Sentences with phrase «form over substance»

«In my opinion, it's a matter of form over substance,» he said.

Usually in law, we talk try to avoid elevating form over substance.

Some people get carried away with form over substance, though — that's not a good thing.

Some worry that technology - rich environments encourage students to rely more on clip art than creativity and to emphasize form over substance.

«Many of these assertions appear to elevate form over substance,» he said.

If you are a regular follower, you have probably seen these before, but two of my recent essays have been published and are now available for free download and citation: The Unfortunate Triumph of Form over Substance in Canadian Administrative Law (2012) 50:2 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 317.

Left environmentalists lobbied and praised BP and Enron for putting form over substance.

Don't settle for form over substance.

My own feeling is the more we insist on form over substance, the more we don't fix the underlying problem, because being anal and strict about revising the form creates the illusion we've changed the substance, when often the very opposite is true.

Responding to TREB's statement that it is not in a position to control the real estate market because it is not licenced to sell real estate is «a technicality favouring form over substance,» says Aitken.

Jerry Goldfeder, a prominent election lawyer representing LaCorte, says the ruling favors form over substance.

But to highlight the centennial would be an exercise in elevating form over substance compared to the real celebration: the first traditional shelter that serves as an animal control agency that takes in every stray animal and has not killed a single healthy animal, feral cat, or sick or injured treatable animal since June 11, 2001.

Preoccupation with form over substance combined with denial and avoidance behavior are the chief causal factors for human failure — from the individual and family right up to the national level.

To find that she had not applied for non-earner benefits based on the box checked off by the doctor would be to prioritize form over substance, and violate the spirit of the legislation.

The court rejected this argument, finding that the Owner had received the necessary disclosures from the Broker initially and it would reward form over substance by voiding the listing agreement merely because the Broker did not provide the same disclosures a second time.

We also know, painfully, that BP put form over substance and took their eye off the ball.

Paul Daly, «The Unfortunate Triumph of Form over Substance in Canadian Administrative Law» 50:2 Osgoode Hall LJ [forthcoming in 2012].

The Unfortunate Triumph of Form over Substance in Canadian Administrative Law (2012) 50:2 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 317.

[5] Such a «strict procedural approach,» according to the Supreme Court, «places a premium on form over substance, and relegates to the back burner the Charter right to vote and the enfranchising objective of the Act.»

Thus in the fall of 1979, [following the decision in Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 963 v. New Brunswick Liquor Corporation (1979), 79 CLLC 26 14,029 (S.C.C.)-RSB- the Board could give ascendance to its objective of creating a better climate for labour relations problem solving at its hearing by discontinuing recording and avoiding the formality and regard for form over substance that accompanied recording.

He covered all of the bases needed to leave the Hill smiling and fulfilled and yet... the zeitgeist again; form over substance, the product adapted to suit the audience.

Gigi is a triumph of form over substance.

I think it's another case of form over substance to treat «Harlequin Historicals» as an imprint equivalent to Avon.

For over a century the notion of materiality has intrigued philosophers — debating the hierarchy of form over substance and vice versa.

The Turner Prize is much more about a media event than art, and as such reflects an increasing trend of modern life, form over substance.

-LSB-...] Bradley, CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research, said: «BP put form over substance and took their eye off the ball» and called «Beyond Petroleum» -LSB-...]

Court watchers and legal service providers are offering more solutions to help self - represented litigants move through the courts, but much of what they propose is form over substance.

«The Levy v. Reardon Problem: Form over Substance,» with E. Randolph Tucker, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Real Estate Conference, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2000

It set me thinking about the extent to which, in more general terms, form over substance is a familiar feature of the actions, decisions and priorities of some of the legal and professional publishers.

This was very much the case with his article Legal Publishing and Market Research — Getting It Right, in which he succeeds in identifying «form over substance» motives in some publishers» research and in so doing highlights something short of honesty behind much of it.

The lower courts» decisions in this case always seemed to me to be too pure for real life, form over substance.

For the majority, the Appellant was really making a complaint of form over substance — that the Appellant was not in fact prejudiced by the Respondent's failure to file and serve a formal notice of application for the summary dismissal (although, at para. 17, the majority accepts that in some circumstances, prejudice may be caused to the opposite party).

In their ruling, the Court put it most eloquently: «Our decision constitutes a refusal to elevate form over substance.

Mr. Heffernan, who co-authored an amicus brief on behalf of the Real Estate Bar Association and the Abstract Club with Danielle Andrews Long, states that he was happy that the First Circuit certified the issue to the SJC, considering the «fairly harsh» Bankruptcy Court decisions on technically defective acknowledgements, which he calls «elevating form over substance.»

We are unwilling to fortify the armory of those who attack the law as famous for its ability to elevate form over substance.