Sentences with phrase «english legal tradition»

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The English tradition of religious toleration, which is the source of our legal ideal of the free exercise of religion, arose in the wake of long and bloody religious wars to secure some peace among conflicting sects by keeping individual belief out of the state's reach.

A solution had to be found, but it would have to come from sources other than the old English order [that is, the «ancient realm or the Anglican tradition»] The deep - seated tensions of early seventeenth - century English society had to be solved by some rather novel rearrangements of political and legal institutions.

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.

This was a milestone in English - American legal tradition, because it not only established the power of the jury to find whatever verdict it wishes, without punishment, but also the rights of free speech and peaceable assembly.

As I said before I feel very privileged to be able to practise maritime litigation in a place like Gibraltar, which has such a rich tradition in this area, partly because of its geography, but also because of our practical and effective legal system which is based on the English legal system and which is so much more efficient than that of neighbouring countries.

Legal writing in plain English seems sensible, unless you're a lawyer that clings to tradition, and to your elite status as a lawyer.

Common - law countries share a tradition of publishing the «great encyclopedias (of legal research) which became, and remain today, authoritative and indispensable works of reference wherever English law is practiced».

There are two important reasons for which London is an international forum for dispute resolution: one, English law as the chosen law for international contracts, particularly in financial and maritime sectors; and two, a long tradition of legal practice with judges committed to promote London as a dispute resolution centre, as demonstrated by Mr Penadés in his article «Commercial Choice of Law in Context: Looking Beyond Rome».

Medical malpractice law, in Massachusetts and elsewhere, is part of the common law — the rich tradition of «judge - made law» that we inherited from our English ancestors and upon which we have embroidered our own legal doctrines.

The traditions of law publishing brands run deep and have great quantifiable value, few more so than of that other renowned work, not on this occasion from Butterworths but Sweet and Maxwell, Archbold, as we anticipate the possibility of litigation following the English Judicial Executive Board's decision that Blackstone's Criminal Practice rather than Archbold: Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice should be the standard legal reference work in the criminal courts.

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.

Different legal traditions There is the obvious distinction that one decision was under German law and the other under English law.