Sentences with phrase «for claimant group»

Governments are not yet clear what they want native title agreements to achieve, either for the claimant group or other parties.

Whilst negotiations in the context of resolving native title claims often provide an appropriate vehicle or launching pad for other negotiations relevant to the particular group or land and waters, it can also carry disadvantages for the claimant group.

Many governments are not yet clear what they want native title agreements to achieve, either for the claimant group or other parties.

Acted for the claimant group (one of the UK's largest specialist recruitment businesses providing the Infrastructure sector with permanent, contract and temporary staff) in High Court, Queen's Bench Division proceedings.

Unless there is a broader policy framework, such as that in SA, that posits the group's development as a goal in its own right, then development will not occur for those claimant groups whose land has no priority in the state's land management regimes.

[59] The consequence of treating the «handed down» requirement as the sole determinant of what is «traditional» law or custom is to discount well - established but more recent practices manifesting connection to land, and to insist upon evidentiary approaches requiring provision of conclusive evidence of pre-contact practices, customs and traditions which will often be «next to impossible» [60] for claimant groups to meet.

Not exact matches

If the group to be identified as the recipients of reparations payments is simply to be «African - Americans,» then there will be a surprising number of claimants eligible for reparations payments who have, so to speak, been «white» for several generations.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) have welcomed HMRC's commitment to carry out a review of all summer 2016 decisions made by Concentrix that have not already been challenged by claimants and to improve their compliance processes for 2017 and beyond.

The Government must give better and fuller guidance to tax credit and other benefit claimants about the circumstances in which they may still claim the child element of child tax credit or universal credit for a third or subsequent child born on or after 6 April 2017, says the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG).1 Previously announced changes to tax credits, universal credit and some other benefits which limit payment of the child element to no more than two children come into effect today (6 April).

The problem with the IPT, as Harriet Wistrich, a solicitor with Birnberg Pierce and Partners, acting for one group of claimants, explained, is that it is «a completely unfair process»

Professional group joins Labour in warning that claimants for children born of non-consensual sex may be criminalised

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill provides a much - needed opportunity to mend our broken compensation system to ensure a better deal for genuine claimants, taxpayers, local authorities, the NHS and businesses alike» Matthew Davis, Head of Group Insurance, Home Retail Group (whose brands include Argos), said: «Managing our business costs is crucial to ensuring that we remain the UK's leading home and general merchandise retailer.

«We know there is a small group of benefit claimants without the major physical or health barriers to work associated with incapacity benefit - who live in areas where there is no shortage of vacancies, particularly for low - skilled jobs but who nonetheless remain on benefits for long periods of time,» he said.

Responding to a consultation on the pilot closure of HMRC Enquiry Centres in the North East1, the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) are urging HMRC to cater for taxpayers» and tax credits claimants» individual needs, focusing on service delivery and not cost cutting

The governor's proposal also lacked measures «to help the claimants» side of the table,» countered Art Wilcox, a former AFL - CIO staffer who heads the Worker Protection and Compensation Coalition, a group that advocates for injured workers.

The party was still seen as being for «the poor, benefit claimants, immigrants and minority groups», Mr Lewis said, in what will be seen as a plea for a more Blairite agenda.»

This lesson involves pupils working in groups to produce an election campaign for one of the claimants to the throne in 1066.

(5) The relief requested by the consolidated group of claimants shall be limited to monetary damages equal to the net liquidating value of each individual claimant's account (s) as of the close of business on the day of the bankruptcy, but may also include a request for interest, costs and fees where appropriate under the Code;

Test Cases In a Group Litigation where there are many claimants like yourself, it is unworkable for the court to hear and consider each individual claim.

Solicitors for the Council wrote to the GMB and UNISON unions notifying them that should the claimants succeed in their group claim under the Equal Pay Act 1970 and the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (SDA 1975) then the Council would seek a contribution under CLIA 1978, which the Council asserted the tribunal had jurisdiction to determine.

The group of about 200 staff, who brought the employment tribunal claim in February, have accepted a settlement proposal of eight weeks» pay for each claimant, offered after administrators Quantuma admitted a «technical breach» in the required duration of a redundancy consultation when it was carried out by KWM.

A group of claimants led by investment manager Gina Miller and hairdresser Deir Dos Santos are demanding that the triggering of Article 50 — which starts a two - year deadline for the exit process to be completed — be subject to a vote in parliament.

O v P [2013] EWHC 3855 (Comm): instructed to advise in relation to and to appear on behalf of international logistics group company Applicant / Intended Claimant in ex parte application in Commercial Court for an anti-suit injunction and declaratory relief.

Established in 1992, Australia's federal class action regime was developed to promote the more efficient resolution of multiple claims sharing common issues, to increase access to justice for small claimants and to safeguard the interests of group members and respondents alike.

The best known jurisdiction is perhaps, the US, which is renowned, perhaps unfairly, for big ticket group claims, involving many dozens if not hundreds of claimants, with damages in the millions.

Nearly seven years after the start of the court review of the exchange ratio applied to the merger of IMMOEAST and IMMOFINANZ, IMMOFINANZ has reached an agreement in principle through out - of - court negotiations with most of the claimants and the representatives appointed for the respective shareholder groups to terminate these proceedings through settlement.

Our team has experience acting for groups of both claimants and defendants.

Brightside Group Ltd v RSM UK Audit LLP [2017] 1 WLR 1943 Acting for Claimant in professional negligence claim against auditors.

Airey v Taffinder & Ors (Re Hills Solutions Ltd)[2015] EWHC 3854 (Ch) Acted for Claimant in successfully obtaining permission to continue a double derivative claim and a full indemnity from the company in respect of a restructuring of the group at an alleged undervalue.

The claimant, Property Alliance Group (PAG), challenged RBS's claim to privilege over these documents, contending that the role of RBS's solicitors was not confined to the provision of legal advice but extended to the performance of administrative functions (for example, acting as the secretariat for the ESG and attending its meetings) for which privilege could not be claimed.

For those parties in the group litigation who succeed in their individual claims, the logical conclusion is that they have «won» their case and, by extension, payment of their costs should be covered by the «losing» defendant; but in the event that the winning parties ultimately make up a minority of the larger claimant group, it could be argued that, as a whole, the claimants are the «losing» party, responsible for the defendant's cosFor those parties in the group litigation who succeed in their individual claims, the logical conclusion is that they have «won» their case and, by extension, payment of their costs should be covered by the «losing» defendant; but in the event that the winning parties ultimately make up a minority of the larger claimant group, it could be argued that, as a whole, the claimants are the «losing» party, responsible for the defendant's cosfor the defendant's costs.

These tasks are made exponentially more difficult in group litigations, where both the defendants and the claimants may have grounds for considering themselves the «winner» for the purposes of cost allocation.

The appeal of the SCC for defendants, obviously, is the absence of costs shifting, and indeed this is one of claimant groups» main objections to the policy.

They were playing in a courtyard and part of a walkway which was the social area for their age group when, running backwards, the first defendant collided with the claimant.

A group of 1,011 claimants seek damages for exposure to ionising radiation as a result of exposure to nuclear tests undertaken during the 1950s in the Pacific Ocean.

This permitted insurers across the Province of Ontario to arrange for a claimant to attend groups of insurer selected health care providers to deliver programs of care.

In the latest in a series of interim judgments in the Air Cargo cartel damages claims, which are being brought in the Chancery Division by several groups of claimants against British Airways plc, the High Court (Rose J) has held that Article 101 TFEU does not permit claims for damages to be brought in relation -LSB-...]

The growing demand for what we offer, both from law firms and claimants, whether large companies, groups or individuals, make it clear that funding is becoming increasingly mainstream.

The RPD determines whether or not a refugee claimant has established a well - founded fear of persecution for a convention grounds (race, religion, particular social group, nationality, or political opinion) or a risk of cruel and inhuman treatment.

The claimant was representative of a group of Iraqis numbering about 100 who either have brought, or wish to bring, judicial review proceedings against the Secretary of State for Defence alleging that they were ill - treated in detention in Iraq at various times between 2003 and 2008 by members of the British Armed forces in breach of Article 3.

«My reward is knowing my hard work for personal injury clients is appreciated» Annalae Hodgson - Since receiving her Legal Administrative Assistant Certificate from Douglas College in 2010 Annie has worked exclusively on behalf of personal injury claimants at Holness Law Group and is experienced dealing with ICBC insurance adjusters.

For the first time since a new refugee law was passed last June, the federal government has declared that five different groups of Romanian refugee claimants, who entered Canada on five different occasions over a period of several months, are to be designated as a single group.

In an illustration of its travel - related personal injury expertise, Arion Jones is acting for the Freedom Travel Group in a multi-party action brought by seven claimants who suffered gastric illness, which involves complex issues of medical causation and quantum and a dispute between two defendants.

Stephen Jesson acted for a claimant seeking compensation in light of the alleged delay in diagnosis of cancer, and is acting in a group claim filed against a consultant urological surgeon for alleged improper treatment of prostate cancer.

It should not be used as a justification for denying relief to a particular group of Charter claimants.

Because defects can cause a wide range of problems for claimants, the cases may be difficult to group into a single class that satisfies the «commonality» requirement for certification of class actions.

He has significant experience of class actions and has successfully obtained compensation for numerous large groups of claimants.

[14] A class proceeding is not the appropriate procedure to obtain access to justice for a group of individual claimants without a commonality other than the possibility of having been victimized by the same villain or group of villains.

In R v Spencer, which dealt with informational privacy relating to Internet service subscriber data in the hands of third - party companies, Cromwell J, for the court, organized the expectation of privacy analysis into four general areas: (1) the subject matter of the alleged search; (2) the claimant's interest in the subject matter; (3) the claimant's subjective expectation of privacy; and (4) whether this subjective expectation of privacy was objectively reasonable, having regard to the totality of the circumstances.6 None of these tests are inconsistent; they are articulations of the same overarching concerns grouped differently as suited to a particular inquiry.

That would be a serious matter, given how vigorously the current government makes known its doubts about the bona fides of whole groups of refugee claimants.184 Moreover, regardless of how well the transition is handled, there will inevitably be a long period of learning and adjustment for new decision makers, at both the RPD and RAD levels, and more errors will be made during that period.