Conflicts over priorities are resolved in the business world — the client world — every day, and I think it's only a matter of time, and a lot of agonizing over ethics, before lawyers come to do the same thing.
Not exact matches
Three veteran members of the NYC Council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus — Annabel Palma, Fernando Cabrera and Inez Dickens — said they were resigning from the group, citing ongoing
conflict over the caucus» voting process for its budget
priorities in the upcoming fiscal year.
Maladaptation or greenhouse gas mitigation efforts at odds with local
priorities and property rights may increase the risk of
conflict in populations, particularly where institutions governing access to property are weak, or favour one group
over another (Barnett and O'Neill, 2010; Butler and Gates, 2012, McEvoy and Wilder, 2012).
First, the member state could argue that its obligations under EU law take
priority over its BIT obligations, in which case the
priority of one obligation
over the other can only be established by applying
conflict rules, but such arguments have not been raised in intra-EU arbitrations (apart from
conflict arguments challenging the jurisdiction of the tribunals which is a different matter).
Three dissenting judges found no violation of Art. 6 ECHR, because they assumed that
priority must be given to the Security Council resolutions
over conflicting human rights obligations, by virtue of Art. 103 UN Charter.
However, in Eweida it was held that, on the facts of that case, the right to manifest religion should be given
priority over the right business's
conflicting right.
The supremacy principle is that when the domestic law of a member state
conflicts with EU law, it is EU law that takes
priority: «From an EU law perspective, the principle is an uncompromising one: the CJEU [Court of Justice] has confirmed that EU law has
priority over all forms of domestic law, including provisions found in Member States» constitutions and in constitutional bills of rights.»
Consequently, if scheduling
conflicts arise, work on a clinic case must take
priority over extracurricular activities (such as moot court).