Sentences with phrase «then justice minister»

The directive from the PMO first came in 2012 to then justice minister Rob Nicholson and was being worked on by Justice lawyers as Harper sat down with First Nation leaders Jan. 11, 2013 to discuss controversial government bills, sources told APTN.

The final Commission report was tabled before parliament by then Justice Minister, Ray Hnatyshyn, after examining over 800 cases of alleged war criminals in Canada.

Not exact matches

In Alberta, a similar practice was stopped in 2010 by then - Justice minister Alison Redford after it was revealed that local returning officers had been appointed from a list submitted by the Progressive Conservative Party.

«When rulers have inverted their functions and enacted wickedness into a law which treads down the inalienable rights of man to such a degree as this,» abolitionist minister Theodore Parker of Boston declared after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill in 1850, «then I know no ruler but God, no law but natural Justice.»

The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, a black minister of the American Baptist Church and longtime Harvard chaplain, wrote in the Boston Globe: «When lawyers, the courts, and the media all seem complicit in the cycle of vengeance and blood and no closure short of decapitation seems acceptable, then we have reason to worry about the climate for justice, mercy, and charity; and Salem in 1692 seems not so far removed in moral climate from Boston in 2002.»

What some failed to know is that Bagbin has always been bold and frank to fight for the common good at the expense of his personal interest.It will be recalled that in 1997, he criticizedPresident Jerry John Rawlings after he appointed then Foreign Affairs Minister, Hon. Dr. Obed Asamoahto hold an additional portfolio as Acting Minister of Justice and Attorney General.

It held that the AG should have gotten the likes of, Mrs. Betty Mould - Iddrisu, the then Minister of Justice, Mr. Ebo Barton - Odro, then Deputy Minister of Justice, Mr. Paul Asemeni, Head of Legal department at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Mr. Samuel Neequaye Tetteh, Chief State Attorney and Mr. Magnus Rex Danquah, Chief Operating Officer of CAN 2008 Local organizing Committee (LOC) in - charge of the day today administration of the tournament and member of the Technical Committee on the Stadia Construction to court to testify for the prosecution.

The delegation of Parliamentarians included Lord Stewart Wood, former foreign policy adviser to both Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, then Shadow Minister for Human Rights Andy Slaughter, Shadow Minister for International Development Imran Hussain, current Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon MP, current Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald MP and Wes Streeting MP.

he delegation of Parliamentarians included Lord Stewart Wood, former foreign policy adviser to both Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, then Shadow Minister for Human Rights Andy Slaughter, Shadow Minister for International Development Imran Hussain, current Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon MP, current Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald MP and Wes Streeting MP.

Meanwhile, in another document, the Former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke SAN while responding to a request by the then Secretary General of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, said that the CCT chairman can not be removed from by a mere fiat of the executive arm of the government.

It took the tact and instrumentality of the then Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mad.

The report, however, commended the former attorney general, Betty Mould Iddrissu, for negotiating down the 163million euros to 94 million euros «This decision by the then Attorney - General and Minister of Justice Betty Mould - Iddrisu, which recommended and insisted that the awards which she had managed to negotiate downwards from about 163 million Euros ($ 163 million) to 94 million Euros ($ 94 million) should be satisfied and paid by the State was, in the opinion of this Commission, one of the best decisions that could be taken in the interest of the State.

Introducing a presidential system was proposed by then - Minister of Justice Cemil Çiçek and backed by then - Prime Minister Erdoğan in 2005.

How come one Iyiola Omisore got elected into the upper chamber of the National Assembly from behind prison bars while standing trial for complicity in the murder of Uncle Bola Ige, the Cicero, then serving Federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General?

It was presumably why two Conservative party leaders, William Hague and David Cameron, selected me to be shadow attorney general and why Cameron also appointed me as shadow home and then shadow justice minister, and why he, as prime minister, asked me to be solicitor general.

Neither myself as the then sector Minister who piloted this agreement through parliament or my deputy was invited by this committee and yet against the rules of natural justice, the committee goes ahead to allege fraud,» he said.

At the time Green was a Conservative MP but he would later become minister for policing, criminal justice and victims and then work and pensions secretary.

The barrister specialising in criminal law has a low profile but served as an opposition whip, government whip and then as a justice minister since 2012.

Undeterred, Friends of the Earth, Solar Century and Home Sun then sought and obtained backing for a legal challenge from High Court Judge Mr Justice Mitting, who said ministers were «proposing to make an unlawful decision» and as a result the court would be «amenable to a judicial review».

If the extradition judge finds that this ludicrously low bar has been met, the case then moves to the Minister of Justice, who in the exercise of their discretion, can order extradition.

Justice Ginsburg then asked for an explanation of the type of claims that a minister would be allowed to bring.

The AG is first and elected member of the House, and is then appointed to Cabinet as the Minister of Justice.

In Alberta, candidates for Provincial Court appointments are first screened by the Alberta Judicial Council and then interviewed by the Provincial Court Nominating Committee, which provides its recommendations to the minister of justice.

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Ken Clarke, then Minister of Justice, enthusiastically put forward civil legal aid to realise # 300m of savings.

The Prime Minister has form of course: in 2011, when she was Home Secretary, she tried to dismantle the SFO, but was thwarted by her cabinet colleagues, most notably Ken Clarke, who was the then Justice Secretary — and reportedly tried to revive the plan in 2014.

Since then, I am not aware of any premier making him / herself AG or Minister of Justice as well (though it may have happened somewhere in the country in the past 55 years).

Binnie was hired in 2011 by then - justice minister Simon Power to assess the compensation claim of David Bain, who was acquitted in 2009 at his second trial for the 1994 murders of his parents and three siblings.

«But it would be some out - of - the - box thinking if the prime minister wanted to appoint the first indigenous justice out of the West and then appoint that person directly to chief,» he adds.

I went as far as to wage my own personal campaign against our then Attorney General and Minister of Justice n his constituency.

In the 1960s, Claude Wagner — the father of current Supreme Court justice Richard Wagner — was a judge, then a Quebec politician and cabinet minister, then after losing the Quebec Liberal leadership to Robert Bourassa in 1970, Wagner returned to the bench but then stepped down from the bench again to enter federal politics as a Conservative.

Today, anyone in France who wants to file for posthumous marriage sends a request to the President of France, who forwards it to the Justice Minister, who then forwards it to the prosecutor for the surviving member's district.

In a June 2014 reply sent to the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers, in which then - justice minister Peter MacKay indicated he was too busy to meet with the organization, he stated that merit was his «overriding consideration» in judicial appointments.

Candidates are then interviewed by the 11 - member Provincial Court Nominating Committee, which has representatives from the Alberta Provincial Court, the Law Society of Alberta, the Alberta branch of the Canadian Bar Association and people from the province's legal community and the public appointed by the minister of Justice and Solicitor General.

Then - minister of justice Kim Campbell tabled the committee's full French translation in Parliament in 1990, but it was never enacted.

(If the bill was introduced in the Senate and amendments are made by Senators, then the Minister of Justice should issue an addendum to the government statement of compatibility at First Reading in the House.)

The council will then make its recommendations to the minister of justice on whether it feels the judge should be removed.

This was two months after he had ordered the then - Minister of Justice Patrick Chinamasa to be arrested and brought to court for a contempt of court charge hearing.

His career continued to flourish when, in 2003, then prime minister Paul Martin named Cotler the minister of Justice and attorney general.

«That approach could include a more broadly representative and inclusive judicial advisory selection panel, where no political party has a majority (as the government now gives itself), parliamentarians as a whole are in the minority, and the provincial attorney general and provincial bar are represented, along with the Canadian Bar Association and the Canadian Judicial Conference; a protocol of consultation published by the minister of justice, setting out whom the minister intends to consult and with whom the advisory panel will meet; a public announcement by the minister of the criteria by which each candidate will be evaluated; and a final hearing at which the minister of justice — and not only the nominee — answers questions from parliamentarians, notably regarding how the nominee meets the established criteria,» he wrote then.

In 2014, he suggested the Conservative government then in power «adopt a more representative and inclusive approach similar to that which I employed as minister of justice, in consultation with Parliament

Walsh believed their motion had been accepted by the then taoiseach, Brian Cowen, and minister for justice, Dermot Ahern, and was «very disappointed» when the Bill was published, because it conveyed «most» marriage entitlements to civil partnerships.

In 2009, speaking at the Canadian Bar Association's annual conference, the then minister of justice and attorney general, now defence minister, was asked his position on equal parenting and the bill we are now debating.