Sentences with phrase «binding agreement»

ramifications of choosing one form of business entity over another (partnership, say, over a corporate form), or a Realtor from helping a buyer or seller fill out listing or offer forms, or anyone who is not a lawyer from negotiating on another's behalf pretty much any kind of legally binding agreement whatsoever.

In Tolhoek v. Canada, the tax court stated that although «there may be differences between «arrangements» and «contracts,» I believe that you either have a meaningful, binding agreement between parties that means something to them or you do not.

Agreeing with the Bank and dismissing Chapman's lawsuit, the court found that there was no binding agreement to improve Chapman's compensation and the Bank was permitted to reduce Chapman's pay — concluding he had always been paid in on a variable scale and had remained in the applicable salary range for his position.

ICBC injury claimants need to be aware that accepting an offer to settle is a binding agreement and further requests to ICBC to make their «best offer» will be futile.

Put simply, I can not bind someone simply by sending them a Notice unless it is a right conferred on me by some earlier statute or legislation, or legally binding agreement.

On behalf of Ms Robson, it was argued that the agreement in Poole Park was not in writing and so could not be a binding agreement due to s 2 (1) Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989.

Furthermore, the terms set out in the letter of 14 August are in my judgment sufficiently clear to be capable of forming the basis of a binding agreement and Mr Dilworth (counsel for Ms Robson) did not identify any other matters or issues upon which the parties had still to agree.

«is entitled to act on behalf of,» means legally under a binding agreement to act in the stead of, not «just because I know it is so I'm entitled».

There is no «contract» involved in citizenship from a legal standpoint (there's a concept of a «social contract,» but that's a philosophical justification for government and not an actual legally binding agreement with specific terms); citizenship is not subject to commercial law in any way.

The plaintiff then entered into a binding agreement to purchase a property; closing was within a few weeks» time.

The Court of Appeal found that the trial judge made an error of law by ignoring the legal doctrine that an agreement that is signed in counterparts forms a binding agreement as demonstrated in Foley v R., [2000] 4 CTC 2016 (TCC).1

A severance package is binding agreement between an employer and its ex-employee that detail specific terms, conditions and obligations that come into effect at the conclusion of the employment relationship.

Section 80 (7) Value Added Tax Act 1994 did not bar HMRC from entering into a binding agreement with Southern Cross.

Remember, should no withdrawal agreement be reached within the proscribed time period, the UK's membership of the EU shall simply come to end without any form of legally binding agreement governing either the «divorce» proceedings or any details of future UK - EU relations.

Further, since there is no legal requirement that a mediated agreement must be in writing, it is also a process inherently susceptible to uncertainties as to whether a binding agreement has been made, and written agreements are vulnerable to mistakes which may call for rectification.

A Clinical Trial Agreement is a legally binding agreement between the company that makes the product (known as the «sponsor») and an appropriate institution (such as a research university).

Charles Russell associate, Morven McMillan says the judgment shows continuing support for the principle that although a will is revoked by marriage, such revocation does not undermine the validity of an otherwise binding agreement.

All of these notions are extremely importantly to reconcile prior to entering into any binding agreement or settlement with insurance companies or trucking companies.

Taking on a franchise is a legally binding agreement.

My solicitor was concerned that if we didn't have that pre-litigation binding admission of liability and a contractually binding agreement about contributory negligence that in the event he had to litigate the matter subsequently, and in the event that the defenders have got rid of the machinery, he wouldn't be able to prove my case or be able to disprove any argument about contributory negligence.

It even contained an express governing law and jurisdiction clause, the purpose of which the court found difficult to understand «absent an intention to create a legally binding agreement».

The December report is not a binding agreement, but a consensus on the basis for writing one.

The move provoked alarm among the G77, the grouping of developing countries who regard the Kyoto protocol as the world's only binding agreement on climate change cuts.

He blamed a handful of countries for blocking a binding agreement and said the talks process had to be reformed to avoid the same happening again.

Although a number of the parties at the negotiations have put forward time frames by which a legally binding agreement should be in force - ranging from 2015 to 2020 - the US has held firm that such an agreement need only be made after 2020.

Yet the accord is as of yet incomplete given the lack of emission reduction targets for different parties, the inconclusive determination about whether it will become a legally binding agreement, and a robust plan for how compliance with commitments for reductions will be enforced.

Ban Ki - moon still fantasizes that all the nations of the world are going to sign «a new, comprehensive, legally binding agreement» to reduce emissions (p. 2)

The understanding reached in Kyoto was that this first commitment period would be temporary, as a matter of design, only beginning the process of reducing emissions under a legally binding agreement and implementing various programs that could make a global system of emission reductions workable such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows for a system of offsets.

The LCA track is currently the only official place in the negotiations where elements of the Copenhagen Accord could be enshrined in a legally binding agreement.

But it avoided a much worse outcome, namely locking in a legally binding agreement that would not reach climate safety.

On December 5, tensions during the negotiations were so severe and intense that delegates and organizers alike were beginning to doubt that meeting will result in a binding agreement on December 11 and they would have to wait until COP22 for an agreement to be reached.

send a strong signal ahead of the international UN negotiations in Bali at the end of the year, that the G8 is committed to a binding agreement for the next phase of the Kyoto Protocol, that should start immediately after the conclusion of the first phase

In the case of CCX, there is a binding agreement when signing on to reduce the cap by a certain percenage annually.

Several longtime observers of the U.N. process said de Boer is partly to blame for the uncertainty that has come in the wake of Copenhagen, as countries are still sifting through whether they are on track toward a legally binding agreement or something else entirely.

Or, as Kevin Grandia wrote, «With all the long hours I've been putting into to covering these climate talks, I'm sure my wife is wishing our marriage was a politically binding agreement, as opposed to a legal one.»

UNCLOS is a legally - binding agreement but, Nature points out, the penalties for failing to meet the obligations are almost non-existent.

After last year's push for a legally binding agreement to limit emissions collapsed in Copenhagen, the UN scaled back ambitions.

The countdown is on to reach a legally binding agreement between all nations on actions to mitigate climate change.

The talks ended in failure, with no binding agreement made on any subject.

We call for a legally binding agreement that is no longer mitigation - centric, but acknowledges the need for strong adaptation measures, a bold loss and damage mechanism, technology transfer, capacity building, as well as finance flowing from North to South.

I'd say that since we don't have a legally binding agreement that the Kyoto Protocol is deader than a doornail and now has nothing to do with anything.

For those who want a global, binding agreement which will effectively reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the signs do not look good.

Almost certainly, no binding agreement reached in Mexico or elsewhere.

Their aim is to begin pressuring United Nations member states to come up with a binding agreement that will replace the Kyoto protocol, which comes up for renewal in 2015.

Do you mean wrong, violated binding agreement, and therefore could face legal consequences of violating an agreement?

Governments have cautioned that the conference is unlikely to produce a binding agreement to substantially cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases at this point.

Now it's a different story: Merkel will no longer endeavor to contractually implement the 2 - degree target — in other words, to reach a legally binding agreement with specific reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

This is true, but as far as we are concerned, we know that Kyoto protocol is the only legally - binding agreement under the Convention that has established a timeframe for the developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.

If other developed countries agree to comparable reductions and emerging economies contribute according to their respective capabilities and responsibilities within a framework of a binding agreement, Liechtenstein is prepared to raise its target up to 30 %.

It's now your turn to come up with something and let's put together a binding agreement.»