Sentences with phrase «constitutional affairs with»

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In normal times the people may be content with representation and constitutional judicial review, while they largely focus on private affairs; while at times of what Bruce Ackerman calls constitutional politics the level of civic action may become extraordinary (Ackerman, 1991).

@Machavity Case law has interpreted the constitutional prohibition on state level participation in foreign affairs more broadly although there are a few things are are permitted (e.g. sister city relationships, budgetary decisions with international implications).

Setting aside the many, many issues involved in this Senate letter affair, it is interesting to see the complete focus in the larger media debate on American constitutional requirements for treaties, largely with complete disregard to international law.

Tory MP and chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Bernard Jenkin, was among the senior parliamentarians to attend the event, along with his Conservative colleague Crispin Blunt.

In the last parliament, members of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee were astonished to learn that the transcript of our oral evidence session with the Chair and Chief Executive of The Kids Company charity was to be turned into a musical.

«I think it would be possible to look at Mr Gove's relationship with Mr Murdoch,» he told the Commons public administration and constitutional affairs committee.

The Government of Ghana had in an earlier statement signed by Foreign Affairs Minister Hanna Tetteh, condemned the coup of September 17, noting that it violates with impunity «the internationally brokered process to promote the principle of entrenching democracy and constitutional governance in Burkina Faso.»

Next month the Home Office will be split into two departments as the Department for Constitutional Affairs will become the Ministry of Justice to deal with criminal justice while the Home Office will be in charge of policing and counter-terrorism.

In the run - up to the 2015 general election constitutional affairs were centre - stage, the debate dominated by issues including Scotland's relationship with Westminster and Britain's place in Europe.

On 23 January 2018, the European Parliament Committee on Constitutional Affairs adopted a proposal to reduce the size of the hemicycle from 751 to 705, with 27 of former UK seats split between 14 underrepresented member states, with France to gain 5 seats, increasing from 74 to 79.

Election Day next month is shaping up to be a comparatively sleepy affair statewide, as ballot propositions for constitutional amendments, along with whether to hold a constitutional constitutional, the only issues all New Yorkers will face when they head to booth.

These included freeing the 99 % of British firms who do not deal with Europe from the burden of EU regulations, opting out of all 135 of the EU's justice and home affairs measures, and having «a general emergency pull - out where we can say no — a permanent constitutional opt out.»

The Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) is likely to implement proposals contained in today's report in the near future, with a consultancy paper on «transparency» in family courts expected shortly.

A Member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament, Rockson Dafeamekpor, today [Wednesday], walked out of a meeting to consider an agreement with the United States of America for a defence cooperation arrangement, that will allow them to have a camp in Ghana for its military forces.

My colleague Nicholas Watt is tweeting from the political and constitutional affairs committee hearing with Nick Clegg.

«An act to provide for the implementation of the constitutional rights to information held by a public institution subject to the exemptions that are necessary and consistent with the protection of the public interest in a democratic society to foster a culture of transparency and accountability in public affairs and to provide for related matters», the Deputy Attorney General submitted.

Now it is no longer in coalition the government has decided to abolish the committee and combine its remit with that of the existing Public Administration Committee (PASC)-- creating a committee on Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs.

Amid the Assembly's preoccupation with constitutional affairs, the financial crisis had continued largely unaddressed, and the deficit had only increased.

However, political sources in Northern Ireland with knowledge of the Commission's affairs have confirmed to openDemocracy that the substantial sanction was connected to the Constitutional Research Council (CRC)-- the secretive group that channelled the # 435,000 to the DUP in Belfast.

It needs be noted that the Constitutional Court, with reference to integration, ruled that recognised refugees can not be treated «as permanent residents because they are not in the same [legal] circumstances for the simple reason that they have yet to meet the requirements for permanent residence».21 The requirements include an onus placed on a refugee applicant to provide compelling reasons demonstrating that he / she will remain a refugee indefinitely, subject to an approval by the Standing Committee for Refugee Affairs (SCRA).

[UPDATED:] The language in these provisions was written by Ecuador's Constitutional Assembly with input from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a Pennsylvania - based group providing legal assistance to governments and community groups trying to mesh human affairs and the environment.

The purpose of the ministerial exception is to prevent constitutional problems of interference with church affairs.

On September 27, 2016, Paul Doroshenko of Acumen Law Corporation presented to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee with respect to a study the Senate is conducting on delays in Canada's Criminal Justice system.

Several of the independent experts appearing before either the Commons Committee on Justice and Human Rights or the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in the last session (3rd session, 40th Parliament) on criminal law amendments were concerned about the failure to provide additional funding concurrent with proposals that would increase the number of persons incarcerated at any one time.

With the firm since joining from Nsubuga & Company Advocates in 2012, Kalule works on banking, insurance and competition disputes, and has acted as a deputy judge at the Commercial Court of Uganda, while Gantungo, a former state attorney in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and the chambers of the attorney general, handles corporate matters and some disputes in the energy, oil and gas, mining, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and taxation sectors.

The Bill received second reading on June 16, 2014, and is now before the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights and pre-study with the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs.

The Constitutional Affairs Committee Report was published today along with a press notice emphasising its conclusion that the changes will place access to justice in serious risk:

Turning to the question as to whether the «honour of the Crown» could be invoked to override Canadian constitutional norms in the area of veteran's affairs, the Court disagreed with the Plaintiffs / Respondents position that the doctrine imposed a «generalized obligation on all servants of the Crown».

Daniels et al. v. Canada (Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development) et al. 2016 SCC 12 Administrative Law — Constitutional Law — Courts — Indians, Inuit and Métis Summary: The plaintiffs sought declarations (a) that Métis and Non-status Indians were «Indians» within the meaning of the expression «Indians and lands reserved for Indians» in s. 91 (24) of the Constitution Act, 1867; (b) that the Queen (in right of Canada) owed a fiduciary duty to Métis and Non-status Indians; and © that the Métis and Non-status Indian peoples of Canada had the right to be consulted and negotiated with, in good faith, by the federal government on a collective basis through representatives of their choice, respecting all their rights, interests and needs as Aboriginal peoples.

Only a few days after the Court of Justice of the European Union buried the hatchet in the so - called Taricco saga, the Italian Constitutional Court issued a decision that may inaugurate the most significant shift of its jurisprudence in European affairs since 1984, when the Constitutional Court fully accepted the principle of primacy of EU law and blessed the disapplication of national legislation incompatible with EU law.

It is fairly evident that the Committee tried to instrumentalize its FR in order to provide the other constitutional authorities (the Government and — most certainly — the Judiciary) with somewhat of a saving (or escaping) clause in order to overcome the stagnation caused by the Margellos doctrine and the ICJ's authoritative distinction between procedural conditions, such as the jurisdictional immunity of the defendant State, and the merits of the case, even if the contested affair involves grave violations of jus cogens norms.

It adds, «For these reasons, we would like to propose that our AFCO committee, as the committee responsible for Constitutional Affairs, organises a hearing with high level representatives from Facebook and from Cambridge Analytica as well as the whistleblower Christopher Wylie in order to get a proper understanding of the role this companies have played during the Brexit referendum campaign and in electoral campaigning.»

When considered in conjunction with Chapter 2 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Report 2009 and the Senate's Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee's 2013 Report titled «Value of a justice reinvestment approach to criminal justice in Australia», we will understand that solutions are within our grasp if politicians have the courage and willingness to embrace them.

NTRBs and NTSPs presented the Australian Government and the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee with options that would meet the Government's objectives and have less impact on the rights of Traditional Owners.

If, as a result of this repeal, the RDA can no longer be said to be consistent with or an implementation of ICERD then the constitutional basis of the RDA under the external affairs power is put into question.

The Attorney - General's Department informed the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee that it considered the Amendment Bill (No 2) to be consistent with the RDA, but admitted that it did not have legal advice to this effect.

In a review of the machinery of referendums, the Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs noted that the 1999 «Yes / No» booklet provided voters with only the minimum information needed to make an informed decision at a referendum.

The Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs proposed in its 1983 Report Two Hundred Years Later, the insertion of a clause in the Constitution along the lines of s105A in which the Commonwealth is empowered to make agreements with representatives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.