Sentences with phrase «of judicial salaries»

Her salary as chief justice is listed as $ 405,400 per year, according to an index of judicial salaries set out by the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada.

As the most recent edition of the Survey of Judicial Salaries indicates, Michigan judges have already had to wait 13 years since their latest salary increase the longest wait in the nation.

By that logic, fewer judges would be needed to deal with more cases, reducing the cost of judicial salaries and pensions and the court estate.

Today, I am pleased to report that a 12 - year roadblock to the fair adjustment of judicial salaries has been removed.»

The proposals were published this week in the SSRB's Consultation on Job Placement, part of its Major Review of the Judicial Salary Structure.

He said he hoped the Senior Salaries Review Body's Major Review of the judicial salary structure and levels, due to report by June 2018, would address pay and pensions concerns.

Not exact matches

Members of the state Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation today are set to meet in New York City to determine whether to increase the pay for 213 members of the state Legislature, hiking their salaries from the base $ 79,500 to as much as $ 116,900 a year.

Salaries for New York State Judges were last adjusted in 1999, and as a result, judicial salaries have become an increasing subject of controversy in recenSalaries for New York State Judges were last adjusted in 1999, and as a result, judicial salaries have become an increasing subject of controversy in recensalaries have become an increasing subject of controversy in recent years.

County officials are pressuring Albany lawmakers to pass the bill after a judicial pay commission recommended pay hikes for state judges, whose salaries are linked to that of district attorneys.

Niccoli and a group of fellow Democratic candidates have penned separate letters to members of the state Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation urging them not to bump the current $ 79,500 base salary of state lawmakers, who haven't received a raise in roughly 17 years.

It is our view that government «s attitude frustrates the work of the Judicial Council on salaries of the lower bench by treating the work of the Council itself and lower bench with contempt.»

Also on the agenda, which appears in full after the jump: Renaming the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel for former Gov. Hugh Carey and creating a commission to evaluate and adjust judicial salaries (no mention of legislative salaries, which have traditionally been linked to judicial pay).

Cuomo's budget czar Robert Megna was shouted down by a judge and accused of «disrespect» after cautioning big judicial raises could «distort the entire salary structure» of state government.

«SERAP therefore urges you to use your good offices and leadership position to instruct the appropriate authorities to release budgetary allocations to ensure the immediate payment of all outstanding salaries and allowances of judges and judicial workers.

Lawmakers previously agreed to create a judicial compensation commission, decoupling their salaries from those of the state's judges.

Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon has said the raise would make the county executive's salary equal to the district attorney, which is tied to judicial salaries and out of the hands of the legislature.

Last fall, he finished his work as the chairman of a state committee reviewing judicial salaries.

The committee acknowledged that allowing law firms to pay the salaries of judicial law clerks would implicate judicial ethics rules that require judges to avoid impropriety and appear unbiased.

The aim, for example, to broaden the range of judicial decisions that are made by non-judges (and even non-lawyers), under the «supervision» of judges, is more concerned with greater centralisation of services and with savings in the judicial salaries budget.

Interestingly, and unlike a similar salary commission on the ballot in Arkansas in 2014, the Kentucky version retains the constitutional provision that protects a diminishment of judicial compensation («The compensation of a justice or judge shall not be reduced during his term.»)

«There isn't much evidence that higher judicial salaries impact the performance of the federal circuit judges,» said Scott Baker, a law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law who recently tested the notion.

The federal judicial pension is extremely generous — a judge can retire at age 65 with only 15 years of judicial service (or at 70 with 10 years), and receive his full salary for life; nor does he make any contribution to funding the pension.

A 2015 law that links the salaries of Colorado's state legislators and top executive officials to judicial salaries could be heading for a partial repeal.

Nearly every state has a constitutional provision related to judicial salaries and compensation, however they vary widely in terms of whether or not such items can be reduced or increased (as was the case in Arkansas for decades) and if so under what conditions.

As introduced and initially approved (see here and here and here) Arkansas» HJR 1009 of 2013 eliminated that state's constitutional guarantee that judicial salaries could not be diminished (Amendment 80, Sec. 16 (E) «Such salaries and expenses may be increased, but not diminished, during the term for which such Justices or Judges are selected or elected.»)

The Ohio Senate yesterday approved a plan (SJR 1) to create a Public Office Compensation Commission with the power to reduce judicial salaries mid-term in cases of fiscal emergency, a departure from a 2014 proposal which would have allowed them to be diminished for any reason.

This was in stark contrast with Arkansas» constitutional amendment creating a Commission - system approved by voters the month prior that reiterated that judicial salaries could not be reduced during terms of office.

The elimination of the constitutional guarantee that judicial salaries can not be cut by the legislature as part of a public officer compensation system is almost identical to what occurred in 2013 in Arkansas.

However, unlike the 2014 bill, a 2015 committee amendment provided judicial salaries some degree of protection.

SB 258 Changes the timing of determination of weighted case units for the purpose of calculating the judicial branch operating budget request and judicial salaries from October to July.

Oklahoma Legislative Year in Review: cutting the link between judicial salaries and those of other officials; appellate judges now have higher salaries than trial judges

As a result, there hasn't been an increase in judicial salaries since 2008 as lawmakers have rejected recommendations by the state's Board on Judicial Compensation (such as HJR 1093 of 2012 rejecting a proposed 6 % cost of living increase) out of concern they were also increasing executive branch sjudicial salaries since 2008 as lawmakers have rejected recommendations by the state's Board on Judicial Compensation (such as HJR 1093 of 2012 rejecting a proposed 6 % cost of living increase) out of concern they were also increasing executive branch sJudicial Compensation (such as HJR 1093 of 2012 rejecting a proposed 6 % cost of living increase) out of concern they were also increasing executive branch salaries.

This year, however, the Oklahoma legislature approved, and the Governor has now signed, an increase in judicial salaries for trial judges only (i.e. District Court Judges, Associate District Court Judges, and Special District Court Judges) as HJR 1096 of 2014.

I've mentioned here and here the difficulty Oklahoma has had in terms of increasing judicial salaries through their linking process; the salaries of the state's executive branch officials are equal to those of judicial officials.

SB 549 Eliminates procedure linking salaries of other state officers / elected officials to judicial salaries.

The disparity between judges» salaries and those of their private sector colleagues is frequently invoked as justification for judicial pay raises.

Clause 20 would provide statutory protection in respect of the salaries of tribunal judges, thereby enhancing the principle of judicial independence.

Employment agency Reed is liable for up to # 158m unpaid tax due on the salaries of thousands of temps it employed, after it lost its judicial review.

Eric Turkewitz of New York Personal Injury Blog views the recent increases as a wake - up call for increasing judicial pay, noting that at $ 160,000 a year plus bonus, first - year associate salaries surpass those of federal judges (who make $ 162,500 annually).

(judicial review arising from failures of due process in the Bar's disciplinary arrangements discovered by a report by COIC in 2012; time expired disciplinary judges — whether a tribunal «established by law» under ECHR Art. 6 and Art. 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; whether Art 47 now has direct effect in UK; whether laid down selection process of disciplinary judges had to be followed at all; whether prosecutor could partake in selection process of disciplinary judges; whether a disciplinary judge could properly receive an undisclosed salary from the prosecutor; whether logjam in Visitorial appeals process caused unlawful delay; whether proper Art. 6 security of tenure when BSB sits on committee (COIC) with the power to remove disciplinary judges from the «pool» at will; whether «discreditable» conduct should be defined).

Currently judicial salaries are set as a percentage of the salaries of the supreme court.

(e) that the Government may not reduce the salaries, pensions or benefits of Judges, individually or collectively, without infringing the principle of judicial independence,

«Given the fact that over 90 per cent of the budget of the Court went to pay judicial salaries and benefits, the proposed level of cuts was impossible and the proposal itself created a real potential for significant harm to the justice system.

We talked about judicial independence and the fact that if the government went this route, the question of judges» salary increases would no longer be something that the politicians would have to take ownership of.

Oklahoma: House votes to give only trial judges raises; delinks at least for this year judicial salaries to those of other officials

Texas: House committee approves 3 - part formula to set judicial salaries; computation includes other states + US Court of Appeals + in - state first year attorneys

Although Article III of the Constitution entrenches some protections for judges — the tenure and salary guarantees that were already protected in Great Britain by the Act of Settlement 1701 — prof. Groves shows that much of the architecture of judicial independence that observers of the American judiciary take for granted has no obvious foundation in the constitutional text.

He is also a member of the Advocates» Society and the Canadian Bar Association; and has co-authored two comprehensive reports submitted by the CBA to the federal government; one on Judicial Salaries and Benefits and one on the Salaries and Benefits of the Prothonotaries of the Federal Court of Canada.

We were gratified indeed that the Volcker Commission last year identified federal judicial salaries as «the most egregious example of federal compensation policies.»

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