Sentences with phrase «fundamental legal interest»

«Every person should have fair benefit and protection of the law when a fundamental legal interest is threatened.

Not exact matches

«If ending impunity for grand corruption is to be considered a fundamental national interest worthy of being furthered, it is crucial to have a strong legal rule to prevent and combat corruption rather pursue bills that would weaken the fight against corruption.

«Whether this sort of harassment should be countenanced is not about any particular political or special - interest groups; instead, it is a fundamental question about whether anyone can use (or, rather, misuse) public record laws to stifle science,» the legal defense fund said in the amicus brief.

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LRAP Minnesota helps reduce the education debt burden experienced by dedicated public interest lawyers who represent low income clients seeking legal services to secure essential needs like food, shelter and safety, and fundamental rights like equal access to justice.

In another post published on this blog, Ziccardi Capaldo spoke against framing the legal problem in the Taricco saga as a clash of the protection of Union's financial interest and fundamental rights.

Indeed, the rights and interests of the victims of such fraud could be perfectly protected without infringing the general principle of legal certainty and the fundamental rights of the accused.

Other research interests include EU law constitutional law, the EU legal order, fundamental rights in the EU and Eurocrisis law, especially as it applies to Ireland.

As noted above, in ENRC v. Dechert the Court of Appeal has confirmed that the concept of limited waiver is of general application, designed to ensure that the loss of legal professional privilege (given its fundamental importance) is limited to that which is necessary to protect other interests.

Gloster LJ remarked that «the concept of limited waiver is of general application, designed to ensure that the loss of LPP [legal professional privilege](given its fundamental importance) is limited to that which is necessary to protect other interests.»

The Chief Justice of Canada, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, addressed the latter in her recent lecture to the Canadian Bar Association, but I do not perceive that she or anyone else in the legal community have addressed the fundamental issue that the SRL phenomenon raises: the right to participate in the making of common law; the ability to put a set of interests before the courts that hitherto have not been able to afford to be there — and thus, a rather significant challenge to the validity of the whole body of common law as it stands.

It has delivered judgements on many legal subjects: i.e. constitutional law, fundamental rights, human rights, environmental law, private and public international law, to name a few, and of course, the famous concept of public interest litigation (PIL).

The question presented was whether the trial court erroneously assigned to the mother the burden to prove that the child's placement with her was in the child's best interests, because an established custodial environment existed with the grandparents, and whether the court's application of the Rummelt test constituted clear legal error and violated mother's fundamental liberty interest in raising her children.

In addressing this interest, both courts acknowledged that a state has an interest in: (i) preserving life in general; (ii) preventing deaths that occur as a result of errors in medical or legal judgment; (iii) preventing exercise of undue, arbitrary, and / or unfair influences over an individual's decision to end his / her life; (iv) safeguarding interests of innocent third parties such as minor children and other family members; (v) assuring the integrity of the medical profession; and (vi) avoiding the adverse consequences that might ensue if physician - assisted suicide were declared a fundamental right.

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KIND achieves fundamental fairness through high - quality legal representation and by advancing the child's best interests, safety, and well - being.

However, it is also our goal to facilitate our client's fundamental business interest of getting the deal done by providing practical and, where necessary, innovative legal advice.

«One of the fundamental issues was whether [Gervais] should have gotten notice as an interested party,» he tells Legal Feeds.

This so - called loophole is, in fact, a fundamental principle of our company law, enunciated long ago by the House of Lords in their decisions in Salomon v A Salomon & Co Ltd [1897] AC 22, [1895 - 9] All ER Rep 33 and Macaura v Northern Assurance Co Ltd [1925] AC 619, [1925] All ER Rep 51 — that a company has a legal existence separate from its shareholders even when one individual controls all of its shares, and that the shareholders have no interest in the company's assets.

EFF's public interest legal work, activism, and software development preserve fundamental rights.

substantive principles and norms, which — by their nature, position, and function — are of primary importance for the survival of the international system, while their application, possessing an overruling effect against all contrary legal acts, is so fundamental that it can not be simply entrusted to the goodwill of the interested States.

... because the fundamentals of native title are settled, it is not necessary for non-claimant parties to litigate all stages of a legal matter where the law is not in dispute or their interests are already protected under the Native Title Act.

104 «The native title rights and interests which are the subject of the Act [NTA] are those which existed at sovereignty, survived that fundamental change in legal regime, and now, by resort to the processes of the new legal order, can be enforced and protected.