Sentences with phrase «equality under»

The report concludes that, on the High Court's own analysis, the extinguishment of native title, both under the Native Title Act and at common law, is not only discriminatory at international law but fails to meet the standards of equality under domestic law.

The dialogue between the government and the Committee about the international standard of equality under ICERD was led by Country Rapporteur, Ms Gay McDougall.

Importantly, the meaning of equality under international law is not limited to equal treatment before the law.

The symbols of endurance and equality recall the injustices endured before equality under law was achieved.

Further, religious freedom is closely tied with the Charter's commitment to religious equality under section 15.

Moreover, there is a principled reason to treat similar offenders who commit simi - lar misconduct in similar manners, and thus the principle of equality under which retribu - tive punishment serves would likely be undermined by a progressively increasing punish - ment structure because the variability of marginal utility rates would be idiosyncratic across persons (or entities).

The Christian Medical & Dental Society of Canada and some individual physicians challenged the policy, arguing that it violated their freedom of conscience and their right to equality under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Once charged, Duarte argued that section 365 (a) of the Code violated his freedom of religion and right to equality under sections 2 (a) and 15 of the Charter.

In this instance, the government provides justifications for the amendments, couched in Charter speak, relying on a broad range of rights, such as s 7 in its various forms, the s 11 (b) right to a trial within a reasonable time, the s 11 (d) presumption of innocence, and the right to equality under s 15.

To support that argument, as noted above, the Hercus decision can be cited as an example in which a failure of the arbitrator to consider the results of a relevant report was deemed to go to the matter of equality under s. 19, resulting in the overturning of an award and the removal of the Arbitrator under s. 46 (7).

Law Day is a special day set aside to recognize and strengthen our heritage of liberty, justice, and equality under the law.

The family challenged the MSA, claiming that it violed their rights to equality under section 15 of the Charter.

On November 16, 2011, the commission tabled a legal opinion (in French) demanding that Revenu Québec amend section 1029.8.116.16 of the Taxation Act to eliminate the obligation to register for direct deposit as a condition to obtain the solidarity tax credit, as this measure is discriminatory and infringes the right to equality under the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

In 2014, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (the «WSIAT») held in Decision No. 2157/09 that the provisions of the WSIA covering mental stress violated the right to equality under Section 15 of The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, because mental health injuries were treated differently than physical injuries under the WSIA.

On April 17, 1982, Canada enshrined those protections in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, declaring that equality under the law is fundamental to the quality of life of its citizens.

I am hoping that the court «s role in this case will strike at the very existence of an absolute immunity under two guiding principles: equality under the law (especially when the alleged wrong has been committed by a person who should be held to the highest standards of conduct in exercising a public trust; and any infringement of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms constitutes «improper purpose» aimed at gaining a private collateral advantage.

Yes, anyone can sue anyone for anything at any time - that's what equality under the law means.

Although there are some voices who raise legal questions of equality under a progressive taxation regime, most Western economies accept that some level of progressive taxation is required to stimulate the economy.

Those that hold religious beliefs may attend law school as they have equality under the law.

«For the civil rights community, data provide the power to advocate for greater equality under the law,» the groups said.

These groups, including the NAACP, the National Urban League, and National Council of La Raza, were wholly right and justified when they said that «data provides the power to advocate for greater equality under the law.»

However, nowhere was this powerful belief in equality more clear than at Monday's «Equality and Justice Day» rally in Albany, where citizens from across our state came together and demanded equality under law in one unified voice.

Co-sponsored legislation to strengthen Ulster County's human rights laws to ensure that ALL people are protected and given equality under the law.

The fight for equality under the law, argued advocates, had not ended with the advances made in the civil rights movement, but was still an ongoing battle, as current as ever.

«It's disappointing that any candidate for Attorney General would believe that equal justice and equality under the law applies to some New York State citizens and not to all,» said Assembly Member Matt Titone (61st AD - Staten Island).

Chris Grayling, the lord chancellor who this week was accused by the high court of actually trying to end equality under the law.

«We've had clients in Russia who've been beaten by police, but more often it's vigilante groups and thugs engaging in social cleansing and unfortunately the police don't do anything to offer protection,» said Aaron Morris, senior staff attorney for Immigration Equality, a national organization that advocates for LGBT equality under US immigration law and offers legal counsel to those seeking asylum.

And so Scott aims to abolish Michigan's small, but hard - fought gain in transgender equality under the rhetorical guise of a return to «social values.»

Gay and lesbian Americans enjoy greater equality under Donald Trump than gay and lesbian Australians do under Malcolm Turnbull.

«How would he respond if someone endorsed a candidate who said Dominicans or Latinos didn't deserve full equality under the law?

It was judges - not parliament - who saved equality under the law from the justice secretary's assault

Witness the successful US civil rights movement (clearly for equality under the law & an end to segregation) compared to the ultimately unsuccessful 70's / 80's CND campaigners (against atomic weapons but no coherent or sensible pro-position on anything).

Bakir Izetbegovic, the former leader of one of the three main political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina, portrayed the history of Bosnian Muslims as a struggle for recognition and equality under a multitude of oppressors.

They preach and cry for equality under the statue of a man who died doing the same.

Why did she come to believe that God wanted that church to offer full equality under God to Christian gays and lesbians?

But the government can and must be color - blind — as in «equality under the law.»

All we have in the USA is the Constltution to give us a tendency towards equality under the law, but the laws are unequally enforced, biased against non-believers, and a very shaky crutch upon which to rest our freedoms and rights.

Is it really equality under the law, though?

How about the fact that the Mormon Church went into partnership with the Catholic Church and encouraged... «strongly» their congregations to «vote» out any piece of legislation that creates equality under the law for gay's.

You might have fun saying that the problem here is that «things didn't go my way», but my way is equality under the law for everyone regardless of race, creed, disability, etc..

Do you not respect the rule of law or equality under the law?

We are supposed to have equality under the law here in the USA.

Who defines equality under the law, does the right to display openly a persons faith and a persons right to not have to hear it, either side have ultimate standing?

Inviolable human dignity, constitutional limits upon central power, and equality under law are part of a preliberal legacy.

The conception of inviolable human dignity, of constitutional limits upon central power, of equality under law, and of the free exchange of goods and services in markets is, again, part of a preliberal legacy.

Liberalism's defenders fear that any compromise of liberal principles will result in the resurgence of religious warfare, the re-enslavement of various populations, the loss of the independence of women, and the abandonment of rights and equality under law.

And the religious denominational plurality along with strong middle class and later working class groups committed to atheism destroyed any possibility of return to Christendom, and the only option for national unity was to secularize the state with equality under law for all religious and secular thought and groups.

If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

How do you respect people that * believe * you don't deserve equality under the law like everyone else, because they think you are less than, or a sinner, etc...

This is about law, about justice and fairness, about equality under the law and our civil and human rights goddammit!