Sentences with phrase «by legal conflicts»

Some children and youth whom we encounter have experienced a great deal of trauma in their lives, including being abused and neglected, witnessing domestic violence, or living in homes characterized by legal conflicts and substance abuse.

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Under certain circumstances, including if the public offering occurs prior to March 24, 2015, or if the right to purchase shares in the public offering conflicts with applicable securities laws, or if some other legal impediment or requirement would prevent or materially delay the consummation of or unreasonably interfere with either such offering or the purchase of the shares by Passport in such offering, then instead of the right to purchase shares in the public offering, Passport would have the right to purchase the same number of shares, at the same purchase price the shares in the public offering are sold to the public, in a separate and concurrent private placement transaction.

By: Reuters Updated 2 hours 52 minutes ago Miner and commodities trader Glencore is embroiled in a legal tangle over its copper and cobalt operations in Democratic Republic of Congo, where conflict and changes to regulations have deterred many mining firms.

By: Reuters Updated 1 hour 44 minutes ago Miner and commodities trader Glencore is embroiled in a legal tangle over its copper and cobalt operations in Democratic Republic of Congo, where conflict and changes to regulations have deterred many mining firms.

The English tradition of religious toleration, which is the source of our legal ideal of the free exercise of religion, arose in the wake of long and bloody religious wars to secure some peace among conflicting sects by keeping individual belief out of the state's reach.

They gave us no rule by which to mediate the conflicts arising from the state's positive need for religion and its legal distance from it.

For example, by 30 percentage points (67.3 percent to 37 percent) native - born citizens are more likely to believe that the U.S. Constitution should be a higher legal authority than international law if there is a conflict between the two.

«(S) erious conflict in the relationship with the mother, leading to maternal gateclosing; repartnering and responsibilities to children in the new family; physical distance; feelings of disenfranchisement by the legal system; and limited financial resources.

Decrease the nature, burden and expense of legal disputes and court interventions caused by persistent parental conflict.

Unfortunately, whatever legal changes have occurred so far haven't been driven by a «philosophical shift in the meaning of divorce,» but piecemeal and too often driven by «destructive gender conflict.»

The fears — and the conflicts that can stem from them — often are compounded by traditional legal language: One parent wins custody, while the loser gets only «visitation» with his own child.

Typically, when a parent is motivated by the desire to avoid conflict or communication with the other parent, but both parents are available and equally fit, the courts will reject the request for sole legal custody and require the parents to learn how to work together for the sake of the children.

National governments are imposing conflicting legal obligations and asserting competing claims of jurisdiction over data held by computing service providers.

The plaintiff is seeking: A declaration that upon a true and proper interpretation of the provisions of the 1992 Constitution, particularly Articles 88 (5), 218 (a) and (e), 284 and 287 thereof, the 1st defendant can not act as the legal representative for Honourable Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori Atta, the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Ghana, in a pending investigation bordering on conflict of interest and abuse of office before the 2nd Defendant; A further declaration that the purported response filed by the 1st Defendant on behalf of the said Honorable Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori Atta in respect of the petition concerning conflict of interest and abuse of office before the 2nd Defendant is unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect whatsoever;

But there will be a couple of modifications: firstly, on British troops serving abroad during a conflict, and secondly to tilt the balance of rights more towards a British legal tradition, for instance by emphasising free speech over privacy.

This raises a legal conundrum, namely, what is the legal status of a boastful Twitter confession by separatist leaders of a state - sponsored rebel group containing first - hand accounts and admissions of responsibility for shooting down a plane in the midst of a conflict?

Although the investments are legal — they are operated by separate mutual funds — they nonetheless raise questions about conflicts of interests.

CPI Marxist's rule had been mostly conflicting with both illegal and legal activities of CPI Maoist, which had recently been declared a terrorist organisation by the Indian state (preventing CPI Maoist from participating in further legal activities) as well as other communist parties.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's ability to raise money to pay off his legal bills will be greatly restricted by a new Conflict of Interest Board finding issued today.

I have been made to understand by reliable legal minds that legitimacy, as taught in conflict of laws, is not only a question of law but of fact.

The Conflict of Interest Board said de Blasio's legal defense fundraising plan is limited by law.

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This approach has several advantages over vouchers funded out of the federal budget: no existing federal money expected by school districts would be affected; no state money would be involved, thus avoiding legal conflicts with constitutional provisions that bar the use of state and local money for religious schools in 37 states; and, as a pure federal initiative, state laws and tax codes would remain unaffected.

By granting review of its third case in two years involving the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the U.S. Supreme Court has signaled a renewed interest in resolving legal conflicts arising under the federal law that governs services provided to nearly 6.7 million schoolchildren in special education.

The presence of conflicting elements, all protected by our political and legal system, in our schools leads many parents to select private schools that they find more coherent, better capable of instilling and transmitting a common culture than the public schools can.

Persona Ficta includes video documentation and archival materials surrounding legal conflicts around his performance, «Money To Burn,» a work supported by the Franklin Furnace.

Five cities and counties in California that are suing fossil fuel companies for damages triggered by climate change are now at the center of a legal paradox created by conflicting decisions from two federal court judges reviewing nearly identical claims.

Regulations are often conflicting and overly controlling with legal decisions made by people with no qualifications to make them.

Scientists above a certain level, whether employed by the state or the private sector, must obey a protocol when engaging the media, which allows only such information as is necessary to educate the public regarding the science process (similar to lawyers and the legal process), yet not advocate for any outcome of socially conflicted science in progress.

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.

As well as the risk of onward disclosure by the ICO's staff, there would be a conflict between the lawyer's professional and legal obligations.

In that decision — which has been criticized by some as hostile to free speech rights and humanitarian efforts — the justices found that a Patriot Act provision that prohibits providing «material support» to designated foreign terrorist organizations could be applied to conflict - resolution advice and legal services provided by human rights organizations to groups such as Turkey's Kurdistan Workers» Party and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

(7) a conflict of interest between the law society's duty to regulate the legal profession so as to make legal services adequately available, and its duty to represent the interests of lawyers, i.e., law societies» regulatory powers conflict with their representative powers, and being elected by their lawyer - members, benchers deal with the problems and complaints of those who elect them;

This includes a practice of strict professional secrecy and avoidance of conflicts of interest, necessary to ensure the legal security sought by its clients.

The Third Circuit in In re Bevill Bresler & Schulman Asset Management Corp., developed a five - part test (the Bevill test) to examine the merits of such an assertion by an individual employee against company counsel.50 Under this test, employees must show that (1) they approached corporate counsel for the purpose of seeking legal advice; (2) they made it clear that they were seeking advice in their individual capacity; (3) counsel sought to communicate with the employee in this individual capacity, mindful of the conflicts with its representation of the company; (4) the communications were confidential; and (5) the communications did not concern the employee's official duties or the general affairs of the company.51 The Bevill test has been recognised by other jurisdictions as a means of assessing whether a company employee may assert attorney — client privilege in an individual capacity arising out of communications with corporate counsel.52 (See also Chapter 13 on employee rights.)

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I would have thought that the ban on referral fees is also motivated by a desire to ensure that legal services are offered honestly and without conflict of interest and that the public has a full choice of lawyers (or licensees) to choose from, since lawyers are not «buying» their clients from those who refer them.

The High Court has dismissed a legal challenge brought by NGOs against the UK government's licensing of arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which has been involved in military conflict in Yemen since 2015.

I believe if the legal establishment starts this discussion, we will also begin to strengthen our competitive advantage in the areas we are strongest (ethics, conflict of interest, law reform, etc.) and not make the mistake of playing the Future game according to the rules set by others with different skill sets (business consulting firms, accounting and pure tech sector, to name a few).

Hadfield's solution to this conflict is to «cut the ties between the two functions,» and «begin to build differentiated legal professions that are not dragged under, in either sphere, by the weight of the other.»

Clients are screened and scheduled by Montana Legal Services Association and the attorneys are provided with the client information in advance for conflict check.

RAND Europe was commissioned by FTI Consulting to prepare a short paper exploring the conflict between the European legal framework for privacy and data protection and the sometimes competing requirements of electronic discovery («e-discovery») imposed on US firms with European subsidiaries by legislation such as the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

In addition, the advertisement must state that a conflict of interest or a determination by the lawyer that the legal service being offered is not appropriate for a particular purchaser may prevent the lawyer from providing the service and, if so, the purchaser's money will be refunded.

Choice of law and forum, differences in treatment of secured and priority creditors, differences in legal systems and cultures, conflicts of law, competing claims of jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement by one country of rulings and judgments entered in another country are just a few of the challenges likely to arise in many such proceedings.

Under the new policy, lawyers will be insured to work at the three legal clinics in Vancouver, Edmonton, and Ottawa, on specific areas of law screened by the government to minimize conflicts.

We save you time and money by focusing on the main conflict instead of getting bogged down in side questions that prolong disputes and raise legal fees.

The clause held that any disputes or conflicts would be resolved by arbitration in the Netherlands, where Uber's legal team is primarily located.

Federal Crown attorneys, who have been hamstrung from doing volunteer legal work, now are also able to participate in three pilot projects that will allow them to volunteer for approved activities (screened by the Department of Justice to minimize conflicts) at legal clinics in Vancouver, Edmonton, and Ottawa.

When, early on, apparently conflicting decisions on costs like Ford v GKR and Jones v Jones could be delivered by courts within touching distance of each other, we realised that the inheritance of Lord Denning was in legal terms pretty safe.

The report by Justice Richard Goldstone on the Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, released yesterday, is raising some interesting legal questions.