Sentences with phrase «superior court justices»

So, now all of a sudden, we have a «justice» that has some kind of power, but that power is undefined except that is the «same» as the power of a superior court justice.

Not exact matches

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

(The maximum claim threshold is different for every province and ranges from $ 5,000 to $ 25,000; anything above the threshold has to be registered in a superior court of justice.)

However, in cases where a failure to give proper disclosure has made a fair trial impossible, or prevented the court from doing justice, or in instances of a flagrant abuse of process, a superior court will exercise its inherent jurisdiction — its power to control its own procedure so as to prevent it from being used to achieve injustice — to strike out the case before or during a trial (see for example Raja v Van Hoogstraten and others [2006] EWHC 1315 (Ch) and CPR 3.4 (5)-RRB-.

The creation of three designated broadcast rooms — for the provincial, superior, and appeal court — is part of a pilot project designed by the province's three chief justices and intended to «create a comfort level» with media in order to facilitate coverage of cases that have strong public interest and educational aspects.

The state Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the superior court, holding that the plaintiff's expert's affidavit, combined with the documents that were available to the hearing justice, raised a material issue of fact as to whether Arden Engineering was responsible for Limoges's inCourt vacated the judgment of the superior court, holding that the plaintiff's expert's affidavit, combined with the documents that were available to the hearing justice, raised a material issue of fact as to whether Arden Engineering was responsible for Limoges's incourt, holding that the plaintiff's expert's affidavit, combined with the documents that were available to the hearing justice, raised a material issue of fact as to whether Arden Engineering was responsible for Limoges's injury.

The Supreme Court justices administer the Vermont court system with the assistance of the court administrator and the chief superior jCourt justices administer the Vermont court system with the assistance of the court administrator and the chief superior jcourt system with the assistance of the court administrator and the chief superior jcourt administrator and the chief superior judge.

This November, two candidates competed for a seat on the superior court (an intermediate appellate court) and four appellate judges, including two supreme court justices, stood for retention.

As can be seen in this appeal, the creation of national classes also raises the issue of relations between equal but different superior courts in a federal system in which civil procedure and the administration of justice are under provincial jurisdiction.

(1) The TLABC submitted that the hearing fees wrongly impede access to justice, wrongly sell justice, and wrongly impede access to a superior court in violation of s. 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867 thereby interfering with judicial independence.

This is the finding of the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, which yesterday released its 205 - page report, «Delaying Justice is Denying Justice», outlining the problems in the criminal justice system post-Jordan, a drug case which set 18 - month deadlines for trials in provincial courts and 30 - month deadlines for trials in superior Justice is Denying Justice», outlining the problems in the criminal justice system post-Jordan, a drug case which set 18 - month deadlines for trials in provincial courts and 30 - month deadlines for trials in superior Justice», outlining the problems in the criminal justice system post-Jordan, a drug case which set 18 - month deadlines for trials in provincial courts and 30 - month deadlines for trials in superior justice system post-Jordan, a drug case which set 18 - month deadlines for trials in provincial courts and 30 - month deadlines for trials in superior courts.

The Judicial Nominating Board was created for the nomination of Supreme Court justices, superior judges, and magistrates.

The CJC's 39 members are the chief justices, associate chief justices, and senior judges from provincial and federal superior courts across Canada.

HB 1127 Requires referees, marital referees, or marital masters serving in the superior courts and the circuit courts who are not former or retired judges to be commissioned as justices of the peace.

The fundamental problem, he says, is the arbitrariness of a provision that allows a justice of the peace, in granting or denying bail for whatever reason, to limit the discretion of a superior court judge in deciding whether to grant enhanced credit.

(c) The justice presiding over a jury of 6 session shall have and exercise all powers and duties which a justice sitting in the superior court department has and may exercise in the trial and disposition of civil cases including the power to report questions of law to the appeals court.

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...

v. Durrani, 2008 ONCA 856 (CanLII), at para. 16; This results from the definitions of «superior court of criminal jurisdiction» and «judge» in sections 2 and 493 of the Criminal Code including both judges of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario and the Ontario Court of Apcourt of criminal jurisdiction» and «judge» in sections 2 and 493 of the Criminal Code including both judges of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario and the Ontario Court of ApCourt of Justice of Ontario and the Ontario Court of ApCourt of Appeal.

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.

Her practice is of an advisory, regulatory litigious nature and has included judicial review, actions for damages before UK courts, the superior courts of Ireland, specialized tribunals, the European Court of Justice and General Court in cases concerning a wide range internal market issues, ranging from public procurement to goods and services, energy, agriculture competition and social and employment law.

2) a quasi-political entity, e.g., superior court, family court 3) the actual judge or justice acting in her official capacity

Her practice is of an advisory, regulatory litigious nature and has included judicial review, actions for damages before UK courts, the superior courts of Ireland, specialized tribunals, the European Court of Justice and General Court in cases concerning a wide range -LSB-...]

Having said that, I agree with «Surrey Lawyer» that the solution to Surrey's issues (and the larger issue of access to justice) is not another law school in the lower mainland, but a superior court south of the river.

He thought that the General Division justices [a superior court] would sit in Small Claims Court as part of their rotation, but that never happened» (Ontario Court of Justice: A History, available at http://www.ontariocourts.ca/ocjhistory/wp-content/uploads/history-project-book.pdf, at 137 - 138, see also the statutory history from 139 - court] would sit in Small Claims Court as part of their rotation, but that never happened» (Ontario Court of Justice: A History, available at http://www.ontariocourts.ca/ocjhistory/wp-content/uploads/history-project-book.pdf, at 137 - 138, see also the statutory history from 139 - Court as part of their rotation, but that never happened» (Ontario Court of Justice: A History, available at http://www.ontariocourts.ca/ocjhistory/wp-content/uploads/history-project-book.pdf, at 137 - 138, see also the statutory history from 139 - Court of Justice: A History, available at http://www.ontariocourts.ca/ocjhistory/wp-content/uploads/history-project-book.pdf, at 137 - 138, see also the statutory history from 139 - 140).

We add our voices to those of others who have called on the federal Minister of Justice to make it a priority to fill the vacancies in Alberta superior courts and to provide a proper complement of judges in Alberta, before matters get any worse.

Unfortunately, in addition to refusing rectification, the Court, fearful of «pump [ing] theoretical steroids into the rectification doctrine and [giving] it the strength or force that the Supreme Court of Canada recently and consistently has declined to do» 10 also declined to recognize the general equitable jurisdiction of the superior courts to do justice between parties suffering from the unintended consequences of their mistakes.

The chief justice and a majority of the supreme court, in consultation with the administrative judges of the superior and circuit courts and other nonjudicial branch officers as established by court rule, shall design and implement by court rule, a program for performance evaluation of judges and court personnel... The program for performance evaluation shall ensure that each judge and court employee is evaluated a minimum of once every 3 years.

The chief justice and a majority of the supreme court, in consultation with the administrative judges of the superior and circuit courts and other nonjudicial branch officers as established by court rule, shall design and implement by court rule, a program for performance evaluation of judges

This results from the definitions of «superior court of criminal jurisdiction» and «judge» in sections 2 and 493 of the Criminal Code including both judges of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario and the Ontario Court of Apcourt of criminal jurisdiction» and «judge» in sections 2 and 493 of the Criminal Code including both judges of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario and the Ontario Court of ApCourt of Justice of Ontario and the Ontario Court of ApCourt of Appeal.

As soon as it addressed itself to the superior court, the principle of open justice applied:

Arizona's Supreme Court has approved numerous civil justice reforms «aimed at reducing the time and expense it takes to resolve civil cases in Arizona's superior courts.»

The superior court acts as an appellate court for justice and municipal courts.

Although the province can establish hearing fees under its power to administer justice under s. 92 (14) of the Constitution Act, 1867, the exercise of that power must also comply with s. 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867, which constitutionally protects the core jurisdiction of the superior courts... the fees impermissibly infringe on that jurisdiction by, in effect, denying some people access to the courts».

In our view, it is difficult to reconcile the Supreme Court of Canada's 1988 decision in BCGEU v. British Columbia (Attorney General), confirming that every Canadian citizen has the fundamental right to unimpeded access to the courts, with the notion of Canada's superior courts operating as a default user - pay system of justice, subject to an individual establishing an entitlement to an exemption from court Court of Canada's 1988 decision in BCGEU v. British Columbia (Attorney General), confirming that every Canadian citizen has the fundamental right to unimpeded access to the courts, with the notion of Canada's superior courts operating as a default user - pay system of justice, subject to an individual establishing an entitlement to an exemption from court court fees.

Judges are mostly administered by the superior court they fall under, with the Chief Justice of SCOTUS administering the U.S. Federal system.

Such fees constituted an unacceptable barrier on access to justice for those who were not «impoverished» yet for whom payment of hearing fees would nonetheless materially hinder their ability to have their case heard before a superior court.

Although the province can establish hearing fees under its power to administer justice under s. 92 (14) of the Constitution Act, 1867, the exercise of that power must also comply with s. 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867, which constitutionally protects the core jurisdiction of the superior courts.

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).

In Justice Rothstein's view, the hearing fees do not trench on the superior courts» core jurisdiction; limits on access are not the same thing as removals of jurisdiction.

Justice Ecker has been a judge of the superior court since 2014.

(The bifurcation of family law between the provincial and superior trial courts is one of the more serious obstacles to justice.)

Council membership consists of the chief justices, associate chief justices, and some senior judges from provincial and federal superior courts across the country.

Completion of a defensive driving course may be ordered by the justice of a superior, district, county, or circuit court, or following an administrative hearing.

County Criminal Record Searches, conducted in district, superior, supreme, justice or municipal courts (depending on the jurisdiction), are where the majority of criminal records are kept.