credibility and responsibility

Key responsibilities will include providing assistance on the intersection of state and local responsibilities for the delivery of services to children and families of youth engaged with the Department of Children and Families (DCF), the Judicial Department, the Department of Correction (DOC), Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and other state agencies...»

Properly restrained judicial constitutional review accepts the primary law - making responsibility of legislatures by acknowledging the wide ambit of legislative choices available to elected officials».

Ms. Rich is a member and a volunteer with a number of different community, legal, and charitable organizations, including the Illinois Judicial Ethics Committee, the Illinois Judges Foundation Auxiliary Committee, the Make - A-Wish Foundation of Illinois, the Chicago Inn of Court, the Lawyers Club of Chicago, and the ABA's Center for Professional Responsibility.

A majority of the Court held that Slovenia's failure to provide an effective independent judicial system to determine responsibility for the death of a patient receiving medical treatment violated Article 2 even though the death itself took place before the Convention came into force in that state.

'' [t] he judge will... be forced to decide in advance of trial — and without hearing the evidence — whether he will forgo entirely his judicial discretion to impose some sentence of imprisonment and abandon his responsibility to consider the full range of punishments established by the legislature.

Recognizing that appellate Judicial Performance Evaluation (JPE) programs have largely been patterned after programs for trial judges, IAALS is pleased to offer recommendations and tools for evaluating the performance of appellate judges that are tailored to those judges» unique role and responsibilities.

But in Hughes v. Board of Professional Responsibility (PDF), the Tennessee Supreme Court found that his prior misconduct, combined with his felony convictions, demonstrated «a pattern of behavior over a period of years that conflicts with the standards of the bar, the sanctity of our judicial system and the public trust.

It is, in effect, the expression of judicial deference to the executive's responsibility... [more]

For their part, judges had begun to schedule judicial pre-trials as well as to take firm control of their lists of cases and their courtrooms, ensuring that the Crowns, police and defence counsel were living up to their responsibilities.

He is a founding member and current chair of the Illinois Judicial Ethics Committee, a former member and two - term chair of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Professional Responsibility, and an appointee of the Illinois Supreme Court to, and chair of, the legislatively created Statutory Court Fee Task Force.

That kind of engagement has been an unexpected but gratifying outgrowth of my many years of involvement with legal and judicial ethics issues, including service on the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Professional Responsibility.

A prime example is Formal Opinion 462, in which the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility concluded that a judge may use social media so long as that use complies with the Code of Judicial Conduct.

It is, in effect, the expression of judicial deference to the executive's responsibility for international relations.

By way of speculation, then: it may be that McLachlin is concerned that the normal judicial attribution style, especially when the Chief Justice in recent decades has been assuming the responsibility of delivering a disproportionate share of the Court's major decisions, runs the risk of excessively personalizing those major decisions.

Regardless of their judicial philosophy, judges are, in large part, keenly aware of the weighty responsibility bestowed on them.

Yet under the Family Law amendment, judicial orders for these couples must apply a presumption that equal shared responsibility is in the best interests of a child and consequently, a judge must «favourably» consider a further order that a child spend equal time with each parent.

[2] Sitting atop the Canadian judicial hierarchy, the Supreme Court of Canada bears the additional responsibility of developing clear and coherent doctrine, thus providing a set of tools that lower courts can confidently apply to the complex (and not - so - complex) cases that come before them.

We hope to forge a line of communication with all levels of government that will facilitate better understanding and respect for our respective responsibilities and for judicial independence.

David A. Kluft, a partner in Foley Hoag's Litigation Department, has been appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court Committee for Professional Responsibility for Clerks of the Courts by Chief Justice Roderick L. Ireland.

5 To consider matters relating to judicial responsibility and ethics and to promote and implement equality and diversity within The Association and in all activities of The Association;

Member, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Committee on Professional Responsibility for Clerks of the Court, 2013 - present

In 2013, Dave was appointed by Chief Justice Rodrick Ireland to the Supreme Judicial Court's Committee on Professional Responsibility for Clerks of the Court.

What characterises a judicial finding for these purposes is that it is an opinion of a court or other tribunal whose responsibility is to reach conclusions based solely on the evidence before it.

When this court reverses the judgment, they overrule both the legislative and judicial authority of the state, without regard to the character or standing, political or judicial, of the individual members of either department; surely, then, it is our most solemn duty, not to found our judgment on the opinions of those who assume to decide on the validity of state laws, without any official power, sanction or responsibility.

to develop the personal and professional competence and skills necessary to exercise judicial responsibilities in an independent and impartial manner, and improve the administration of justice;

The memorandum of understanding between the Court and the Ministry, first signed in 1993, transferred to the Chief Justice's office both the budget and responsibility for the content of judicial education for judges and justices of the peace.

You'll also look at the practical implications of the Civil Procedure Rules, legislation, guidance and judicial comment on the roles and responsibilities of experts.

Added to these responsibilities, since the 1990s, judges have assumed new and larger roles in case management in keeping with the recognition of their judicial independence for scheduling matters in the Court.

How it continues to mature depends on many factors: new developments in technology, added responsibilities for members of the judiciary, the modernization of the judicial system, for example — all will play a role.

The mentor «s primary responsibility is to assist the new justice of the peace in making the transition to the bench and acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary to carry out his or her judicial responsibilities.

But with respect, I don't think this is a sufficient reason or justification for the courts to abdicate their responsibility for upholding the rule of law in the judicial review of administrative decisions entirely.

Many states also require lawyers to take an ethics examination which tests knowledge of the codes professional responsibility and judicial conduct.

With respect to conduct, I can speak to you with intimate knowledge of the federally appointed judiciary, because I preside over the Canadian Judicial Council, which has the statutory responsibility to receive complaints about federally appointed judges.

Select Books and Recent Law Review Articles: • Public Policy in International Economic Law: The ICESCR in Trade, Finance and Investment (Oxford University Press, 2015) • Necessity and National Emergency Clauses: Sovereignty in Modern Treaty Interpretation (Martinus Nijhoff, 2012) • ASEAN Integration and Philippine Treaties (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in ASEAN Integration through Law Series) • ASEAN Law and Regional Integration: Governance and the Rule of Law in Southeast Asia's Single Market (co-edited with David J. Cohen, Routledge, forthcoming) • International Commercial Arbitration for the Philippine Legal Profession (editor, University of the Philippines IILS Press, forthcoming) • Code of Professional Responsibility (USAID and Philippine Judicial Academy, 2007)