Sentences with phrase «form at international law»

49... Although I agree... that mental injury may be compensable in some form at international law, neither the intervener nor any other party has established that a peremptory norm of international law has now come into existence which would completely oust the doctrine of state immunity and allow domestic courts to entertain claims in the circumstances of this case.

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Paper promises in the form of policy and legislative mechanisms are good and well; but as experience has taught us, paper promises are 90 % of the time just that, lovely forms of references when monitoring a state's adherence to international agreements or even local law, but the lack of monitoring and enforcement barely happens and if at all with «sweetheart - slap - on - the - wrist» penalisation of polluters.

Delegates from sixty - eight States and the European Community have finalized the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and other Forms of Family Maintenance at the 21st Diplomatic Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law.

Georgetown boasts an «array of course and seminar offerings at the Law Center dealing with transnational, international, and comparative law in many forms.&raqLaw Center dealing with transnational, international, and comparative law in many forms.&raqlaw in many forms.»

Article 10 (1)(d) of Council Directive 2004 / 83 / EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third - country nationals or Stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted must be interpreted as meaning that the existence of criminal laws, such as those at issue in each of the cases in the main proceedings, which specifically target homosexuals, supports the finding that those persons must be regarded as forming a particular social group.

Yet the obligation placed on Australia at international law to accord this right to Indigenous people has not been effective in ensuring Indigenous people have control over their land, their resources and the form of governance which determines the nature of this control.

The Racial Discrimination Act (1975)(RDA) is the enactment in Australian law of most of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).17 It prohibits racial discrimination at two levels.