Sentences with phrase «at in the legal context»

Also a Canadian guy called Lorne Sossin has looked at in the legal context.

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While the Huffington Post had no qualms about labeling the Lankao home illegal, a closer look at China's local culture suggests that the black / white, legal / illegal dichotomy which presupposes so much of our (Western) thinking about society, is not apposite in the Chinese context.

I understand yhat your primary objective is to get at the numbers to either validate or falsify, and that you do not wish to [snip] However, if you view this in the context of other occupations; say legal or medical, the actions taken by Team members (regardless of intent) would undoubtedly be met by censure,... [snip]

In this context both sides believe that, while striving for final legal agreement, an agreed outcome at Copenhagen should, based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, include emission reduction targets of developed countries and nationally appropriate mitigation actions of developing countries.

At a minimum, marketing in the legal context means making current and potential clients constantly aware of who you are and what kind of legal work you do.

To put you in context, this is in my view a good book for those among us who were fascinated by the «fragmentation of international law «debate starting (or at least becoming one of THE topics) in the 2000s; who have perhaps read Koskenniemi's report for the International Law Commission or other literature on the topic (legal pluralism, Pauwelyn's Conflict of Norms, you name it); who find themselves now stuck in one of the boxes and / or compartments of international or EU law; and who probably would love an update and overview over where we stand today.

Two blog posts in the last month at Stem Legal's Law Firm Web Strategy blog have focused on social media in the law firm enterprise context.

-LSB-...] STEM Legal — «Following on my last post, which looked at the uses of Facebook for law firms, I thought I'd review the uses of Twitter in the law firm context.

In a legal context, READ AND DO checklists would be used at the outset or at some point during a matter (for example, when starting to draft an agreement or pleadings), while a PAUSE AND CHECK list would be used before some important milestone (for example, immediately before the beginning of a trial or a closing).

Our research found that while most lawyers would have looked at Google Earth, most of them had no understanding of the evidential opportunities these technologies presented and had never considered using such imagery in a legal context.

Legal opinions in this context may also reveal defenses to enforcement that may exist at the outset, as well as point out potential problems to enforcement that may arise later.

Following the Magna Carta, there gradually developed a «connotation that at least a minimal degree of legal procedures — those that insure a fair hearing, especially the opportunity to be heard before a neutral decision - maker — must be accorded in the context of the judicial process.»

In order to assess whether an arrangement reveals a «sufficient degree of harm to competition», one should look at the content of its provisions, its objectives and its economic and legal context.

We increasingly received calls at UCL from lawyers and regulators asking how to get images and, spotting a gap in the market, we founded the company to provide a link between the imagery and those working in a legal and evidentiary context.

By integrating writing and doctrine in the first semester, we are sending a message to our students, at outset of their legal education, that there is no real divide between analyzing legal doctrine and the writing that communicates that analysis.54 By writing within a doctrinal context, students are able to see the ways in which the law and how it is structured influence their writing choices.55 Moreover, students tend to develop a deeper understanding of the connected doctrinal course because of the writing that occurs in that doctrinal area.56 Thus a number of the benefits that result from integrating the two courses arise from the synergies that come from teaching both courses together.57 What follows are some specific synergies that I have observed in teaching the integrated LA&W and Introduction to Torts courses.

The key here for us is to engage directly with the legal team, in - house counsel and / or the partners working on the matter to present the technology in the context of the case at hand.

We are skilled at presenting our clients» positions in a context that facilitates the Supreme Court's resolution of a broad legal issue presented, while also advancing our client's interests in the particular case.

This conference provides a timely opportunity to look again at the impact of technology on family legal practice in the context of a fast - moving legal services market.

I looked at Andrew Sullivan the political blogger, alongside David Allen Green and Adam Wagner, in the context of legal blogging here.

But Garner, in The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, suggests that legal writers use pronoun pairs «sparingly,» and not «at all if you must repeat the pronouns in the immediate context.&rLegal Style, suggests that legal writers use pronoun pairs «sparingly,» and not «at all if you must repeat the pronouns in the immediate context.&rlegal writers use pronoun pairs «sparingly,» and not «at all if you must repeat the pronouns in the immediate context.»

Recent research in law and psychology — particularly the research highlighted by The Situationist blog published by the Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School — emphasizes how context affects people's understanding and use of legal information.

At the same time as the justices in Re A were briefly deliberating, seven justices (Lords Neuberger, Clarke and Reed were common to both constitutions) were addressing the subject of privilege in the context of legal advice (R (Prudential plc and anor) v Special Commissioner of Income Tax [2013] UKSC 1: legal advice privilege does not apply to advice on law given by accountants).

When one takes a step back from the Philly opinion and looks at it in the context of the larger legal issue, it becomes clearer that while it is certainly possible for a lawyer to violate an ethics rule while using social media, it is the lawyer's conduct, not the medium, that will likely be at the heart of the issue.

at 760 («In the context of an organization's internal investigation, if one of the significant purposes of the internal investigation was to obtain or provide legal advice, the privilege will apply.

Following up on yesterday's news that the legal sector gained 1,000 jobs in September, I have done some research to look at the jobs gap in the legal market to give some context to the gain of 1,000 jobs.

Usually, when we think of outsourcing (or offshoring) to India, it's in the context discussed by Ron Friedmann in this post at Prism Legal, i.e., where lower level or routinized tasks like document review or billing are performed by overseas workers.

The Circles of Learning Indigenous Awareness Workshops are a new offering by Portage College Public Legal Education Program and are aimed at creating safe learning environments for participants to gain understanding of the historical and contemporary contexts of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

In my paper, I offer three important textual constraints that courts have, at times, ignored or marginalized: first, that the interpretation of section 7 should not extend beyond the protection of «Legal Rights» — meaning that it should only be applied in the context of the administration of justice; second, that a law should only be struck down where it «deprives» an individual of life, liberty or security of the person; and third, that the principles of fundamental justice should only concern the very basic tenets of the legal systeIn my paper, I offer three important textual constraints that courts have, at times, ignored or marginalized: first, that the interpretation of section 7 should not extend beyond the protection of «Legal Rights» — meaning that it should only be applied in the context of the administration of justice; second, that a law should only be struck down where it «deprives» an individual of life, liberty or security of the person; and third, that the principles of fundamental justice should only concern the very basic tenets of the legal syLegal Rights» — meaning that it should only be applied in the context of the administration of justice; second, that a law should only be struck down where it «deprives» an individual of life, liberty or security of the person; and third, that the principles of fundamental justice should only concern the very basic tenets of the legal systein the context of the administration of justice; second, that a law should only be struck down where it «deprives» an individual of life, liberty or security of the person; and third, that the principles of fundamental justice should only concern the very basic tenets of the legal sylegal system.

Hi Brian, You posted: «After decades of silence — talk about legal fees and access to justice in the Ontario personal injury litigation context are erupting everywhere at once...»

The idea for one of the apps mentioned above — JusticeTrans — was developed in the context of a Legal Information Technology (Legal IT) course at Osgoode Law School, currently taught by Nicole Aylwin, Monica Goyal, and Darin Thompson.

Held in Auckland, the conference connected delegates with New Zealand's leading legal technology thinkers and industry providers and covered subjects in a legal context including cyber-security, blockchain, AI, tech and law - firm partnerships, innovating as an in - house lawyer, the business of law during changing times, and looking at disruption as «normal».

For example, project management has become an important technique for the management of legal matters and, at least in part due to the focus on it in the context of the ACC Value Challenge, an expectation of in - house attorneys and a means of positive differentiation among law firms.

By way of context, the approach in legal needs surveys is to start by looking at individuals who have had a problem that could be resolved through legal means — be it a court process or a transactional process.

There should be no debate about this in the law school context: law school writing centers should be affiliated with the larger legal writing program.104 Whereas at undergraduate institutions the clientele may be comprised of writers across a wide spectrum of disciplines, law school writing centers, of course, serve only legal writers.

Here the court will consider a number of factors to determine the purpose for which the documents were prepared, including for example whether the document itself hints at whether it has been prepared for the exclusive purpose of gathering facts or material for legal advice (eg, because it is addressed to a lawyer, or is marked as being subject to privilege), as well as the wider context (eg, who the author is, or the circumstances in which the document was found).

At OKT, Kaitlin's work consists of assisting in negotiations involving First Nations and various levels of government, primarily in the legal context of Treaty 9.

A review of relevant and applicable legal rules identified that the UK was bound by at least 10 separate international law instruments that addressed torture and CIDT in different contexts, all of which came within the circumstantial purview of the Consolidated Guidance.

211 Carnegie Report, supra note 8, at 95 (citing Stuckey et al., supra note 1, at 109)(««Students can not become effective legal problem - solvers unless they have opportunities to engage in problem - solving activities in hypothetical or real legal contexts..»»)

As noted in the Factum of the Intervener of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), the accused had been convicted of assaulting the complainant on two previous occasions, and as noted by the trial judge, the complainant's recantation on the issue of consent was typical of a domestic violence context (at para. 2).

At ARC Pensions Law, we expend considerable time and resources in ensuring that our whole team are fully up to date with the latest legal developments and have a deep understanding of the wider context within which such legal changes occur.

While these strategies can at times also go too far, we argue that in certain contexts they can be sufficiently defensible on both legal and moral grounds to be a justifiable response to judicial dilemmas.

In a series of articles looking at the issues surrounding the use of blockchain technology in a legal context, we've looked at the issues around Initial Coin Offerings and will be publishing our thoughts on whether the new rights granted to individuals under the GDPR are as much of a hurdle to blockchain solutions as some have reporteIn a series of articles looking at the issues surrounding the use of blockchain technology in a legal context, we've looked at the issues around Initial Coin Offerings and will be publishing our thoughts on whether the new rights granted to individuals under the GDPR are as much of a hurdle to blockchain solutions as some have reportein a legal context, we've looked at the issues around Initial Coin Offerings and will be publishing our thoughts on whether the new rights granted to individuals under the GDPR are as much of a hurdle to blockchain solutions as some have reported.

This post was written by Kimberly Stein, manager of Solutions Software for Thomson Reuters Here at the Ark Group's 9th annual Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession conference in New York, legal practitioners and technologists are discussing and debating the strategic context for KM in law fLegal Profession conference in New York, legal practitioners and technologists are discussing and debating the strategic context for KM in law flegal practitioners and technologists are discussing and debating the strategic context for KM in law firms.

[207] A useful description of what meaningful independent legal advice entails in the family law context is set out in the decision of Pitfield J. in Gurney v. Gurney, 2000 BCSC 6 (CanLII), at para. 29:

Justice Côté also noted that the statutory context supported this position, and in particular the legislation's reference to «legal privilege» in the provision allowing a public body to refuse to disclose privileged information — i.e., «information that is subject to any type of legal privilege, including solicitor - client privilege» (at para 52, citing FOIPP s 27).

Ultimately, the Privacy Commissioner was not explaining «the content of solicitor - client privilege for the whole legal system, she is being asked to apply it in the context of one provision» (at para 136); that decision is properly reviewed deferentially.

Building on that observation, we can look at the treatment of liability for legal advising in contexts in which liability is possible in principle.

Getting back to Legal Project Management: Goldratt's teachings can be useful in the context of LPM at both a macro and a micro level.

«Wolters Kluwer's current awareness legal dailies are all created by attorneys for attorneys, and are an essential tool for lawyers to put breaking legal news, decisions, and rulemaking in broad context and apply the industry's leading level of analysis to highly complex and rapidly - changing areas of the law,» said Robert Lemmond, vice president of the Legal Markets Group at Wolters Kllegal dailies are all created by attorneys for attorneys, and are an essential tool for lawyers to put breaking legal news, decisions, and rulemaking in broad context and apply the industry's leading level of analysis to highly complex and rapidly - changing areas of the law,» said Robert Lemmond, vice president of the Legal Markets Group at Wolters Kllegal news, decisions, and rulemaking in broad context and apply the industry's leading level of analysis to highly complex and rapidly - changing areas of the law,» said Robert Lemmond, vice president of the Legal Markets Group at Wolters KlLegal Markets Group at Wolters Kluwer.

One example of «quality time» is taking the time at the outset to assess the legal matter in the larger context: What are the risks and rewards (beyond the legal system, i.e., political, social, business, as well as legal), what are the likely costs, what will the non-monetary costs be (including drain on personnel), what is the goal of the client, what is the other side (if this is a contested matter) up to, what are the opposition's strengths and weaknesses, and would procrastinating really be good or bad?