Sentences with phrase «superior court judge»

A report published last year by the commissioner of official languages recommended stricter tests for assessing the language skills of superior court judges.

Just as a garden grows better in soil that is properly prepared, so also we need to properly prepare the women in the legal profession for future careers as superior court judges.

Where an election for trial by superior court judge (alone or with jury), the provincial court judge receiving the election must inquire whether the accused wishes to have a preliminary inquiry.

«From the time they are considered for appointment to the Bench, and every day thereafter, superior court judges in Canada are expected to be knowledgeable jurists,» reads the report's introduction.

Last week a California superior court judge ruled that California's state's teacher tenure law was illegal.

In August 2005 a California superior court judge compelled Los Angeles to start putting water back into Owens Lake.

A Charlottetown lawyer has become the first judicial appointee under the federal government's new application process for superior court judges.

This opinion mirrors the crafty and limited decision the state superior court judge issued in the Vergara case.

A recent public opinion poll conducted in Bridgeport included questions about Malloy, Mayor Bill Finch, Paul Vallas, members of the Working Family Party who serve as the outspoken minority on the Bridgeport Board of Education and Carmen Lopez, the former Connecticut superior court judge who brought the lawsuit that determined that Paul Vallas lacked the credentials necessary to serve as a superintendent of schools in Connecticut.

In the Federal Court system, prothonotaries — full judicial officers who exercise many of the powers and functions of judges — are employed, at a pay rate of about 70 per cent of what superior court judges make.

The National Judicial Council, NJC, has reinstated Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court and five other superior court Judges.

Robinson's nomination now heads to the floor of the House and Senate for a vote, along with Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's last batch of 30 superior court judge nominees who had hearings on Monday.

In June 2012, L.A. superior court judge Terry Green ruled that the district should factor in rooms not being used for regular classes.

In a landmark ruling, a Los Angeles superior court judge on Tuesday struck down key elements of California's teacher tenure statutes after finding that the near inability to fire ineffective teachers disproportionately hurts poor and minority students.

The measure echoes many of the controversial and polarizing issues that are part of the Vergara v. California court ruling of 2014, when a state superior court judge throw out California's teacher employment laws, ruling them unconstitutional in helping keep subpar teachers working in poor schools.

A Wake County superior court judge ruled Friday that a state law ending teacher tenure is unconstitutional, arguing the state can not take away the due process rights of teachers.

A North Carolina superior court judge will hold a hearing Wednesday on whether the state is providing every student with the opportunity for an adequate education.

California's teacher tenure laws were deemed unconstitutional by a state superior court judge because they violate the right to an equal education.

«A Bridgeport superior court judge Wednesday ordered Bridgeport Superintendent Paul Vallas to leave office immediately because he doesn't have the necessary credentials for the job.

California superior court judge Elihu Berle ruled that EA must answer for the contract interference complaints brought to attention by Activision, in regards to Vince Zampella and Jason West.

HB 1078 effectively repeals the special superior court judges authorized by G.S. 7A - 45.1 however rather than allowing the Chief Justice to retain the ability to designate future Business Court Judges from the Superior Court bench, the Governor would pick them instead.

In 2010 - 11, puisne superior court judges made about $ 271,400, according to the 2011 Judicial Compensation and Benefits Commission.

Taking into account the proposed appointments, Ontario actually has the lowest number of full time superior court judges for its population, followed by Alberta, then Quebec.

Since 1867, there have been only five superior court judges recommended for removal.

Christie offered two rationales for the decision to pass over Justice Helen Hoens in favor of superior court judge Faustino Fernandez - Vina: his interest in...

Governor Tom Corbett nominated superior court judge Correale F. Stevens to fill the supreme court vacancy created by former justice Joan Orie Melvin's resignation following her criminal conviction.

A study of the sentencing practices of superior court judges suggests that their elections influence their behavior, with judges handing out stiffer sentences from the time they take the bench to their first election.

The class action case against the CIBC has been dismissed by an ontario superior court judge, who found that there was not sufficient interests among the members of the class in order to proceed.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced the appointment of eight new superior court judges to the Los Angeles Superior Court.

The discretion the Supreme Court conferred on the modern advocate and superior court judges affords us the opportunity to rebuild the confidence lost in the conventional trial...

A California superior court judge has dismissed a consent decree against the Los Angeles Unified School District that prompted efforts to upgrade teacher quality in poor schools.

Here, however, the AGC was named as a respondent by ACJ Douglas, which meant that the AGC was placed in a fundamental conflict «between two public interest positions — on the one hand, defending the process and the Committee's decision... and, on the other, abandoning that responsibility in deference to the direct role of the AGC as Minister of Justice in the disciplinary process for superior court judges» (para. 7).

Earlier this month, Nutmeg State lawmakers confirmed Roraback's nomination as a state superior court judge, according to the Register Citizen newspaper.

Each of the partners benefited from the experience and expertise of the other: the Court and the NJI worked closely to develop programming, program ideas and techniques that found their way into NJI initiatives that were presented to larger judicial audiences, both of provincial and of superior court judges.

A superior court judge assigned the child to a licensed foster home and committed her «grandfather» to a medical facility.

The latest development means that, the Chief Justice will be preparing to officially inaugurate a five - member committee which will have three superior court judges and two ordinary citizens as members.

This past October, a superior court judge concluded a yearlong legal battle, confirming that parents have the right under the parent trigger law to transform their school, while ordering the school district to abide by the parents» petition.

Both parties appealed to the high court after a superior court judge ruled that the case could not be brought to trial on all grounds.

A superior court judge in North Carolina recently ruled against the establishment of a virtual charter school after many expressions of worry about funding and effectiveness.

Setting off a legal scramble just weeks before the end of the school year, a superior court judge in Alameda County, Calif., ruled Friday that this year's high school seniors don't have to pass the state's exit exam to receive a diploma.

The pitch for greater judicial involvement comes as a state superior court judge must decide whether Connecticut's integration efforts have been adequate, or if more needs to be done to reduce the racial and ethnic isolation that persists among the schools in the Hartford region.

A superior court judge said in a sharply worded ruling in September that the state's funding formula leaves poor, black, and Latino children locked in underfunded schools and taught by unqualified teachers.

Essentially, the superior court judge ruled that increasing tenure from two to three years would be acceptable.

A superior court judge adjourned for the day without ruling whether he would keep open two Magnolia Public Schools (MPS) charters for the start of the school year next month.

The deep - pocketed corporate interests who have been undermining public education across the nation had reason to celebrate on June 10, 2014, when a superior court judge in California ruled that laws governing teacher due process were unconstitutional.

Lawmakers put the $ 11 million back into the public school budget, meaning they will have to draw the funds from somewhere else in the $ 21 billion budget to pay for the voucher program, which was temporarily halted by a superior court judge in February, but that decision was reversed by the state Supreme Court a few weeks ago.

The state's tenure and dismissal rules are also in play before a superior court judge in a lawsuit that has attracted widespread attention.