Sentences with phrase «very high profile case»

Regardless, the Swartz case provides an interesting comparison because the Crown agreed to, and the court approved, a monetary penalty for offences that involved multiple fatalities and extremely serious injuries in a very high profile case.

The US Justice Department has been running a very high profile case with Apple and the top 5 major publishers.

As the pre-eminent leader in the field of costs, Nick has appeared in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court in a series of very high profile cases.

He has litigated across many different sectors, providing advice in some very high profile cases both in the UK as well as other jurisdictions.

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«In a situation where there's been a high - profile case of unethical behaviour, the leaders of the company need to decide what it stands for; very likely, they have a set of values somewhere that they've forgotten about.

Just in case you're very new to the SEO business or you've been under a rock the past 10 years, Eric has been been doing content publicity and link building since 1994, and has worked on many high - profile sites like Amazon, ABC and PBS.

Daniel McArthur, the general manager of Ashers, said: «The fact that the Supreme Court is willing to hear arguments is very encouraging and reflects the importance of the issues and the high - profile nature of the case.»

In the wake of some high profile daycare abuse cases in the mid-1980s, there was a rash of studies which found that, with enough effort, it might be possible to convince a small percentage of typically very young children that something happened to them which in fact did not happen.

It's very emotional like waiting for the lotto numbers or the verdict for a high profile court case.

However, while there are serious cases where very unpleasant things are sent to people, this tends to be to very high profile women and I have never heard of a case of an academic being cyber-stalked.

«(The Times is) not recognizing, necessarily, the steps that he has to carefully go through to bring together evidence in a very high - profile case such as this and that speed isn't always the best thing for any of the parties in terms of seeking justice,» said Vacco.

Roanne L. (Ronnie) Mann, the magistrate judge assigned yesterday to oversee the state's redistricting process, is a registered Democrat, according to city records, and a «very smart, but humorless jurist,» according to an attorney who spent years dealing with her in one high - profile case.

But there were also several very high - profile retreats, over both last year's Queen's Speech and the Immigration Bill, in both cases seeing the Conservative part of the Coalition forced to allow backbenchers a free vote to avoid massive rebellions.

The stories of judges becoming very wealthy on bribes paid by litigants in election petitions and other high profile cases have become more pervasive and in matters of the sanctity of the judicial process, appearances are at least as important as the substance.

In some high - profile cases this has prevented the application of techniques like the analysis of ancient DNA, which stands poised to finally answer questions we've been asking for a very long time, like: Who are we?

Rather than overestimating data fabrication, the method of Kuriakose and Robbins «very likely underestimates the true extent of the problem,» says Michael Spagat, an economist at Royal Holloway, University of London, who has investigated high - profile cases of possible data fabrication in war zones.

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Until the very high - profile Michael Vick case, the canine victims of operations such as his Bad Newz Kennels were not delivered to safe haven.

There are some good people working hard to advance the toxicology and analytical science to support risk assessment of nano materials, many of whom know that we need to keep the cats in the bag until we know what we are doing because one or two high - profile cases of illnesses arising due to nanotechnology will cause the public to lose faith in what is a very promising technology.

«With so much written about blogging in the past year, it's amazing that just now we are witnessing the kind of high - profile crime case that raises new and, some say, troubling issues about how reporters and editors should regard the very personal, yet very public, information shared on Web logs.»

It may just be because we work in the legal profession and therefore tend to keep abreast of the legal news more readily than non-lawyers will, but there does appear to have been an alarming number of news stories appearing about sexual assault / harassment cases taking place at some very high - profile -LSB-...]

Lord Neuberger went on to make clear that although, at times, he strongly disagreed with some Strasbourg judgments, there were very few of its decisions which he considered «misconceived», re-emphasising that the occasional, high profile cases such as prisoners voting rights, regardless of whether the Strasbourg judgment is misreported, hardly represents the preponderance of fair, sensible and logical decisions.

Around the same time, another high - profile case led to a major constitutional challenge, and a very national debate on the topic of assisted suicide.

Many very high - profile cases in most countries have fallen at this hurdle, including very serious complaints in some inter-state cases.

Recent case highlights include acting for two senior individuals in very high - profile SFO and Financial Conduct Authority investigations.

In what was a very high profile and public case due to the political dimension and the press interest, the Stephenson Harwood team, led by Head of Commercial Litigation John Fordham, picked up the award after negotiating a # 12.3 m settlement on behalf of Westminster City Council after 8 years of resistance by Dame Shirley to litigation by the Appointed Auditor (John Magill) and then the Council itself.

A 30 % reduction in fees for Very High Cost Cases has led to a boycott by criminal barristers, which resulted in the high - profile stay of a multi-defendant fraud trial at Southwark Crown Court last month (R v CrawlHigh Cost Cases has led to a boycott by criminal barristers, which resulted in the high - profile stay of a multi-defendant fraud trial at Southwark Crown Court last month (R v Crawlhigh - profile stay of a multi-defendant fraud trial at Southwark Crown Court last month (R v Crawley).

The «very commercial» Michael Pulford leads the team at Pinsent Masons LLP, and acts in relation to high - profile and high - value pre - and post-nuptial agreements, divorce and financial remedy proceedings, and private law children and child abduction cases.

Our dedicated Extradition Team is headed by Martin Rackstraw and draws on its experience of defending not only in Part 1 and Part 2 extradition cases involving a huge range of offences, but in many other very serious high profile criminal cases, many with political aspects.

Each case has had a high profile and reported to the Board of Directors, consequently the legal competency required has been very high.

My only focus was electronic document review and I got to work on some pretty high profile cases that I found very interesting.

In Ryan's case, «his high profile makes him very attractive.

Represented actress Lindsay Lohan in three very high profile criminal cases arising out of an alleged altercation with her vehicle, alleged theft of jewelry, and allegedly leaving the scene of a vehicle accident.

Recently, Orr & Brown obtained a jury verdict of over $ 500,000.00 on behalf of a local business client in a case involving complex legal issues, defeated a claim brought by a large materials supplier that a former corporate officer was personally liable for the debt of a defunct corporation based on a signed personal guaranty, and successfully negotiated a high - profile «business divorce» between 2 owners of a very lucrative and profitable North Georgia business.

If a criminal case has a very high media profile in a particular city, the venue may change to another city to ensure objective witnesses (i.e. that would not have been spoiled by media speculation on the crime).

He is regularly instructed in cases that are high profile, and often featured in the national press, and those which relate to very sensitive issues for his clients.

Immigration law varies from country to country and can be the subject of very high profile international cases relating to various topics such as the legality of detention of immigrants and the legal status of aliens without a nationality.

Justice Norris took on very high profile, challenging cases.

The client in this case is a large financial institution, a very high - profile client I didn't expect to work with as a trainee.

We have defended very high - profile and complex cases at all levels of court.

When interviewed by Law360, Lee described his experience handling high - profile clients, «In trials of cases like these, you have great lawyers on the other side... doing the very best they can for their clients, and as a consequence, you're going to encounter some unexpected challenges during the course of the trial and if you expect the unexpected, you're going to be better able to address them and deal with them.»

Unless you routinely handle high profile deals or cases, you won't be in this situation very often.

During her time as a Competition Authority lawyer, Linda worked on a number of high profile merger cases, and was lead attorney on the Authority's very first prohibition in the IBM and Schlumberger case.