Sentences with phrase «claims on behalf of groups»

Collective actions could allow approved organisations, like Citizens Advice Bureaux, (which saw an 18 per cent increase in employment discrimination enquiries in 2008/09) to bring claims on behalf of groups of people.

Not exact matches

Collective claims to cyberspace communications require provisions on the access to public communication on behalf of social groups.

Democrats denied that claim, and leveled an accusation of their own: that lawyers working on behalf of Mr. Venditto had been purposely challenging ballots coming out of heavily black and Latino parts of the district, owing to those groups» traditional support of Democratic candidates.

The Niger Delta Avengers has refuted the claim that it nominated Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka; a former Abia State governor, Mr. Orji Kalu and five others to negotiate with the federal government on behalf of the group.

As an astronomer who has been involved in topics relating to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) for 30 years, and as a former member of SETI advisory panels, I feel there is an arrogance in the transmission of these messages by small groups who have claimed the right to shout on behalf of Earth without consulting anybody else.

Tommy Fuller of the Fuller Law Group, filed an Amicus Curiae brief on behalf of TCSA and the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools (LAPCS) in support of the Louisiana charter school's claims and arguing that Louisiana public charter schools are political subdivisions for purposes of the NLRA and should be exempt from the NLRB's jurisdiction.

While Malloy is touring the state claiming that his goal is to «win back» the respect of teachers, parents and public school advocates, later this week, Commissioner Pryor and SDE Turnaround Director Morgan Barth will be handing the microphone over to the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, a corporate funded lobby group that has spent over $ 160,000 lobbying on behalf of Malloy's «education reform» initiative.

A class action suit is one filed on behalf of a group of people with similar claims.

Crawford & Company Inc., a third party administrator, has been assigned to act on behalf of Federal Insurance Company, a member insurer of the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies to process your recent claim.

Ha.The California - based Newport Trial Group brought the suit in a U.S. District Court on behalf of individuals seeking restitution for these false claims, which are thought to be responsible for a significant amount of Fiji's increased market share.

In one extreme case, the ACCCE even sent out forged letters to Congress members, claiming to speak on behalf of senior citizens and other groups.

The Court considered the claims of the groups of creditors that had assigned their actions to the Appellant, and found that to the extent those claims were personal — alleging misrepresentations to themselves personally, investments they made in reliance on those misrepresentations, and resulting personal loss — the Appellant could not pursue the claims on their behalf.

Though this case was brought by only two Uber drivers (on behalf of a group of 19), the decision is significant because of its implications for Uber's 40,000 drivers and other companies that also claim that those working for them are contractors.

For accidents that result in a fatality, The Begum Law Group offers compassionate representation to your family while pursuing a wrongful death claim on behalf of the victim.

Those with longer memories might recall that around 10 years ago the same cry, on behalf of Claims Direct and The Accident Group, heralded not the consumer champion but the cynical exploitation of claims for pClaims Direct and The Accident Group, heralded not the consumer champion but the cynical exploitation of claims for pclaims for profit.

The article discusses some of the successful continency cases brought by large firms, such as the $ 2.5 billion verdict obtained by Faegre & Benson on behalf of a group of Alaskan fisherman claiming damage to their livelihood by the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Although toxic tort claims can be filed on behalf of an individual, they often seek compensation for a group of people, which is referred to as a class action lawsuit.

Motto v Trafigura [2011] EWCA Civ 1150 concerned Leigh, Day & Co's claim for # 100m costs for its group action on behalf of about 30,000 citizens of the Ivory Coast against Trafigura.

He acted on behalf of the former directors of ESG Group in an # 8 million negligence claim relating to their actions as directors.»

In others, a representative claim brought on behalf of a transient, vulnerable population may not require evidence from individual members of that group to succeed.

Participated in an appeal on behalf of a national, publicly - traded medical group to Florida's 1st District Court of Appeal, which affirmed an order compelling arbitration of an employed physician's breach of contract claims

Representing PepsiCo, Inc. and Bottling Group, LLC in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, in litigation alleging claims under the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Robinson Patman Act, the Lanham Act and Iowa competition law, and for tortious interference, breach of fiduciary duty, business defamation and, on behalf of a putative class, breach of contract.

The Business Trial Group's attorneys are experienced at handling employment cases on behalf of individuals and businesses, including claims for:

David specialises in commercial litigation including competition claims and claims on behalf of shareholders, and is Head of both the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group as well as the Group Action Litigation department.

A class action is a form of civil action where one or a few plaintiffs can sue a defendant or a number of defendants on behalf of a larger group of people who claim the same type of loss from the same defendant of group of defendants.

Claims brought by a person on behalf of a group of persons to establish a precedent on a particular point of law («test cases»)

The only issue before the Court of Appeal was whether the CFAs, standing alone, provided a sufficient basis on which to rest a valid claim to recover from the paying party a share of the costs incurred by Burroughs Day on behalf of a large group of clients.

Acting for the RBoS Shareholders Action Group on behalf of institutional clients and over 35,000 individual shareholders, bringing claims in excess of # 1 billion against RBS over its 2008 rights issue following the acquisition of ABN Amro.

Plan sponsors who are employers of medium (51 - 199 employees) and large (over 200 employees) firms that provide health benefits through contracts with issuers are more likely to want access to protected health information for plan administration, for example to use it to audit claims or perform quality assurance functions on behalf of the group health plan.

The more diverse intervenors arguing on behalf of LGBTQ2 and public interest groups successfully countered these claims, and made other arguments, in the afternoon.

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Claims brought by a person on behalf of a group of persons to establish a precedent on a particular point of law («test cases»)

applicants may be required to provide greater evidence that they have been authorised to make a claim on behalf of the claim group; and

[108] That is, that the person who makes the application has been authorised appropriately to make that claim on behalf of the claim group, this procedure is dealt with further in Section 251B of the Native Title Act which requires traditional laws and customs (where they exist regarding similar matters) to be the source of the decision making process for the authorisation.

Several NTRBs reported that, due to funding shortages, their «engagement» with native title claimant groups is limited to advising and taking instructions from the claim's applicants listed on the Federal Court's records (and this is sometimes only five people on behalf of a group of 100 or more).

The applicant must be authorised by the native title claim group to make the application and «deal with matters arising in relation to it» on behalf of the claim group.

Members of the native title claim group also must authorise the applicant to make the native title determination application and «to deal with matters arising in relation to it» on behalf of the group.

His Honour considered the meaning of «traditional», as discussed in Yorta Yorta and «society» as discussed in Akiba on behalf of the Torres Strait Islanders of the Regional Seas Claim Group v State of Queensland (No 2)[2010] FCA 643 and Croft on behalf of the Barngarla Native Title Claim Group v State of South Australia [2015] FCA 9.

It is the native title claim group which provides the authorisation under s 251B [requiring the group to authorise those bringing the native title claim], and it is the group on whose behalf the claim is then pursued and, if successful, in whose favour a determination of native title is then made.2

establishing negotiating committees to prepare for the establishment of formal governance structures, such as defining applicants in a native title or land rights claim, or determining who should negotiate an ILUA on behalf of the group

Franchisor Sutton Group Realty Services claimed, on behalf of its salespeople, that commissions were not assets but rather were funds held in trust for the benefit of salespeople, to be paid to them upon the completion of real estate transactions.