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Council of State ruling shows court favors certain bar associations The Council of State ruled against a Higher Education Board (YÖK) regulation abolishing a coefficient used in calculating scores of vocational high school students on the university...
Tags: bar associations, Turkey, İstanbul, Education, Council of Higher Education, Bar association
That is the message in a decision by a panel of five New York judges denying one would-be lawyer, Robert Bowman, admission to the bar because his debt approached half a million dollars. “His application demonstrates a course of action amounting to neglect...
Tags: Mr. Bowman, The New York Times, students loans, bar applicant, Deborah L. Rhode, New York City, Legal education, Lawyers, Student loan, Bar, Law Crime, Bar association
A movement to adopt a uniform bar exam that would make aspiring lawyers' scores portable from state to state and possibly save consumers money is gaining traction in several states but encountering opposition from others. Missouri has been out front with...
Tags: bar exam, Erica Moeser, Delaware, uniform exam, law examiners, bar examiners, executive director, uniform bar, Montana, Arizona Supreme Court, Columbia, Bar association, Legal education, United States law, Standardized tests, Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination, Bar examination, Lawyers, State bar association
A lawyer holding political posts cannot contest for a post in the Bar Council, the Federal Court ruled Tuesday, in dismissing an appeal by lawyer R. Sivarasa, who is both a Member of Parliament and vice-president of PKR. This is to keep the Bar Council...
Tags: R. Sivarasa, Bar Council, political influence, Justice Sri Ram, Malaysian Bar, governing body, PKR, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Law in the United Kingdom, Bar association, Barristers, English law, Law Crime
Over a month ago, four new traffic signals appeared on the route I take my children to school every morning. The traffic lights have transformed the hitherto ‘free for all" into a ‘frequent violation' zone. Some citizens feel ‘more...
Tags: Law, John Adams, lawyers, lumpen, Bar Association, Ram Jethmalani, Ajmal Kasab, constitution
The Washington State Bar Association is paying nearly $700,000 to people swindled by a former Everett attorney. Sixty-two-year-old Barry Hammer was caught bilking more than two dozen clients in a real estate investment scheme...The Herald newspaper of...
Tags: Herald newspaper of Everett, Everett Herald, bar association
Lahore High Court Bar Association and Sindh High Court Bar Association have demanded filing of reference against Chief Justice (CJ) of Pakistan Abdul Hameed Dogar in the Supreme Judicial Council for illegal' increase in his daughter's marks. A meeting...
Tags: chief justice, Abdul Hameed Dogar, Farah Hameed Dogar, justice abdul, bar association, court bar, Ms Dogar
The All Pakistan Lawyers Representatives Conference on Saturday set August 14 as the deadline for the government to restore the judiciary to its pre-Nov 3 status. In case this does not happen, the conference unanimously decided that the legal fraternity...
Tags: Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gilani, Gilani Saturday, lawyers set, set aug, courts bar, bar association, deposed judges, pakistan lawyers
President Supreme Court Bar Association Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan said neither parliament could be strengthened nor true democracy could be brought in the country without an independent judiciary. He was addressing a seminar titled �Role of Lawyers�...
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Home > India > News > First Look 'Now we have democracy, but no peace' Sheela Bhatt in New York July 02, 2008 Aitzaz Ahsan, Pakistan Peoples Party leader at the head of the lawyers' movement in that country, lambasted America's policy in Pakistan in...