Sentences with phrase «rules on admissions»

Too many schools in England break the rules on admissions arrangements, says the outgoing chief schools adjudicator.

They still have to follow the same rules on admissions, special educational needs and exclusions as other state schools.

Not exact matches

The Presidents Commission, in fact, failed to take action in any of several other areas where it's sorely needed — limiting use of special admissions for athletes, curbing demands on their time, tougher rules governing satisfactory progress toward graduation and on and on.

We get the same indignant, not always convincing self - justification of his many escapades and rule - bending triumphs, with painfully honest but cheerful admissions of his own character failings; and the same attention to minutiae (clothes worn by an interlocutor, decorations on a coffee mug).

In a landmark ruling, the OSA has found the 2014 and 2015 admissions policies of the London Oratory School to be discriminatory on the basis of ethnicity and socio - economic background.

The line in the speech that will cause the most trouble for Ed Miliband is that David Miliband intended to create a commission on the deficit chaired by Alistair Darling and charged with creating a new set of fiscal rules, an admission that Labour got it wrong on the deficit which Ed Miliband has refused to give.

Cuomo said rapes become difficult to rule on since other students do not want to admit to being at the party, a potential admission of a campus policy violation.

Dr Andrew Goddard, the RCP's director of medical workforce claimed that this, along with increasing admissions and rules on doctors working hours, is «adding further stress to a system which may reach breaking point within the next few years.»

Becket Keys Church of England School in Brentwood, Essex, the largest Free School to have been pre-approved to open by the Department for Education, has been accused today of attempting to circumvent the 50 % faith - based admissions requirement imposed by the Department for Education (DfE), and also of breaking the rules on religious requirements in employing teachers.

In a separate case involving undergraduate admissions at the University of Michigan, the court ruled that the college's mechanical point system, which granted a prespecified number of points on the basis of race, was not legitimate (14).

The U.S. Supreme Court was about to rule on whether colleges could use race - conscious admissions policies when the directors of the undergraduate Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program gathered last month in California for their annual meeting.

Coming in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision to uphold race - conscious admissions policies at the University of Texas at Austin — a case in which Garces authored briefs on behalf of 444 social science researchers — the Schuette case will rule on changes to the admission system at public postsecondary institutions in the state of Michigan.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on a case involving U.S. college admissions that could lead to significant changes.

Freed from union rules and OPSB central - office control, the RSD was able to act on its conviction that improved performance lay in spinning off as many schools as possible and chartering them as independent institutions with open - enrollment admissions policies and citywide catchment areas.

The U.S. Supreme Court's agreement last week to take up the legality of race - based admissions in higher education sets the stage for a ruling on affirmative action that is likely to reverberate throughout precollegiate schools as well.

While the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled since 1976 that private schools can not deny admission based on race, some states have upheld the right of private schools to expel students because of their own or their parents» sexual orientation.

in No. 05 - 908, at 299a - 301a; Affidavit of Kathleen Brose Pursuant to this Court's Rule 32.3 (Lodging of Petitioner Parents Involved), and the complaint sought declaratory and injunctive relief on behalf of Parents Involved members whose elementary and middle school children may be «denied admission to the high schools of their choice when they apply for those schools in the future,» App.

The Fall 2017 issue of Education Next includes an article by Ryan analyzing arguments made in court rulings on the use of race in college admissions by the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia.

Rules that grant greater discretion over admission and expulsion decisions to schools may lead to competition based on the composition of enrollments rather than the quality of academic programs.

SB322, introduced by Senator Mark Leno, looks to align rules governing charter student suspension, expulsions, admissions and departures by putting them on par with traditional school districts, and seeks to address the frequent accusation that charters screen students during admission to admit only students with high test scores.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has today published its Integrated Communities Strategy green paper, which sets out changes to the free schools application process and school admissions arrangements, new rules for private schools and unregistered settings, and guidance on home education.

The Court will consider whether diversity constitutes a valid educational goal and if a race - conscious admissions policy designed to enhance diversity, is constitutional based on the Supreme Court's previous rulings on diversity policies adopted by governmental entities providing public education.

The government says it is planning to simplify the Admissions Code - the rules on how schools can and can not allocate places - so that it is easier for schools and parents to understand.

Damian Hinds, Conservative MP for East Hampshire, asked Dr Craig to clarify how many of the cases his office had ruled on related to church schools» admissions codes.

As a result of the Plyler ruling, public schools may not deny admission to a student on the basis of undocumented status, treat a student differently to determine residency, or require students or parents to disclose or document their immigration status.

The court ruled that lower courts can not rely on the university's assurance that affirmative action is needed and must instead apply strict scrutiny to see if a diverse student population is possible without using race as an admissions factor.

Following the July 1, 2015 ruling by Judge Denise Cote denying plaintiffs» motion for class certification in Simmons v. Author Solutions LLC, the parties have resolved both the New York and Indiana actions without any finding or admission of wrongdoing on the part of Author Solutions or its affiliates.

For those who have been paying attention to UN activities, policies, programs, and pronouncements in general, and those related to UN climate - change blatherings in particular, the Figueres admission is shocking only insofar that it is so seldom we are treated to such candid confessions by those who mean to rule us and who mean to re-engineer the lives of everyone on the planet.

Admission to Practice Rule 28 provides that LLLTs would be permitted to «advise clients on specific areas of law, which have yet to be determined [by the LLLT Board].»

In cross-examining the accused (if he or she testifies), the Crown can cross-examine not only on general reputation, but on specific acts of bad character or misconduct that are similar in nature to the offences charged, in order to neutralize the evidence of good character.204 The trial judge retains the discretion to disallow such cross-examination where it would result in undue prejudice.205 If the accused made a statement to police that has been ruled voluntary, and there is an admission therein which is contrary to the evidence led by the accused in relation to his or her good character, the Crown should consider cross-examining the accused on that prior inconsistent statement.

• Applicants who are required to establish rehabilitation under Rule 3 - 13 «so as to ascertain whether they displayed any malice or ill feeling towards those who were compelled to bring about the proceeding leading to the need to establish rehabilitation;» • Applicants with a history of substance abuse / dependence «so as to ascertain whether they discussed or posted photographs of any recent substance abuse;» • Applicants with «significant candor concerns» including not telling the truth on employment applications or resumes; • Applicants with a history of unlicensed practice of law (UPL) allegations; • Applicants who have worked as a certified legal intern, reported self - employment in a legal field, or reported employment as an attorney pending admission «to ensure that these applicants are not holding themselves out as attorneys;» • Applicants who have positively responded to Item 27 of the bar application disclosing «involvement in an organization advocating the overthrow of a government in the United States to find out if they are still involved in any related activities.»

The judge's ruling also prohibits the executive order's freeze on refugee admissions, including the indefinite ban on Syrian refugee admissions.

Although the witnesses in the Appellant's case were unsavoury, there is no rule requiring a judge to exclude the admission of a statement where there may have been a motivation on the part of the witness to lie.

Under the Lagos High Court Civil Procedure Rules 2012, once a case is filed in court, ADR is then used where there is a response showing some kind of admission on the part of the defendant.

So whatever else the Federation envisages as it moves to put legs on the next step of the national mobility scheme, viz coming up with some sort of nationally common approach to Bar admission, it owes it to everyone — to the provincial Law Societies (for whom the Federation is an agent), to the law professors (who are doing their best to prepare students for the profession of tomorrow), to the law deans (who often find themselves being the meat in the middle of the sandwich when it comes to relations between the academy and the profession), to the law students (who don't relish the rules of the game being changed part - way through) and, at the risk of sounding corny, to the rule of law in Canada — to move deliberately, but engagingly.

Other than requests for admissions on the authenticity of documents — which can be issued in unlimited numbers — South Carolina Rule of Civil Procedure 36 (c) limits a party to twenty requests for admissions absent «good cause shown.»

At the least, it is not outside of contemplation that if the entire trial could have been avoided had reasonable admissions been made (for example, if the originating party could have applied for judgment on admissions under Rule 7 - 7 (6)-RRB-, the party who unreasonably failed to admit the facts could be penalized by an award of additional costs for all steps taken following delivery of the notice to admit.

He served as a member of the Board of Governors for the Florida Bar for six (6) years, and has served on the Florida Bar Code and Rules of Evidence Committee, Civil Rules of Procedure Committee and Law School Education and Admissions Committee.

Beyond reciprocity, it also includes rules for admission pro hac vice, rules regarding the unauthorized practice of law, special licensing procedures for corporate counsel, and information on how other professions deal with multi-state practice.

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that although the initial search was justified on the grounds of officer safety, the subsequent fishing expedition for unrelated incriminating evidence was in violation of Section 8 of the Charter, and that admission of the illegally obtained evidence would bring the administration of justice into disrepute:

The dual effort bore fruit: the trial court granted summary judgment on statute of limitations grounds and awarded attorney's fees for the costs of proving denied requests for admission, and the Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's rulings in full.

Another parallel example akin to MCLE requirements and Mitch's ABS example are restrictive rules on foreign educated lawyer admission.

In 2012, the ABA's House of Delegates, with the support of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, passed a resolution urging state and territorial bar admission authorities to enact state licensing rules for military spouses with law degrees to reduce barriers to employment resulting from re-licensing with each relocation.

The Court ultimately ruled in a 5 - to - 1 decision that the evidence gathered in the illegal search (i.e. the presence of illegal drugs) must be excluded from the case against her under Section 24 (2) of the Charter on the grounds that the admission of such evidence at trial would bring the administration of justice into disrepute.

Brian has served the Bar as President of the Florida Association of Bar Defense Lawyers, a Member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Attorney Admissions, Peer Review and Attorney Grievance for the United States District Court, President of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Member of the Executive Council of the Florida Bar Criminal Law Section, the Florida Bar Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, and as a Member and Vice-Chair of a Florida Bar Grievance Committee.

Real evidence — here, data taken from a machine — may not be hearsay, depending on the use to be made of it, and thus its admission may not depend on an exception to the hearsay rule.

The Washington Supreme Court adopted Admission and Practice Rule 28 in 2012 to create LLLTs following a 2003 study by the Task Force on Civil Equal Justice Funding which found that despite a high frequency of civil legal problems in low - income households, over 85 % did not have any legal assistance.

In turn, appellate courts since Kumho have focused on whether the trial judge abused his discretion in determining admission and, in some cases, have determined whether, without focusing on the Daubert factors, the expert testimony satisfied other evidentiary rules, such as whether there was an adequate factual foundation for the expert's testimony.

Turning to the admission of hearsay evidence, at para 35 Lord Steyn added that the proceedings were civil under domestic law and Art 6 (right to fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention), the Civil Evidence Act 1995 (CEA 1995), s 1 and the Magistrates» Court (Hearsay Evidence in Civil Proceedings) Rules 1999 (SI 1999/681) allowed the introduction of such evidence.

The newspaper goes on to report what the judge actually said; that she believes «new protocols and rules of disclosure would lead to early resolution and early admission of liability when justified» [in «medical negligence» cases].