Sentences with phrase «on judicial appointments»

On judicial appointments, the green paper stated: «The Government is willing to look at the future of its role in judicial appointments: to consider going further than the present arrangement, including conceivably a role for Parliament itself, after consultation with the judiciary, Parliament and the public, if it is felt there is a need.»

He has served as Chairperson of the Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Appointments, and Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association Litigation Section and Co-Chair of its Tort Committee.

Many other provinces have a similar process for selecting judges to provincial courts, although Ontario is unique in that a majority of the 13 people on its Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee are lay members.

Democracy and transparency can have powerful and salutary effects on the judicial appointments process.

The Committee has examined the progress made on judicial recruitment and diversity since its 2012 report on Judicial Appointments.

Does nt Happen» According to California's constitution, judges of the supreme court and courts of appeal are nominated by the governor and must be confirmed by the commission on judicial appointments, which consists of the chief justice, the attorney general, and a presiding justice of the courts of appeal.»

New York Times editorial on judicial appointments and abortion, September 23, 1993.

Restrictions on the judicial appointment and rights of audience of solicitors have gradually disappeared.

Not exact matches

The WTO is already on the verge of paralysis because the United States has vetoed new judicial appointments, letting the number of trade judges dwindle to four from the usual seven.

That one action by Senator Kennedy paved the way for a judicial appointment that almost surely was the key to preserving a constitutional right to abortion on demand and to the overturning of U.S. laws protecting marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

Examples found in its policies on civil and human rights, national health care, church - state issues and judicial appointments lead me to conclude that the administration uses any means necessary to gain the desired ends.

He'll now be able to issue decrees which will be almost impossible for parliament to overturn, while having oversight on budgets, judicial appointments and cabinet assignments.

In November 2013, Senate Democrats used the nuclear option to eliminate filibusters on executive branch nominations and federal judicial appointments other than those to the Supreme Court.

In the past, the Senate deferred to the president's choice of justices, as well as other federal judicial officers, but since the Nixon administration that deference has declined and appointments have been seen as more political, particularly following the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on the appointment of Clarence Thomas.

The state Commission on Judicial Conduct last month dismissed a complaint against Pines, saying Pines was not aware of Bellando's appointment.

The National Judicial Council, NJC, made the appointment public yesterday in Abuja based on its recommendation as the body to nominate qualified persons for appointment as judicial oJudicial Council, NJC, made the appointment public yesterday in Abuja based on its recommendation as the body to nominate qualified persons for appointment as judicial ojudicial officers.

(3) Neither the Executive Committee nor the County Leader shall designate, nominate or propose any candidate for judicial offices which are to be elected county - wide in New York County, or which are to be proposed for appointment by the Mayor of the City of New York or by the Governor of the State of New York, exclusive of recommendations for interim appointment by the Mayor or the Governor, unless such candidate shall have been approved in that calendar year for such office by the independent panel., except that once a candidate for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court has been reported as highly qualified by at least two of the last four independent screening panels for that office, that candidate shall be considered as having been approved by the panel for such office during each of the four calendar years after the year in which the candidate shall have last achieved such status, (not counting a year in which there are no vacancies for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court other than a vacancy resulting from the expiration of the term of office of a justice eligible for and seeking re-election to that office, or a vacancy which has been filled by an interim Supreme Court justice seeking re-election who has been appointed by the Governor and who satisfies the requirements of sub-paragraph 4 (b), provided in each case that such justice has been determined by the independent panel to merit continuation in office), and such candidate shall not make application to the panel during any of such years unless the Committee on the Judiciary shall require the candidate to make such an application.

Congress also uses modifications of straight Robert's Rules voting like the filibuster, holds, Senatorial privilege for judicial appointments, supermajority voting on treaties, «fast track voting» without amendments and similar variants.

Onnoghen, who had served in acting capacity for four months, had his appointment confirmed by the Bukola Saraki - led Senate after series of questions which bordered on independence of the judiciary, judicial reforms, corruption in the Judiciary as well as disobedience of Court orders.

The situation has not been helped by the Commission on Judicial Nomination, which screens applicants and sends the governor up to seven candidates for each appointment.

Berman, who also served as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern in the»90s, reportedly appeared on a list of potential New York judicial and prosecutorial appointments the Trump administration sent to the two New York Democratic senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.

According to them, «Since the 1992 Constitution came into force, Presidents after Presidents have not acted fully on the advice tendered by the Judicial Council in the appointment of Superior Court judges.»

The endorsement touts Long's recent work as a judicial activist promoting conservative appointments to the federal court, but says her «pro-life activism began on Capitol Hill,» where she served as press secretary to two pro-life senators, and says Long was subsequently inspired to pursue a law degree «to better defend pro-life principles,» and mentions she studied under professors like the late Victor Rosenblum and Mary Ann Glendon, two pro-life legal scholars.

The plaintiffs prayed the court to declare that upon true and proper construction of Article 144 clauses (2) and (3) of the 1992 Constitution, all appointments made by the President of the Republic of Ghana to the Supreme Court were valid on the condition they were made in strict accordance with the advice of the Judicial Council.

By filling a Supreme Court vacancy and other judicial appointments, Trump will put his mark on the courts, where environmentalists have successfully fought previous efforts to roll back protections.

He also led Sierra Club's work on judicial nominations, including the filibusters of 2003 — 2006 and litigation over the constitutionality of recess appointments for federal judges, and was counsel in In re Cheney.

The search is on for a new judicial appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The issue is the following: we don't want the appointment to the Canadian judicial system (all and any level) the kind knucledraggers the like of which is currently on display in the US: Alito, Scalia, Roberts and old Uncle Tom himself.

Posts about the debate over whether law societies should accept degrees from faith - based university Trinity Western with its controversial community covenant as well as matters involving judicial appointments and independence also feature on this list.

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.

When we talk about defending and protecting our judiciary, none of our work is more important than the peer reviews we continue to perform on judicial nominees being considered for lifetime appointments by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In their March 2013 article, Representing Canada on the bench: On gender balance, equality and judicial appointments, Krystle Gill and Alycia Shaw summed up the reasons to support ongoing action towards a more representative bench as followon the bench: On gender balance, equality and judicial appointments, Krystle Gill and Alycia Shaw summed up the reasons to support ongoing action towards a more representative bench as followOn gender balance, equality and judicial appointments, Krystle Gill and Alycia Shaw summed up the reasons to support ongoing action towards a more representative bench as follows:

The Canadian Bar Association's August 2013 Resolution on Equality in Judicial Appointments reflects the national importance of this issue.

The Council also evaluates state judges and judicial candidates in order to promote the election and appointment of qualified candidates and to give sitting judges constructive feedback on their performance.

In 2013, Marc was heavily involved on behalf of 2 barristers in the judicial review litigation arising from the defective appointments of disciplinary panels in barrister disciplinary cases between 2006 and 2012.

(6) Acting on appeal for several of the barristers in the landmark judicial review litigation arising from the defective appointments of disciplinary panels in barrister disciplinary cases between 2006 and 2012.

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The new guidelines for Superior Court judicial appointments released this week highlight the need for Judicial Advisory Committees (JACs) to be more representative of Canada, and to receive training on diversity, unconscious bias, and assessment of merit, criteria which could also be applied to those aspiring to enter the projudicial appointments released this week highlight the need for Judicial Advisory Committees (JACs) to be more representative of Canada, and to receive training on diversity, unconscious bias, and assessment of merit, criteria which could also be applied to those aspiring to enter the proJudicial Advisory Committees (JACs) to be more representative of Canada, and to receive training on diversity, unconscious bias, and assessment of merit, criteria which could also be applied to those aspiring to enter the profession.

One change in the past year has been to remove the requirement for candidates to have a background in a particular jurisdiction such as civil, crime or family — instead they can be selected on their potential to be a judge in a given jurisdiction, with the Judicial College providing training after appointment.

As I said in a previous post on this topic (here), despite the comment pages on various newspaper websites, I'm hesitant to start seeing dark conspiracy theories behind any of the recent judicial appointments.

Nigel regularly deals with applications under the Arbitration Act 1996, such as applications to stay legal proceedings, for the appointment / removal of arbitrators, for the exercise of judicial powers in support of arbitral proceedings, and for the correction of awards, as well as appeals from arbitration awards on points of law and challenges to awards for want of jurisdiction or on grounds of serious procedural irregularity.

If you're a lawyer in Canada, there's a good chance someone you know is on this very long list of judicial appointments.

That is why the Bar Council's immediate focus is on developing a foundation course in judgecraft — to be undertaken pre-application — that will demystify the skills needed for judicial appointment and increase the confidence, particularly of ethnic minorities, women, and those from a non-traditional background, when applying.

Galati's challenge led to widespread public debate on both the judicial appointment process and areas of the constitution and division of powers.

Last month, on the day before International Women's Day, the federal government announced seven judicial appointments.

Appointed long before the Judicial Appointments Commission came into being, he recounts his tap on the shoulder moment, which came following a building dispute that had gone all the way to the House of Lords.

Earlier this month, the provincial government announced new policies around judicial appointments, including options on application forms» to self - identify as Indigenous,... [more]

He has also served as a Commissioner on the State Bar's Commission on Judicial Nominee's Evaluation, and on Senator Barbara Boxer's Judicial Screening Committee, which made recommendations for federal judicial appoiJudicial Nominee's Evaluation, and on Senator Barbara Boxer's Judicial Screening Committee, which made recommendations for federal judicial appoiJudicial Screening Committee, which made recommendations for federal judicial appoijudicial appointments.

He represents the Federation on the Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments.