In response to the Leading
Practice Agreements discussion paper I recommended that before introducing reforms to ensure the «sustainability» of native title agreements, the Australian Government should consult and cooperate in good faith in order to obtain the free, prior and informed consent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The Government has advised that it is currently considering submissions to the Leading
Practice Agreements discussion paper.
Not exact matches
A year ago, it negotiated an
agreement so that the company would sit down regularly with a committee of drivers for non-binding
discussions on how to improve dispatching
practices and other matters.
No activity or
discussion at any Association meeting or other function may be engaged in for the purpose of bringing about any understanding or
agreement among members that may violate or appear to violate the antitrust laws, including but not limited to raise, lower or stabilize prices; to regulate production; to allocate markets; to encourage boycotts; to foster unfair trade
practices; to assist monopolization; or to in any way violate federal or state antitrust laws.
Parker's paper furthers the
discussion of governance and good
practices in geoengineering research in the absence of both national legislation and international
agreement, a topic raised last year in Science by Keith and Edward Parson of UCLA.
Manuel Pulgar - Vidal, leader of WWF's global Climate & Energy
Practice, said: «It was encouraging to see that
discussions in Bonn were not around whether or not the Paris
Agreement was needed but rather about the details of its implementation.
The limited
discussion in the travaux préparatoires on this issue could be understood as suggesting that severability would be appropriate in cases where the matters in the award going beyond the scope of the
agreement were «secondary» in nature or which constituted, as one delegate put it, «a small detail» in the context of the rest of the award.825 In
practice, its application is much broader.826
Riyaz Dattu, a partner in the international trade and investment law
practice Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, says he is closely monitoring
discussions between trade officials from Canada, the United States and Mexico around the North American Free Trade
Agreement.
Speaker, «The Future of Investment
Agreements,» at Institute For Transnational Arbitration and University of California Boalt Hall School of Law colloquium on Investment Arbitration: Lessons From
Practice, A
Discussion Among Experts, Berkeley, California, January 12, 2007.
Thus, a hallmark of the Collaborative
Practice process is that
agreement is reached through
discussion, negotiation and compromise without the financial and emotional cost, aggravation and uncertainty of adversarial litigation at court.
Towards the end of the Reporting Period, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs and the Attorney - General announced that the Australian Government would release a
discussion paper which would «outline a package of reforms to promote leading
practice in native title
agreements and the governance of native payments».
[33] See Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission to Attorney - General and the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Discussion paper: Leading
practice agreements: maximising outcomes from native title benefits (30 November 2010), paras 72 — 74.
The
Agreements Discussion Paper also suggests that a way to encourage the adoption of governance measures is to mandate them or make any new tax benefit conditional on the adoption of the measures and leading
practice principles.
On 3 July 2010 the Australian Government released the Leading
practice agreements: maximising outcomes from native title benefits
discussion paper which outlined «possible reforms to the native title
agreement process».
See also: Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission to Attorney - General and the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Discussion paper: Leading
practice agreements: maximising outcomes from native title benefits (30 November 2010), [76].
Every aspect of Collaborative
Practice, from open communication to solutions - based negotiation, is intended to foster dignity and respect, When respect is given, self - esteem is more likely to be preserved, making
discussions more productive and an equitable
agreement more easily reached.
[6] Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission to the Attorney - General and the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs on the
Discussion Paper: Leading
practice agreements: maximising outcomes from native title benefits (30 November 2010).
The Commission considers that, in general, there may be merit in an
agreement containing the leading
practice elements suggested in the
Agreements Discussion Paper.
The Australian Human Rights Commission makes this submission in response to the Leading
practice agreements: maximising outcomes from native title benefits discussion paper (the Agreements Discussi
agreements: maximising outcomes from native title benefits
discussion paper (the Agreements Discussi
discussion paper (the
Agreements Discussi
Agreements DiscussionDiscussion Paper).
Discussion paper: Leading
practice agreements: maximising outcomes from native title benefits (2010)
Standard of
Practice 16 - 6 states that «When REALTORS ® are contacted by the client of another REALTOR ® regarding the creation of an exclusive relationship to provide the same type of service, and REALTORS ® have not directly or indirectly initiated such
discussions, they may discuss the terms upon which they might enter into a future
agreement or, alternatively, may enter into an
agreement which becomes effective upon expiration of any existing exclusive
agreement.»