Sentences with phrase «first substantive decision»

Yesterday the STL Appeals Chamber issued its first substantive decision (h / t Bill Schabas» blog), penned by Professor Antonio Cassese, who was not only the presiding judge but also the judge rapporteur in the Chamber.

Not exact matches

When it was first put in place, the Durban Platform did not include too many substantive decisions, for the objective was to allow the terms of international cooperation to be discussed and decided upon through negotiations from 2012 to 2015.

Any substantive need for RBS to appeal on the waiver aspect of the first decision of Birss J therefore fell away (and RBS's appeal in relation to other aspects of the decision was in any event settled).

The first step in substantive judicial review under Canadian administrative law is to identify the standard of review applicable to the question or questions in the impugned statutory decision.

«Because class proceeding legislation is procedural, and does not create substantive rights, a proposed class action must identify class members who individually have legal capacity to sue and assert a cause of action,» Garson wrote in her May 3 decision Kwicksutaineuk / Ah - Kwa - Mish First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General).

The Supreme Court resolved a Circuit split involving the doctrine of trademark tacking in its first substantive trademark decision in nearly a decade.

In Dunsmuir, the Supreme Court set out to do two things: first, to simplify the standards of judicial review by eliminating the patent unreasonableness standard, and second, to strike a balance between upholding the rule of law — that is, ensuring that administrative decision makers adhere to the law as written by legislatures — and according sufficient deference to the administrative decision maker to allow them to provide substantive «meat» to the legislative bones.