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I am aware that Judge Goldstone, a dedicated and unimpeachable human rights lawyer and advocate, shared similar concerns when he was initially approached.
Chen, a blind peasant and self-taught lawyer, had protested in 2005 against the kidnapping of some 3000 women in his hometown of Linyi.
And many victims are not in any position to hire a high-quality lawyer, as Gutjahr did.
My father was a Chilean lawyer and human-rights activist.
According to Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer, human-rights activist, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the restrictions are part of a government policy to limit women’s opportunities outside the home.
Zoellick’s background as a lawyer hardly makes him perfect for the job, either.
In the US, the company not only spent $8.8 million lobbying US lawmakers in 2017; it also paid $1.2 million to President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, for guidance on how the Trump administration would approach health-care policy issues.
The third type are presidential political appointees, such as Thomas Schieffer, a former business partner of President George W. Bush, and John Roos, a noted Silicon Valley lawyer.
Once elected, Trump appointed as US ambassador to Israel his bankruptcy lawyer, David Friedman, who has a long history of supporting right-wing Israeli causes (even donating to a West Bank settlement).
As for al-Qaradawi, everyone, however bad, has the right to a legal defense, and their relationship was always that of a lawyer and his client.
Paradise in PerilLONDON – With Amal Clooney, the human-rights lawyer who recently married the actor George Clooney, acting as your advocate, you would think that your case would grab headlines.
Last Friday, Trump was implicated by his own Justice Department in a felony, on the basis of sentencing recommendations for his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and for his former long-time lawyer and consigliere, Michael Cohen, by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
And on September 9, while local government elections took place, tens of thousands of Russians joined protests organized by the anti-corruption lawyer and opposition leader Alexei Navalny, defying the prohibition of “political agitation” on election days.
If one compares those images with pictures of the young insecure Gandhi dressed as a proper British lawyer, one can see how carefully he understood symbolic communication.
He had been in custody for seven years without a lawyer, and killed himself just two weeks after having finally been assigned one?
That lawyer, Elizabeth Gilson, probably knows al-Hanashi’s state of mind before he died, but the US government will not allow her to talk about it.
So imagine what kind of loopholes a real lawyer can discover if the president asks him nicely to find them?
The audience – including many security companies and also a lawyer from the NY State Attorney General's office – took active part.
Most recently, Trump has nominated a former lawyer for mega-polluter Dow Chemical to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund toxic cleanup program.
My wife, a retired family lawyer and mediator, thinks May could be correct.
He has not had access to a lawyer nor any visitors since being jailed for espionage and undermining the state.
Her lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, has been denied access to her.
As a Cambridge-trained lawyer, he was especially keen on using the law to browbeat his media (and political) critics, knowing full well that he had no serious chance of losing in Singapore’s own courts.
Justice James Clark McReynolds, a southern lawyer who was US Attorney General during President Woodrow Wilson’s first term, wrote the dissenting opinion – one for all four cases.
According to Ahmed Helmi, a lawyer for four of the six men, the government wanted to “send a message following Morsi’s verdict” that it would carry out such sentences.
As a human-rights lawyer monitoring the case notes, this is just one of several such cases – none of which is being seriously investigated.
On July 14, the ICC prosecutor, Argentine lawyer Luis Moreno Ocampo, announced that he was seeking an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for orchestrating the atrocities in Darfur.
And not only does Canadian law prohibit companies from reporting virtually any information about government requests for data;Prime Minister Stephen Harper has nominated a lawyer who spent his career advising intelligence agencies to serve as an official privacy commissioner, raising the ire of activists.
“There is great danger that the system will break down,” one trade lawyer wrote, “or that it will collapse in a grim replay of the 1930s.”
Nigerians’ expressions of outrage online soon translated into organized action offline, led by the former government minister Oby Ezekwesili (who also spoke at the World Book Day event) and civil-society leaders, including the lawyer Maryam Uwais and Hadiza Bala Usman.
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