Sentences with phrase «case came before the court»

Coverage of the phone - hacking allegations has been subdued in the British press due to concerns about prejudicing the trial, but with the case coming before court in front of the international media it is now expected to dominate the front pages once again.

When unclear cases come before courts, it is simplistic, and wrong, to posit that courts merely apply the law.

The Judge or Justice of the Peace will make one of two decisions: either you will be released on bail subject to certain conditions, or you will remain in custody until your case comes before the Court.

In 1985 another case came before the courts regarding the trust of an individual who had been badly injured and rendered «mentally incompetent» in the Halifax Explosion, at this point the individual was around 68 years old and living in a facility which claimed that the trust, which had been set up by his father after his injuries in the explosion, should be paying his fees for the facility.

The case comes before the court at a time of even greater focus on immigration issues, and with a president - elect who has promised to increase deportations.

However, it was not long before a contested case came before the court.

If a case comes before the Court that does deal with Convention rights, say for instance a freedom of assembly challenge is brought against Ealing Council's decision to ban protestors outside the Marie Stopes clinic, then, following on from the logical conclusion of this Judgment, the High Court will need to be reviewing the PSPO at a higher level of scrutiny.

Justice Abella's decision highlights a more general point: the practical cases coming before the courts today are, by and large, not «core» human rights issues that deal with basic human dignity.

I can well imagine a strange case came before the court: the entire situation is a recipe for business failure on the first disagreement!

The case came before the Court of Appeal from an unreported decision of Justice Grant R. Dow of the Superior Court of Justice, dated September 28, 2016.

Human rights are a body of general principles to be applied in all cases coming before the courts.

Where similar later cases come before the courts, then we adopt the reasoning of the previous judge to the extent that it is appropriate to the new case at hand.

Not exact matches

Just this week, justices weighed the religious values of company leaders, as the Hobby Lobby case came before the Supreme Court.

Attorneys for Waymo have said in court that over the nearly year - long case they have amassed a file of evidence against Uber and were ready to go to trial before the revelation of the Jacobs letter, which came days before the original trial date.

The seriousness of the problem is revealed by the fact that, although Trinity Lutheran has come before the Supreme Court as a free exercise and equal protection case, the Blaine Amendments most centrally collide with the Establishment Clause.

In 2014, when Obamacare came before the Supreme Court via the Hobby Lobby case, the court ruled 5 — 4 that employers who objected to the contraceptive mandate on religious grounds didn't have to offer birth control directly to female emploCourt via the Hobby Lobby case, the court ruled 5 — 4 that employers who objected to the contraceptive mandate on religious grounds didn't have to offer birth control directly to female emplocourt ruled 5 — 4 that employers who objected to the contraceptive mandate on religious grounds didn't have to offer birth control directly to female employees.

Therefore, while we may expect it to become more and more a political issue, it is not yet the issue in most cases that come before courts.

Professor Valiant: As a lower - court judge, Senator, I would apply all governing Supreme Court precedents in cases that come beforcourt judge, Senator, I would apply all governing Supreme Court precedents in cases that come beforCourt precedents in cases that come before me.

David Scoffield QC, for Ashers, said: «This is a case of forced or compelled speech, unlike other cases which have come before the court.»

In the case that comes before the High Court today — July 31st, 2013 — only time will tell if the 8th amendment will play a significant part, or not, in the ultimate ruling on where Aja Teehan and Charles Brand will be «allowed» to welcome the newest member of their family into this world.

This, according to them was because «the issue that came before the Supreme Court was simply constitutional interpretation so for (with all respect) the learned judge (Justice Jones Dotse) to go beyond the constitutional interpretation and then decide that the applicant had no contract with the government and therefore the applicant had no case and that the applicant had formed an alliance to create, loot and share was beyond what was before the business of the Supreme Court.»

Under the proposed changes fewer cases would come before the court, as those «identical in substance to a claim that has been considered by a national court» would no longer be eligible - unless the national court had failed to interpret the convention correctly.

He said did not want to answer because there's a realistic chance that the case could come before New York's high court in some form.

We would, with all deference, strongly advise the police in future not to fail in their threat assessment of cases that come before the courts.

The case comes before the Supreme Court at a time when presidential candidates from both parties are turning a critical eye to the pervasive influence of money in politics.

Bharara also said he might have done some things differently in his prosecution of two former legislative leaders had the cases come before a recent Supreme Court ruling that reversed the corruption charges against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

This is perfectly understandable to me within the general context of the investigation in which the allegation had arisen, and considering that I have lately come to also realize that two of my colleagues in chambers had been involved as defence counsel in two cases before the subject judge amongst twelve cases in all they have ever done at the Industrial Court since inception.

Article 14 (1) Every person shall be entitled to his personal liberty and no person shall be deprived of his personal liberty except in the following cases and in accordance with procedure permitted by law; Article 19 (1) A person charged with a criminal offence shall be given a fair hearing within a reasonable time by a court; Article 19 (11) No person shall be convicted of a criminal offence unless the offence is defined and the penalty for it is prescribed in a written law; Article 19 (12) Clause (11) of this article shall not prevent a Superior Court from punishing a person for contempt of itself notwithstanding that the act or omission constitution the contempt is not defined in a written law and the penalty is not so prescribed; and Article 126 (2) The Superior Courts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitucourt; Article 19 (11) No person shall be convicted of a criminal offence unless the offence is defined and the penalty for it is prescribed in a written law; Article 19 (12) Clause (11) of this article shall not prevent a Superior Court from punishing a person for contempt of itself notwithstanding that the act or omission constitution the contempt is not defined in a written law and the penalty is not so prescribed; and Article 126 (2) The Superior Courts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constituCourt from punishing a person for contempt of itself notwithstanding that the act or omission constitution the contempt is not defined in a written law and the penalty is not so prescribed; and Article 126 (2) The Superior Courts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitCourts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitcourts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitucourt of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitution.

This case does both of those things, so it is fairly likely to come before the Supreme Court even without a circuit split.

Bharara also said he might have done some things differently in his prosecution of two former legislative leaders, had the cases come before a recent Supreme Court ruling that reversed the corruption charges against former Virginia Governor McDonnell.

When the case came up yesterday before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo, Deji's lawyer, Mr. Jimoh Lasisi (SAN), expressed shock that the prosecution was not in court and informed the court that his client had reached an agreement with the anti-graft agency.

He said he did want to answer because there's a «realistic» chance that the case could come before New York's high court in some form.

There is no presumption that their consideration will lead to a charge and even if the CPS decide to charge it may be many months before any case comes to court.

The case scheduled to come up before the court on Wednesday was one the two relating to diversion of arms funds instituted against Dasuki and others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

She said «everyone knew» the case was going to come back before her, despite what she called Silver's «Hail Mary» bid to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The required notification came months after the company filed its lawsuit with the U.K. courts and less than 36 hours before the case would have been dropped.

Because this issue has come before senior courts in other jurisdictions, Irish judges may consider the settled case law elsewhere to ascertain how best to resolve a dispute over the fate of stored embryos here.

While reaching out to fellow Democrats, choice proponents in the minority community have sought to build alliances with Republicans and with libertarian organizations like the Institute for Justice, which has represented poor parents in every voucher case that has come before the courts in the past dozen years, including Zelman.

Now, as the Schuette case comes before the Supreme Court on October 15, Garces will represent the CRP by presenting findings from research studies that challenge Proposal 2.

The decision did not come as a surprise to legal experts following the case, including a few attorneys who had argued other cases involving charter schools before the courts.

While you can pursue legal action, that can be costly and time consuming, and a bank or collection agency will not wait for a court case to settle the matter before coming after you.

Cases like these usually go on for quite some time, but depending on how Atari views the $ 2.2 million Frontier believes they're still owed, it could simply come to a fast conclusion before going to court.

After the descendants sued the foundation in Paris 12 years ago and lost their case, they reached an agreement in 1996 before an appeal came to court.

«This is the first time any case for a banana worker has come before a U.S. court,» Duane Miller, one of the attorneys representing more than 30 Nicaraguan plaintiffs who worked on plantations from 1964 to 1990, tells BusinessWeek.According to one upcoming lawsuit that was filed in 2004, Dole Fresh Fruit Co. and Standard Fruit Co., now part of Dole, were not only negligent, but that they fraudulently concealed information about DBCP's effects.

Mauro covers research by Richard Lazarus, who found that an increasing percentage of cases brought to the court come from «repeat practitioners,» i.e., lawyers with multiple appearances before the court.

Think you can predict how the Supreme Court will decide the cases that come before it this term?

Bill Heinze reports on Harold C. Wegner's latest list of the top 10 patent cases likely to come before the Supreme Court.

It remains to be seen whether this will be so, assuming that a case in which it is at issue actually comes before the appeal courts.

The good news there is the field is sufficiently complex to thoroughly exercise your gray matter (see, for example, David Fischer's analysis of the LinkLine litigation to be argued shortly before the Supreme Court), which means you're not just getting a job, but getting smarter too (case in point: before becoming an Internet marketer for lawyers I worked at Kaye Scholer and frequently saw Milton Handler, a name partner and guru of the antitrust bar, still coming to work well into his 90's).

Otherwise, human rights tribunals and the courts will have to define that phase on an ad hoc basis as specific cases come before them, with the corresponding uncertainty, expense and delay of litigation.