Sentences with phrase «one's appointment to the bench»

What do recent trends mean for new appointments to the bench?

Originally from Sturgeon Falls, Ont., Charron was a Crown attorney and went on to teach in the French common law section of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law for 10 years before her first appointment to the bench in Ontario in 1988.

So long as the process of appointment to the bench, post-recommendation by a judicial advisory committee, remains a behind - closed - doors political process, it is easy to feel there's little to be done.

Some argue correctly, that the lower judicial percentage reflects the smaller number of women with sufficient seniority to be eligible for appointment to the bench.

As rumours of Toews appointment to the bench have been swirling for some months, most of the negativity arises in part from his political affiliation but also that he has been away from the practise of law for so many years that many feel he is ill equipped to sit on the bench.

Hayes made a huge, courageous and enduring contribution to education of justices of the peace in one critical area — Aboriginal appointments to the bench.

Merit selection is a form of judicial selection that involves a nominating commission and ultimately appointments to the bench.

Harper said in a year - end interview with Postmedia he is determined to bend the justice system to his view that victim rights must be at its centre, saying he intends to make changes to appointments to the bench in order to ensure measures like the maligned victims surcharge fee on offenders are imposed.

As Hampton had written in that same letter: «a high standard of excellence» had become the main criterion for appointment to the bench.

This opposition is evident in a manual written in 1962 by S. Tupper Bigelow, a lawyer and magistrate, to serve as a guide for all magistrates, but particularly tailored for new appointments to the bench.

Taking the floor this morning, the senior senator from New York pointed to Gorsuch's membership in the right - wing Federalist Society and to reams of «dark secret undisclosed money» getting spent lobbying members of the Senate to ratify his appointment to the bench.

Women lag far behind men in appointments to the bench.

By all accounts, Robert Somma had been a top - notch U.S. bankruptcy judge since his appointment to the bench in 2004 and a top - notch bankruptcy practitioner for many years before that.

After graduating from St. John's University and William Mitchell College of Law, he practiced civil law at Hoolihan & Neils in St. Cloud, Minnesota until his appointment to the bench.

However this is of little consequence in the long run for the same reasons that have discussed above with regard to appointments to the Bench.

She had been a longtime federal prosecutor and served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa before her appointment to the bench.

At the time of his appointment to the bench, Mr. Monteiro, once again, resumed his legal career as a solo practitioner serving his multi-ethnic clientele in a high volume general practice.

Prior to his appointment to the bench, John taught law at the London School of Economics and later became a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Seems lawyers like to read about what's going on with their collegues, from appointments to the bench to lawyers in trouble and more, here are the 10 most read stories of 2011 from the blog.

Most of our sitting judges applied for an appointment to the Bench expecting to preside over trials, to adjudicate.

The appointment to the bench is for a provisional two - year term, after which it will be for Colorado voters to decide whether to retain him.

Before his appointment to the bench, Mr Justice Coulson was a practitioner at the construction Bar and as a QB judge had covered the full range of QB work including crime.

His appointment to the bench has long been rumoured.

He practiced criminal law from 1991 until his appointment to the bench in 2017.

The allegations all stem from the fact that ACJ Douglas» husband posted nude photos of her on the internet back in 2002 - 2003, before her appointment to the bench.

This is the eighth member of our firm in its long history, who has received an appointment to the Bench after a long and distinguished legal career.

From the time of his appointment to the bench in 1986, former Chief Justice Brian Lennox was involved with education programming.

Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Smith was successful in the practice of real estate, environmental, and business transactional law.

Prior to his appointment to the bench, Colin represented clients in complex child custody and contested divorce matters, including in high profile cases.

CALGARY — Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin says she has no concerns about newly appointed Justice Russell Brown's past political writings before his appointment to the bench.

McLachlin pointed to Brown's previous role as a legal academic and said it's common for people to express their opinions before their appointment to the bench.

«The review concerns his conduct prior to his appointment to the Bench and includes an allegation that the judge would have participated in a transaction to purchase an illicit substance from a police informant,» reads the CJC statement.

He was a solo practitioner prior to his appointment to the bench.

Prior to his appointment to the bench, he was an attorney in private practice in Fort Collins from 1978 through 2011, where he had a general practice emphasizing business and real estate litigation.

Prior to his appointment to the bench, he was in private practice as a solo practitioner specializing in real estate, business and commercial litigation, and local government.

Well, then, appointment to the bench must be a very good wagon, given the saw «sober as a judge».

Before and since his appointment to the bench, he has written a number of articles on maritime law as well as coauthoring, with Professor William Tetley of McGill University, the second edition of Professor Tetley's well - known publication Marine Cargo Claims.

... addresses the continuing Canadian angst regarding self - regulation of the legal profession and the continuing investigation into allegations of judicial misconduct against Associate Chief Justice Lori Douglas of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench, stemming from her actions prior to her appointment to the bench.

«For the first time since my appointment to the bench, I kept a docket of the time which I spent on writing a judgment,» he says.

«From the time they are considered for appointment to the Bench, and every day thereafter, superior court judges in Canada are expected to be knowledgeable jurists,» reads the report's introduction.

Prior to her appointment to the bench in 1992, she was a partner at McAllister Blakely Hesler & Lapierre.

Prior to his appointment to the bench, he was the District Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District and also worked at the District Attorney's Office in the Seventh Judicial District.

Under the Colorado Constitution, the governor has 15 days from June 15 in which to select one of the nominees for appointment to the bench.