Sentences with phrase «senior judges ruled»

The senior judges ruled the prosecution had failed to prove the Christian activists were actually lying on «a highway», as opposed to a private road.

A senior judge rules that the lord chancellor and justice secretary has acted illegally.

Not exact matches

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

Christian MPs have criticised a ruling by a senior judge which will allow single parents to bring up... More

This week's hearing at the highest court in the land comes after Northern Ireland's three most senior judges overturned a ruling by the High Court in Belfast that the country's abortion laws were illegal.

For example, in case number 87 C 10746, Gutzmacher v. Public Building Commission, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District ofIllinois, Eastern Division, Senior Federal District Judge James B. Parson ruled on Dec. 4, 1989 that the Public Building Commission was enjoined from discriminating against all forms of religious expression and ordered the Public Building Commission to permit Gutzmacher to erect a nativity scene display during the Christmas season,» added Scholten.

Federal judges can retire or take senior status, with the option of a reduced workload, if they satisfy the «rule of 80.»

He also repeated the argument made by a number of senior ministers and judges recently that the only way Britain would fight terrorism was by presenting an image of a different society, one where freedom and tolerance were the rule.

But the judge overseeing the case, ruling on a host of pretrial motions, found this distinction somewhat immaterial, since Percoco, according to the government, «continued to function in a senior advisory and supervisory role with regard to the Governor's Office, and continued to be involved in the hiring of staff and the coordination of the Governor's official events and priorities.»

Today, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Senior Judge James Gardner Colins is expected to rule on the Republican Party's final attempt to nullify the Libertarian Party's hard - won ballot status for 2012.

U.S. District Court Judge James Ware threw out a discrimination claim in Crangle's suit last fall, but the jury ruled that Stanford had acted «with malice» toward Crangle, a part - time senior research scientist who did not hold a formal faculty position.

Lawsuits were filed by 23 districts, and in May of 2001 senior judge Warren Morgan ruled against the school districts.

The school board, ignoring a judge's advisory ruling, voted unanimously to go ahead with its plan to exempt all staff at seven chosen schools from layoffs, shedding more senior staff at other schools in their place.

Isle of Wight Council, as the local education authority, took the case to London's High Court but senior judges backed the magistrates» ruling in favour of the father.

If there is to be an investigation, then, I suggest that it be undertaken by someone skilled in the rules of evidence, such as a senior judge or barrister.

# 1 - many of the arguments derived from the language in certain ethical rules could just as easily be leveled against judges who have clerks write their judicial opinions and senior partners who have junior associates write their briefs or law journal articles.

In a culture ruled by virality, pithy memes like #IDontNeedFeminism threaten to have more firepower than sober observations — such as those of the former chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Patricia M. Wald — that gender inequality in cultures like the legal profession owes less to overt discrimination, and more to «subtle differences in how much more difficult it can be for women to locate and manipulate the levers of personal influence inside and outside the firm, with supervisors, senior partners, and clients.»

Senior U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, ruling in a case brought against the Bush administration by the American Civil Liberties Union and others, issued a 44 - page opinion finding that the National Security Agency's wiretap program violates the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution, the separation of powers doctrine, statutory law and the Administrative Procedures Act.

Commenting on the Clifford ruling, a senior criminal defence solicitor told me he thought the appeal judges had been right to draw a distinction between Clifford and Hall.

However, the Court of Appeal held that the senior costs judge should have used the proportionality test under the old Civil Procedure Rules.

The warning comes after Mirror Group Newspapers was last week forced to pay indemnity costs to claimants when Senior Costs Judge, Master Gordon - Saker, ruled it had unreasonably failed to discuss the possibility of mediation.

(correct test for Barrister appeals; whether outside the ex improviso rule, prosecutor may call evidence after prosecution and defence case closed; use of debarring orders against prosecutor; whether tribunal may «enter the arena» and strongly request the attendance of a prosecution witness; whether BSB has power to summons witnesses; whether prosecutor may communicate with disciplinary judge behind the back of the defence; whether such communication redolent of actual bias of judge where judge wishes prosecutor good luck on appeal; whether apparent bias doctrine can be engaged by post-trial conduct of judge; legal effect of serving BSB prosecutions department officer being 1 of 4 appointing members of the COIC «Tribunals Appointments Body» (TAB); whether TAB ultra vires the Bar's Constitutions; whether open - ended power of removal of member of COIC pool without cause, unlawful given position of BSB Chair and senior staff on COIC; whether ECHR Article 6 guarantees against pressure on disciplinary judges to conform with a prosecutorial mentality; whether disciplinary judges Art. 6 «independent» within Findlay v United Kingdom given key role of BSB prosecutions department in appointing disciplinary judges; serious non-disclosure by BSB of notes of secret meeting between BSB and disciplinary judge until day before appeal and despite requests and application for disclosure by defence)

But, here, two of the Second Circuit's active judges ruled against Marblegate, the dissent was by a senior judge who can not vote on an en banc petition, and the Second Circuit has historically granted fewer en banc rehearings than any other circuit court.5 Other avenues could include Marblegate filing a petition for a writ of certiorari with the US Supreme Court and / or pursuing other federal or state law remedies, including state law theories of successor liability or fraudulent conveyance against the new EDMC subsidiary, theories that the Second Circuit noted as potential causes of action but did not analyze.

(2.2) The regional senior judges of the Superior Court of Justice and the Senior Judge of the Family Court shall meet at least once in each year with the Chief Justice and the Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice, on a day fixed by the Chief Justice, in order to consider this Act, the rules of court and the administration of justice genesenior judges of the Superior Court of Justice and the Senior Judge of the Family Court shall meet at least once in each year with the Chief Justice and the Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice, on a day fixed by the Chief Justice, in order to consider this Act, the rules of court and the administration of justice geneSenior Judge of the Family Court shall meet at least once in each year with the Chief Justice and the Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice, on a day fixed by the Chief Justice, in order to consider this Act, the rules of court and the administration of justice generally.

In 2014, she created the position of Senior Family Advisory Judge, filled by Justice Deborah Paulseth, to chair the family advisory committee, sit on the rules committee, and advance issues of the family court bench.

(iii) if the action is an action to which Rule 77 may apply under rule 77.02, assign the action for case management under that Rule, subject to the direction of the regional senior juRule 77 may apply under rule 77.02, assign the action for case management under that Rule, subject to the direction of the regional senior jurule 77.02, assign the action for case management under that Rule, subject to the direction of the regional senior juRule, subject to the direction of the regional senior judge,

Former senior judge Stan Billingsley, who edits a law blog on lawreader.com, said senior judges do not rule any differently than when they were elected.

Each senior justice of the peace or senior municipal judge assigned as provided in this rule has all the judicial powers and duties, while serving under the assignment, of a regularly elected and qualified judge of the court to which the senior justice of the peace or senior municipal judge is assigned.

A former justice of the peace or municipal judge who meets the requirements of subsection 1 of this rule may apply to be commissioned as a senior justice of the peace or senior municipal judge by filing with the clerk of the supreme court a written application on a form approved by the supreme court.

(b) The renewal date of the terms of senior justices or judges recalled after adoption of this rule shall be July 1 of each year; however, the supreme court may, in its sole discretion, elect not to renew the commission of a senior justice or judge at the end of that judge's one - year term;

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.

«In addition to the victory in this case, the judge's ruling will serve as a very important precedent for us to use against any future infringement of our red - over-white-over-blue bar design,» says Re / Max senior vice-president and chief legal officer Geoff Lewis.