Highly active in pro bono work, with expertise in civil rights and
wider public interest cases.
Not exact matches
«We look forward to the Metropolitan Police investigation into this particular
case but the
wider public interest still requires a full judicial inquiry into all British involvement in extraordinary rendition.»
It would bind the court to order costs against charities, NGOs and other organisations which offer their assistance to the court in
public interest litigation in a
wide set of ill - defined and broad circumstances that could rarely be predicted at the beginning of a
case.
In addition to hearing a major
case involving
public - employee unions, the U.S. Supreme Court may face a
wide range of disputes of keen
interest to the education community.
«Personally I have the same approach to the two
cases that I do to all others which involve the unauthorised release of information — I base my judgement on whether I think the
wider public interest is served by the release of the information whilst acknowleging that the person responsible has to recognise that there may be personal consequences for their actions and accept them accordingly.
Currently there are only a limited number of
cases where this would apply in any event, such as those involving the loss of the person's home and asylum work or where the
case appears to have a significant
wider public interest or is of overwhelming importance to the client;
Member states are normally given a margin of appreciation regarding the assessment of where a fair balance lies in a
case, between the
public and private
interests involved, and, as the Grand Chamber said this «will also usually be a
wide margin», in a
case like this in particular since there is no consensus in member states.
Mailshot of 15 August 2003 (pdf); Civil legal aid: (i)
cases involving a
wider public interest and (ii) immigration and asylum
cases