Sentences with phrase «certainty on»

Federal Budget 2018 arrived at the end of February, and with it finally came some certainty on the changes to private corporate tax planning that the Department of Finance and Federal government proposed in July 2017.

Consider reform of Section 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, to emphasise independence and greater certainty on the level and timescale for payment of maintenance, with children's interests at their heart.

It recommended that the section be reviewed as «the provision does not provide sufficient guidance or certainty on the admissibility of evidence in native title proceedings.

This difficulty is compounded by the fact that traditional laws and customs are transmitted orally from generation to generation, so evidence of these may be restricted or inadmissible under the hearsay rule.137 This is an issue that has been identified by the Australian Law Reform Commission in its Review of the Uniform Evidence Act 1995.138 The Commission proposes that the uniform Evidence Acts should be amended to provide an exception to the hearsay and opinion evidence rules for evidence relevant to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander traditional laws and customs.139 The Commission also observed that there are strong arguments that the NTA should be amended as the relevant provision does not provide sufficient guidance on or certainty on the admissibility of evidence in native title proceedings.140 However, legislative amendment to the NTA falls outside the terms of reference of this review.

When opportunities emerge for a job seeker where there is limited certainty on what version to use, it is a good idea to send both.

«The intent was to get some certainty on gene patents, which we don't have, but the result I think can be used not just in the Long QT context,» says Sana Halwani, partner with Gilbert's LLP, who says the settlement is «groundbreaking.»

As a result, these general counsel are demanding better service, an investment by the law firm in the relationship, assistance to avoid problems rather than to solve them when they arise, and transparency and certainty on pricing.

Several comments also requested that HHS continue to maintain and monitor the exception determination process, and update the database over time in order to provide guidance and certainty on the interaction of the federal rules with newly enacted or amended state laws that are produced after the final rule.

that we finally had certainty on the relationship between state immunity and human rights with the issuance of the International Court of Justice's decision in Germany v Italy (Greece Intervening).

The government is also looking at introducing some certainty on the assessment of other remedies and whether they are beaten by a Pt 36 offer.

We will provide certainty on the costs that you will incur and, where appropriate, offer a flexible approach to costs and / or fixed fees so that we fit with your budget.

Eddie Goldsmith, chairman of the Conveyancing Association, said: «If we are being brutally honest then we would have preferred a larger degree of mandation particularly around, for example, providing certainty on completion with, for example, with the use of our own Conveyancer's Code for Completion.»

They also expect clarity and certainty on our fees.

This can encourage clients to focus on using their solicitor's time effectively and provides a level of certainty on costs.

Mexico continues to be very formalistic in addition to the substance; there is still a high level of formalism to complete a transaction offering the greatest certainty on legal and tax outcome.

This means customer will not have certainty on every component of the contract on signing.

«A lot of our work going forward won't necessarily depend on traditional innovation of physical products but on our ability to leverage our intangible assets like data to create certainty on how we will do things in the future,» says Chernys.

The advantage for the Commission would be that it obtains legal certainty on whether ACTA is compatible with the Treaties and the Charter, possibly opening the door to ratification or renegotiation.

But critics say that the report in some cases overstated the level of scientific certainty on the issue or simply got things wrong.

The results should emerge soon, but in its evidence to the Select Committee, Scottish and Southern Electricity plc said that, while shale gas was a viable if relatively small option for the UK (compared to the US), «there is a concern that with limited capital for investment in the energy industry, significant development of policy incentives to encourage development of shale gas resources in the UK, alongside uncontrolled growth in gas - fired generation could decrease investor certainty on UK policy direction towards renewables, CCS and / or nuclear.

R Gates: A true skeptic simply chooses the most likely out of a range of maybe's — never getting to 100 % certainty on anything, and thus never becoming a true believer.

I've been thinking about the PRO-CON FORMAT the media use (which has been discussed earlier), and now think that the format itself is not as bad as the fact that the media have limited the debate between contrarians (who need 99 %, perhaps 101 % certainty on AGW) and scientists (who require 95 % certainty, and even with that, bring all their caveats on screen — as if the scientific devil's adocates were there with them on TV).

Of course there can never be absolute certainty on the question of global warming until the remnants of humankind, 50 years from now, are huddled together near the North and South Poles as the rest of our planet cooks.

James Sinnamon said: Of course there can never be absolute certainty on the question of global warming until the remnants of humankind, 50 years from now, are huddled together near the North and South Poles as the rest of our planet cooks.

It seems we may be at or above that level of certainty on this.

The previously linked media reports on EDF's announcement almost breathlessly tout technology that would seemingly address the satellite limitations listed above and usher in a new age of absolute certainty on the methane emission data front.

Think about what 95 % certainty on this issue would mean for a second.

It is even more interesting in the light of Oreskes» claims that scientific certainty on global warming had been achieved well before 1992:

«By working together with other companies with similar values we can help to create certainty on the future direction of travel and help accelerate sustainable development.»

30 July: ABC Australia: World Today: New findings add to certainty on climate change, while one sceptic has a turnaround University of Melbourne climate scientist, Professor David Karoly, says Professor Muller's results confirm what numerous other studies have already shown.

Without certainty on the version that Briffa used — eventually provided in Sept 2008 — I wasn't going to comment on the low replication.

When a scientist says something «could» happen, such as explosive releases of methane in the Arctic Ocean could happen in the future, what is the degree of certainty on that?

Groups say flawed utility proposals and a lack of certainty on long - term value could undercut the state's solar market.

As Rob Ellison confirmed, Dr. Curry's level of certainty on this is unfounded.

2) In addition to estimates of climate sensitivity, there are other lines of evidence showing that anthropogenic activity (predominately increased CO2) caused most of the recent global warming; this provides further credence for the > = 95 % certainty on the attribution point.

Remember this is in the context of a report that generally stripped out any words that implied doubt or lack of certainty on the warming side.

If you wait for 100 % certainty on the battlefield, something bad is going to happen.»

And I don't claim 100 % certainty on any of this.

There seems far too much certainty on both sides of the cultural divide — and this unfortunately limits the potential for creatively limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

The certainty on that is more than «very likely».

There doesn't seem to be a lot of certainty on the part of Hansen et al about the Arctic data, yet you have argued on and on about the need to include it.

Exxon tried to block the resolution by telling the Securities and Exchange Commission that the supporting statement for the resolution was false and misleading because «it implies a scientific certainty on climate change which, in fact, does not exist.»

If we expect 100 % of certainty on everything, we would not get anywhere.

I think the reason that focus hasn't shifted to mitigation or other options is that skeptics (including the current administration) have set the bar impossibly high, requiring total scientific certainty on impacts in order to justify costly action.

Perhaps the scientific community is still trying to accommodate policy - makers who don't understand the scientific process by making it their first priority to get closer and closer to absolute certainty on attributing climate change to human activities.

I've yet to see any mainstream group claiming certainty on this.

To pave the way for a new generation of nuclear power plants, we must provide greater certainty on issues from licensing to responsible management of spent fuel.

is an open question, but a certainty on the set list, Bond said, is a song from the movie Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.

Theories were presented with absolute certainty on all sides, until someone found a quote from the game's designer, Jonathan Blow, chiding gamers who were taking too narrow of an interpretation of the game's...

Sounds good but there was less certainty on what criteria was used to judge that claim.