Sentences with phrase «senior judge»
A "senior judge" refers to an experienced judge who has retired or stepped down from their full-time judicial duties, but still continues to serve on occasion as needed. They are often called upon to handle certain cases or assist other judges due to their knowledge and expertise. Full definition
Unless there is a judicial emergency, each panel includes either two active judges of this court or one active judge and one senior judge of this court.
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The judges or justices who are assigned to temporary judicial duty are known as senior judges.
He was appointed via the formal mechanisms, which included a say by a group of the most senior judges.
If the application is approved, the judge's name is placed in a database that chief judges use to assign senior judges.
Several prosecutors contend that the program is unconstitutional because senior judges are not elected.
The approach of our own senior judges has been much more open to judgments from other jurisdictions.
Now, the same twelve active judges (and several fine senior judges) must resolve over 7,000 cases.
(13) The regional senior judge shall not make an order under subsection (10) against a person without ensuring that the person has had an opportunity to participate and make submissions.
The current Senior Judge program has a sunset expiration date of Jan. 31, 2009.
If Ted could send me along an outline of what he is hoping for I would be more than happy to send it along to the Council of Regional Senior Judges of the Superior Court of Justice for their consideration.
This book by Senior Judge Constance Baker Motley of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York is more than a memoir: It is an insider's account of the legal battles of the civil rights movement in education and other realms that sheds light on the United States» past and present racial and gender struggles.
Eugene Meehan, Q.C. states, in this Canadian Lawyer & Law Times Blog article, «Justice Abella is now the second most senior judge on the court.
Former Senior Judge at the Court of Protection, Denzil Lush, recently gave his opinion regarding Lasting Powers of...
Lang, originally from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., was on the Court of Appeal from 2004 to 2013, a judge of Superior Court from 1989 to 2004 and Toronto Regional senior judge from 1996 to 1999.
He has served as senior judge for Eastern Ontario, regional senior justice of the Ontario Court of Justice for the East Region and at various times during his judicial career was the Eastern Ontario representative of the Provincial Court Judges» Association.
«That's why I have announced a range of measures to make it easier for talented people to become senior judges based purely on merit, and why I have asked David to broaden his review to cover judicial ethnic diversity across tribunals, civil and family courts.»
DIXMOOR — A former chief of the disbanded Dixmoor Park District Police Department was sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in prison by U.S. District Senior Judge Milton Shadur for selling badges to businessmen that entitled them to carry guns.
A clear way to address this issue and the concerns that Former Senior Judge Lush clearly has voiced, would be to reiterate the role of the Certificate Provider (a person that signs the LPA to state that those making the document understand the nature of it) and to require that the Certificate Provider be a trusted professional, such as a solicitor or doctor, rather than a friend or neighbour.
The early years of the Charter of Rights were marked by erratic decisions rendered by judges with uneven intellectual abilities, the Ontario Court of Appeal's most senior judge said yesterday.
The legal status of Twitter in court cases has been clarified, with the country's most senior judge ruling that it may be used during trials.
«I did not believe one word that you said,» Lynch said, sounding more like tough - talking U.S. District Court Senior Judge Gary Sharpe or state Supreme Court Justice Thomas Breslin than a former defense attorney who carried the reputation of a prosecutor's worst nightmare after taking the bench in January 2013.
So it is refreshing to read something from a very senior judge which recognises the true value of judicial review as a whole and why the costs rules need adjusting in this area for the benefit of claimants.
The development of the J - Codes (and the new model - form - bill - of - costs when it is developed), is a response to a review of civil litigation costs in England and Wales, conducted by Lord Justice Jackson (a very senior judge in the judiciary).
The Saratoga Springs men appeared separately Wednesday before Senior Judge Gary Sharpe in U.S. District Court — Ramsey to be sentenced, Fish to plead guilty.
It was, after all, as Senior Judge Truman A. Morrison III put it, «her inability and unwillingness to own up to her own professional writings as her own [that] undermined her credibility» the first time around.
Even senior judges are speaking out.
On August 13, 2015, Centre County Senior Judge David E. Grine, signed an order vacating Mr. Fogle's convictions and sentence.
U.S. District Senior Judge Milton Shadur gave Thompson until Feb. 26 to surrender to federal prison.
On Wednesday in U.S. District Court, Senior Judge Gary Sharpe imposed the maximum prison time possible on Fish under federal sentencing guidelines.
Commonwealth Court Senior Judge James G. Colins ruled late today that the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania has filed nominating petitions containing more than the required 20,601 valid signatures and that the entire slate of statewide Libertarian candidates will remain on the November 6 general election ballot.
The article covers Senior Judge David E. Grine's decision to dismiss attorney William Urbanski's lawsuit to supplant Marion O'Malley as district attorney.
The article covers Senior Judge David E. Grine's decision to dismiss attorney William Urbanski's lawsuit to... More
That was partly because insolvency cases were treated as commercial actions, so they were filtered effectively to him (or 2 or 3 other judges that were on the commercial bench in the Court of Session), but also because as more experienced senior judges became aware of the issues the lack of guidance was causing, they took active steps to ensure that the decisions being taking were published.
1 Senior Judge Michael L. Henry sitting as Special Judge by assignment of the Chief Justice pursuant to Section 110 (5)(b) of the Kentucky Constitution and Kentucky Revised Statute (s)(KRS) 21.580.
A gay priest who was prevented from working as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner has urged senior judges to find he suffered discrimination.
The work of the court continued, of course, with Senior Judges William Bauer, Kenneth Ripple, and Daniel Manion sitting regularly and the court calling on many district judges from the three states to sit with the court from time to time.
«If you had kidney cancer, then you have a physical injury,» Sheila L. Birnbaum, an attorney for Saint - Gobain, argued at a recent hearing in Albany before U.S. District Senior Judge Lawrence E. Kahn.
Surveillance video, combined with what Senior Judge Truman A. Morrison III described as Dauphine's «inability and unwillingness to own up to her own professional writings» on the stand, proved sufficient for a guilty verdict — prompting Dauphine's immediate resignation.
And, as one of England and Wales» most senior judges recently pointed out, the idea that the age of smart contracts will do away with the need for external legal frameworks, is moonshine: «You can not have 3 trillion contracts per year globally without expecting some of them to give rise to a dispute.»