Sentences with phrase «between facts and law»

Students will learn basic conceptual building blocks of American law, including the hierarchy of court systems, how lawyers and courts make distinctions between facts and law, the relationships among common, statutory, and constitutional law, the interactions between procedural and substantive law, legal precedent, the interactions between federal and state law, the adversarial process, and the ethics and social norms that govern and shape the behavior of American lawyers.

Not exact matches

One of the main differences between crowdfunding in Hong Kong and other regions is the fact that there are no laws regulating these activities in The Pearl of the Orient.
Someone could say a lot on the connection between Raj's relative «normalcy» and the fact that his parents are together and his dad lays down the law (with somewhat indulgent and very uneven success).
In fact, he makes me suspect that what I really need for my Five Conceptions of Liberty project (see below) are books or essays that discuss the relation between the «libertarian» con - law guys I mention, and such fusionism.
Examples of one or other of the two kinds of divine and unchangeable law would be, that a marriage between brother and sister is now invalid independently of the will of the Church; that a validly consummated marriage between baptized persons is indissoluble and that the Church has no power to alter the fact; that the Church can not abolish the fact that there are seven sacraments, nor alter the ultimate features of the Church's own constitution.
Besides the fact that blasphemy laws are abusive tools of oppression, besides totalitarian religious states being unused to freedom of speech, besides the differences between Islam and Christianity... Putting all that aside, how does one human being rejoice that another is going to be killed?
In his reply to «Die Bauleute» Buber makes a distinction between revelation and the giving of the law which Rosenzweig has failed to make: «I do not believe that revelation is ever lawgiving, and in the fact that lawgiving always comes out of it, I see the fact of human opposition, the fact of man.»
In fact, moral freedom is a way to break the bond between the law and our sense of morality.
There is a difference between saying that the ideology people hold no longer gives adequate expression to the law which St. Paul says is «written on their hearts» (Romans 2:14 - 15), and saying, instead, that it is not in fact written on their hearts.
In an interview with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice and founder of the Oasis cultural centre for understanding between Catholics and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology and law... The fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteem.
On the other hand, God must so act in the interests of both the self and all others as thereby to establish the cosmic order of natural law that sets the optimal limits of all other action, where by «optimal limits» I mean limits such that, were they to be set otherwise than they are, the ratio between opportunities for good and risks of evil would be less rather than more favorable than it in fact is.
in fact, the church was fully aware of its theological position as it came to realize the sharp distinction between the Law of Peter and the Law of Thomas.
This is clear from the fact that the Old Testament Scripture — laws, historical books and prophecies — were for Judaism a unity, that the distinction between different stages of Old Testament religion and morality was not felt at all.
the distinction between unrestricted universals of law and mere universals of fact is to be accounted for in terms of the epistemic and contextual support which unrestricted universals receive within a system of scientific theory.
Boehm said Donahue's selection had nothing to do with the fact that her husband, Dan, worked on Mayor Dan McLaughlin's election campaign two years ago and her brother - in - law David Donahue was hired last year as the village's legislative liaison, a newly created position designed to foster communication between the village and state and federal lawmakers.
As long as the law maintains only a hazy line between, on the one hand, verifiable allegations of fact and, on the other hand, expressions of opinion, speakers and writers remain unsure about what they may and may not say.
The JPost and Haaretz have carried reports for months about the fact that the coalition agreement between Likud Beytenu and Bayit Yehudi (with the knowledge and consent of Yesh Atid) mandates the passage of the «Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People», e.g. link to jpost.com
The mayor's office in fact has already released a tranche of emails between the administration and Rosen, which revealed that the consultant had sat in on key discussions of de Blasio's housing plan, which controversially overhauled the city's zoning laws.
The lawyer argued in the third grounds that the CCT erred in law «when it abandoned the main purport of the recusal (disqualification) and ignored the submissions of counsel thereon only to begin to write a ruling comprised of facts and arguments that are only know to Justice Umar and not raised or introduced by any parties in order to arrive at a conclusion not urged upon him by any of the parties concerning the constitutional and statutory relationship between the AGF and the EFCC».
Prometheus discovered an (alleged) FACT (law of nature) about the correlation between optimal drug dosage and metabolite levels.
The title referring to the line of law enforcement that separates civilization from chaos, The Thin Blue Line is almost better read as the line between fabulism trusted as fact, and fabulism accepted as fantasy.
Whilst the parents remembered some key facts like pH values and the difference between exothermic and endothermic reactions, they struggled to recall Newton's Laws or the meaning of terms like «Oxygen debt».
Only if facts were «phenomena» in the former sense would the antithesis between facts and conceptions be valid; only if «phenomena» are understood in the latter sense can causation be said to be a law of phenomena.
The fact is that laws and interpretations of those laws make separate distinctions between fees and interest.
The Underwriting Agreement between the Trust and Northern Lights Distributors, LLC («NLD») provides that the Registrant agrees to indemnify, defend and hold NLD, its several officers and directors, and any person who controls NLD within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act free and harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities and expenses (including the reasonable cost of investigating or defending such claims, demands or liabilities and any reasonable counsel fees incurred in connection therewith) which NLD, its officers and directors, or any such controlling persons, may incur under the Securities Act, the 1940 Act, or common law or otherwise, arising out of or based upon: (i) any untrue statement, or alleged untrue statement, of a material fact required to be stated in either any Registration Statement or any Prospectus, (ii) any omission, or alleged omission, to state a material fact required to be stated in any Registration Statement or any Prospectus or necessary to make the statements in any of them not misleading, (iii) the Registrant's failure to maintain an effective Registration statement and Prospectus with respect to Shares of the Funds that are the subject of the claim or demand, or (iv) the Registrant's failure to provide NLD with advertising or sales materials to be filed with the FINRA on a timely basis.
The Underwriting Agreement between the Trust and Ceros Financial Services Inc. («Ceros») provides that the Registrant agrees to indemnify, defend and hold Ceros, its several officers and directors, and any person who controls Ceros within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act free and harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities and expenses (including the reasonable cost of investigating or defending such claims, demands or liabilities and any reasonable counsel fees incurred in connection therewith) which Ceros, its officers and directors, or any such controlling persons, may incur under the Securities Act, the 1940 Act, or common law or otherwise, arising out of or based upon: (i) any untrue statement, or alleged untrue statement, of a material fact required to be stated in either any Registration Statement or any Prospectus, (ii) the breach of any representations, warranties or obligations set forth herein, (iii) any omission, or alleged omission, to state a material fact required to be
This, together with the fact that P = rho RT (The ideal gass law) determines that pressure decreases with altitude and also determines the link between pressure and temperature within the atmosphere.
In fact, the debate in this country over land use has become emblematic of American democracy: a struggle between competing special interest groups to influence common laws and policies through elections.
Negotiations between utilities, the solar industry trade association MDV - SEIA, and the group Powered by Facts produced three pieces of legislation that appear likely to become law (and all of which I've discussed previously).
In the past, Exelon opposed fixing the Illinois» renewable energy law (RPS) despite the fact that the fix could save ratepayers up to $ 280 million between 2014 and 2017.
Lawyers prefer to use alternative dispute resolution processes in family law, which cost the client less, take less time and make for longer - lasting co-operation between the parties after the fact, according to a recent study.
If the fact pattern is a squabble between a human and a corporation, discuss the law, but lean towards the human's position.
In fact, the Carnegie Report's recommendation to this effect acknowledges that it is «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 49 And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating writing with doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating writing with doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about it.
In fact, EU law has found that communications between in - house lawyers and a company's staff don't warrant the protection of legal advice privilege as in - house lawyers are viewed as «insufficiently independent — structurally, hierarchically, and functionally» from their employers.
There is an added dimension of statutory interpretation which could mean that because of the word «and» between the two situations when the powers are permitted to be exercised (i.e. making laws and exposing corruption), the power is in fact only exercisable when both circumstances are present.
Premises liability law in Indiana can be complex, and the standard applied by the courts depends heavily on the facts as well as the relationship between the parties.
Let's try to compare the point 50 of the opinion: «While the movement of citizens of the Union between Member States is governed by EU law, and in particular by Article 21 TFEU and Directive 2004/38, the same does not apply to visits to Member States by Heads of State» which basically says that the movement of diplomats falls outside the scope of EU law, with the judgment of the Court in paragraph 51: «Accordingly, the fact that a Union citizen performs the duties of a Head of State is such as to justify a limitation, based on international law, on the exercise of the right of free movement conferred on that person by Article 21 TFEU.».
52 Where the analysis of a type of coordination between undertakings does not reveal a sufficient degree of harm to competition, the effects of the coordination should, on the other hand, be considered and, for it to be caught by the prohibition, it is necessary to find that factors are present which show that competition has in fact been prevented, restricted or distorted to an appreciable extent (judgment in Allianz Hungária Biztosító and Others (EU: C: 2013:160), paragraph 34 and the case - law cited).
There's a big difference between providing information about the law and applying facts to the law.
«[The] application to products from other Member States of national provisions restricting or prohibiting certain selling arrangements is not such as to hinder directly or indirectly, actually or potentially, trade between Member States within the meaning of the Dassonville judgment (Case 8/74 [1974] ECR 837), so long as those provisions apply to all relevant traders operating within the national territory and so long as they affect in the same manner, in law and in fact, the marketing of domestic products and of those from other Member States» (Keck, para. 16)(emphasis added).
50 That case - law arises from the fact that certain types of coordination between undertakings can be regarded, by their very nature, as being harmful to the proper functioning of normal competition (see, to that effect, in particular, judgment in Allianz Hungária Biztosító and Others (EU: C: 2013:160) paragraph 35 and the case - law cited).
He investigates the similarities and differences between the national judicial treatment in applying and interpreting EU and ECHR law and concludes that accession will not render these differences moot: in fact, the CJEU clarified in the Kamberaj case that EU law does not require the disapplication of domestic law conflicting with the Convention — the effects of the ECHR will therefore continue to depend on the national constitutions, not the law of the EU (pp. 156 - 158).
So far as I am aware Wood's ruling is perfectly consistent with the law: attorney - client privilege protects communication between a client and his or her lawyer but it does not protect the fact that such communication occurred.
This, and the fact that I too am in the process of hiring a research assistant for the summer, got me thinking about the relation between law schools and law firms.
The international law question has already been authoritatively discussed in this journal, most recently by Professor Greer and Dr Tsagourias (NLJ 2010 p475) I would respectfully suggest that the comparison in their last paragraph between Iraq and Kosovo is the key point, and in fact renders much of the public debate on Iraq (and indeed the Chilcott inquiry itself) misplaced.
Considering that McCormick engaged in productive work (providing legal services to clients on behalf of the partnership) and that Faskens could and had, in fact, affected his ability to have full and meaningful participation in economic and social life by imposing a mandatory retirement policy, the Code applies to his relationship with Faskens and generally to the relationship between a law firm partner and a law firm partnership.
Despite the fact that all EU states are party to the 1970 Hague Evidence Convention (Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters or hereafter Hague Convention) and have transposed the EU Data Protection Directive into national law, stark differences in the legal regime applicable to international transfers for the purposes of e-discovery exist between EU Member States.
Applying the Restatement (Second) of Judgments § 27, the Court noted that «subject to certain well - known exceptions, the general rule is that when an issue of fact or law is actually litigated and determined by a valid and final judgment, and the determination is essential to the judgment, the determination is conclusive in a subsequent action between the parties, whether on the same or a different claim.»
Of course, being obsessed with justice, common law has left many loopholes that allow contracting parties to require a deeper inquiry into the facts and the law of the dispute by claiming unconscionability, mistake, rescission, and other legal ways of rewriting the original contract to satisfy buyer's remorse or a similar regret about the way risks were originally allocated between contracting parties.
But for the past 30 years, we've taken for granted that we can also offer the benefit of all these European instruments and that English judgments will be enforceable across the EU — and as soon as those are stripped back, one may need to consider the balance between the general reputation of English courts and English law and the fact that we may need to say to clients that it may potentially become harder to enforce your debt overseas in the EU.
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