Sentences with phrase «established legal powers»

Sen. Richard Blumenthal: President Obama is using his well - established legal powers to reform a sadly - broken,...

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The memo begins by making a grandiose claim: The FBI's use of surveillance power under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 campaign was «a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.»

It requires ordained ministers to renounce their long - established role as agents of the state with the legal power to sign marriage certificates.

Any society in history will need structures which balance enhancement of freedom and self - determination with checks on it by long - established legal and moral traditions of keeping power in the service of order and mutual responsibility, as well as creation of new structures of public morality.

But I want those powers to be regulated by the well established legal safeguards which protect individuals from coercive state power, not be given away carte blanche, allowing deliberate back door vulnerabilities to be created and contractors to roam through my browsing history.

He said efforts were being made to review the legal framework establishing the commission so it could have some punitive powers.

The Sheffield city region review into the case for establishing their combined authority explicitly stated, for instance, that the major rationale was to give legal effect to existing informal collaboration, enabling local authority leaders «to obtain more devolved powers from government and additional funding streams».

In addition, legal powers to establish new maintained schools and to direct local schools to expand where additional places are needed, should be returned to local authorities.

(2) Any law society has power to create economies of scale by establishing support services in regard to particular parts of the work of producing legal services.

In its Judgment of 20 September 2012 in case T ‑ 154 / 10 French Republic vs. European Commission, the General Court of the EU (GC) has established a new test of «bankruptcy - proofness» as an advantage contrary to Article 107 (1) TFEU that may generate a significant shake up in the control of State aid granted (implicitly) to establishments of an industrial and commercial character (EICC, or EPIC in their French acronym)-- ie legal entities governed by public law which have distinct legal personality from the State, financial independence and certain special powers, including the performance of one or more public service tasks.

Rather, the Court focused on the fact that the EU does not have any equivalent power or legal basis to establish a similar stability mechanism.

This was a milestone in English - American legal tradition, because it not only established the power of the jury to find whatever verdict it wishes, without punishment, but also the rights of free speech and peaceable assembly.

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Power must be exercised within the bounds of the condominium's established jurisdiction and with due respect to the legal rights and reasonable expectations of the few or the one... [more]

It was a well - established principle of the law of confidentiality that where information of a personal or confidential nature was obtained or received in the exercise of a legal power or in furtherance of a public duty, the recipient would owe a duty to the person from whom the information was received or it relates (in this case, the taxpayer).

Notable mandates: Represented Halifax Regional Municipality in its 10 - year battle with the federal government over the under - estimation of the value of Citadel Hill pursuant to the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act; represented the province of Nova Scotia in the purchase of Bowater Mersey Paper Co. Ltd., and on the NewPage Corp. matter; advised Husky Energy on its South White Rose Extension project; acted for Emera Inc. on the development and transmission of hydroelectric power from Muskrat Falls; acted for Dexter to formulate a 3P bid to complete the twinning of the Saint John to St. Stephen divided highway, and provided legal advice when it won the contract; provided all legal services to establish title to Loblaw Co. Ltd. properties throughout Atlantic Canada as part of the establishment of a proposed REIT; engaged by TransCanada Corp. as local counsel on the Energy East Pipeline Project

The Power of Attorney for Child is temporary and does not establish legal guardianship.

Law uses rhetoric to establish its authority and to legitimate particular acts of political and legal power.

may be used separately as a basis for adopting particular measures under the CFP, provided that the Council, when it adopts measures on the basis of Article 43 (3) TFEU, acts within the limits of its powers and, where relevant, within the legal framework already established under Article 43 (2) TFEU.

And in the case of which we are speaking, the question arose whether the Territorial Legislature could be authorized by Congress to establish such a tribunal, with such powers, and one of the parties, among other objections, insisted that Congress could not under the Constitution authorize the Legislature of the Territory to establish such a tribunal with such powers, but that it must be established by Congress itself, and that a sale of cargo made under its order to pay salvors was void as made without legal authority, and passed no property to the purchaser.

Power must be exercised within the bounds of the condominium's established jurisdiction and with due respect to the legal rights and reasonable expectations of the few or the one.

The Ontario Superior Court confirmed the established legal principle that a court has no power to award the costs of a disciplinary hearing where the hearing panel's decision is set aside on a judicial review.

«What needs to be emphasised», he said, «is that the provisions of s 24 (1)(a) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 do not give the court power to disapply the established principles of legal and beneficial ownership or of company law.»

Board established in 1883, which gained legal powers in 1909, when the Aborigines Protection Act was passed, giving the Board wide - ranging control over the lives of Aboriginal people, including the power to remove children from families.