Sentences with phrase «on unrelated matters»

However, the court also noted there can be exceptions, such as governments, banks, or other large organizations that regularly appear in the courts and likely have a more tolerant attitude towards law firms they retain on unrelated matters acting against them.

Tweets from Coinbase, its sister GDAX exchange and even founders Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam on unrelated matters soon became a battleground for consumers demanding explanations for stuck transactions and associated costs.

And if Cohen does eventually face charges on unrelated matters, it's at least possible that he'd flip and offer up incriminating information on Trump as part of a plea deal, should he have any (though he's emphatically denied that he'd ever do such a thing).

Her comments were unsolicited, and followed an interview on an unrelated matter.

On an unrelated matter, Picente noted that he had attended an event in support of the sizable immigrant community in Oneida County, particularly Utica, which has a long history of welcoming refugees, though it is not an official sanctuary city.

McDonald was in the CapTon studio this week for an interview on an unrelated matter (a hearing he had held on PTSD with his fellow vet, Sen. Lee Zeldin), and seemed unconcerned about the possibility that he might face a primary this fall (or, June 26, if the Senate GOP ever comes around to the Assembly Democrats» way of thinking on moving the primary date to conincide with the court - ordered House and US Senate contests).

In the milling ab0ut period before a technical conference started on an unrelated matter, I overheard a lawyer from another firm attempting to throw one of my firm's clients under the bus with the staff of a federal agency today.

The central issue is whether it's a conflict of interest for a law firm to accept a retainer to sue a current client on an unrelated matter without first obtaining their consent.

He says it relates to the top court's 2002 decision in R. v. Neil, which stated the general rule is that a lawyer or law firm shouldn't act directly contrary to the immediate interests of a current client, even on an unrelated matter.

Another element of the duty of loyalty is the duty not to act against the interests of a current client, even on an unrelated matter: R. v. Neil [2002] 3 S.C.R. 631, Strother v. 3464920 Canada Inc., 2007 SCC 24 and Wallace v. Canadian National Railway, 2013 SCC 39.

Not exact matches

He based his lawsuit on the argument that the Russia investigation had charged him and Gates with crimes unrelated to the original intent of the investigation, but instead had pursued «any matters that arose or may arise directly from» it.

While the FISA application relied on Steele's past record of credible reporting on other unrelated matters, it ignored or concealed his anti-Trump financial and ideological motivations.

Although Steele had a history of «credible reporting on other unrelated matters,» the committee's memo said, the FBI and Justice Department should have told the court about his «anti-Trump financial and ideological motivations.»

On a completely unrelated matter, did anyone else notice that Roberts voted to strike down the federal Stolen Valor Act on the same day Michael Knox Beran thinks John Roberts taught us all a valuable lesson about how judicial review should only very, very rarely be useOn a completely unrelated matter, did anyone else notice that Roberts voted to strike down the federal Stolen Valor Act on the same day Michael Knox Beran thinks John Roberts taught us all a valuable lesson about how judicial review should only very, very rarely be useon the same day Michael Knox Beran thinks John Roberts taught us all a valuable lesson about how judicial review should only very, very rarely be used?

«I'm not going to get into a personnel matter,» de Blasio said at an unrelated press conference on the Upper West Side.

Senator Connors said his decision was based on a desire to resolve the matter and was unrelated to whether Mr. Christie was running for president or Mr. Sweeney had hopes of being the next governor.

«The only poll that matters is Election Day,» she said at an unrelated press conference on Wednesday.

As documented in Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated matters.

But Kazannik's resignation on 27 February — over an unrelated matter — is giving them cause for concern.

ALMA picked up on the distorted infra - red light from an unrelated background galaxy, revealing the location of the otherwise invisible dark matter that remained unidentified in their previous study.

About Blog The personal blog of Dave Fernig, thoughts on science and unrelated matters.

Not only are the authorities after the pair — who try to hide the horse in their hotel room — but so is freelance trouble - shooter Eugene Pallette (who already has had one unrelated run - in with the boys), and complicating matters even further are three racetrack touts (led by Shemp Howard) who want to cash in on the mistake.

In secondary education... we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and formal education is ever more important in shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to school.

Crenshaw's death, it seems, is not unrelated: within a matter of hours, police arrest two young men who appear to have embarked on a crime spree in the aftermath of the protests.

This seems unrelated to the task of helping your anti-social bird become more friendly, but the truth of the matter is that underlying health issues can have a real impact on your bird's personality.

About Blog The personal blog of Dave Fernig, thoughts on science and unrelated matters.

It doesn't matter that it's an unrelated game on an unrelated console, the Mario series has impacted gaming so deeply that LittleBigPlanet is just one way that gamers show their appreciation for it.

----- On a matter unrelated to the late Sir Arthur: @Thapa (# 5), see NASA's current issue of The Earth Observer (page 16): «These findings were enough to convince the scientists who initially reported the ocean cooling [Willis et al. (2007)-RSB- to go back and closely reexamine the recent ocean heat storage data they had collected.

A carbon tax is worth embracing on its own terms and what we do with the revenues is an entirely separate, unrelated matter.

For all intents and purposes, the two phenomena are unrelated, since the scourge of air pollution relates to the presence of dangerous fine particulate matter in the air while global warming propaganda focuses on carbon dioxide emissions.

Turning feelings inward as a matter of habit can lead to responding disproportionately later on to unrelated situations.

They might not know Maltese, be always late at meetings, they might not go to church on Sunday and dislike the local snack of haggis, or, for that matter, can even rape their daughter — all these facts are totally unrelated to the meaning of integration into society in the sense of the directive.

So a law firm can not accept a retainer to act against a current client on a matter unrelated to the client's existing files.

He listed experience in eight unrelated practice areas, published legal and business topics on an even broader variety of subjects, and featured as his most significant matters work that was more than 15 years old.

[1] Can a law firm accept a retainer to act against a current client on a matter unrelated to the client's existing files?

Considering that results may vary depending on the judge, if the Court refuses to hear the final hearing matter, then the case would have to be transferred to civil court to be dealt with in the same manner that the court handles property ownership disputes between two unrelated persons.

I understand and acknowledge that any volunteer who does assist me is free to act for other clients against me on other unrelated matters in the future, without notice to me.

The Court did identify three limitations on the scope of the bright line rule: it applies only where the immediate legal interests of the clients are directly adverse; it can not be used tactically; and it does not apply in situations in which it would be unreasonable for a client to expect that a law firm will not act against it in unrelated matters.

He is currently serving a 14 - month suspension — on matters unrelated to the brawl — and was assessed an estimated $ 80,000 in costs.

This case involved a large firm in Saskatchewan, McKercher LLP («McKercher»), that had accepted a retainer to act against the Canadian National Railway Company («CN») in a class action lawsuit notwithstanding the fact that it was acting for CN on a variety of unrelated matters.

For example, there might be a simple counterclaim on a related, or unrelated, matter; or it might be possible to challenge the validity of the right in some way — for registered rights there are usually well defined ways in which this can be done; however, for unregistered rights the terrain is often more uncertain and so more unusual points will often have to be contemplated, (eg, challenging whether or not the claimant exists as a matter of law, and so has a locus standi to bring the proceedings: this last suggestion might seem farfetched, but it has been used successfully on more than one occasion).

But when McKercher accepted Wallace's retainer, it was also acting for CN on a few unrelated matters.

Learned counsel submits that the judgment of division bench of hits court squarely applies to the facts of this case where the learned arbitrator was well known senior advocate (Queen's counsel) and was briefed by the firm of solicitors to advise on an unrelated issue and / or appearing in that matter not concerning any of the parties in the reference and that also more than a year ago whereas division bench of this court in the case of ONGC (supra) had considered the situation when it was during the currency of the arbitration.

Three two week per in - class shots here and there spaced out over a few months doesn't cut it re acquiring a real estate licence, especially if one's previous jobs were waiting on tables, driving trucks, working in factories, working in offices, selling cars, or anything else for that matter, or any other number of totally unrelated - to - real estate undertakings.

Settlement agents, including one submitting an ex parte submission, and trade associations representing settlement agents and the title insurance industry offered a number of other examples: closing costs unrelated to loan costs paid by or on behalf of the consumer; payments to discharge any defects, liens, encumbrances or other matters requiring curative action discovered during a title search or examination; any prorated or per diem amount where the underlying rate does not change; insurance fees; home warranties; lender reserves for taxes and insurance and amounts paid to a State or local government; recording costs and other fees incurred for the consumer's convenience, such as wire fees, notary fees, and endorsement fees; and changes due to consumer - seller negotiations or as a result of local custom or practice.