Sentences with phrase «volubile judicial criticism»

The bank was subjected to judicial criticism for conducting a «sham» auction of leveraged loans and was found to have deceived its counterparty.

Nevertheless, as recent judicial criticism of experts has demonstrated, not all expert witnesses understand their role.

This practice has prompted both judicial criticisms and defenses.

There has been recent and volubile judicial criticism of the lack of resources committed by the government.

Earlier this year I highlighted judicial criticism of a unilaterally scheduled examination for discovery.

Indeed, it even drew notable judicial criticism on occasion.

Strong judicial criticism came in the cases of J v J [2014] EWHC 3654 (Fam), [2014] All ER (D) 153 (Nov), Seagrove v Sullivan [2014] EWHC 4110 (Fam), [2014] All ER (D) 61 (Dec).

In my ongoing efforts to highlight judicial criticism of expert witnesses who stray into advocacy, reasons for judgement were released today by the BC Supreme Court, New Westminster Registry, excluding an expert report for numerous reasons including concerns about plagiarism.

This lack of clarity, which could be seen as a sympathetic reflection of the espionage world I suppose, has been the subject of judicial criticism.

In this dispute, Koskie Minsky said the court shouldn't award Rochon Genova the case because of the history of judicial criticism of the Merchant Law Group, one of the members of the Rochon consortium.

Issues of training, accreditation, and previous judicial criticism should be among factors to be taken into account by judges making this decision.

But the takeaway here, as with most cases of judicial criticism, is that care and diligence are in order when taking judges to task.

CROs additionally attracted judicial criticism in the past for lacking transparency, despite the fact that CROs are a flexible and straightforward means of achieving resolution between repentant and reformed companies and the SFO.

Not exact matches

But ICE has faced criticism of its own over not seeking a judicial warrant to legally obtain custody of Garcia Zarate when it discovered he had been transferred into San Francisco's custody.

Murphy's reply provides perceptive criticism of the limitations of originalism but fails to set forth any other method of interpretation that would prevent judicial oligarchy.

Ball makes a somewhat similar point, saying that «however praiseworthy we may find Bork's criticism of judicial liberalism, his criticism is basically not that of a conservative.»

While I do not retract a word of my criticism of the judiciary's usurpation of democratic powers («Our Judicial Oligarchy,» November 1996), I wish that my remarks had not been preceded by the Editors» suggestion that we may «have reached or are reaching the point where conscientious citizens can no longer give moral assent to the existing regime.»

Criticism of the scope of judicial power is often perceived by its partisans as, in effect, attacking the independence of the judiciary or even the ideal of judicial independence.

Yes, being mindful of the issues of the independence of the courts, I am also equally aware that judicial decisions are equally subject to criticism by citizens.

Therefore, lawyers shouldn't be reluctant to offer public criticism of the judiciary, as informed, sustained criticism rooted firmly in Nigerian reality, can contribute to judicial accountability.

However to me (as a Czech resident) this criticism seems a bit strange since in the Czech Republic judges have always been nominated directly by the executive (subject to approval by the Parliament) and therefore the judicial system has never really been independent in the first place.

De Blasio said that his insistence that the judicial process should play out with Silver didn't contradict his earlier criticisms of Grimm.

However, there is much criticism of his record, given the level of political and judicial corruption in his borough, to successfully prosecute the perpetrators.

In the event that this legal action against Mr Hain succeeded members of parliament and even Ministers would feel extraordinarily constrained in any criticism they might make of the judicial process and judiciary in the United Kingdom.

There's certainly judicial experience there, but perhaps not as much as in prior years — which is partly a response to criticisms that prior nominating lists didn't include enough representation from the private bar.

More surprising are the criticisms of Vergara voiced by Education Next's own judicial observers, Martha Derthick and Joshua Dunn.

Upon application for Judicial Review, the High Court found that Ofsted's complaints process was defective because it did not permit a substantive challenge to the most serious criticisms, namely, when a school was found to have serious weaknesses or requiring special measures.

This choice has led to much criticism because many considered the Plaumann formula too strict and liable to compromise the effective judicial protection of individuals affected by EU legal acts.

In part as a response to this criticism, the Member States revised the old article on judicial review by adding a sentence to the paragraph on the locus standi of non-privileged applicants.

Based upon complaints filed by, among others, Washington DC based Judicial Watch, the Commission had sought to remove Judge Kendall from the bench on the basis of criticisms of his bail and sentencing decisions in specific cases, none of which had ever been appealed and each of which was soundly within his legal discretion.

In another remarkable part of the book (chapter 2), Conway fleshes out his claim that EU law scholarship fails to address shortcomings of judicial reasoning of the CJEU with sufficient criticism.

She also suggests that actors in the legal system are complicit in judicial arrogance while simultaneously having considerable arrogance of their own: lawyers and judges alike deny the rationality and dignity of the «non-lawyer,» refuse to admit their own faults, and tend both to aggrandize official power and to subdue public criticism.

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In applying the criteria laid out by the Court, the AG pays little attention to the fact that the tribunals are set up by an international agreement rather than through domestic law, to the ad - hoc nature of ISDS, and to the long - held criticism that ISDS arbitrators lack the basic judicial safeguards for judicial independence.

In reality the Bill simply seeks to correct the perceived mistakes enacted in the Criminal Justice Act 2003, a piece of legislation that has been subject of severe criticism in judicial circles.

«The panel finds that Justice Matlow participated in controversial political discussions, inappropriately used the privileged platform of judicial office, publicly offered legal advice and criticism, took a role in litigation that was likely to come before his court, communicated with the press in the course of advancing a specific point of view in a legal and political dispute against a party that was imminently to appear before him in litigation, and failed to ensure that his actions and the extent of his involvement in the dispute with that party were disclosed to his co-panelists [on Divisional Court] and to the parties,» said the panel.

Here I'm struck by the contrast between the accounts of the prevalence of «whacking» and the judicial response to it (e.g. that it is common and the courts / crowns rarely intervene) and accounts that I hear from practicing crowns (e.g. that it is uncommon and, when it occurs, the court's response vigorously and, further, that the court, crown and police are uncommonly solicitous to complainants in sexual assault cases — a claim that the Ghomeshi cases seems to confirm given the seemingly well - founded criticism of the police in that case for failing to adequately probe the complainant's allegations, meaning that inconsistencies in their statements were discovered on cross-examination by the defense, fatally undermining their credibility).

If there were to be criticism of the Briggs Report it might be criticism of all judicial system studies; it tends towards a top down view of the world.

Carelessness can have grave consequences on other court users through loss of trial dates, cluttering of the judicial diary — NB every case is fact specific, in terms of the judicial perception of a party's conduct; weak excuses of the type «I didn't mean to become non-compliant» may be the subject of stringent criticism.

In 1997, Peter Hogg responded to criticisms of judicial activism in the post-Charter era by suggesting that the legislature is instead involved in a flexible and dynamic relationship with the courts over Charter rights.

The Minister described s. 87 as a «big step forward» because the Family Relations Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 128 [FRA] did not provide any guidance on setting a valuation date and there had been considerable criticism of the broad judicial discretion to determine the date: BC, Legislative Assembly, Official Report of Debates (Hansard), 39th Parl., 4th Sess., Vol.

At a moment at which there are many serious criticisms of liberalism and / or questions about its future, combined with substantial unanimity among legal academics about various progressive values (as seen, to be clear, through an establishment lens) and the routine invocation in current scholarly and public writing of things like «rule of law,» faith in judicial review, and so on, there is a lot of room for interesting and valuable work questioning those assumptions and premises.

«More lawyers join criticism of Keller; Latest complaint against judge in death row case also includes signatures of other judges»: The Houston Chronicle today contains an article that begins, «Joining a swelling tide of criticism, 130 attorneys from Harris County have filed a judicial conduct complaint condemning the actions of Judge Sharon Keller, who presides over the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

The CanWest News Service article entitled Funding for minority groups to challenge federal laws under review reports that the program, first set up under former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, «has been the target of harsh criticism from social conservatives and critics of so - called judicial activism, who assert the initiative is a slush - fund for left - leaning groups to circumvent the will of elected legislators by challenging them in court».

Many factors, including unfair or uninformed criticism, or simple misunderstanding of the judicial role, can adversely influence public confidence in and respect for the judiciary.

Such public criticism could only have a negative impact on public confidence in the judicial system and in the moral authority and integrity of the judiciary, and thereby on the independence of the judiciary in Canada.

«Whenever we talk about judicial independence, it's about shielding or protecting judges and the judiciary from politics or political criticism, and we don't sufficiently recognize that judicial independence is truly a two - way street,» he says.

The state of this Court's document management and case scheduling systems is a scandal, and the poor excuse of a system which currently is employed should be subject to relentless criticism — judicial and otherwise — until it is discarded and the people of this province are provided by the provincial government with a court administration system of a quality which they deserve.

The first judicial use appears to derive from 1853 when Judge Levi Hubbell told US Attorney General Caleb Cushing, who had responded testily to criticism of his handling of the case: «Judge Cushing has commenced a suit in the United States Court.

But because this report's constructive criticisms seem to fall largely on deaf ears in Sacramento and in many courthouses around the state, this year's look at the West Coast's perennial Judicial Hellhole will pragmatically limit its focus to an armful of the state's civil injustices, including precedent - defying state supreme court decisions, the Private Attorneys General Act, Prop 65, food and beverage litigation, innovator liability, the California Environmental Quality Act's impact on affordable housing, courts» expansions of public nuisance law and natural disaster - chasing personal injury lawyers, among others.