Sentences with phrase «protected as a member of the public»

The Court held that the attorney is just as protected as a member of the public or media would be in repeating information revealed in court.

Not exact matches

As reported in the Globe and Mail on Oct. 31, the judge ruled that the Law Society had put the commercial interests of its members ahead of its statutory duty to protect the public interest.

if required or permitted by law, including as necessary to comply with the law, to protect the rights or safety of our website, other users, or third parties (e.g., for fraud protection and credit risk reduction purposes; for protecting and defending the rights or property of Vision Critical, its customers, other users, or members of the public), or

«My first job as state comptroller is to protect the one million members, and the rest of New York State taxpayers, from the irresponsibility that has left New Jersey, Illinois, California and dozens of other public pension funds across the nation dangerously under - funded, DiNapoli said.

As part of that collective bargaining, the association fights for public schools to remain central in the education system to protect the interests of its members.

As state legislators entered the crowded room, they quickly became the centers of huddles of UFT members and parents eager to speak with their representatives and urge them to protect New York City's public schools from DeVos» efforts to defund and privatize public schools.

As a former Prosecutor and as Public Safety Chair, Council Member Vallone has spent a lifetime protecting the people of QueenAs a former Prosecutor and as Public Safety Chair, Council Member Vallone has spent a lifetime protecting the people of Queenas Public Safety Chair, Council Member Vallone has spent a lifetime protecting the people of Queens.

As such it provides a public good from which all colony members benefit in terms of buffering extremes of temperature, supporting individual nest chambers and protecting from predators.

Members of the Pulitzer Prize - winning team from InsideClimate News, together with the Center for Public Integrity and The Weather Channel, reveal that as oil and gas booms in Texas, legislators and regulators are more intent on protecting the industry than residents who fear for their health from the air they breathe.

However, because standardized testing is a matter of public concern, a local speaking as a union, or an individual member speaking as a parent or citizen, about educational concerns over standardized testing, for instance, in a letter to the editor or in a statement to the Board of Education, is protected by the U.S. Constitution at least so long as they are not encouraging other parents or students to opt out from a test.»

The mutual fund industry trade association set up to serve its members, co-operate with regulatory bodies, and protect the interests of the investing public that use mutual funds as a medium for their investments.

The mutual fund industry trade association set up to serve its members, cooperate with regulatory bodies, and protect the interest of the investing public that use mutual funds as a medium for their investments.

We may disclose personal information (1) if we believe such sharing is appropriate to comply with the law or with legal process; (2) to protect and defend our rights, services or property; (3) to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Services; or (4) to protect the safety or property of our users or any member of the public (among other things, this means that if we believe you have provided false information or attempted to pose as someone else, information Simply you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions).

So our counsel would be — to Republicans, to Democrats, to chairmen to ranking members to governors to state legislators — let's come together as Americans across the country at all levels of government and say how do we continue the American energy renaissance, creating those well - paying jobs, protecting our environment while we do it, but making it good for the American public, the American consumer and the American voter.»

Article 8: When the claimant put his comments on his Facebook pages, to which members of the public could have access, he abandoned any right to consider his comments as being private and therefore he can not seek to rely on Art 8 to protect his right to make those comments.

In fulfilling their mandates to protect the public, law societies have implemented an anti-money-laundering regime for members of the Canadian legal profession that respects the fundamental rights of all Canadians as affirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada.»

As a member of the non-protesting public that these laws are presumably enacted to protect, I do not feel any safer.

The court imposing the suspension may also require additional notice to be sent, such as to financial institutions if necessary to protect the interests of clients or other members of the public.

The draft report sets the OPC position as follows: That members of the public should have better tools in place to protect their online reputation.

If the incapable adult does not have a family member or friend available and willing to act as Litigation Guardian, the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee («PG&T»), a government body established to protect the rights and interests of mentally - incapable adults, will act as the Litigation Guardian.

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), as a member of Consumers International (CI), is joining consumer organisations around the world in calling for the G20 to take urgent action to protect consumers of financial services, through:

On Thursday, April 26, CPCS had the pleasure of honoring exceptional members of our community — attorneys from the public and private counsel divisions, as well as a social worker, investigator and administrative professional — who work tirelessly to insure that CPCS meets our mission: to fight for equal justice and human dignity by supporting our clients in achieving their legal and life goals; to zealously advocate for the rights of individuals; and to promote just public policy to protect the rights of all.

Discussion at the meeting showed that all Council members «wrestled mightily» in their analysis of the applicable laws, he said, as well as the Society's regulatory mandate to protect the public interest in Nova Scotia.

The rules of professional conduct within a given occupation are meant to hold members of the profession to a standard that will protect those who interact with the members of that profession as well as that professions image with the public.

Many members mistakenly believe the view that their college's purpose is to protect them; colleges tend to see their primary role as the protection of the public as mandated by their governing legislation and by - laws.

As a result of our intervention to the Senate Committee, the Minister of Justice has provided public assurances that nothing in the Act will compel members of the legal profession to divulge information protected by solicitor - client privilege.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

Response: This level of detail is necessary to ensure that individuals» rights with respect to their health information are clear, while also ensuring that information necessary for important public functions, such as protecting public health, promoting biomedical research, fighting health care fraud, and notifying family members in disaster situations, will not be impaired by this regulation.

Just as members of the public had the right to be protected from such material (sent for such a purpose) in the privacy of their homes, so too, in general terms, did people in the workplace.

Section 1C (2) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 is directed at protecting members of the general public from an offender's conduct and could not be used to protect a wife with whom an offender had been and would in the future be cohabiting — since she would be in the same household as the offender.

The obvious benefit of this oversight is that members of the public are protected because most anyone who gives legal advice as part of their work must be trained in the law.

As members of the Bar it is our role to advocate for them, and for us, to ensure the public interest is protected.

There are numerous health and safety laws in place in order to protect members of the public as they go about their everyday lives, for example shopkeepers have a duty to keep their aisles tidy and the local council must maintain parks to a safe standard.

Throughout my time as a member of Parliament, next year my 19th year, I have fought for legislation and public policy that recognizes and protects the role of the family as the foundational unit of society.

This is the mentality of a militant trade union (of which I was a member many years ago, so I know of what I speak) that protects its members no matter what they do vis a vis law - breaking and / or despicable behaviour etc. «Blood is thicker than water», as the old saying goes, but in this case it should not be, because the water of the public interest is what nurtures a vocation's growth, not the bad - blood work of the realturds.

Since we can not wait for Zoocasa or risk it as professionals, we clearly need our own version of jd powers but CREA can not do it in a manner that protects Canadians, differentiates members and allows the public and independent source not subject to government intervention.

The Tribunal, if its members are any where near being open - minded, and if TREB's lawyers are as able as they must be, can / should rule in favour of protecting the public interest from the perspective, on the surface of it, of a legal perspective only, all morality - driven driven arguments officially aside.

But you can access realtor.ca just as any member of the public can, and acquire information that way, call the listing agent and ask if he will co-operate with you (treating the listing in this case as an exclusive right to sell — and he will have a document signed to say so, so you both are protected)... but let me get this straight, please... you want to be able to communciate, for example, directly with MY seller client?