Sentences with phrase «argue against the defence»

As a result of that omission, Abdi appealed and somewhat surprisingly the Crown did not argue against the defence submission.

Not exact matches

I would argue that our standard line of defence against inflation is not Index - Linked government bonds as suggested, but is actually our diversified stock portfolio.

The original charges against Giuseppe Profiti had been embezzlement, but the court convicted him of a lesser offence of abuse of office after the defence argued the money was intended as an investment to benefit the hospital.

True wenger messed it up, that i can't argue with you, just how it was done is where we differ, as you think sanogo should have come off when we were a man short, i on the other hand think ozil should have been that player, why, cause defensively, he is our weakest link, and at 10 against 11 you already know your back is against the wall, so defence becomes a priority.

In his submission, the defence counsel Chief Kanu Agabi (SAN), argued that there were omissions of essential elements in the charges against his client.

Meanwhile, politicians from Scotland of all stripes, where many contracts and defence industries are based, have made their case to the defence secretary against cuts - arguing that the result would be drastic economic decline.

Argued forcefully against the country turning its back on the world and delivered a passionate defence of migrants paying taxes for services in Britain.

Some argue that carefully targeted strikes against the regime's military assets — air defences, command and control centres, and bases of Assad's elite Republican Guards — could weaken the regime sufficiently to engage in meaningful talks aimed at a political settlement.

Having retired on top after making 9 defences of his title against strong contenders you could argue there's little left for him to prove.

The Economist magazine in its 26 February 2014 article CAPE Fear printed a good summary of James Montier's article A CAPE Crusader ─ A Defence Against the Dark Arts (available on the GMO.com website — registration required) where James argues that the US markets are overvalued and that the Shiller PE may even be underestimating this undervaluation.

Science, if anything, has the defence that objective measure can be used to argue against subversion, as it never can be in religion, politics or morality.

So, when politicians and victim's advocates claim that defence lawyers have a conflict of interest in arguing against get - tough - on - crime - policies, they've got it all backwards.

[99] I reject the Defendants» argument that by abandoning their defence to the Counterclaim, the Edwards Plaintiffs are thereby disentitled to argue against the Defendants» claim for indemnification for costs based on the terms of the VIA.

Essentially, a defence of self - defence can be raised in domestic abuse cases where the accused argues that they reasonably believed there was a serious threat of harm being applied against them or another person, that the act they are committing in self - defence is actually intended to be in self - defence and that the act that was committed is reasonable considering the situation.

She argued that sections of the Criminal Code were unconstitutional because they infringed the right to be presumed innocent, the right against self - incrimination, and the right to make full answer and defence.

South West Strategic Health Authority served a defence and a Pt 20 claim against the boat company, arguing that the Athens Convention applied to the trip.

Prof. Brian Slattery argues that the Court is actually the third line of defence against Charter violations: the drafters have an obligation to work within the framework of the Constitution and parliamentarians, in both Houses, have a duty to pass only legislation that is plausibly constitutional.

After successfully arguing against the Crown's Khan Application, which sought to introduce the complainant's videotaped statement into evidence, Defence Lawyer John Navarrete convinced the Crown that there was no reasonable prospect of conviction.

In its defence, the Province argued that: (a) The Brentwood bid was compliant with the terms of the RFP; and (b) even if the the bid was materially non-compliant, the RFP contained an exclusion clause which prevented Tercon from advancing a claim against the Province.

Over the years CCLA intervened in a number of security certificate cases before the Supreme Court of Canada, to argue against the use of secret evidence, and the inability of the Named Individual to know the case against them and make full answer and defence.

In vain I argued that the defence of lawyers against gross interference with their freedom to conduct their professional responsibilities could not be equated with the political partisanship which frightened Sir David and his colleagues.

It could be argued that in this role, defence lawyers are the most ethical lawyers because they uphold the administration of justice even when societal beliefs are against them.