Sentences with phrase «societies protect the public interest»

The mandate of the NCA is to help Canada's law societies protect the public interest by assessing the legal education and professional experience of individuals who obtained their credentials outside of Canada or in a Canadian civil law program.

Not exact matches

As reported in the Globe and Mail on Oct. 31, the judge ruled that the Law Society had put the commercial interests of its members ahead of its statutory duty to protect the public interest.

«Drawing on powers vested by Section 45 (1) of the Constitution, and Section 97a of the Penal Code, the governor signed an order declaring the IMN as an unlawful society in the interest of public order and to protect the rights and freedoms of all persons in Kaduna State, he said.

The purpose is directly related to the function of the law society under the Law Society Act, to protect the public interest and advance access to justice (see minority view, parasociety under the Law Society Act, to protect the public interest and advance access to justice (see minority view, paraSociety Act, to protect the public interest and advance access to justice (see minority view, para. 204).

That would further weaken the law societies» position as a prosecutor of the commercial producers for UPL — a very biased, self - interested prosecutor fighting off a commercial threat, rather than prosecuting unlicensed individuals for that offence's intended purpose of protecting the public from incompetently provided legal services.

As part of its mandate to protect the public interest, the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society is engaged in access to justice issues across Nova Scotia, through its Equity Program and enhanced consultation with other key players in the administration of justice.

Tradition may be fine (it isn't always), but the law society's role is to protect the public interest, and not the interest of the legal professions.

The Society has a duty to protect the public interest.

The law society was empowered under the Legal Profession Act to achieve its mandate of self - regulation and protecting the public interest.

The benchers are to regulate the legal profession so as to, «maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law,» and, «facilitate access to justice,» and, «to protect the public interest,» being, for example, among the express duties of LSUC (the Law Society of Upper Canada), [2] being duties expressly set out in legislation such as... [more]

Recommendation 8: The Law Society's Trust Regulation Department, and the Professional Conduct and Investigation Department, when dealing with investigations involving a lawyer who uses cloud computing, should identify circumstances in which the approach proposed in this report is failing to protect the public interest, in the event modifications to the policy and rules is necessary for the Law Society to fulfill its public interest mandate.

In Ontario, the Law Society Act instructs that the Law Society has duties to (i) maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law, (ii) facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario and (iii) to protect the public interest.

«First of all, the Supreme Court of Canada and other courts have repeatedly emphasized the crucial role the professional regulators like the law society play in protecting the public interest, and in that connection, they've also emphasized the need of those professional regulators to be able to compel documents and information relevant to investigations from anyone possessed of them,» says Feder.

LSUC has an outmoded system of management that is not under sufficient public or political pressure to make perform its duties under s. 4.2 of the Law Society Act, specifically as to: (1) advancing the cause of justice and the rule of law; (2) facilitating access to justice; (3) protecting the public interest; and, (4) acting in a timely, open and efficient manner.

An explanatory news release could have provided useful context, explained the reasoning of the panel and reinforced the commitment of the Law Society to protecting the public interest, upholding the values of the legal profession and supporting lawyers in meeting their professional responsibilities.

That is a violation of the duties imposed on the law society by s. 4.2 of Ontario's Law Society Act, to: (1) maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law; (2) to facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario; (3) protect the public interest; and, (4) to act in a timely, open an efficient society by s. 4.2 of Ontario's Law Society Act, to: (1) maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law; (2) to facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario; (3) protect the public interest; and, (4) to act in a timely, open an efficient Society Act, to: (1) maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law; (2) to facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario; (3) protect the public interest; and, (4) to act in a timely, open an efficient manner.

In other words, if ABS + is the only approach which justifies the law society's mandate to serve the public interest, then all of the profession's concerns can theoretically be protected through proper regulation and an explicit focus on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

At least now, the public is receiving information about how many chances lawyers are given before the Law Society decides to act and try to protect the public interest.

Dialogue between legal professionals and the public is inherent in the law society's duty to protect the public interest.

Discussion at the meeting showed that all Council members «wrestled mightily» in their analysis of the applicable laws, he said, as well as the Society's regulatory mandate to protect the public interest in Nova Scotia.

In order to understand and properly protect and promote the public interest, the Society shows leadership by promoting a diverse and inclusive legal profession that is representative of the full spectrum of the public it serves.

d) The Law Society of B.C. will immediately notify the A.G. and the Advisory Committee of their actions to protect and defend Her Majesty's Letters Patent, the public interest, and the integrity of the profession from misrepresentation.

Part of the mandate of the Law Society in protecting the public interest is the regulation of its members.

By judgment of 14 July 2008, the Verwaltungsgericht dismissed that action, considering that there were imperative grounds of public security and that Mr I.'s conviction revealed personal conduct which gave rise to fears of a present, genuine and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society, namely to protect girls and women from sexual assault and rape.

So long as the TWU's discriminatory behaviour is protected under the BC human rights code (and it is), it simply isn't open to the BC Law Society to conclude that accrediting TWU students is against the public interest (see TWU v BCCT).

The benchers are to regulate the legal profession so as to, «maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law,» and, «facilitate access to justice,» and, «to protect the public interest,» being, for example, among the express duties of LSUC (the Law Society of Upper Canada), [2] being duties expressly set out in legislation such as section 4.2 of Ontario's Law Society Act.

A little disconcerting that the phrase «public interest» doesn't jump out considering that protecting same is among the core functions of the Law Society.

Now, section 4.2 provides that IN PERFORMING its function (of ensuring competence), the law society has a duty to, inter alia, advance the cause of justice and protect the public interest.

On its face, section 4.1 provides that the mandate of the law society is to ensure professional competence — not protecting the public interest.