Sentences with phrase «british legal tradition»

But there will be a couple of modifications: firstly, on British troops serving abroad during a conflict, and secondly to tilt the balance of rights more towards a British legal tradition, for instance by emphasising free speech over privacy.

Opponents say the plans tread on hallowed British legal traditions of open justice and make a mockery of coalition claims to defend civil liberties.

Not exact matches

As we'll be discussing next week at Relativity Fest London, English and American courts have borrowed much from each other — Americans, of course, borrowing more legal tradition from their British cousins than the other way around.

We do provide legal services in a certain tradition (of our British forbears, as transplanted in this part of North America), and affinity for a historic name evidences a respect and admiration for that tradition as well as a desire to carry it forward.

Girard details how nineteenth - century British North American lawyers created a distinctive Canadian template for the profession by combining the strong collective governance of the English tradition with the high degree of creativity and client responsiveness characteristic of U.S. lawyers — a mix that forms the basis of the legal profession in Canada today.

Finally, and most importantly, in some civility cases, such as the Laarakker case out of British Columbia, the law societies targeted lawyers who, quite frankly, were acting in accordance with justice and the finest traditions of the legal profession.