Sentences with phrase «current issues of consent»

«Stealthing» is the new sexual assault — a crime by any other name, say Canadian lawyers — that adds another twist to current issues of consent in cases of sexual violence.

Not exact matches

The central issue is whether it's a conflict of interest for a law firm to accept a retainer to sue a current client on an unrelated matter without first obtaining their consent.

«Thanks to the federal government, who has done nothing on this issue other than pass the Indian Act, there is no over-arching legislation that provides certainty in relation to acquisition of consent, unless the band and the collective self - identify,» said Charles Willms, chairman of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP's Vancouver aboriginal law practice, speaking at the panel, Key Legal Cases in Canada: The Current Landscape.

• The central issue raised by the Final Report of the Advisory Committee is whether a new rule of professional conduct should be adopted which would always require current client consent even if there is no real or no substantial risk of impairment of client representation.

With the aforesaid the Competition Bureau, through the Tribunal, is suggesting that: TREB somehow formulated a pertinent seller consent, in advance of even contemplating utilizing an internet technology (VOW) that would accommodate displaying the «disputed data» and at a time when they must not have had any current or future intent towards displaying the «disputed data» in the manner at issue!