Sentences with phrase «fairness to argue»

The First Nations are relying on the established administrative law principle of procedural fairness to argue that the duty to consult is not necessarily confined to cases involving s. 35 Charter rights.

But it is a strange idea of fairness to argue that because private sector staff have seen big cuts in their pensions, then so must the public sector.

Not exact matches

So while the interests of fairness argue for a dramatic scaling back of seniors» discounts — or at least greater use of income testing to ensure only those in real financial need are accessing them — political dynamics are actually working to expand their scope and cost.

It is entirely correct that Ford ought to have had the opportunity to speak as a matter of procedural fairness, as his lawyers argued, but that was not what the Act read.

The reason fairness would require that this ratio be equal to one is that, as argued by the Italian economist Luigi Pasinetti in his 1981 book, Structural Change and Economic Growth: A Theoretical Essay on the Dynamics of the Wealth of Nations, a fair interest rate is such that the purchasing power of one hour of labour stays constant through time even when its monetary equivalent is lent or borrowed.

In fairness, Nick of Sure Dividend uses the Sharpe Ratio and research by Kenneth French to argue on the side of dividend stocks and makes some good points.

The communications people advising the Finance Minister felt that the best way to sell the proposed tax changes was by arguing that they would lead to greater tax fairness, even though the Finance Minister himself claimed the tax changes would only affect a small group of high - income earners.

Most argue about these five issues over and over again because these are all stressors that speak to our sense of love and fairness.

I argued that the fundamental concern wasn't about sexuality but about fairness: Once a student was admitted to CTS, we had an obligation to treat that student like any other student.

He argues convincingly that for all the neo-Darwinian atheists» claim that man is no more than the result of blind scientific forces, they have to wriggle to claim, as they do, some place for justice, equality and political fairness.

You could argue this is us believing we can't afford to pay more... but I fear it is more due to a sense of fairness and equality in the team ethos.

If you feel like your teenager is constantly arguing about justice or fairness, they are most likely feeling like they are not being heard or cared about enough to get what they want.

Where Liberal Democrat ministers can argue for fairness and social justice directly against those who seek to curtail them.

Voters in the south no longer see Labour as the party of fairness and believe they get «little or nothing» back from government from their taxes, a report to be published next month will argue.

John McDonnell will argue that after seven years of Tory economic mismanagement the Chancellor must change course next week, by abandoning his planned tax giveaways to a wealthy few and instead bringing greater fairness into the tax system.

To take your example of fairness, it remains to be seen whether or not Labour has a convincing account of what fairness looks like, and it might be argued (though the left intellignetsia rue the fact) that the contemporary left's understanding of terms such as «fairness» or «equality» simply don't corrolate with the public at largTo take your example of fairness, it remains to be seen whether or not Labour has a convincing account of what fairness looks like, and it might be argued (though the left intellignetsia rue the fact) that the contemporary left's understanding of terms such as «fairness» or «equality» simply don't corrolate with the public at largto be seen whether or not Labour has a convincing account of what fairness looks like, and it might be argued (though the left intellignetsia rue the fact) that the contemporary left's understanding of terms such as «fairness» or «equality» simply don't corrolate with the public at large.

DC - 37, a union that represents thousands of municipal employees working in public hospitals and has donated heavily to Democrats, took the lead in lobbying for it, arguing that changing how the money was distributed was a matter of fairness.

Labour says the cut will affect more working families than those who are out of work but the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan - Smith argues the changes are about fairness to taxpayers.

Nonetheless, they argue that their findings have broad implications, with relevance to any context in which people punish others for what they consider to be violations of fairness.

They argue that far greater attention and skill are needed to craft and build the institutional capabilities that render goals achievable, ensure fairness, and foster innovation and systemic learning in the public interest.

Those who argue that Kyoto should be ditched to be replaced by some other scheme (usually the pet scheme of the advocate) implicitly dismiss the extraordinary complexity and difficulty of reaching an agreement among some 200 highly diverse countries, each with its own definition of fairness, on the climate change issue.

Thompson and Raynor (1998) argue that, rather than being obstacles to be overcome, the uneasy coexistence of different conceptions of natural vulnerability and societal fairness is a source of resilience and the key to the institutional plurality that actually enables us to apprehend and adapt to our ever - changing circumstances.

I argued that the government was already deeply involved with marriage, and fairness therefore demanded that more people have access to these rights and privileges.

LDCs question the fairness of this position and argue that developed countries must pay to support actions by the LDCs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In contrast to Hayek, however, political philosopher John Rawls, in A Theory of Justice, generally argued that government promotes «social justice» when it implements pre-determined redistributive policies — his so - called «justice - as - fairness principle.»

One might plausibly argue that if belief is a threat to fairness, then it is better to know who believes, rather than have it hidden.

Beyond the principle of fairness, I would argue that this review of licensing requirements ought to also consider the «access to legal services» dimension of access to justice more directly.

The ideas of early settlement or summary determination of unsuitable disputes, rigorous and costeffective case management of those that remained, coupled with the intellect and fairness that have always been the traditional hallmarks of the British judiciary, must have seemed at the time exactly what was required to maintain London's and the UK's competitiveness as a place to do business as well as argue about any resulting disputes.

Miss Knowitorl, however, living up to her unusual name, said that she had heard somewhere that treating the parties equally was a good starting point, but that in this case I should not do so, and argued that fairness demanded that the applicant wife should receive «not a bean», as she so picturesquely put it.

While some critics of food truck liberalization have argued that reforms and more competition would be unfair for traditional restaurants, competition is not about «fairness» but rather allowing competitors to determine what services they want to offer and allowing consumers to make choices.

First, the appellant argues that the trial judge intervened to such an extent in the examination of witnesses that the appearance of fairness in the trial was fatally compromised.

Third, she argued that the appeal was not a full re-hearing of the «hearing» she had had prior to the Dean's decision to suspend and did not cure the alleged defects in the fairness of the process.

In the United States» petition to the Supreme Court, the government described the ruling as «unprecedented» and argued that, if it were left to stand, it would «hurt market participants, disadvantage scrupulous market analysts, and impair the government's ability to protect the fairness and integrity of the securities markets.»

On judicial review, the third party union argued that the failure to consider its argument was a breach of procedural fairness.

The Caring Society objected to the fairness of the process, arguing that the motion was premature and that the evidentiary record was not sufficient to decide the motion.

The Consultant argued that the Ministry had an obligation to hold an oral hearing before rendering its decision and in failing to do so breached the duty of fairness owed to her.

Topics covered this week included two procedural fairness decisions (one relating to interpreting a contract in a way neither party argued, the other relating to the effect of a lengthy adjournment mid-trial), repair and storage liens in the automobile insurance context, the tort of conversion, as well as several short procedural decisions.

The question of deference on questions of procedural fairness will continue to hang over Canadian administrative law until it is argued and authoritatively resolved by the Supreme Court.

It was argued that there was a serious issue to be tried (relating to procedural fairness) and that irreparable harm would result if the stay was not granted.

Whilst a Judge may initially be sympathetic if, for example, a statement of case or defence aren't in the format a lawyer would know they need to be presented in, the court is very unlikely to continue to grant leeway once an initial warning has been given, and, as another example, turning up to court to defend an application by the opponent to strike out your claim and simply arguing it wouldn't be fair to allow the application because of the overriding objective of fairness would be given short shrift.

The banks argued that their fees were the price of providing an unauthorised overdraft, or alternatively were part of the «whole package» of prices and services that a current account consists of, and therefore the fairness assessment is not applicable to the fees.