Sentences with phrase «pay judicial salaries»

«Given the fact that over 90 per cent of the budget of the Court went to pay judicial salaries and benefits, the proposed level of cuts was impossible and the proposal itself created a real potential for significant harm to the justice system.

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Members of the state Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation today are set to meet in New York City to determine whether to increase the pay for 213 members of the state Legislature, hiking their salaries from the base $ 79,500 to as much as $ 116,900 a year.

County officials are pressuring Albany lawmakers to pass the bill after a judicial pay commission recommended pay hikes for state judges, whose salaries are linked to that of district attorneys.

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Also on the agenda, which appears in full after the jump: Renaming the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel for former Gov. Hugh Carey and creating a commission to evaluate and adjust judicial salaries (no mention of legislative salaries, which have traditionally been linked to judicial pay).

Cuomo's comments came after a dust up last week on the commission examining salaries in the legislative, judicial and executive branches in state government over whether legislators were making a clear enough argument for a pay raise.

The committee acknowledged that allowing law firms to pay the salaries of judicial law clerks would implicate judicial ethics rules that require judges to avoid impropriety and appear unbiased.

He said he hoped the Senior Salaries Review Body's Major Review of the judicial salary structure and levels, due to report by June 2018, would address pay and pensions concerns.

Judge Posner also made another important point: that judicial salaries are not as low as they might appear, given that judges have the ability to earn additional pay and also receive generous benefits, both financial and non-pecuniary:

The disparity between judges» salaries and those of their private sector colleagues is frequently invoked as justification for judicial pay raises.

Eric Turkewitz of New York Personal Injury Blog views the recent increases as a wake - up call for increasing judicial pay, noting that at $ 160,000 a year plus bonus, first - year associate salaries surpass those of federal judges (who make $ 162,500 annually).

Three states are actively debating the way in which to pay for, and increase, judicial salaries in their respective states.

Or, as somebody said at a lecture I heard recently, the KEY problem with the legal systems in developing problems is judicial salaries: that is, judges aren't paid enough to limit, as much as practical, the need to take bribes to survive.