Sentences with phrase «british system of law»

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The reform to the tax system signed into law by President Donald Trump on Dec. 22 will force the British lender to reduce the value of its deferred tax assets, prompting it to take a one - off charge in its results for the 12 months to the end of December.

The survey, conducted by the British defense company BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, found that U.S. firms in industries such as banking, technology, law, and mining are now spending up to 15 percent of their entire IT budgets on security.

What we have had in British political life under British common law is a procrustean class system, one of the most fixed in the world, confirming aristocratic and plutocratic class rule, rigidly preventing the overwhelming numbers of the lower class from gaining equality, representation in government, decent working conditions, the right to union organization, suffrage, and acceptable living standards until the end of the nineteenth century.

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A future UK implementation of Megan's Law is by far from a done deal, a Home Office minister has said, as fundamental differences exist between the US and British legal systems.

Ukip's Communities spokesman has said the party would not allow the Islamic system of Sharia law to operate in parallel to British law.

The aim of the visit was for students to enhance their knowledge of the court system and to help pupils to understand «British Values» such as law and democracy.

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Based as it is upon English Common Law, the British Honduran legal system is not too different in design from that of the United States and thus is quite comprehensible to us.

According to the United Nations, Kuwait's legal system is a mix of British common law, French civil law, Egyptian civil law and Islamic law.

The legal system in Cyprus is loosely based on British Law and therefore many of the things that happen will be familiar to British clients.

He points out that the system developed by Canada's law societies is a version of the British model with privileged information in complaints, investigations and audits remaining under the control of the law societies.

Bruce LeRose, president of the Law Society of British Columbia, provided the following statement to Legal Feeds: «The law society will study the report but notes on an initial review that Mr. Cowper has made a number of recommendations to address how he believes the justice system could be better managed and to identify the institutional elements he considers necessary for the system as a whole to succeLaw Society of British Columbia, provided the following statement to Legal Feeds: «The law society will study the report but notes on an initial review that Mr. Cowper has made a number of recommendations to address how he believes the justice system could be better managed and to identify the institutional elements he considers necessary for the system as a whole to succelaw society will study the report but notes on an initial review that Mr. Cowper has made a number of recommendations to address how he believes the justice system could be better managed and to identify the institutional elements he considers necessary for the system as a whole to succeed.

BT is a British multinational telecommunications services company with operations in around 180 countries and so Moira's role in the company is an integral cog in their system; she currently leads BT's human rights programmes and is particularly involved in the Business Network for the Rule of Law, to which BT is a founding member.

Firstly, as observed by the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the common law system of precedent, with the attendant benefits of clarity and predictability, depends on lower courts abiding by appellate courts» precedents.

What perhaps did not receive adequate attention by the Court of Appeal is that Obeah has an extensive history of persecution by the British Crown, specifically under the common law system, especially during periods of slavery and colonial discrimination.

Rise Women's Legal Centre provides an experiential learning opportunity for upper year students from the University of British Columbia's Peter A. Allard School of Law, in a non-profit, social justice environment, with a focus on the circumstances of women and their experiences within the justice system.

Why is it, then, that citation systems for law — whether the Harvard Bluebook, the Chicago Maroon Book, the Canadian McGill Guide, the British OSCOLA: Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities or the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive in scope?

While the question process can first appear to be quite simple, the expert system tool shows a high degree of autonomy and will steer a client through certain bespoke branches of questions until it has got all the answers it needs to provide the client with a provisional statement in relation to the Modern Slavery Act, which the British Government made law in part to prevent companies exploiting forced labour, often via foreign suppliers.

Although some criticisms of the statutory human rights system may be valid, and some jurisdictions have less comprehensive schemes than others (for example, human rights commissions are absent from the legislative schemes of Nunavut and British Columbia), the fact remains that the statutory human rights system has the potential to serve the public interest in ways that a private law model of tort or contract litigation does not.

The practice management advisor for the Law Society of British Columbia can easily rhyme off the traditional system's limitations and their ODR - based fixes by rote.

These free, all - ages events offer members of the public the opportunity to learn more about the law and the justice system in British Columbia, what the legal community can do for you, and the legal resources available within the Vancouver region.

Among her other writings were Privy Council, Cabinet, and Ministry in Britain and Canada: A Story of Confusion, Attitudes in the Philadelphia Convention towards the British System of Government, Constitutional law — citing Canada's Constitution — problems and proposed solutions; If the queen were to abdicate: procedure under Canada's constitution; Ontario's courts, 1867 - 1987: conflicts and confusion; Parliament, the Executive and the Governor - General; Parliamentary privilege in Canada; Robert's Rules of Order: editions, reprints, and competitors; The Canada Act 1982 — some facts and comments; The Judiciary in Canada: the Third Branch of Government, and Defining Constitution of the Province — The Crux of the Manitoba Language Controversy.

I have appeared in all levels of the British Columbia court system and have lectured in the community on all aspects of family law.

As the UK parliament is on the precipice of passing a new surveillance bill into law, one British engineer is trying to halt its progress through an anonymizing system that runs on top of the Tor anonymity network.

The recognition of native title by the High Court in 1992 was a recognition that law did govern Aboriginal society when sovereignty was acquired by the British and that Indigenous law was a subtle and elaborate system which provided a reasonably stable order of society.

In fastening the recognition of native title to a pre-sovereign system of Indigenous laws, every claimant group must satisfy a court that the contemporary expression of their culture, their religion and their economy does not emanate from Western laws created after the British acquired sovereignty, but only from Indigenous laws created prior to the acquisition of sovereignty.

... But what the assertion of sovereignty by the British Crown necessarily entailed was that there could thereafter be no parallel law - making system in the territory over which it asserted sovereignty.

[W] hat the assertion of sovereignty by the British Crown necessarily entailed was that there could thereafter be no parallel law - making system in the territory over which it asserted sovereignty.

what the assertion of sovereignty by the British Crown necessarily entailed was that there could thereafter be no parallel law - making system in the territory over which it asserted sovereignty.

This places limits on those rights and interests that will be protected under s223 (1) of the Native Title Act, the traditional laws and customs, is not a functioning system but one which ceased to operate from the time that British sovereignty was imposed.