Sentences with phrase «courts of law often»

Courts of law often rely upon such definitions in settling cases.

Not exact matches

The oldest law school in Canada, McGill, ranks just under U of T. Its highly regarded law journal is cited by The Supreme Court of Canada more often than any other university - affiliated journal, and McGill law graduates regularly make up a quarter of The Supreme Court's annual clerkships.

He continued to try to coax provinces into voluntarily joining a national regulator, but also began drafting a law allowing Ottawa to regulate some of those broader risks the court mentioned, including murkier corners of capital markets like over-the-counter derivatives, often blamed for the much of the 2008 global credit meltdown.

They have joined civil liberties groups in demanding more transparency and insisting that information is turned over to the government only when required by law, often in the form of a court order.

This man» a former official of the Second Republic (the previous civilian government, overthrown by the military in 1983) who was once imprisoned by the current regime» told me that in many places in the north, where he often tries cases, Nigerian civil law has become a dead letter: judges regularly turn cases over to the sharia courts even if only one party to the case is a Muslim.

The US Supreme Court often applies two levels of scrutiny to laws that may discriminate against groups of people.

''... The churches do not offer solace and acceptance of the prevailing order; the schools can not maintain discipline over their pupils; the police and courts can not maintain orderly processes of action (they often infringe the very laws they are supposed to enforce); the hospitals can not cure; the jails burst at their seams; and, finally, the government itself fails to function with the respect and authority it requires.

First, the pictures of «judgement» have been drawn so often from law - courts and the like that they bear little relation to the Christian insistence on God as love.

Instead of having a high - conflict divorce, they may choose mediation or collaborative law instead of hiring pricy attorneys who often fuel the anger and going to family court, which is a disaster.

Even if the court strikes down the act, often referred to as «Obamacare», New Yorkers will continue to enjoy many of the consumer protections contained in the federal law, though the cost of health insurance could increase.

The Acting Chairman of the Commission, Hon. Abdullahi Bako, who made the presentation on behalf of the Commission explained that the amendment had become necessary given the fact that the Commission is restricted by its extant law to prosecute cases only in State High courts which has hampered its prosecutorial effectiveness because high profile defendants often wield substantial influence within a state.

It also demands the passage of laws guaranteeing renters an attorney in housing court, a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, more construction projects employing union workers and local residents, more supportive housing for people with HIV, and an end to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «cluster - site» housing — where the city paid landlords $ 3,000 a month to put up homeless families, often in deplorable conditions.

But while it's eager to satisfy the applicants that keep it in business, USPTO also has to respect often murky directions handed down from the courts, says Dan Burk, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.

Strong chapters on school desegregation, bilingual education, education for the disabled, and school finance all support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s, reform often emanated from... within the federal bureaucracy, from the lower federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and public interest law firms.»

When educational choice wins in the halls of state legislatures and the court of public opinion, opponents often turn to the courts of law.

Court resumed this week in the Vergara v. California case, a statewide lawsuit of nine California public school children looking to strike down the laws that limit schools from often doing what's best for kids when it comes to assigning who is teaching them.

The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a legal challenge of the state's voucher law, which allows students to attend private, often religious schools using taxpayer dollars.

The Supreme Court decision prediction algorithm is particularly interesting to me, not because I am an ex-lawyer, but because the language of law is language, not often plain, and seemingly irreducible to quantitative analysis.

Kajir has served as chief executive officer of the Environmental Law Centre in Port Moresby and was the lead attorney in a Supreme Court case aimed at stopping foreign timber companies» large - scale, illegal deforestation practices, often accompanied by threats of harm to local landholders who dare to challenge them.

«Federal courts too often have been cautious and overly deferential in the arena of environmental law, and the world has suffered for it,» she wrote in Thursday's decision not to dismiss the case.

Federal courts too often have been cautious and overly deferential in the arena of environmental law, and the world has suffered for it.

Lord Justice Leveson stressed that ordinary members of the public are often the objects of unfair scrutiny and unwelcome publicity in the media and are not well placed to assert their rights in a court of law.

One trick I often use is CanLII / IJCan, or even translated Supreme Court judgments on Lexum; I just do a word search in federal statutes or Quebec laws in CanLII (Because they are completely bi-lingual) and then click on the English version on the same statute or law, look for the same section or article and find the correct English version or French version of whatever legal term I am looking.

They are people who often have had no prior involvement with the justice system, who are recovering from the breakdown of a important romantic relationship, who find themselves at odds over the very things that matter most in their lives, and who have little to no knowledge of the law that applies to their dispute or the courts that will process it.

These are usually cleared up fairly easily, by providing the non-Native courts the law and authority upfront, but there are many jurisdictions that have no experience in Native American law and are often surprised when the see the complexity of the practice and the high quality of the work that is being done in tribal courts.

The Court further pointed out that as «the duration of an asylum procedure may be relevant and that, in particular in periods of substantial surges in applications for international protection, the time laid down by EU law are often exceed it» making the right to family reunification depend upon the moment when the asylum procedure is closed would de facto have the effect of nullifying that right and the protection under Article 10 (3)(a)(para 57).

Courts have often been reluctant to enforce such contracts — U.S. law at present is particularly unfocussed — and if the customer is seen to be prejudiced by the «smart» elements of the contract, courts may give remedies even in the face of automated execCourts have often been reluctant to enforce such contracts — U.S. law at present is particularly unfocussed — and if the customer is seen to be prejudiced by the «smart» elements of the contract, courts may give remedies even in the face of automated execcourts may give remedies even in the face of automated execution.

Private law librarians (ie, law firm librarians) are closely attuned to the practice in their firms, often specialized in one area of law (eg, labour or criminal or business law) and removed from the hurly - burly of court.

This is so because, in its previous case law, the Court often refers to the duty of solidarity in the context of the application of the loyalty clause stipulated in Article 4 (3) TEU (see e.g. Joined Cases 6/69 and 11/69, para. 16).

Our problem of unequal treatment arises from the fact that subsequently these interpretations are often only applicable to and thus relevant for the Member States, because the Court then «disapplies» the Convention for cases involving EU secondary law and the EU institutions, as you correctly state.

Managing Your Business to the Law's Demands: Even If a Text is Clear — Courts, Agencies Often Just Ignore It (Part II of II)

The ongoing debate [including on this blog] about the whether women in the law should conform to the dominant male legal culture often plays out as a question of what is the correct attire, in court, in the office and with clients.

Managing Your Business to the Law's Demands: Even If a Text is Clear — Courts, Agencies Often Just Ignore It (Part I of II)

We can often help reduce fines, court fees, and other legal costs so that it is financially beneficial to obtain the assistance of our law firm.

[1] My recent experience sitting as a single judge of this Court to hear motions has convinced me that there is a growing practice by unscrupulous residential tenants to manipulate the law improperly, and often dishonestly, to enable them to remain in their rented premises for long periods of time without having to pay rent to their landlords.

BC Injury Law And ICBC Claims Blog Subjective Soft Tissue Injuries And Judicial Scrutiny Last year I criticized the often recited judicial passage stating that «``... the Court should be exceedingly careful when there is little or no objective evidence of continuing injury and when complaints of pain persist for long periods extending beyond the normal or usual recovery...» and pointing out that these comments should no longer be used given Supreme Court of Canada's reasons in FH v. McDougall.

Put simply, these trial courts are faced with lengthy dockets with the pressure of trying to complete them in a sitting, often litigated by unrepresented defendants with little experience or knowledge of the substantive and procedural law, some quite upset about the perceived injustice in their case, in a crowded courtroom with perhaps less than ideal staffing or facilities.

And reasonableness is the applicable standard of review here ̶ the questions of law at issue are of «a very technical nature» which the CITT will often be better equipped than a reviewing court to answer.

In his essay, Cameron argues that while the Council of Europe standards in this domain may be too vague to provide meaningful safeguards, given the number of actors operating within a fragmented and often out - dated regulatory framework, stemming from the Council of Europe and the EU, the instruments adopted by the Council of Europe and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights still play a fundamental role in this domain.

In a Divisional Court decision released earlier this month, Justice Matlow noted the «growing practice by unscrupulous residential tenants to manipulate the law improperly, and often dishonestly, to enable them to remain in their rented premises for long periods of time without having to pay rent to their landlords» and called on the Ontario Government, the Landlord Tenant Board (the «LTB») and the Courts to respond.

Courts have built a body of common law holding that those standards are indeed only minimal and that employees are often entitled to significantly more.

As many of you know, there are often excellent newsletters and other bulletins on the law firm websites, especially on new or recent areas of law or important court decisions.

Thus, live - blogging may offer a nexus between conversations about the law both inside and outside the walls of the courtroom, functioning as an inclusive and interactive site for public debate not yet experienced in the often staid world of discourse about the courts.

Although the courts in the state in which the child is currently located have exclusive custody jurisdiction from their own perspective, if the child is taken to visit another country, the courts there will often have jurisdiction under the local law of that country to determine what is best for the child.

The decision is significant as it highlights the uncertainty solicitors face in trying to gauge the Court's interpretation of the Succession Law Reform Act, underscoring why mediation rather than trial is often the preferred route to settle estate litigation matters.

At Naqvi Injury Law, we are often able to help our clients avoid the stresses of court by negotiating a settlement with the property owner and his or her insurance providers.

There is a serious backlog of family law cases in Ontario courts and this often results in long delays.

In a situation where two different family law actions have been commenced dealing with the same parties — one in B.C. Provincial Court and the other in the Supreme Court of British Columbia — it is often the case that -LSB-... read full post]

SRLs just think that lawyers are manipulating the system to delay their matter and confuse them, and complain that when they bring forward something that they believe to be important to the merits (rightly or wrongly, and usually because they have read about it in a case or on a law website) they are regularly told that they are wasting the court's time (ironically, often because they are speaking to the merits, when the motion requires them to only address the colour of opposing counsel's socks).

In practice, international child custody cases often yield complex and messy conflicts between the laws and courts of different countries, demonstrating serious clashes of societal views about culture, religion, gender roles, parental rights, and children's rights, as well as of the role of the legal system in intervening in disputes about children.