Sentences with phrase «coercive law»

Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University says it is a legitimate debate on whether «offensive» and «insulting» speech should be subject to coercive law.

When Dunston became involved, the federal government had taken over the program, and the coercive laws had been repealed.

The committee does, however, recommend the introduction of educative measures to be taken to combat the continued practice of female circumcision rather than the immediate implementation of coercive laws to punish perpetrators.

Not exact matches

A different order of questions is raised when we move from boycotts and other voluntary actions to employing the coercive force of law.

One somehow suspects that a 2013 Chinese law that requires children to visit their elderly parents regularly — a coercive attempt to repair some of the social damage caused by even worse coercion — is not going to do the trick.

Virtually every law is coercive, and care must be taken not to violate the religious liberties of individual citizens.

If the Russian government tries to use the coercive power of law to unite them under the Moscow Patriarchate, will the Russian Orthodox Church vigorously protest and insist on the right of Kyivan Patriarchate parishes to exist, even though it regards them as schismatic?

What of competing coercive groups within a State and their relation to law?

But the significance of such a law is not only that it puts the coercive power of the state against the unjust discriminator, but that it puts the moral power of the state against it also, T. V. Smith's statement that laws «represent the maximum of private conscience which can at any time become social fact.»

On the other hand, why does the popularity of recreational lust and fornication now require the coercive support of the full majesty of Britain's law?

Every State must have coercive power of law enforcement and the protection of its citizens from evildoers.

Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and, therefore, the criterion and goal of all human endeavor, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the state to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order, freedom and justice.

The morality of law and the coercive institution of the State to enforce legal justice are expressions of this imperfect morality at the level of self - alienated social existence of human beings.

Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and therefore the criterion and goal of all human endeavour, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the State to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order.

Occasionally coercive threats compel a person to violate the law; and in such cases the individual is rightly excused from legal guilt.

«Negative liberty» accurately describes one important aspect of the political organization of freedom: the need to circumscribe and regulate coercive state power by law.

Even today much of what law accomplishes is unconnected to its coercive component.

And the «vague» papal pronouncement that Mr. Lowell seems to doubt was ever made was, in fact, a major — some think historic — allocution, delivered in 1953 to an audience of Italian jurists, in which Pope Pius XII laid down the principle that «in the interest of a higher and broader good, it is justifiable not to impede error by state laws and coercive measures.»

Conservatives, argues David Sehat, profess religious freedom, but only to secretly assert the coercive power of law to force people to live under a particular religious establishment.

The result has been more laws — including Claire's Law which means people can check if their partner has a history of violence, and the criminalisation of forced marriage and coercive control.

RM: So Hobbes thought that even under the most coercive force of law left people free.

It's good that we now have laws against forced marriage and coercive control.

While it's great the government took steps to criminalise coercive control in support of survivors of domestic abuse, the cuts mean forces are not equipped to enforce the law.

is not at all clear, and laws may be «void for vagueness» - we as citizens have a right to know when we cross a line — and that is long before the grand jury tells, or alleges to us, that is, into a coercive plea bargaining system — and we might want to let our Peers decide that, as in «Trial By Jury Of,» western - civilization - foundation department

The following year May introduced the «coercive control» law that recognised emotional and financial abuse as a crime.

Here, one has in mind the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy Nigerian Air Force, the police, other paramilitary forces and, in short, all the other coercive institutions existing under the Nigerian law.

The SAR report also documents the use of deliberate coercive legal authority to wrongfully prosecute or imprison outspoken scholars by conjuring blasphemy, defamation, terrorism, and lèse - majesté (against the crown) laws.

Parliament shut down Boston Harbor, as part of a series of laws that became known as the Intolerable Acts, or Coercive Acts.

Taxes are... a far cheaper and less coercive way to curtail [harmful] behavior than laws or prescriptive regulations.

In upholding the impugned by - laws, [2] the Court adopted the finding in Pepsi Cola that a ban on criminal, tortious, or coercive conduct will be justified under section 1 of the Charter.

In the unpublished State v. Drum, the Court of Appeals characterizes Brooks as holding «as a matter of law» that «the criminal test - penalty in the implied - consent law is not coercive.»

A libel case, like all lawsuits, involves the government's judicial branch using its coercive power to make you pay money as a result of your speech, based on a law requiring you to pay money for certain kinds of speech.

Noel Pearson, writing in the context of alcohol and drug problems, affirms that while law enforcement is important, coercive measures alone will not succeed.

Many victims of coercive behaviour don't recognise that they're experiencing abuse, and may not know that this kind of behaviour is against the law.

Emotional and coercive abuse in domestic relationships is a societal problem that needs serious attention, but a new United Kingdom law that criminalizes that behaviour may not be the right move, says Toronto family lawyer Brian Ludmer.

Of these, coercive controlling violence (CCV; also called intimate terrorism and commonly referred to as domestic violence, spousal abuse, or battery) is the type of intimate partner violence that workers in community or agency settings — hospitals and clinics, domestic abuse or homeless shelters, public safety or law enforcement departments, courts and the legal system — are most likely to encounter (Coker, Smith, McKeown, & King, 2000; Graham - Kevan & Archer, 2003; Johnson, 2006).