Sentences with phrase «absence of evidence to the contrary»

However, in the absence of evidence to the contrary the Pauline authorship is still a real probability.

Decision: In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the Commission reiterates its earlier finding that the evidence do not show that the Respondent influenced the award of the two contracts won by Djibril Kanazoe or his company, Oumarou Kanazoe Construction Limited.

For such purposes, compensation (as so defined) paid in a calendar year before 1978 shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be presumed to have been paid in equal proportions with respect to all months in the year in which the employee rendered services for such compensation.

The artist uses censorship as a point of departure, raising doubt in the Quran's «suraths» (phrases) in In the Absence of Evidence to the Contrary, and writing his manifesto on horse - jumping poles in Obstacles, Coma, Warning.

As an abundantly necessary precaution, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, it must be presumed that they do, given the refusal of the Council to take disciplinary action against CGSB so as to protect the public, as well as the Council itself, from the drafting and proclamation of such inferior NSCs.

A young person is defined in the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) as a person who is or, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, appears to be twelve years old or older, but less than eighteen years old and, if the context requires, includes any person who is charged under the YCJA with having committed an offence while he or she was a young person or who is found guilty of an offence under the YCJA.

Ontario's provision (which has been mentioned on Slaw) makes an official copy usable as Ontario law in the absence of evidence to the contrary.

«In the absence of evidence to the contrary, I must conclude that Santa Clara courts determine for themselves, using California law, whether they have territorial competence over any given proceeding,» wrote B.C. Chief Justice Robert Bauman on behalf of the unanimous three - judge appeal panel, noting that Douez had the option of hiring an expert on California law to opine on the matter.

(18) In the absence of evidence to the contrary, a person is deemed to receive anything delivered by ordinary mail under clause (2)(d) on the fifth business day after the day the document is mailed in accordance with clause (2)(d).

(5) In the absence of evidence to the contrary, a person is deemed to receive anything delivered by letter mail under clause (2)(d) on the fifth business day after the day the document is mailed in accordance with clause (2)(d).

Thus, the Ontario Evidence Act states that «in the absence of evidence to the contrary», proof of a conviction in Canada is proof that the crime was committed.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, «a child of fourteen is sufficiently mature to express a view» as to why the child objects to being returned (at para 17).

Indeed, irrespective of the residential arrangement, it is possible to presume, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the recipient parent's fixed costs have remained unchanged and that his or her variable costs have been reduced only modestly by the increased access.

In particular, it examines the ABCA's conclusion that expert evidence as to a child's level of maturity to object to his or her prompt return to the country of habitual residence is not a requirement (in the absence of evidence to the contrary) under the Hague Convention's prompt return mechanism.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary it was not for the appeal tribunal to interfere with this.

That evidence is, of course, far from conclusive but, as the motion judge suggested, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, it is capable of supporting an inference that Dr. Gehl's father's situation satisfies the two - parent rule, and that he therefore had full status.

In these circumstances, very little affirmative evidence on the part of the plaintiff will justify the drawing of an inference of causation in the absence of evidence to the contrary.

The legal or ultimate burden remains with the plaintiff, but in the absence of evidence to the contrary adduced by the defendant, an inference of causation may be drawn although positive or scientific proof of causation has not been adduced.

«In the circumstances of an historical claim such as this one, it is sufficient for the claimant to provide some evidence capable of giving rise to the inference that an unknown father may have had status, which constitutes sufficient proof of paternity for the purposes of the legislation, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary.»

It contemplates a document on paper with an impressed seal and an ink signature — all of which are then self - authenticating (in the absence of evidence to the contrary).

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, this was proof of the requisite intent for the offence».

(2) Any certificate purporting to be under the seal of the Minister and signed by a person authorized by or under subsection (1), or any certified copy, shall be received in evidence in any prosecution or other proceeding as proof, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, of the facts so certified without personal appearance to prove the seal, the signature or the official position of the person appearing to have signed the certificate.