General Council of the Dutch Law Society

Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Community [ Consultative Committee of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Community ]

There are invariably submissions from law societies or a federation of law societies, from provincial attorneys general, from the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Judicial Council and the Canadian Judges' Conference and other judges' groups.

On 15 June 2012, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which the undertaking United Parcel Service Inc (‘UPS’, United States of America) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the undertaking TNT Express NV (‘TNT Express’, The Netherlands) by way of a public takeover offer under Dutch law.

In 2010, the Commission launched a broad consultation of all stakeholders including the European Parliament, Member States, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) and its members, Justice Forum[11] members in particular the Academy of European Law (ERA), the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), the Council of the Notariats of the European Union (CNUE), the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ), the Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the European Union, the Association of the Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisd ...[+++]ictions of the European Union.

The NDP members will be supporting the bill but we are urging the government today, and we will be doing the same at the justice committee when the bill gets there, to seriously consider augmenting this relatively modest number of additional judges and look at increasing the number more substantially in keeping with what we are hearing from the judicial councils, the bar associations and the law societies.