Sentences with phrase «fundamental liberties»

Such sweeping surveillance powers can threaten the privacy of ordinary citizens, and thereby fundamental liberties.

Your rights and fundamental liberties hang in the balance.

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.

With Brexit, British citizens have to be even more vigilant to ensure that their government does not expand its surveillance powers in the name of safety but at the expense of fundamental liberties.

Speaking on the «Overview of Human Rights provisions under the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, the President of * YoHRA *, Lawyer Francis - Xavier Sosu said «Ghana's 1992 Constitution is one of the finest documents that in my view guarantees and protects fundamental liberties.

The issues around state power and surveillance raised by Edward Snowden's revelations should be an important theme in the upcoming general election, while the symbolic double anniversary of Magna Carta (aged 800) and the web (aged 25) offers an opportunity for critical reflection on how to upgrade fundamental liberties in response to new threats and re-imagine how technology can serve the common good.

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

The Association of Churches in Sarawak applauded the ruling for protecting the fundamental right to freedom of religion: «We call upon the federal government [in Kuala Lumpur] to honor and give effect to the guarantee of religious freedom as provided in the Malaysia Agreement [which formed the basis of Sarawak and Sabah state's union with Malaysia] and uphold the constitutional rights and fundamental liberties accorded by the federal constitution to all citizens of Malaysia.»

But Ken Clarke, the former justice secretary, and Dominic Grieve QC, the attorney general, have argued that such a move would be a political disaster, unravelling fundamental liberties established under Europe's post-second world war settlement.

France's highest administrative court, the Conseil d'Ìätat, has today suspended the controversial «burkini ban» in one French town, ruling that it contravened fundamental liberties and even went as far to say that it was illegal.

Especially was this so since many of the matters in the Code, such as privileges and other provisions, especially provisions applying to criminal cases, were perceived to affect matters outside technical court room conduct, possibly reaching into fundamental liberties in the daily activities of citizens.

The plaintiffs in Flint raise several different constitutional claims, including allegations that officials violated residents» rights to due process of law by endangering their «fundamental liberty interest to bodily integrity,» as well as claims that officials engaged in racial discrimination.

France's highest administrative court has ruled that «burkini bans» being enforced on the country's beaches are illegal and a violation of fundamental liberties.

So important was the agitation over bishops that it turned the attention of the entire population to the questions of parliamentary rights and fundamental liberties.

Something as morally arbitrary as a human being's location --- his or her being in or out of the womb --- can not determine whether killing him or her is an unconscionable act of premeditated homicide or the exercise of a fundamental liberty.

Freedom in the republican tradition requires enjoyment of the fundamental liberties with the security that only a rule of law can provide.

«These judges now provide legal cover for Buhari's abuse of individual rights and fundamental liberties.

But he has no respect for your family, or your fundamental liberty as a parent to «direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of your children.»

The disparity concerning the legal framework is, amongst others, illustrated by the fact, that with regard to the latter group of services, competition and state aid questions play a prominent role, whereas with regard to the former, concerns relating to fundamental liberties and questions pertaining to citizenship are more prominent.

The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed the importance of this guiding principle in stating that the presumption of innocence protects the fundamental liberty and human dignity of any and every person accused by the State of criminal conduct.

The presumption of innocence protects the fundamental liberty and human dignity of any person accused by the state of criminal conduct.

One's fundamental liberties are at stake.A phone call to a lawyer is generally the only legal assistance at a very vulnerable time.

The initial complaint [PDF], seeking declaratory, injunctive or «other relief,» argues that Proposition 8 violates «fundamental liberties that are protected by the Due Process Clause» of the U.S. constitution, the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, and Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

The Court held that it is a fundamental liberty of parents to make decisions concerning their child's custody.

«And he has made it clear that he feels the Constitution does not guarantee the freedoms and fundamental liberties that Americans need and cherish.

LB22 specifically declares that the Legislature recognizes that the interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children is perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests.