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LEGAL SERVICES COMMISSION [4 records]

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Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Provincial Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Penal Law
OBS

The Legal Services Commission is a Crown corporation established September 5, 1972. Name changed in 1980 to Commission des services juridiques when the Charter of the French Language was adopted, stipulating that only the French names of departments, services, agencies of the Government of Quebec were official. The Commission des services juridiques is under the jurisdiction of the ministère de la Justice.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités de gouvernements provinciaux canadiens
  • Droit pénal
OBS

La Commission des services juridiques est une société de la couronne établie le 5 septembre 1972. Elle relève du ministère de la Justice.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
CONT

The National Capital Commission(NCC) as well as Public Works and Government Services Canada(PWGSC) are of the view that measures other than legal recourse are preferred to ensure compliance with the language clauses of the leases. However, in cases where merchants continue to violate these clauses, the NCC and PWGSC will consider pursuing the matter through the courts.

OBS

proceedings in court: term usually used in the plural.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho procesal
DEF

[...] medios que la ley concede a las partes para impugnar las resoluciones judiciales.

OBS

También podemos definirlos como los medios que la ley confiere a las partes para obtener que se modifique o invalide una resolución. Si analizamos el conjunto de los recursos, llegaremos a la conclusión de que todos ellos persiguen la enmienda, modificación o invalidez de una resolución judicial, sea que la pidan al mismo tribunal que la dictó o al superior respectivo.

OBS

[...] El Sr. NN tendrá las siguientes facultades [...] desistirse de recursos o términos legales [...] aprobar convenios judiciales y extrajudiciales [...]

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Record 3 2012-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Provincial Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Social Law
OBS

The Legal Aid Act establishes the Saskatchewan Legal Aid Commission to provide legal services to persons and organizations for criminal and civil matters where these persons and organizations are financially unable to secure those services from their own resources.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités de gouvernements provinciaux canadiens
  • Droit social
OBS

Officiellement il n'y a pas d'équivalent en français. Information obtenue par l'Office de coordination des affaires francophones (OCAF) et le Bureau de la minorité de langue officielle (BMLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2009-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
DEF

[An] individual who is not in a fixed and permanent employment relationship but carry out individual commissions (usually not immediate succession) on the basis of contracts for services.

OBS

In this situation, the freelance is free to choose whether or not to accept a particular commission, but he or she has no automatic legal entitlement to be granted such commissions. Freelances are not in a position of personal subordination to the person commissioning their services and are therefore not employees, but in certain circumstances they may be classed as persons treated in law as similar to employee.

Key term(s)
  • free lancer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
DEF

Personne qui est rémunérée à la pige.

OBS

Pluriel : free lances. L'adjectif est par contre invariable.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Trabajo y empleo
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