Sentences with phrase «rights lawyers say»

Many human rights lawyers say that the problems they face in the annual registration of their licenses or their law firms ending their contracts because of government pressure, is only the beginning of their nightmare.

MPs and human rights lawyers say they expect Prime Minister Stephen Harper will attempt to swing the pendulum of Supreme Court of Canada rulings toward the prevailing views of Conservative Party supporters as he fills the court's two vacancies in a secretive and high - stakes

Human rights lawyers said the restriction could violate service personnel's freedom of expression, which is enshrined under article 10 of the Human Rights Act.

Although people are living and working longer, guidance on how to accommodate older workers» needs in the workplace hasn't been up to speed, human right lawyers say.

Not exact matches

Saying this could qualify as «willful» disregard of the law, lawyer Robert Barnes wrote for the site LawNewz, and a court would take that into account when assessing the newspaper's right to do so.

Its six lawyers will represent plaintiffs in civil rights, discrimination, public safety and product safety, consumer protection, healthcare and medical liability cases, the firm said in a statement.

«We've ev en seen cases where women were handcuffed to their hospital beds,» said Maria Beatriz Galli, human rights lawyer and Latin American policy associate for Ipas.

If they had a lawyer working for them, at least the lawyer could have said (before they signed the mortgage) maybe this isn't right.»

«You can look around a table and you have a lawyer, an accountant, a graphic designer, a programmer and its like «Wow, if they all got together they could form their own company right there,»» Siegel says.

Christian rights lawyer Zhang Peihong, who has represented Christian activists in China, said he had not expected Tillerson to make a big deal about human rights.

«I do think clarity is particularly important in this context, and right now there is a lack of clarity,» said Stephen Ascher, a lawyer at Jenner & Block who backs a broad definition.

The filing goes on to say that on December 2, Brown's lawyers stated that unless Snapchat took legal action to protect its confidentiality agreements, Brown would continue to «assert a unilateral right to publicly disclose, without any notice or meet and confer, literally every scrap of confidential information designated by Snapchat.»

During his tenure, embassy officials «advanced American values» by meeting with religious leaders and human rights lawyers and visiting Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang, Locke said.

«I just got off the phone with my lawyer and he said, «Austen, I would not invest in your company right now.»

And lawyers say it raises questions about whether Yelp violated Senigaglia's right to privacy or gave her grounds to accuse the company of defamation.

Speaking to the New York Times, Ari Wilkenfeld, acivl rights lawyer who said he represented the woman who made the complaint to NBC said:

He clearly enjoyed it, too, saying in a press conference, «Any lawyer in his right mind who would not be looking forward to cross-examining Mark Fuhrman is an idiot.»

«When you sign up for those terms of service and you click on the «I agree» button, you are also giving away rights to your big data,» said Brad Frazer, an Internet IP and IT lawyer at Hawley Troxell.

«If the Chinese government's goal is to prevent bona fide crimes, it could train police and procurators in professional, rights - respecting methods, and empower defense lawyers,» Wang said.

The Child DAO issue eventually led to an Ethereum hard fork, the result of voting to not let the attacker (who said he had legal right to his property through a lawyer) have his prize for his creation, and emptying the piggy bank to all those who lost ETH and laid claim to it.

Former Playboy model Karen McDougal has filed a lawsuit for the right to speak publicly about what her lawyer says was a «sexual relationship» she had with Donald Trump more than a decade ago.

In a story published Sunday, The New York Times said Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen had received information from both American Media, the tabloid's owner, and McDougal's attorney in the summer of 2016 about the American Media payment to McDougal for the exclusive rights to her claims of an affair.

The Senate bill right now is terrible,» said Scott Spector, a lawyer at Fenwick & West.

LawRato is aligned to our thoughts and has a user - friendly interface that helps law seekers connect with the right lawyer and get legal advice,» Mittal said.

Part of that process of getting up to speed on deal terms is gaining a fundamental understanding of whether equity or debt investment is right for the individual investor, lawyers say.

«Friday prayers bring all people of a society together at one time - rich or poor, man or woman, senior citizen or young child,» said Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer and founder of TheMuslimGuy.com.

Lawyers for the former bishop said it was accepted Canon Pemberton felt «humiliated» by the decisions, but the tribunal was right to find there was no «homophobic harassment».

Thus the old saying that «she may have married the lawyer, but all the kids all look like the milkman», right?

«It should also be made quite clear that Gadhafi was no more of a Muslim leader than Slobodan Milosevic or Robert Mugabe should be considered to be Christian leaders,» said Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer and author of «Islamic Pacifism: Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era.»

«In effect, recognition of Christians in the laws of Iran has now become basically recognition of an ethnicity rather than faith,» said Hussein Jadidi, a human rights lawyer who recently fled Iran after he became a target in a Christmas sweep that caught 70 other Christians.

In Luke Jesus throws the question back to the lawyer, so it is the lawyer who states the two commandments and Jesus who says he is right.

He was a «brilliant» civil rights attorney in the 1960s who would take on racial discrimination cases that no other lawyers would touch, say longtime African - American civic leaders in Topeka.

Their lawyers also said Mr Avakian and the state Bureau of Labor and Industries violated the Kleins» rights as artists to free speech, their rights to religious freedom and their rights as defendants to a due process.

«I do a lot of civil - rights cases, so I've seen a lot of things that have gone through the mails, but this was the worst stuff I've ever read,» says Michael Avery, one of Olson's lawyers.

Chiesa said he was still going to fight right after the incident, Then a quick scrum with a lawyer and UFC saying fighters who were victims of this attack would be paid fight money and win bonus and he changed his tune.

A well - known divorce lawyer once said: «Prenuptial agreements serve only to deny a woman the rights she has under the law, to property accumulated during her marriage.

«Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say «No», having it respected.»

Challenging the Supreme Court's order at the African Court on Human and People's Rights in Tanzania, the lawyers of Woyome said: «The contention of the applicant is that following from the earlier concurring opinion to the decision of the review bench, the court can not be said to have been impartial.»

Speaking at the event, paramount chief of the area, Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio, said the reason for honouring Nana Akufo - Addo with the stool was because of his sterling career as a human rights lawyer who stood for the rule of law and advocated for the rights of the ordinary Ghanaian.

I will say however that there is no single right answer and that even lawyers will disagree on what the rights are - and that it often isn't clear in a legal sense whether something is a right until the Supreme Court decides.

Signing, shaking hands, shooting the shit, engaging in political discourse with the American People, OK maybe having one or two heated arguments with an occasional fucking dicktard who apparently needs to turn an animated conversation into a fistfight because that's just the kind of self - medicating ballsack he is, I can't say any more right now according to my lawyer.

Osinbajo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, said this on Monday at the opening ceremony of a two - day Stakeholder's Summit organized by the Lagos State Ministry of Justice at the Convention Centre of Eko Hotels and Suites in Lagos, as he urged judges, lawyers and others to change their attitudes and stand up for what is right.

«I think [Skelos lawyer Alexandra Shapiro] is right that in the instructions I gave the jury and in arguments made by counsel to the jury, there is a danger that the jury decided the case based on a rationale that may be rejected by the Supreme Court,» Wood said.

His lawyers say they are appealing the removal and continuing a Civil Rights lawsuit against the school board.

The leader of the immigration revolt — on an amendment, remember, which even the home secretary Theresa May had said was illegal under the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights — was Dominic Raab, a bright international lawyer who knew exactly what he was doing, and was one of the stars of the 2010 intake.

Richard Socarides, a New York lawyer and former Clinton White House adviser on gay rights who is urging a boycott of Chick - fil - A, said Bloomberg is right.

«Suddenly, there's going to be a situation where it will probably reinvigorate states» rights,» longtime Albany defense lawyer Terry Kindlon said of what a Trump Court could do.

Meanwhile, human rights and constitutional lawyer, Dr Anthony Agbazuere who is also counsel to the complainants, said he had petitioned the Inspector General of Police over the gruesome murder of the deceased persons and the police boss directed the Abia state commissioner to investigate the case.

Also, a lawyer and rights activist, Mr. Femi Aina, said postponement of elections in Nigeria has become «a staple diet for INEC.»

Indeed, if a lawyer, a member of the public, or even a politician genuinely believes that the Supreme Court has strayed from the path of constitutional and legal rectitude, then not only is it the right of that person publicly to say so, but it becomes their solemn duty so to do, particularly if one is a lawyer pledged to uphold the law.