Sentences with phrase «human rights law»

«Legal Reasoning and the Applicability of International Human Rights Standards during Military Occupation», in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law: Towards a New Merger in International Law, N. Quenivet and R. Arnold (eds.)

Human Rights Law Linda McKay - Panos Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault in the Workplace: Is this something new?

Antony is ranked in Chambers Global 2017 for Business and Human Rights Law, where he is described as «an outstanding lawyer in this area».

His expertise spans issues of state responsibility, treaty law, immunities from jurisdiction, justiciability and act of state as well as international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

Bartholomew then passed his masters degree in human rights law with merit at UCL and went on to pass his LPC with distinction at Nottingham Law School.

In addition, both types of institution are subject to human rights law, such as provincial and federal human rights legislation, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and international human rights instruments that Canada has ratified.

In brief, the approach conceives of investment treaty arbitration as a form of public law, and calls for tribunals to draw on comparative domestic constitutional and administrative law, as well as other regimes of international public law such as WTO law and human rights law, to give content to the often vaguely - worded standards of typical investment treaties.

This case was about whether the Downtown Ambassadors» removal of homeless people from public property in downtown Vancouver is discriminatory under human rights law.

«Reparation for Gross Violations of Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law at the International Court of Justice» in Reparations for Victims of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes: Systems in Place and Systems in the Making, C. Ferstman, M. Goetz and A. Stephens (eds.)

This site provides information about human rights law and civil liberties.

«Human Rights and the Laws of War under the American Convention on Human Rights», 6 European Human Rights Law Review 762 (2008).

Instead, plaintiffs are claiming violation of the New York City Human Rights Law, which recognizes disability as a protected class and offers broader protections.

«Under Ontario human rights law you can't have discrimination in the delivery of a service and there are various grounds of discrimination that are prohibited,» she says.

Similarly to the context of human rights law, ICS will therefore encroach on the powers of the EU courts to rule on questions of EU law.

The law firms are immune from human rights law.

Alex is a lawyer, with a Masters Degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex.

The firm practises in all areas of employment and labour law including human rights law, disability and accommodation, workplace investigations, employment litigation, privacy law, workplace bullying and harassment, collective bargaining, employment standards and workplace health and safety issues.

I'm an employment and labour lawyer, so I am often required to look at substance abuse issues through the lense of human rights law.

On the test the Court adopted, one is left wondering if there are not a lot of other employees who are now no longer covered by human rights law.

Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada Legal Services in the Modern Workplace March 2014 was one heck of a month for me.

This followed the 2015 Joint Declaration of UN and regional experts in the field of freedom of expression, which stated that network shutdowns or internet «kill switches» are measures which can «never be justified under human rights law».

Under existing human rights law, an employee who commits drug - related misconduct, refuses to admit that he or she has a substance dependency problem and / or to take any steps to address the issues does not need to be accommodated and can certainly let be «let go».

For example, it seemed at ease with the idea that it is appropriate to look at the jurisprudence under collective bargaining statutes to ascertain the meaning of employment for the purpose of human rights law.

Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada 2013 Clawbies Nominations It's Clawbies Season again!

In 2016, the Human Rights Council passed a resolution which unequivocally condemned measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online in violation of international human rights law, and called on all States to refrain from and cease such measures.

For many people, marriage is a religious act and this act will continue to be protected by human rights law.

In February, we posted a discussion with respect to how workplace political expression could go awry with human rights law.

The Top 25 Most Influential 2014 Always the most - read story of the year in Canadian Lawyer, the 2014 iteration celebrated some amazing lawyers in five categories: corporate - commercial law; changemakers; criminal and human rights law; government, associations, and non-profits including public inquiries and officers of Parliament; and the all - new world stage.

Labor and employment partner Matthew T. Miklave presented the program «An Overview of the New York State and City Human Rights Law» on August 22, 2014.

Emmeli Sundqvist is a trainee solicitor at James Murray Solicitors and is currently studying for an LLM with a dissertation in Human Rights Law at Liverpool John Moores University.

She has written various articles and appeared as a speaker on panels involving human rights law.

Labor, Employment, Benefits + Immigration Group lawyer Matthew T. Miklave presented the webcast «An Overview of the New York State and City Human Rights Law» on February 9, 2018.

While at UT, Ms. Dale - Ramos represented clients during immigration proceedings and served as a human rights law scholar.

He acts in all areas of labour, employment, and human rights law in both provincial and federal jurisdictions, regularly helping clients respond to wrongful and constructive dismissal claims, human rights complaints, and statutory entitlement claims.

Simone has a passion for writing and presenting on employment, labour and human rights law topics.

In addition to labour and human rights law, Will has a strong interest in criminal justice, both prosecution and defence.

Employment law and human rights law have protections for employees who take time off work because of injuries or sickness.

The New York State Human Rights Law prohibits discrimination in employment based upon an individual's record of conviction or arrest.

Accommodation under Human Rights Law The issue of accommodation is a cornerstone of human rights law.

The issue of accommodation is a cornerstone of human rights law.

«The federal government has abdicated responsibility to meet the most basic health care needs of vulnerable refugees and refugee claimants», said Audrey Macklin, Professor and Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Toronto, and a member of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.

Megan's practice is concentrated primarily in the areas of civil litigation, administrative law, labour and employment law and human rights law.

It revolves around a simulated court proceeding, in which teams representing both sides of the argument prepare written pleadings with respect to a fictional problem of international human rights law and policy, and present their arguments in an oral argument before the International Court of Justice.

Right now, the Severson / Golden majority decisions are only binding in the Seventh Circuit, and have no applicability to local disability statutes such as the New York City Human Rights Law which permits open - ended long term leaves as reasonable accommodations.

Dr Paula Gerber at the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law blog looks at the news that Australia is to have a national children's commissioner and observes that the review of Australia's implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the UN monitoring committee is scheduled to take place in just a few weeks.

Sir Noel Malcolm, Policy Exchange senior advisor, takes aim at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) this week in a study, «Human Rights and Political Wrongs: A new approach to Human Rights law».

Instead, it refers to a duty to accommodate — which duty is well founded in Ontario's human rights law (section 11 of the Ontario Human Rights Code — see how easy it is to cite authority for actual obligations?).

In order to assess its implication in international human rights law, we first need to look at the possible justifications for this citizenship - oriented approach.

Seen in context, it's clear that paragraph 8 of the commentary to section 6.3.1 (3) doesn't impose a duty on lawyers to promote equality, it does impose an obligation on lawyers, in fulfilling their duty not to discriminate, to accommodate employees and clients — consistent with Ontario Human Rights Law, which has the effect of promoting equality.

A final agreement on increased efforts was reached on 18 March 2016 — a request for documents made by Access Info concerning this later meeting forms the basis of the related case, Case T - 852 / 16 Access Info Europe v Commission — which has been subject to wide and intense criticism concerning its legality vis - à - vis international human rights law.