Sentences with phrase «of justice secretary»

With a little urging from me, Kevin — who started out with a high street firm in Doncaster in 2003 and has since gone on to forge close friendships with the likes of Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke — explains how this generation of wannabe lawyers need to think outside the box in order to net a job.

Iain Duncan Smith rejected offer of Justice secretary to thwart George Osborne over welfare reforms — His decision meant that Mr Duncan Smith also turned down the position of Lord Chancellor, one of the oldest political roles in Britain dating back to 1066... to investigate the development of the single payment, which is due to replace...

Sky also report that Iain Duncan Smith has been offered the position of Justice Secretary.

The Guardian - via the brilliant Straight Choice website - highlights a leaflet produced by the Conservative team trying to elect Michael Law - Riding in Blackburn, currently the seat of Justice Secretary, Jack Straw.

19 July 2007: Jack Straw, in his new position of justice secretary in the cabinet of Gordon Brown, insists the government is determined to proceed with Lords reform and that the powers of the chamber, the method of election, financial packages and the number of members will (yet again) be discussed by a cross-party working group.

On any other day, the prime minister would have loved to get rid of the justice secretary but keeping a veneer of unity gets him off the hook

There are many different types of PR, but the one proposed by Alan Johnson recently, much to the annoyance of the Justice Secretary, is known as «Alternative Vote plus».

They are, on some level, meant to be the eyes and ears of the justice secretary, sending him reports about how the prison and its governor are doing.

Davis has given Kite an interview in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph, and in it he repeats the criticisms he made of the Justice Secretary's plan to put fewer criminals behind bars a few days ago on the BBC's Straight Talk.

«The prime minister, when he leaves this chamber, should look at the comments of the justice secretary,» Mr Miliband said.

It was the surprise intervention of justice secretary Michael Gove, a leading Brexiter, that changed everything.

Allies of the justice secretary point out that inmates are able to use the prison library or buy books using their weekly allowance, making it irrelevant whether they can receive books or magazine subscriptions in the post.

There was also evidence of justice secretary Michael Gove cosying up to the SNP politician in the Commons chamber, just hours after his success in the Private Members» Bill ballot.

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«This sums up the skewed priorities of a justice secretary who has no solutions to the problems in our prisons,» he said.

Not exact matches

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, during his daily press briefing, said the Department of Justice will be the lead on what Spicer referred to as «greater enforcement» of federal law concerning adult - use marijuana.

Clinton, a former secretary of state and U.S. senator, decried the spate of shootings, including the most recent murders of police in Baton Rouge, and she called for criminal justice reform.

In July 2016, during the presidential campaign, when Comey publicly announced that Hillary Clinton should not be prosecuted for her email peccadilloes — but strongly criticized her behavior in setting up a private email server while in her role as US secretary of state — Trump did not complain that Department of Justice (DOJ) norms were being violated.

And 2018 has already seen a number of high - level departures from the White House, including staff secretary Rob Porter, third - ranking justice department official Rachel Brand, and speech writer David Sorenson.

The parliamentary secretary to the minister of justice says the Liberal government has no plans currently to legalize or decriminalize «any other drug» than cannabis.

«For more than a year, [Horowitz] has been investigating how the Justice Department and the FBI handled the 2016 probe of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.

Former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told CBS News» Jeff Pegues on Friday that the Nunes memo's release is going to do some «very serious damage» and that the president's distrust of the Justice Department and the FBI could create a «constitutional crisis.»

Yet our government would have us agree to sweeping economic agreements like CETA and the TPP without providing us any facts at all, just empty slogans about how wonderful things will be after we sign on,» says Larry Brown, national secretary - treasurer of the National Union of Public and General Employees and co-chair of the Trade Justice Network.

Comey recommended no criminal charges to the Justice Department in the Clinton email probe, instead reprimanding the former secretary of state as «extremely careless.»

The Justice Secretary Michael Gove has said he's passionate about the rehabilitation of prisoners because... More

Justice Secretary Liz Truss said: «Part of building a fair justice system that works for everyone is drawing on the best talents from every background in BJustice Secretary Liz Truss said: «Part of building a fair justice system that works for everyone is drawing on the best talents from every background in Bjustice system that works for everyone is drawing on the best talents from every background in Britain.

Because no legal action can be taken against him in France, French Nazi hunters have come to the U.S. to get our Justice Department to punish Bettencourt by prohibiting him from entering the country, much as was done with Kurt Waldheim, erstwhile UN General Secretary and President of Austria.

This deep sense of natural justice afforded by the state for the home is echoed by Pope Benedict's analysis of John of Salisbury (c1120 — 1180), an English author, educationalist, diplomat and secretary to St Thomas Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury.

The petition, to the Justice Secretary, says: «Several recent high profile cases have evidenced how the general public has fixed preconceived ideas of what constitutes rape, a victim and a perpetrator of sexual violence.

* Mr Justice Woolf in the case of R v Secretary of State for Education and Science, ex parte Talmud Torah Machzikei

Critical evidence sessions set to decide the political fate of culture secretary Jeremy Hunt may not take place if parliament interferes with Lord Justice Leveson's «process», the judge has warned.

Commenting on the figures, Dominic Grieve, the Conservative shadow justice secretary, said: «The surge in female violence - fuelled by binge - drinking - is a damning indictment of this government's track record in addressing both crime and social breakdown.»

Former culture secretary Maria Miller has taken up the cause of creating a specific new offence and said she won a sympathetic hearing from justice secretary Chris Grayling.

Despite the secretary of state confidently saying that this immediate implementation should effectively overtake Mr Justice Ouseley's ruling, the new general power may actually offer little assistance in this instance.»

«This seems an astonishing decision by the Home Office and I urge the home secretary to re-consider it in the name of both justice and mercy.»

General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has fired a sharp riposte at the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for claiming Justice Yaw Apau was appointed to the Supreme Court because he did a «hatchet» job for the government on Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo.

The shadow justice secretary explains why he enjoys spending most of his holidays underwaterMost...

The justice secretary is a jazz enthusiast who first discovered his passion in the clubs of Nottingham.

Home secretary John Reid welcomed the judgment as a vindication of his position, but Amnesty International condemned it as an «affront to justice».

The new Justice Secretary, Liz Truss, seeks more cash with the strong support of her predecessor, Michael Gove, in order to implement important and radical prison reforms.

It all began with the Justice Secretary, Michael Gove, who pointed to Albania's relations with the EU as an example of the possible agreement that the UK might have in the event of leaving the EU.

Nigerian fraudsters, who had hacked into his Hotmail account, pretended to be the Justice Secretary stranded in Africa in need of $ 3,500 US dollars to get homewww.bbc.co.uk / news 24/02/2009

Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan complimented Lansley's «poker face» as the leader of the House argued the reforms were for the good of voters.

Read shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan's speech on a «life of crime» to Barnardos in full on politics.co.uk.

The justice secretary seems particularly attracted to the idea of setting up new metrics for governors, for instance by evaluating performance on the basis of prisoner activity during the day.

It remains to be seen what Gove is prepared to do on this - but it is important to note Cameron has his own priors when it comes to hanging justice secretaries out to dry when they run into trouble with the press, large sections of which continue to oppose a more liberal penal policy.

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The justice secretary is also understood to have demanded that condoms be removed from prisons and was only stopped when officials stepped in to advise him on the devastating public health implications of the move.

Survey of probation workers reveals staggering level of distrust in the justice secretary and suggests a dangerous lack of morale in the service

Labour MP Toby Perkins later told the justice secretary he would raise the issue as a point of order if he did not correct the record.