Sentences with phrase «civil law jurisdictions»

Third, I have cited and used legal academic articles - but primarily in international arbitration and in civil law jurisdictions.

The leading law firms in the UK continue to recruit foreign lawyers including from civil law jurisdictions who demonstrate significant expertise in their field and can offer both multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional legal advice.

Civil codes are also in country legal databases and Free Access to Law Movement (FALM) Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) for civil law jurisdictions.

Comparing to other civil law jurisdictions, the abovementioned features should not be a problem, for the systems are similar.

You didn't specify which jurisdiction's law you were curious about, so in some jurisdictions (especially civil law jurisdictions, such as continental Europe), the the answer may be different.

The answer used to be handled by common law in common law countries (it is handled by statute in civil law jurisdictions such as Quebec), but in most jurisdictions, this has been superseded by specific statutes and treaties governing the sale of goods.

Mr. Huber has represented clients in international arbitrations sited in both common and civil law jurisdictions under a wide variety of arbitral rules, including the LCIA, ICC, VIAC and AAA.

The Paris Office has an outstanding expertise in almost every African country and a particular strength across Francophone civil law jurisdictions.

While this is also generally true in Quebec, the impacts of the law of the land in Canada's only civil law jurisdiction are slightly greater given the Civil Code's precedence over certain contractually - negotiated terms.

Examples included France joining the list of Civil Law jurisdictions in Europe to enact a «class action» law, and a group action in Austria, joined by more than 25,000 litigants, challenging Facebook privacy policies.

While I had general knowledge of the typical challenges raised by the concept of «best efforts» at common law, I had (strangely) never looked at the issue in my own civil law jurisdiction.

So to call a tort a «délit» in French is not accurate, because a tort in common law is not the same as a délit in civil law, or a delict, for that matter (since there is good English for civil law — as spoken in Scotland, Louisiana and other anglophone civil law jurisdictions.

And while this might work more easily where you have similar jurisdictions, like common law, we increasingly see firms coming from Europe — from civil law jurisdictions — and competing in the UK.

It is common in civil law jurisdictions for these to be called civil codes and consolidated into the great big book of law.

Whilst standard in the UK, this is wholly new for many civil law jurisdictions and it will be fascinating to see how courts cope with it.

Leveraging her fluency in multiple languages and corporate law expertise in both common law and civil law jurisdictions, she became the resident expert on corporate governance issues in Latin America, France, Belgium, and Portugal.

With the speed also comes great efficiency and additional productivity, as the experienced French magistrates — who are more like investigating prosecutors in this civil law jurisdiction — can then spend their time on other matters, such as collecting evidence, or interviewing suspects.

Operating in both Common Law and Civil Law jurisdictions, they tend to be senior and extremely well - paid English - speaking commercial specialists who are mainly involved in major transactions.

Contrary to most European civil law systems, clients of solicitors and barristers in England and Wales are protected by a fundamental right to withhold confidential communications with their lawyer from the court, as an exception to onerous obligations of disclosure not seen in civil law jurisdictions.

«I the traditional province of the barrister in England, and of advocates in some civil law jurisdictions.

Lawyers advise and represent individuals, businesses, and the traditional province of the barrister in England, and of advocates in some civil law jurisdictions.

He has represented clients in both institutional and ad hoc arbitrations sited in various jurisdictions, including common law and civil law jurisdictions.

Litigation Finance — while booming in common law jurisdictions throughout the world — has experienced far less enthusiasm in civil law jurisdictions.

Last year's ratification of a deal allowing lawyers to practise across common and civil law jurisdictions is seen as a boon for Quebec's regional law firms.

And while this might work more easily where you have similar jurisdictions, like common law, we increasingly see firms coming from Europe — from civil law jurisdictions — and competing in the U.K.»

By way of an explanation to the uninitiated, it can be said that a Juris Classeur encyclopedia serves much the same purpose for a legal practitioner in a civil law jurisdiction as does the Halsburys Model in common law jurisdictions.

In light of Quebec's unique legal environment in North America (i.e. Quebec is a civil law jurisdiction with French as its official language), I thought I would use my first three contributions to Slaw to address certain issues peculiar to Quebec in relation to sophisticated IT contracts such as systems integration and outsourcing agreements.

(For those who don't know, Quebec is a civil law jurisdiction; all others are common law.)

A remarkable breadth of jurisdictions is covered in the 2nd Edition from common and civil law jurisdictions, with contributions from leading lawyers in their countries who are ideally placed to provide practical, straightforward commentary on the inner workings of their respective legal systems.»

This is a difficult concept in civil law jurisdictions and the word neutrally» is added to show that when making his determinations he is not acting for the Employer and is meant to be «non-partisan».

Ms. Narancio's international arbitration practice includes representation in both institutional and ad hoc arbitrations (including under the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, NAI and UNCITRAL rules) sited in both common and civil law jurisdictions, and has particular experience with issues relating to Latin American jurisdictions.

Called to the bar in both Ontario and Quebec, her practice encompasses all areas of labour and employment law in both Canadian common law and Quebec's civil law jurisdictions, with a particular focus on employment standards, wrongful dismissals, workplace policies, human rights, occupational health and safety, and privacy.

In this issue: Pay - when - paid clauses; The cost of hot tubbing; Striking out unfair contract terms in civil law jurisdictions; Getting on with the job; Conferences and events.

In the past, Taiwan traditionally being a civil law jurisdiction, there was no requirement of likelihood of success, among others.

He traces this trend to the common law, even though writing in a civil law jurisdiction, to 1824 with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) in Britain.

The Barreau du Québec also signed the agreement, though as a civil law jurisdiction, different criteria will apply.

Aside from the usual local requirements, such as any employment legislation, dispute resolution requirement or governing law (for example where the services will be delivered in both common law and civil law jurisdictions), there are other issues that must be reviewed in preparing local agreements.

These will be drawn from both common law and civil law jurisdictions and will be able to conduct arbitrations in a number of languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, French, German and Italian.