Sentences with phrase «at common law with»

The court found that the transaction broker statute «unequivocally replaces the fiduciary duty owed by real estate brokers at common law with a more narrowly defined set of statutory duties.»

Not exact matches

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

It's increasingly common to find Narcan with law enforcement and on school campuses, thanks in part to Adapt's efforts to give the drug away or at a discount.

On the contrary, the strength of the enforcement devices, the clerical and moralistic character of the legal approach at large, the duty of disclosure, the close control exercised by the community upon the individual and upon the law, if compared with the analogous legal institutions of the Latin countries, seem to disclose rather a more collectivistic than a more individualistic character of the common - law system....

The Court's own case law shows that in order to maintain the abortion right at the level of fundamental law, many other sectors of the states» legal order, at both statutory and common law, need to be altered: family law, marriage law, laws regulating the medical profession, and, as we now see with the recent circuit court decisions, criminal laws prohibiting private use of lethal force.

Others, like Lerner with Common Cause, says the lobbying groups should have to reveal donors going back at least ten months, to when the new law was signed by Cuomo, on August 15, 2011.

The law states: «When the county executive delivers his annual report to the county legislature he should do so at a regular meeting... in accordance with long - standing practice and common sense.»

The Buffalo Common Council is again looking at a gender equality law for the city and city government, with a crowded public hearing Tuesday night in the Council Chambers.

At common law it is contempt, with intent to impede or prejudice the administration of justice, to publish material calculated to prejudice the fair trial of a pending imminent cause.

«The governor's point on reforming Common Core is that the (State Education Department's) implementation was flawed and therefore the solution is not to ask SED to fix the problem they created but rather pass a new law that revamps the system designed with all stakeholders at the table: administrators, teachers, parents, legislators, and education experts.»

Others, like Lerner with Common Cause, says the lobby groups should have to reveal donors going back at least ten months, to when the new law was signed by Cuomo, on August 15th, 2011.

He has denounced bloggers who denigrated clerks of his with law degrees from Creighton University, George Mason University, George Washington University, and Rutgers University — none an alma mater common at the high court — as «TTT,» or «third - tier trash.»

His point that we and the tent caterpillar must both comply with the laws of nature to thrive is compelling, but his comparatively minor contention that this somehow depends on recognizing our common ancestry with the tent caterpillar seems at odds with large chunks of his own observations.

Toying with other people's emotions and mocking at how they feel is immoral and condemnable by the laws of common sense.

Even within the 18 states with anti-bullying laws aimed at protecting both sexual orientation and gender identity, and within «blue bubbles» like California, both discomfort and neglect are common, according to Vincent Pompei, director of the Youth Well - Being Project at the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ civil rights organization in the U.S. Pompei noted that attendees at a recent training in Southern California couldn't differentiate sexual orientation from gender identity.

When it comes to health, safety and welfare of employees, school officials have a wealth of responsibilities, with Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act stating that employers have a general duty to provide a safe place of work, a safe system of work, competent fellow employees and the common law duty to ensure they take reasonable care for the safety and health of their employees.

The Common Law assignment writers associated with us have been recruited from the leading law colleges across the globe, and each one of them has significant work experience in guiding scholars at the different academic leveLaw assignment writers associated with us have been recruited from the leading law colleges across the globe, and each one of them has significant work experience in guiding scholars at the different academic levelaw colleges across the globe, and each one of them has significant work experience in guiding scholars at the different academic levels.

We asked Laura Paris, an associate with Shulman Law Firm in Toronto, and Sarah Dargatz, a partner at Latitude Family Law in Edmonton, to bust common divorce myths.

A common - law partner is defined as a person who has lived with you in a conjugal relationship throughout the 12 - month period that ends at that time, or who is the natural or adoptive parent of your child.

The family tax cut is a new non-refundable tax credit available for 2014 and later years if you have an eligible spouse or common - law partner and at least one child under 18 who ordinarily lives with you.

Common - law partner A person of the opposite or the same sex who has either cohabited with you for at least one year in a conjugal relationship or is the parent of your child.

** Exception: One might split eligible pension income with a spouse or common - law partner, which may reduce tax at the margin.

At the other extreme, drug and prostitution laws control behavior that has little to do with the common good.

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As such, parties used to other developed common law jurisdictions, such England & Wales, either as their domestic regime or as leading seats of arbitration they are familiar with, will feel at home and able to comfortably navigate the AO should Hong Kong law be chosen as the applicable curial (procedural law).

English common law is the most widespread legal system in the world with 30 % of the world's population living under its rule, according to new research by Professor Philip Wood, special global counsel at Allen & Overy, and author of Maps of World Financial Llaw is the most widespread legal system in the world with 30 % of the world's population living under its rule, according to new research by Professor Philip Wood, special global counsel at Allen & Overy, and author of Maps of World Financial LawLaw.

The strength of the English legal system is its adaptability to changes in society; as Lord Hope noted in Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd, «one of the strengths of the common law is that it can take a fresh look at itself so that it can keep pace with changing circumstances.»

As always with our money issue, readers will find the money theme running throughout the magazine from our always popular legal fees survey, «The going rate,» which looks at what lawyers are charging across the country for some of the most common legal work, to our legal reports on M&A and insolvency law.

Nine years later, in Presbyterian Church v. Hull Church, 393 U. S. 440 (1969), the Court held that Georgia's common law, which implied a trust upon local church property for the benefit of the general church only on the condition that the general church adhere to its tenets of faith and practice existing at the time of affiliation by the local churches, was inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and therefore could not be utilized to resolve church property disputes.

Similarly, the sentence «This will be in accordance with the provincial legislation for the province of employment» failed to limit the notice entitlement, since the Act allows for greater common law rights and the legislative provision refers to «at least» a specified number of weeks.

This program will provide an overview of the exceptions to the at - will doctrine, with particular focus on the public policy exceptions recognized under common law.

By working with an experienced family law attorney, you avoid common legal mistakes and ensure the correct documents are filed at the appropriate courthouse.

It replaces the common law defence of «fair comment» with the statutory defence of «honest opinion», and takes a potshot at «libel tourism» by providing that the courts should not deal with actions brought against non-UK or non-EU residents unless satisfied it is appropriate to do so.

The plaintiff had a common law relationship with the former husband of the defendant, and the defendant acknowledged looking at the plaintiff's bank information without just cause or reason on multiple occasions.

Trade dress / trademark covers non-functional aspects of a good that are associated with a brand of good to sell a product and can arise even without a public filing at common law.

The Luxembourg Court, in adherence to the great shift in thoughts aimed at protecting «the rule of law at the national and international levels», as the United Nations General Assembly urges (see UN GA Resolution A / RES / 67 / 2012), and intended to repress the crime of serious VAT fraud, with established an effective measure (i.e., the disapplication of national rules incompatible with Article 325 (1) TFEU, Article 2 (1) of the 1995 PIF Convention as well as Directive 2006/112 on the EU's common system of VAT, read in conjunction with Article 4 (3) TEU) which, alongside the guilty, condemns States defaulting and disrespecting EU law and the founding principles of the world legal order.

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Chris Longbottom, Partner in Family Law at Clarke Willmott LLP, discusses with Lawyer Monthly that there are common...

When the library at the University of British Columbia's Allard School of Law determined to switch from the Moys Classification, popular among non-Canadian common law libraries, to an LC classification, it decided to go with unmodified LLaw determined to switch from the Moys Classification, popular among non-Canadian common law libraries, to an LC classification, it decided to go with unmodified Llaw libraries, to an LC classification, it decided to go with unmodified LCC.

It is a common practice well known to practitioners and even discussed by law professors in class at time, but I'd have a hard time coming up with a reference where it was discussed.

This doctor's respect for confidentiality (based on the common law as set out in Gillick) is slightly at odds with the approach of social workers to «sharing» of information as urged by government guidance in Working Together to Safeguard Children (March 2015).

He gave a bravura display of the forensic powers of a common law judge at the top of his game: the European Court, he argued, began a line of authority with a decision where it «gave no explanation»; had no requirement to say anything («it was not a rule that was relevant to the facts of the case»); and heard no argument.

The 1999 SCC decision of M&H had already put the issue on the legal radar screen, and while the recognition of same - sex marriage wasn't at issue in that case (it dealt with rights as common law partners), it left little doubt as to where the court would go in the future, if need be.

So whatever else the Federation envisages as it moves to put legs on the next step of the national mobility scheme, viz coming up with some sort of nationally common approach to Bar admission, it owes it to everyone — to the provincial Law Societies (for whom the Federation is an agent), to the law professors (who are doing their best to prepare students for the profession of tomorrow), to the law deans (who often find themselves being the meat in the middle of the sandwich when it comes to relations between the academy and the profession), to the law students (who don't relish the rules of the game being changed part - way through) and, at the risk of sounding corny, to the rule of law in Canada — to move deliberately, but engagingLaw Societies (for whom the Federation is an agent), to the law professors (who are doing their best to prepare students for the profession of tomorrow), to the law deans (who often find themselves being the meat in the middle of the sandwich when it comes to relations between the academy and the profession), to the law students (who don't relish the rules of the game being changed part - way through) and, at the risk of sounding corny, to the rule of law in Canada — to move deliberately, but engaginglaw professors (who are doing their best to prepare students for the profession of tomorrow), to the law deans (who often find themselves being the meat in the middle of the sandwich when it comes to relations between the academy and the profession), to the law students (who don't relish the rules of the game being changed part - way through) and, at the risk of sounding corny, to the rule of law in Canada — to move deliberately, but engaginglaw deans (who often find themselves being the meat in the middle of the sandwich when it comes to relations between the academy and the profession), to the law students (who don't relish the rules of the game being changed part - way through) and, at the risk of sounding corny, to the rule of law in Canada — to move deliberately, but engaginglaw students (who don't relish the rules of the game being changed part - way through) and, at the risk of sounding corny, to the rule of law in Canada — to move deliberately, but engaginglaw in Canada — to move deliberately, but engagingly.

It would be a good article for lawyers in common law Canada to read, even if the Supreme Court hadn't cited it with approval in Clements at para. 14.

A fee simple is a common law phrase denoting the highest form of private ownership, with an unfettered right of assignment and survivorship: Re Forfar and Township of East Gwillimbury, 1971 CanLII 543 (ON CA), Ferguson v. Innes, 1894 CanLII 28 (ON CA), at para. 11 (at p. 10).

Federal defense attorneys must be adept at dealing with not only the federal sentencing guidelines; but also the numerous, draconian mandatory minimum sentencing statutes which distort and destroy the common law principal that «the punishment should fit the crime.»

Even where the employer has met these statutory minimums, the dismissal could still be considered wrongful if the notice provided is not reasonable in accordance with notice requirements at common law.

Of course it is probably simpler for everybody if our domestic law and our law applicable to international contracts were the same, so it is a fair question to ask if we should adapt our rules --- to the very small extent required, at least in common law jurisdictions --- to harmonize them with the Convention.

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