Sentences with phrase «allegations of bias by»

A recent Federal Court decision that addressed allegations of bias by an adjudicator hearing a case under the unjust dismissal provisions of the Canada Labour Code provides more comfort to adjudicators who engage in med - arb.

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On Tuesday morning, VP of Search Tom Stocky wrote a post denying the allegations of political bias, adding that Facebook's team of news curators merely shepherd topics already identified by its algorithm.

The defendants said since the allegation of bias is currently subject of scrutiny by the NJC, there is no guarantee that the Judge will be fair if he continue to preside over the case.

During the latter stages of the campaign there were further allegations by some independence supporters that the BBC — the UK's national broadcaster — was biased against Scottish independence.

The president also promised not to be bias with anti graft war, when asked about the status of his anti-corruption efforts and why no one in his administration has been arrested by the EFCC despite allegations of corruption.

He said the affidavit of «concerned citizens» filed by Saraki to prove the allegation of bias against him was unknown to law.

A lawyer for the Trump transition team said Mueller's investigators improperly reviewed some emails from transition officials, an allegation that comes amid charges of bias by the special counsel's probe.

«Allegations of political bias, whether justified or not, are almost inevitable given the attorney general's seemingly contradictory positions,» today's report by the Constitutional Affairs Committee said.

For example, a United States court held that the mere fact that the tribunal President and the counsel of one of the parties both served on the same board of directors and were members of the same organization was insufficient to justify a refusal, where the party bringing the challenge had provided no evidence that they had otherwise communicated with each other.889 A Hong Kong court has equally affirmed this high burden of proof, finding that the party opposing enforcement had failed to prove its allegation that the tribunal's deliberations had been affected by the alleged bias of one member.890

Beaudoin J. held that he did not have a conflict of interest and was not biased, but given the allegations made by Rancourt involving his personal grieving over the loss of his son, he was unable to continue and decide the remaining matters involving Mr. Rancourt with impartiality given the statements made by Mr. Rancourt on July 24, 2012.

The Judge ruled that the Council had the power to investigate the allegations under s. 28 of the Localism Act 2011 and other provisions, and dismissed claims that the Council's process was vitiated by actual or apparent bias because of comments made by an external investigator.

Third, the Committee notes the allegations of bias raised by ACJ Douglas at the Federal Court that were not raised before the Committee and judges those allegations to be groundless (para. 15 - 22).

Failure to raise an allegation of bias at the first opportunity will be regarded as a waiver of bias by the party that fails to raise it.

The court noted that the third area of proposed questioning was not relevant, since a continuing relationship to the former firm was not part of the allegation of apprehension of bias raised by PowerServe.

Litigants (sic) pointed to a presumed gender bias in the courts, unethical practices by lawyers, procedural flaws, credence given to false allegations of abuse, parental alienation without consequences, and inadequate enforcement of orders and agreements.

These professionals usually fail to recognize domestic violence because of their lack of training, unfamiliarity with up - to - date research, bias, belief in the myth that women frequently make up false allegations of abuse to gain an advantage in litigation and the manipulation by the abuser.