Sentences with phrase «on civil proceedings»

Plans to reduce legal aid will inevitably impact on civil proceedings; how this will impact the wider court process is as yet unclear.

The Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel's investigations have no bearing on civil proceedings.

It is less obvious that an inquiry could have a serious impact on civil proceedings.

Not exact matches

«Other civil and criminal proceedings apart from this settlement are continuing, so there is still time to determine any accountability on that matter.»

The Enrollment Program also authorizes a superior court to have jurisdiction over enrollees by allowing it to «appoint a receiver, monitor, conservator, or other designated fiduciary or officer of the court for a defendant or the defendant's assets,» as well as authorizes the Commissioner of Business Oversight to «include in civil actions claims for ancillary relief, including restitution and disgorgement, on behalf of a person injured, as well as attorney's fees and costs, and civil penalties of up to $ 25,000» for up to four years after the purported violation occurred and «refer evidence regarding violations of the bill's provisions to the Attorney General, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Department of the Treasury, or the district attorney of the county in which the violation occurred, who would be authorized, with or without this type of a reference, to institute appropriate proceedings.»

ELK POINT, SD — It would probably not be accurate to say Professor Mindy Brashears speaks with a Texas twang or that ABC's attorney Dane Butswinkas has a Richmond dialect, but the difficulty the two have understanding each other slowed proceedings on the fourth day of the $ 1.9 billion civil defamation trial against the network.

To further stall the criminal proceedings against him and the Bank's bid to recover its funds, Innoson has been trying to distract the Bank from focusing on the criminal action, as well as civil actions filed for recovery of the debt.

Victims of childhood sexual abuse remain hopeful that there could be a vote in the state Senate on a measure to extend the statute of limitations to age 28 for criminal proceedings and age 50 for civil proceedings.

Mr. Slotnick's practice focuses on commercial litigation, civil litigation, disciplinary proceedings, high net - worth matrimonial matters and white collar defense.

Pursuant to Education Law section 16, any person having reasonable cause to suspect that a student has been subjected to harassment, bullying, and / or discrimination by an employee or student, on school grounds or at a school function, who acting reasonably and in good faith, either reports such information to school officials, to the commissioner, or to law enforcement authorities or otherwise initiates, testifies, participates or assists in any formal or informal proceedings under this subdivision, shall have immunity from any civil liability that may arise from the making of such report or from initiating, testifying, participating or assisting in such formal or informal proceedings.

(a) Whenever the Attorney General receives a complaint in writing signed by an individual to the effect that he is being deprived of or threatened with the loss of his right to the equal protection of the laws, on account of his race, color, religion, or national origin, by being denied equal utilization of any public facility which is owned, operated, or managed by or on behalf of any State or subdivision thereof, other than a public school or public college as defined in section 401 of title IV hereof, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly progress of desegregation in public facilities, the Attorney General is authorized to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section.

After obtaining the required license, and paying the civil penalty prescribed by this subsection, the creditor may bring and maintain proceedings in the courts of this state on consumer credit transaction contracts, and the enforceability of the contracts shall not be impaired by the prior failure to obtain a license, irrespective of whether the consumer credit transaction contracts were made before or after the license was obtained.

In cases with the potential to significantly improve legal protections for companion animals, the legal advocacy department will bring legal proceedings corollary to the criminal prosecution including writs, declaratory judgments and petitions for injunctive relief, and will initiate or support civil litigation on the state and federal level to promote those heightened legal protections.

(ii) Practice Direction on committal in civil procedings applies in family proceedings: including that the burden of proof, which rests on the applicant, must be «beyond reasonable doubt».

These motions are rather commonplace in civil litigation, except that the defendant, Denis Rancourt, sought to have a blogger accompany him to report on the proceedings.

It is based on a compensation claim raised in civil proceedings by a German citizen who claims to have been injured during a skiing accident by a Czech citizen in the Province of Bolzano.

Aside from the fact that the «fine» was imposed in separate «criminal» proceedings which were based on allegations of adultery, the roughly translated documents from the civil action do not indicate that the Taiwanese courts have dealt with property issues at all.

Low - income families must fight these battles on their own because — despite the fact that civil cases can result in people going to jail, or losing their home, health care, custody of their children or sense of safety — there is no right to an attorney in civil legal proceedings as there is for criminal defendants.

Indeed, the Illinois Supreme Court overlooked the clear substantive canonical violations for which the Church disciplined Dionisije, violations based on Dionisije's conceded open defiance and rebellion against the church hierarchy immediately after the Holy Assembly's decision to suspend him (a decision which even the Illinois courts deemed to be proper) and Dionisije's decision to litigate the Mother Church's authority in the civil courts rather than participate in the disciplinary proceedings before the Holy Synod and the Holy Assembly.

Assisting in all aspects of Circuit Court duties, she drafted court orders and opinions for civil, family, CINA, juvenile and criminal cases, and drafted extensive memoranda on post-conviction proceedings, complex criminal case motions, administrative appeals, family exceptions, in banc reviews and complex civil cases.

Under the civil regime we will be able to stop misleading advertising quickly without embarking on lengthy criminal court proceedings.

Guardian contributor and civil rights barrister David Pannick was briefed (at a fee which Brett refuses to disclose but which was at arm's length) to apply... to Leonard J in the High Court for Brett to be granted an audience on the ground that this was allowed under the court's inherent jurisdiction to regulate its proceedings.

(1) No person shall --(a) take or attempt to take in any court any photograph, or with a view to publication make or attempt to make in any court any portrait or sketch, of any person, being a judge of the court or a juror or a witness in or a party to any proceedings before the court, whether civil or criminal; or (b) publish any photograph, portrait or sketch taken or made in contravention of the foregoing provisions of this section or any reproduction thereof; and if any person acts in contravention of this section he shall, on summary conviction, be liable in respect of each offence to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

Ok, so first of all, a person can be found to have committed the tort of sexual assault in a civil proceeding based on a different burden of proof than that in criminal proceedings: a balance of probabilities.

His application to have the ban lifted was not heard because the enforcement judge who stayed the civil proceedings was on leave.

In addition to having experience in all phases of civil proceedings such as evidentiary hearings, motion practice, pre-trial preparation, and trials, Mr. Singh has on several occasions represented clients in successfully obtaining or defending against preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders, including successfully defending such results on appeal.

Here are some tips for attorneys and clients faced with instituting or defending child abduction proceedings under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, whether in the United States or internationally.

This case has had such a significant impact on civil legal proceedings in the courts in Ontario, including with respect to the access to justice, that it has, in the course of one year since the decision was released, been cited in more than 400 reported decisions of the courts in Canada.

Tom's practice covers domestic and international dispute resolution, focusing on commercial disputes, including banking & finance, civil fraud and arbitrations and related proceedings.

However, the case law is clear that it is a matter of discretion for the trial judge in the civil proceedings to decide whether to adjourn (Jefferson v Betcha [1979] 2 All ER 1108) and one to be exercised «with great care» only where there is «a real risk of serious prejudice» (R v Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, ex parte Fayed [1992] BCLC 938).

Peter has experience advising on consumer credit and related legislation and representing clients in civil actions and in some criminal proceedings under the 1974 Act.

Spirax - Sarco and its subsidiary Spirax - Sarco Engineering (China) on various civil proceedings in the Intermediate People's Court against the manufacturers and distributors of counterfeit goods, including two trademark oppositions to the China Trademark Office

While there appears to be no case law directly on point, there is substantial case law concerning the analogous situation where civil proceedings are brought in parallel with criminal proceedings concerning the same matter.

In the development of the standard, the difficulty arose in applying the civil standard to cases with quasi-criminal elements (defence allegations of fraud or crime on the plaintiff's part), family law proceedings in the time before no - fault divorce, or matters of equity decided in the common law courts.

The three dominant themes in 2008 cases where PIL was invoked were as follows: UK / EU law implementation of UNSC resolutions concerning freezing of alleged terrorist assets (sanctions cases); the acts / omissions of UK authorities in Iraq / Afghanistan viewed in the context of PIL and provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and Human Rights Act 1998 (Iraq / Afghanistan related cases); and state / diplomatic immunity in the context of civil proceedings and / or attempts to enforce arbitration awards against assets of State entities in the UK (Civil immunity cacivil proceedings and / or attempts to enforce arbitration awards against assets of State entities in the UK (Civil immunity caCivil immunity cases).

Although I'm not particularly preoccupied with legislation governing banks and corporations, I am concerned about the rules governing civil proceedings and the law on domestic relations, personal taxation, government benefits and criminal conduct, and it seems to me that a major goal of law and justice reform over the next decade should be improving the accessibility of the legislation and regulations most affecting individuals.

Two sets of proceedings before the court concerned the new unified contract, introduced on 1 April 2007, for the provision of publicly funded civil legal aid work.

What IA 2005 does not do, however, is to grapple with the difficult interplay between such inquiries — which, by virtue of IA 2005, can have many of the features of legal proceedings — and other civil and criminal proceedings that are contemplated or already on foot.

Our lawyers spend a significant amount of time in labor and employment litigation, which includes the defense of employment discrimination and wrongful discharge cases in federal and state courts, arbitration proceedings, the defense of individual employment contract actions, and proceedings before various state and federal administrative agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, United States, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania Departments of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, and OSHA.

The Court of Appeal ruled that in civil proceedings, the burden of proving self - defence lay upon the defendant; and a defendant who had mistakenly but honestly thought it was necessary to defend himself against an imminent risk of attack could not rely on self - defence if his mistaken belief had not been reasonable.

Though using the language of «iniquity», in the context of civil proceedings, the Court of Appeal nonetheless was clear that the impugned conduct was as a type of fraud (in this case, on the creditors), within the meaning of section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986.

After a marriage or civil partnership breakdown, it is important to consider the timing, nature and content of the divorce petition, civil partnership dissolution or the response to any proceedings served on you.

To assist their clients, personal injury attorneys work routinely with experts who may be called as witnesses in personal injury cases: crash reconstruction experts, civil engineers, medical experts and others are frequently called on to testify in personal injury proceedings.

By way of update to our Litigation Funding in Singapore report on 3 August 2016, on 10 January 2017 the Singapore Parliament passed amendments to the Civil Law Act legalising third - party funding in arbitration and related proceedings in Singapore.

Court - appointed interpreters are employed to ensure that defendants — in both criminal and civil proceedings — understand what is going on.

The Recast Brussels Regulation (Council Regulation (EU) 1215/2012) on jurisdiction and the recognition of judgments in civil and commercial matters for proceedings commenced on or after 10 January 2015; or

Specifically in the context of contemplated CROs, the current policy (set out in the Attorney General's Guidelines on asset recovery) 66 should prevent civil recovery proceedings from being pursued in parallel with criminal proceedings; although the Bruce Hall example discussed above demonstrates there is no bar against such proceedings being pursued in tandem with criminal proceedings provided the conduct that is the subject of the respective proceedings can be appropriately distinguished.67

It is incompatible with Council Regulation No 44 / 2001 / EC (jurisdiction and recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters) for a court of a member state to make an order to restrain a person from commencing or continuing proceedings before the courts of another member state on the ground that such proceedings would be contrary to an arbitration agreement.

Litigants in person: somewhere in the background of our fractured civil justice system a debate is going on about the position of litigants in person in civil proceedings (including family proceedings).

On the justices deciding, for example, to make a liability order in their civil or family jurisdiction, legal aid is applied for as if it were criminal proceedings.