Sentences with phrase «tried public law cases»

Not exact matches

The botched case led to a major public inquiry and eventually a change in the law to allow Dobson to be tried twice for murder.

Even after the Ministerio Publico Federal (the Federal Prosecutor Bureau) declared that no crime had been committed in any of the above - mentioned cases and issued a technical note clarifying that nudity and representations of sexuality are permitted in cultural and artistic exhibitions, the consequences continue to unfold: the state of Espirito Santo has passed a law prohibiting the exhibition of photographs, texts, drawings, paintings, films and videos containing nude scenes or references to sexual acts in public spaces; city councilors of the state of Rio Grande do Sul are currently trying to ban books in public libraries that, they argue, expose children to «permissive ideologies, [detrimental] to the formation of character.»

d. Do not look anything up in a law book, dictionary, or public record to try to learn more about the case.

After graduation from the University of Oregon School of Law, where he tried his first case as a student with the local Public Defender, he was awarded a judicial clerkship with a state trial court judge.

Also, because of the way that the securities laws enforced by the SEC are structured, it is possible to bring civil cases and try them without any need to resort to discovery or investigatory tools, based upon complaints filed by members of the public.

«The law society completely failed the public in this case,» insists Rocco Galati, the Toronto lawyer who currently represents Alex Chapman, the client King had tried to finagle into his sexual escapade.

Such may be the case where the matter involves a public body trying to elucidate the law or where a party has raised a constitutional issue or one otherwise of broader interest.

While the case is perhaps most notable for a sustained blast by Sedley LJ against the injustice he sees as having been done to her by the previous health secretary who stepped in to stop the trust making the severance payment it had agreed, the principal judgment on the substance of the case was by Laws LJ who accepted that payments by public authorities to their employees can be challenged under administrative law principles, but obviously found it in general invidious if an authority is using such principles to try to avoid a contractual agreement made by itself.