Sentences with phrase «say the law society»

Blacklaws said the Law Society had been told by brokers that the proposals were unlikely to result in lower premiums.

The former vice president of the Paralegal Society of Ontario says the Law Society of Ontario let down the public when it took on responsibility for regulating paralegals in the province only to ban them from practising in the area of family law.

lawyer Fay McFarlane says the law society is making a mistake by giving paralegals an entryway to family law.

In British Columbia, for example, Van Ommen says the law society audits every lawyer's books every six years and more often if they are considered «at risk.»

In terms of the work placement, Bentley says the law society chose a four - month term recognizing the candidates would have also had four months of intensive training to prepare them for life beyond the job placement.

The new money — $ 75,000 for each of the next two years — will help it continue, says law society president Gavin Hume.

«The financial eligibility test for civil legal aid is disqualifying people from receiving badly - needed legal advice and representation, even though they are already below the poverty line,» said Law Society president Joe Egan.

They also say the law society had no role in negotiating the unfair treaties between government and indigenous peoples.

Some lawyers say the law society should do more to tackle the articling crisis before approving a new law school.

Richard said the law society is satisfied with the decision, but had no further comment as it was still within the appeal period.

In their statement of the claim, the lawyers said the law society had enough evidence after its investigation to conclude that they had not acted in a conflict of interest and that they had not breached the Rules of Professional Conduct, and yet the regulator pursued a hearing that the lawyers said was «entirely unnecessary.»

Sue Tonkin, a spokeswoman for the law society, said the law society has been served with the lawsuit and is currently reviewing it.

For example, he says the law society could set some sort of minimum amount of time lawyers devote to their practice to in order to identify under a particular area as well as a certain amount of continuing professional development in that field.

This is not to say that law societies have always been efficient and thorough watchdogs or that reforms are unnecessary.

He says the law society maintained that it was an «abuse of process» for Groia to even defend himself at his disciplinary hearing.

LSUC Treasurer Paul Schabas has said the law society will send letters out to those who do not follow the requirement, but will not penalize non-compliance this year.

Groia says the law society can continue to promote goals of diversity while respecting the freedom of lawyers by exempting those who will not sign a statement as a matter of their faith or conscience.

Mercer said a law society working group that he chairs has heard from lawyers concerned that «a certain amount of that advertising was not for the purpose of doing work or getting work... but rather for the purpose of referring that work on to others for a fee.»

We are encouraging all lawyers to think about succession planning and to do so when they still have time to plan adequately,» says the Law Society of Alberta's current president Carsten Jensen.

Hume says the law society is still liaising with the B.C. courts about whether they are going to embrace this new rule because «access to the courts is very much under the control of the courts.»

Despite prompting from the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, Arthurs and others say law societies are slow in responding to the growing needs of Canadian law students.

«Our role at the Law Society is to act in the public interest and serve the public, which means we need to be more visible and establish ourselves as the place to turn for legal help and information,» said Law Society Treasurer Paul Schabas.

«We are committed to strengthening the province's family law system,» says Law Society Treasurer Paul Schabas.

Others said the law society can not presume in advance that TWU grads would act contrary to the standards of the legal profession.

Needless to say the law society has a difficult time figuring us out, even when we do point them to the relevant Rules.

Manitoba lawyer Sidney Green says the law society should not require him to attend courses that are of no use to him.

Amendments under bill 111 will enable the LSUC «to strengthen its hearing and appeals process for alleged cases of professional misconduct involving lawyers and paralegals, making it more transparent, fair and cost - effective,» said the law society.

It's funny to hear lawyers say the law society has some sort of duty to control the supply of lawyers, lest there be more lawyers than the public demand for them.

It's also funny to hear them say the law society has some sort of duty to protect students from themselves.

«If a business is not reinventing itself to adapt to changing market conditions then it is likely it will go into decline or be taken over by those that are better adapted to the new environment.This statement is no less true for law firms than for any other business,» Says the Law Society of England and Wales Future of Legal Services report 2016.

However, there were specific areas where more detail and clarification would be helpful,» said the Law Society's response (4 - page / 45KB PDF).

Not exact matches

... This purpose was not authorized by the Law Society Act,» he said.

Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.»

We have chosen, as a nation, to have a society with secular laws, where said laws must be grounded in reason, not, «You can't do this because I'm superior to you,» or «because my holy book says so.»

Our laws, as an inclusive secular society; not sanctioning any one religion over another, took precedence in making polygamy unlawful even though their religion said otherwise.

As The Sunday Telegraph said at the time of the Law Society's initiative: «Britain's legal system has its roots in Judaeo - Christian morality.

Are you saying that people who do believe in God are honest to society and common law and don't sometimes just hide their wrongdoings via confession or similar mechanism?

If society allows politicians to pass laws against free inquiry, we are in a very bad situation indeed, they say.

The «moral majority» and ethics in our society deems it «not o.k.» and therefore turns votes into laws that make said practices illegal.

Therefore society (government) compiles laws so as to prevent bad things from happening which should be common sense... and since «common sense» has to come from somewhere... as I said, it comes from the life experience that you acquire over time... you are not born with it and you do not derive it from some magical, mythical, invisible man - in - the - sky.

In no society that I know is full equality before the law established in practice, and I do not say that it can be realized perfectly and overnight anywhere.

One religious journal in 1874 expressed its view of the place of labor in society when it said: «Labor is a commodity, and, like all other commodities, its condition is governed by the imperishable laws of demand and supply.

Curtis Berger shocked his Columbia University Law School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.&raqLaw School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.&raqlaw school.»

The economic reforms Leo proposes in Rerum Novarum can never succeed within the confines of Enlightenment philosophy — within, say, a social contract understanding of society, authority, and law, where the common good is the sum total of private goods determined by a calculus of self - interest.

The Bible is a very antique book, with extreme laws in a society where there was no justice system like nowdays, God never said we should keep doing it like 4000 years ago laws of the hebrews.

And while the social customs, civil laws, and authoritatively sanctioned principles of a society can be said to have determinative influence on the social practices and development of a society, still it is the case that these social customs, etc., have that efficacy only as enacted by individuals in daily social intercourse.

The buybull can't be used to dictate laws in the real world and therefore, what it says about gays has no pertinence in society.

«The future of Burma must be peace, a peace based on respect for the dignity and rights of each member of society, respect for each ethnic group and its identity, respect for the rule of law, and respect for a democratic order that enables each individual and every group - none excluded - to offer its legitimate contribution to the common good,» he said.

«No single law - no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world, or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society,» he said.

If these early followers had been content to withdraw from and forget their relationship to the rest of society, Newbigin says, they would have posed no threat to the Emperor and his power:» [the first century church] would have enjoyed the protection of the law — the same protection which churches enjoy in our modern culture, available for exactly the same reason — namely, that they pose no threat to the ideology which controls public life.»