Sentences with phrase «as ordinary law»

... a human rights code is not to be treated as another ordinary law of general application.

4) As ordinary law - abiding, tax - paying citizens, we pay our taxes because we know it is the cost of maintaining a civil society including «free» public schools.

Not exact matches

According to Robert Crea and Elizabeth Crouse, who are experts on digital currency at the law firm K&L Gates, the IRS is likely to treat an air drop as ordinary income.

For law - abiding investors, however, the process of reporting digital currency profits — which are taxed as ordinary income in the short term and as capital gains in the long term — will be arduous since Bitcoin exchanges have yet to provide customers with a 1099 form.

A similar revulsion was recorded even earlier by the imperial Roman poet Virgil, who depicted an episode of the Roman civil wars as a victory of human law and ordinary human beings over «every kind of monstrous god and barking Anubis too.»

That is to say that there is no firm evidence whatever against, and an immense amount of evidence for, the view that the «ordinary» laws of physics and chemistry hold within the organism just as they do within a man - made machine.

It is a law but no ordinary law it is God's law or as Watchman Nee puts it God's governmental authority.

The laws of nature are the most general of contingencies now prevailing, and for ordinary purposes possibilities excluded by those laws are regarded as «only logically possible,» while possibilities not excluded by them (or by historical circumstances) are regarded as «really possible.»

Their goal was to help ordinary people become more observant of the law (both written and oral) as a way of affirming or reinforcing their Jewish identity.

At present Japan, the Philippines and Hong Kong are prominent examples where this power is vested in the ordinary courts, as is more commonly done in common law systems.

OF JUDGES AND PUBLIC STATEMENTS AND PUBLIC COMMENT Whilst dismissing the untrustworthy, deceitful, and opportunistic commentaries of these lawyers and social commentators, it is now necessary to return to our true enterprise: the exposition of the state of the law to ordinary Ghanaian citizens as best as we can.

Speaking at the event, paramount chief of the area, Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio, said the reason for honouring Nana Akufo - Addo with the stool was because of his sterling career as a human rights lawyer who stood for the rule of law and advocated for the rights of the ordinary Ghanaian.

They are the voices of the ordinary indigenes of the state who voted them to make law and serve as a check on the executive arm of government.

Ghana's laws make corruption a high - risk venture, but, in reality, many see it as a thriving venture where businesses evade tax, public officials receive bribes to facilitate transactions and ordinary citizens are compelled to offer bribes before basic services — including birth certificates, passports, driving licences, electricity meters — are delivered.

«So that someone can't say «I'm a lawyer, I represent ordinary people,» and then it turns out that his law partners say he doesn't do any legal work and is solely gaining money from referrals» (as was the case with Silver and is the case with other lawyer - legislators who are «of counsel» at law firms).

4.5.1 Ordinary Members of Council shall be the immediate Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Secretaries - General of the Constituent Organizations (if not already Officers as in By - Laws 4.1 and 4.2)

The two exceptions to the pasteurization law is when a grower can demonstrate a 4 - log reduction in Salmonella content through ordinary manufacturing processes such as enough dry roast or blanching.

Under current law, accreted market discount is taxed as ordinary income at the time a bond is sold or redeemed.

Tax laws pertaining to annuities recognize gain as ordinary income verses capital gains and this can result in a much higher tax load on any distribution of annuity proceeds.

This nugget of tax law states that if you purchase a bond at a discount and the discount is equal to or greater than a quarter point per year until maturity, then the gain you realize at redemption of the bond (par value minus purchase price) will be taxed as ordinary income, not as capital gains.

We wanted to create a fantastic world for an ordinary person to explore as themselves in the role of the main character, and VR delivers that experience in a way never before so fully realized,» said Justin Pappas, creative director of Albino Lullaby and Founder of Ape Law.

Denialists try to give the impression that they have the law enforcement as well as intelligence agencies behind them, but really they are scared of emails from ordinary members of the public like me.

As ordinary individuals, we experience the laws of nature at a high level.

«Concurrent jurisdiction over lawyers, shared between superior courts and law societies, is an ordinary aspect of the dual identities of lawyers as officers of the court and members of a regulated profession,» she wrote.

The images used in the most law firm websites are so poor in imagination that when a firm uses anything out of the ordinary it is seen as a revolution.

81 The parties disagree, however, as the inferences to be drawn from the inapplicability of ordinary law rules governing compulsory administration or winding - up to [EICCs] with a view to determining whether there is a State guarantee in favour of La Poste.

As just a brief sampling, in «The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un) Corporate Practice of Law» [2] and «Life in the Law - Thick World: The Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans» [3](with Jaime Heine), Hadfield uses empirical evidence to demonstrate that there can never be enough pro bono (free) legal work or enough money for legal aid that could even come close to satisfying the huge unmet need for legal services in the US.

On November 9, Apple filed a reply declaration by a professor from Toronto, Karan Singh, who went to the offices of Quinn Emanuel, Samsung's law firm in this dispute, to look at the workaround code and while «Samsung failed to provide a full code tree or folder as it would typically be kept in Samsung's ordinary course of business» (and as Samsung apparently did earlier in this litigation), saw enough code to opine that «the modified code [he] reviewed demonstrates continuing infringement of the» 915 patent».

As a lawyer, I find it outrageous that federal law enforcement would assume unbridled power to investigate ordinary citizens free from the check of judges and lawyers.

The Bill of Rights was enacted as an ordinary statute of the Parliament of Canada applying only to federal laws.

If, as our survey demonstrates, ordinary lawyers commonly confront the need to access law from other jurisdictions, then LRW courses should introduce students to the means of doing that necessary task.

Law Society president Linda Lee said the government's current proposals «will increase overall costs to the state as downstream costs arise when legal problems aff ecting ordinary people are unresolved».

«There seems to me to be room to question whether the ordinary rules of client privilege, appropriate enough in other circumstances, should apply to a law officer's opinion on the lawfulness of war; it is not unrealistic in my view to regard the public, those who are to fight and perhaps die, rather than the government, as the client.»

That would continue the law as we know it for ordinary but - for causation (except in British Columbia and maybe Nova Scotia where, if the plaintiff is also at fault, each of the wrongdoer's liability becomes proportional, only.

Regrettable, actually, as we've been arresting terrorists under the existing laws, through plain ordinary good police work...

This applies to legal aid as it does for court and tribunal fees because if ordinary members of the public do not have the practical means of resolving disputes, respect for the rule of law and our democratic society is liable to break down.»

[13] When read in the context that Professor St. Lewis had agreed to undertake a review of the SAC report which alleged systemic racism in the academic fraud process and that she was providing her evaluation of that report as a lawyer, law professor and expert in the field of Human Rights and Research, the words in their natural and ordinary meaning would more than likely be considered defamatory by the ordinary fair - minded individual.

At the same time, however, in common law and in accordance with codes of conduct, the prosecutor is said to be a «minister of justice» and «as more a «part of the court» than an ordinary advocate» (Delchev, para. 64 - 65).

As Gold says, «it is normal and ordinary to feel stress, and even trauma, while practising law.»

If they would not give evidence, dangerous criminals would walk free and both society and the administration of justice would suffer; (ii) it was settled law that the paramount object had always been to do justice and that if, in order to do justice, some adaptation of ordinary procedure was called for, it should be made, so long as the overall fairness of the trial was not compromised; (iii) recent case law supported the adoption of protective measures; (iv) the Strasbourg jurisprudence, properly understood, did not condemn the use of protective measures; and (v) the defendant was protected from the risk of unfairness by the prosecutor's duty of disclosure.

It raises a fundamental question: are law firms like ordinary businesses, which may protect as privileged communications between employees and in - house lawyers seeking legal advice, or does lawyers» status as fiduciaries for their clients mean those communications should be treated differently?

Whereas the WJP's flagship WJP Rule of Law Index ® offers aggregate rule of law scores, the two new reports present disaggregated question - level data as a series of thematic briefs to highlight different facets of the rule of law as it is experienced by ordinary citizens in Afghanistan and PakistLaw Index ® offers aggregate rule of law scores, the two new reports present disaggregated question - level data as a series of thematic briefs to highlight different facets of the rule of law as it is experienced by ordinary citizens in Afghanistan and Pakistlaw scores, the two new reports present disaggregated question - level data as a series of thematic briefs to highlight different facets of the rule of law as it is experienced by ordinary citizens in Afghanistan and Pakistlaw as it is experienced by ordinary citizens in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

And, unsurprisingly, he challenged the exclusive use of traditional sources, such as state - enacted law and appellate court decisions, in teaching materials, quipping, «what effect, if any, do appellate decisions have on the way ordinary people live their lives»?

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court of Oklahoma struck down an onerous medical malpractice «affidavit of merit» law, noting that it created «a new subclass of tort victims and tortfeasors knows as professional tort victims and tortfeasors» and an «out of the ordinary enhanced burden on them to access the courts.»

The problem is simply stated as follows: Develop a principled approach to reconcile traditional accounts of the rule of law with the modern reality that administrative agencies and statutory tribunals who do not operate like or resemble the ordinary courts but who nevertheless occupy a large amount of space in our legal system and can not avoid making legal determinations in exercising their statutory duties which often implicate individual rights and interests to a greater extent than judicial decisions.

The Court of Appeal held that, although an agreement pursuant to which R bet as A's agent using A's money was void under the Gambling Laws, if R misappropriated A's money for his own purposes, A was entitled to recover it under the ordinary principles of restitution.

I've greatly appreciated and learned much from many of her articles, such as «The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un) Corporate Practice of Law,» «Life in the Law - Thick World: The Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans» (with Jaime Heine), and «Legal Barriers to Innovation: The Growing Economic Cost of Professional Control Over Corporate Legal Markets.»

Henderson said he is studying different examples of how innovators in the law are seeking to have their ideas adopted, such as a legal group trying to solve the problem of banks and private equity firms paying too much for ordinary contract services.

The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written: — I mean the law - copyists or scriveners.

On their arrival in Canada as landed immigrants, should Canada take the position that their marriage is invalid on the basis of the ordinary rules governing conflicts in family law?