Sentences with phrase «unified contract»

Carolyn Regan, LSC chief executive, says: «The LSC would rather not have to issue these short - term contracts, but we believe it is necessary due to the uncertainty created by the recent judgment in the unified contract judicial review brought by the Law Society.»

Legal groups were united in hailing the Law Society's emphatic victory against the Legal Services Commission (LSC) in its court battle over the unified contract last week.

In December 2007, the LSC announced its intention to terminate the unified contract and in the meantime consider amending the offending provisions in the contract.

The society wants declarations from the court that the LSC is obliged to nullify the consequences of its breach of EU law, and that the amendments purportedly made by the LSC to the unified contract have no contractual effect.

Upholding the society's appeal, the Court of Appeal ruled that the power the LSC had reserved for itself to amend the unified contract was unlawful.

Law Society chief executive Des Hudson says the decision renders the LSC's right to unilaterally amend the unified contract severely curtailed, if not destroyed, and the LSC needs to rethink urgently the general criminal contract and very high cost case contract, both due in January 2008.

The Law Society has today issued a letter before action preparing the way for a legal challenge to the new unified contract as part of our commitment to lead the fight for a sustainable future for legal aid.

The LAPG and Fisher Meredith Solicitors have both released press releases today warning of the consequences if the deadline to sign the proposed new Unified Contract is not extended.

This is on top of consultations published earlier this month on police station boundaries and the very high cost criminal case panel, not to mention the negotiations on the new unified contract.

An emergency order of the High Court obtained by a firm who have issued judicial review proceedings indicated the view that a «signature «under protest» - ie without prejudice to the contention that the unified contract was unlawful would be sufficient protection for the Claimant's position.»

All civil providers are expected to sign the new unified contract by 31st March 2006.

The litigator graduated fee scheme is pencilled in for introduction at the same time, subject to the outcome of a consultation, and the unified contract for criminal legal aid services is planned for July 2008.

Because of this and «the uncertainty arising from the unified contract judgment, the LSC will not now issue a notice of amendment».

It says that, unlike the civil unified contract, the general criminal contract (GCC) was entered into some time before the legal aid reform programme was announced, therefore providers would not have been aware of the proposed reforms at the time they signed.

The news comes as the LSC confirms plans to appeal the judgment in the judicial review brought against the unified contract by the Law Society, R (on the application of the Law Society) v Legal Services Commission.

The new unified contract for the provision of publicly funded civil legal aid work did not conform to the principle of transparency, pursuant to regs 4 (3) and 9 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006, (SI 2006/5)(the Regulations).

Two sets of proceedings before the court concerned the new unified contract, introduced on 1 April 2007, for the provision of publicly funded civil legal aid work.

In the first action, the Law Society brought a claim seeking judicial review of the decision of the Legal Services Commission (LSC) to seek offers from firms of solicitors and not - for - profit organisations on the basis of the new unified contract.

Consequently, his lordship agreed with the judge that the unified contract did not conform to the principle of transparency, but that result flowed not only from reg 9 but also from reg 4 (3).

That would follow not only from general principles of public law, but also from the Regulations and no doubt also from an implied term to that effect in the Unified Contract or from the express term (cl 2.2) that the LSC would act as a «responsible public body».

Not exact matches

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No change in contract (dispensationalism), no unified Bible (but an anthology of human writers).

Slavisa Jokanovic, who secured promotion during his nine months in charge, left in June following a row over an improved contract, so responsibility for assimilating the raft of summer signings into a unified team has fallen to Quique Sanchez Flores — no easy task, given their diverse diverse backgrounds and nationalities, and the fact that they would probably score more points if the game was Scrabble rather than football.

Long Island's defense manufacturers should create a unified «brand» that could expand the roughly $ 2.5 billion in contracts they attracted in fiscal 2014, Rep. Tom Suozzi, a freshman on the House Armed Services Committee, said.

«With these concerns in mind, we as the unified substitute teachers union are requesting that the terms in negotiation of our contract be met.

The biggest argument against such a move is that voters are looking for the minority party to stand against what they believe to be President Obama's wrong - headed agenda rather than offer an entire alternative set of policies and, by unifying behind a «Contract», Republicans will be handing Democrats something to shoot at this fall.

The proposal calls for maintaining two separate staffs, with separate union contracts, under unified management.

Subject all grant - awarding institutions to a «law of minimum» unifying the conditions of the grants / contracts, to make the situation of PhDs more homogeneous.

If there is a unifying theme here, Turner said, it's direction — an inward, imploding, or contracting force, rather than the outward - pushing force typically defined as pressure.

In a sudden shift in negotiating positions last week, officials of the Los Angeles Unified School District and the United Teachers - Los Angeles agreed to table the two most controversial issues in their current contract talks, apparently averting the possibility of a strike that would affect 550,000 students, according to district officials.

The best leaders heed the advice of Los Angeles Unified superintendent John Deasy: «Most people see the contract as a steel box.

L.A. Unified is looking to pilot a teacher evaluation program that will use student test data in measuring performance; Deasy made clear that this will come up during the district's contract negotiations with the AFT.

In a letter sent on behalf of some families Wednesday to L.A. Unified Superintendent John Deasy and the school board — and just before the district begins negotiations with the American Federation of Teachers» City of Angels unit over a new contract — Barnes & Thornburg's Kyle Kirwan demanded that the district «implement a comprehensive system» of evaluating teachers that ties «pupil progress» data to teacher evaluations.

LA Unified has opened contract negotiations with the teachers union, UTLA, offering a 2 percent raise for all teachers for the current school year, and another 2 percent increase next year.

LA Unified, in a response to a question from LA School Report, said «to our knowledge» Accord has no other contracts with charter schools in the district.

In a new contract proposal to the teachers union, UTLA, LA Unified is offering a three - year package with annual raises of at least 2 percent and a plan to re-hire 3,000 teachers who have been laid off in recent years.

Apex is one of two companies contracted by LA Unified to provide online credit recovery courses.

Apex has over 1,500 contracts with school districts nationwide and is in the first year of a five - year contract with LA Unified to provide online courses.

The union contract with the Los Angeles Unified School District, hardly atypical, weighs in at a flatulent 349 pages.

New teachers» contract in San Jose Unified, adopted on May 24, 2013 (section on teacher evaluations from pages 77 to 85)

While many of the labor partners who work with LA Unified have begin contract talks or submitted their opening proposals, UTLA has maintained radio silence.

The press event came as union and LA Unified officials are set to meet for another contract bargaining session tomorrow, the first since John Deasy resigned as superintendent and was replaced with Ray Cortines on an interim basis.

Aquino, now Executive Vice President of Strategy and Innovation for the non-profit New Teacher Center, remains connected to LA Unified through new questions over his role in the district's contracts with Apple and his previous employer, Pearson.

There's a new report that negotiators for United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) might be pulling out at the next round of contract negotiations with LA Unified.

As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.

In the latest disagreement between contract negotiators for LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the district says the teachers» latest salary demand would cost way more than the district can afford while the union president charged that the district could afford it, if the district had the right spending priorities.

The NQTQ report comes as UTLA teachers are seeking a pay increase among other demands in a new contract with LA Unified.

* UPDATED There's a new report that negotiators for United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) might be pulling out at the next round of contract negotiations with LA Unified.

* UPDATED As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.