Sentences with phrase «claimant group in»

Facilitate the participation of the native title claimant group in the negotiation process both for the purpose of advocating its position, and also to integrate its objectives with those of other stakeholders.

Under this approach a state may enter into negotiations with the traditional owner group either through the mediation process offered under the NTA or by means of their own processes without waiting for the collection of evidence by the claimant group in relation to the continuity of their connection, the continuity of their observance of traditional laws and customs and the compilation of a tenure history by the state.

This chapter evaluates State and Commonwealth native title policies by reference to whether they direct native title negotiations towards the sustainable development of the claimant group in accordance with internationally recognised human rights principles.

The government does not require native title claimant groups in SA to prove their connection to country through assembling anthropological evidence in a connection report prior to entering negotiations.

Not exact matches

A group of large creditors in the Mt. Gox debacle have ramped up legal moves to remove the company from bankruptcy, and distribute its remaining bitcoins among claimants.

The Government must give better and fuller guidance to tax credit and other benefit claimants about the circumstances in which they may still claim the child element of child tax credit or universal credit for a third or subsequent child born on or after 6 April 2017, says the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG).1 Previously announced changes to tax credits, universal credit and some other benefits which limit payment of the child element to no more than two children come into effect today (6 April).

In court, on a good day, there are four teams representing, variously, two groups of claimants (one from a Cardiff anarchist network, another from environmental protesters), and two police forces.

Professional group joins Labour in warning that claimants for children born of non-consensual sex may be criminalised

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has produced guidance and a quick reference table to help claimants to see how they will be affected by changes to tax credits in 2016.

«We know there is a small group of benefit claimants without the major physical or health barriers to work associated with incapacity benefit - who live in areas where there is no shortage of vacancies, particularly for low - skilled jobs but who nonetheless remain on benefits for long periods of time,» he said.

Responding to a consultation on the pilot closure of HMRC Enquiry Centres in the North East1, the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) are urging HMRC to cater for taxpayers» and tax credits claimants» individual needs, focusing on service delivery and not cost cutting

The party was still seen as being for «the poor, benefit claimants, immigrants and minority groups», Mr Lewis said, in what will be seen as a plea for a more Blairite agenda.»

To help address this we have in the past introduced campaigns like «save our school trips» and «introduce a learning group» (whereby successful claimants received 50 per cent off their transport costs).

This lesson involves pupils working in groups to produce an election campaign for one of the claimants to the throne in 1066.

Once $ 6 million of claims in the non-Welcome Back group and $ 4 million in the Welcome Back group are reached, claimants will be awarded a one month PlayStation Plus membership.

(i) size and nature of the organization; (ii) part of the organization with which the refugee claimant was most directly concerned; (iii) refugee claimant's duties and activities within the organization; (iv) refugee claimant's position or rank in the organization; (v) length of time the refugee claimant was in the organization, particularly after acquiring knowledge of the group's crime or criminal purpose; (vi) method by which the refugee claimant was recruited and opportunity to leave.

As noted in the Court of Appeal Case in Solomon v Cromwell Group PLC Oliver v Doughty (2011): «The effect of accepting a Part 36 Offer made before a claim is issued, is that the Claimant is entitled to recover costs incurred in contemplation of proceedings ``

There must be evidence of a strong presence on or over the land claimed, manifesting itself in acts of occupation that could reasonably be interpreted as demonstrating that the land in question belonged to, was controlled by, or was under the exclusive stewardship of the claimant group.

Acting in respect of group claim of over 100 claimants resulting from exposures to harmful fumes and vapours in the workplace - the combined values of the claims totalled more than # 0.5 m;

Test Cases In a Group Litigation where there are many claimants like yourself, it is unworkable for the court to hear and consider each individual claim.

The Amersham research group, which comprised other scientists apart from the claimants, carried out human studies on one of the more promising compounds in 1988.

Solicitors for the Council wrote to the GMB and UNISON unions notifying them that should the claimants succeed in their group claim under the Equal Pay Act 1970 and the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (SDA 1975) then the Council would seek a contribution under CLIA 1978, which the Council asserted the tribunal had jurisdiction to determine.

Mr Justice Cooke held in Nomura International plc v Granada Group Ltd and others [2007] EWHC 642 (Comm), [2007] All ER (D) 404 (Mar) that it depends on whether the claimant can properly identify the essence of the tort or breach of contract complained of and, if given appropriate time to marshall what he knows, is in a position to formulate particulars of claim.

The group of about 200 staff, who brought the employment tribunal claim in February, have accepted a settlement proposal of eight weeks» pay for each claimant, offered after administrators Quantuma admitted a «technical breach» in the required duration of a redundancy consultation when it was carried out by KWM.

A group of claimants led by investment manager Gina Miller and hairdresser Deir Dos Santos are demanding that the triggering of Article 50 — which starts a two - year deadline for the exit process to be completed — be subject to a vote in parliament.

Acted for the claimant group (one of the UK's largest specialist recruitment businesses providing the Infrastructure sector with permanent, contract and temporary staff) in High Court, Queen's Bench Division proceedings.

O v P [2013] EWHC 3855 (Comm): instructed to advise in relation to and to appear on behalf of international logistics group company Applicant / Intended Claimant in ex parte application in Commercial Court for an anti-suit injunction and declaratory relief.

Established in 1992, Australia's federal class action regime was developed to promote the more efficient resolution of multiple claims sharing common issues, to increase access to justice for small claimants and to safeguard the interests of group members and respondents alike.

The ability of a group or groups of multiple claimants to bring joint claims — a class action — has long existed in a number of legal jurisdictions.

The fact that politicians make politically expedient attacks on lawyers — whether it be Chris Grayling's recent attack on «left wing» pressure groups, or Jack Straw's berating «BMW - driving civil liberties lawyers» — does not mean that claimant law firms don't have a case to answer in relation to drumming up «spurious claims».

It is unlikely change will occur in the short term, but the fact that lawmakers now recognise the advantage of the «opt - in» US approach to group litigation, at least in certain circumstances, can only benefit claimants — providing another means by which they can seek redress.

The best known jurisdiction is perhaps, the US, which is renowned, perhaps unfairly, for big ticket group claims, involving many dozens if not hundreds of claimants, with damages in the millions.

Nearly seven years after the start of the court review of the exchange ratio applied to the merger of IMMOEAST and IMMOFINANZ, IMMOFINANZ has reached an agreement in principle through out - of - court negotiations with most of the claimants and the representatives appointed for the respective shareholder groups to terminate these proceedings through settlement.

The claim related to a group action brought by no less than 599 claimants who holidayed at a Turkish resort in the summer of 2009 which had been booked though the defendant tour operator.

Master James held that it was «neither reasonable nor proportionate» to incur costs of just under half a million pounds in respect of these 152 claimants» claims by way of group litigation.

In two conjoined cases, (Essop and Naeem) the Supreme Court considered whether a claimant in an indirect discrimination claim has to prove the reason why a PCP puts (or would put) an affected group at a particular disadvantage, and whether the reason has to relate to the protected characteristiIn two conjoined cases, (Essop and Naeem) the Supreme Court considered whether a claimant in an indirect discrimination claim has to prove the reason why a PCP puts (or would put) an affected group at a particular disadvantage, and whether the reason has to relate to the protected characteristiin an indirect discrimination claim has to prove the reason why a PCP puts (or would put) an affected group at a particular disadvantage, and whether the reason has to relate to the protected characteristic.

Brightside Group Ltd v RSM UK Audit LLP [2017] 1 WLR 1943 Acting for Claimant in professional negligence claim against auditors.

Airey v Taffinder & Ors (Re Hills Solutions Ltd)[2015] EWHC 3854 (Ch) Acted for Claimant in successfully obtaining permission to continue a double derivative claim and a full indemnity from the company in respect of a restructuring of the group at an alleged undervalue.

For those parties in the group litigation who succeed in their individual claims, the logical conclusion is that they have «won» their case and, by extension, payment of their costs should be covered by the «losing» defendant; but in the event that the winning parties ultimately make up a minority of the larger claimant group, it could be argued that, as a whole, the claimants are the «losing» party, responsible for the defendant's costs.

On the first matter, as argued by the defendant, only two of the claimants had won their respective claims, meaning, from a «big picture» perspective, that the defendant had succeeded in 94 % of the group litigation claims and was, therefore, the litigation winner.

These tasks are made exponentially more difficult in group litigations, where both the defendants and the claimants may have grounds for considering themselves the «winner» for the purposes of cost allocation.

The claimant in my case wasn't a Russian oligarch, an A-list celebrity or an Arab billionaire (groups who seem to issue writs like they are going out of fashion) but a seemingly innocuous super-wealthy self - styled «holy man» from the Punjab (a state in Northern India) who is reported never to have stepped foot in Britain nor apparently reads, writes or speaks any English.

«As a group, IAP claimants are uniquely in need of the court's protection,» he wrote.

They were playing in a courtyard and part of a walkway which was the social area for their age group when, running backwards, the first defendant collided with the claimant.

A group of 1,011 claimants seek damages for exposure to ionising radiation as a result of exposure to nuclear tests undertaken during the 1950s in the Pacific Ocean.

Earlier this year, Duke Street confirmed an investment of up to # 200m in the Parabis Group (which includes claimant business Cogent Law and the defendant firm Plexus Law).

The court concluded that, despite itself having been entirely innocent of the misuse, the employer was in principle vicariously liable to compensate all 5,500 claimants in the group.

Opt - in class actions are permitted in a range of claims and claimants in group actions can not secure a State exemption from the payment of legal expenses.

In the latest in a series of interim judgments in the Air Cargo cartel damages claims, which are being brought in the Chancery Division by several groups of claimants against British Airways plc, the High Court (Rose J) has held that Article 101 TFEU does not permit claims for damages to be brought in relation -LSB-..In the latest in a series of interim judgments in the Air Cargo cartel damages claims, which are being brought in the Chancery Division by several groups of claimants against British Airways plc, the High Court (Rose J) has held that Article 101 TFEU does not permit claims for damages to be brought in relation -LSB-..in a series of interim judgments in the Air Cargo cartel damages claims, which are being brought in the Chancery Division by several groups of claimants against British Airways plc, the High Court (Rose J) has held that Article 101 TFEU does not permit claims for damages to be brought in relation -LSB-..in the Air Cargo cartel damages claims, which are being brought in the Chancery Division by several groups of claimants against British Airways plc, the High Court (Rose J) has held that Article 101 TFEU does not permit claims for damages to be brought in relation -LSB-..in the Chancery Division by several groups of claimants against British Airways plc, the High Court (Rose J) has held that Article 101 TFEU does not permit claims for damages to be brought in relation -LSB-..in relation -LSB-...]

The claimant was representative of a group of Iraqis numbering about 100 who either have brought, or wish to bring, judicial review proceedings against the Secretary of State for Defence alleging that they were ill - treated in detention in Iraq at various times between 2003 and 2008 by members of the British Armed forces in breach of Article 3.