Sentences with phrase «gained legal powers»

Board established in 1883, which gained legal powers in 1909, when the Aborigines Protection Act was passed, giving the Board wide - ranging control over the lives of Aboriginal people, including the power to remove children from families.

Not exact matches

During the Bush Administration, the executive branch also gained the power of mass surveillance on Americans without a legal warrant.

Yet, on the other hand, it lacks courage and it is at times eager to include restrictive interpretations of the Strasbourg Court, for example with regard to the use of legal powers of compulsion to gain access to evidence.

A Flawg will often contain posts about the latest legal tech gadgets, or the how to gain new clients through the awesome power of the internet, in the absence of anything remotely legal to discuss;

While the legal industry has been slow to realize the benefits of big data insights, lawyers are now beginning to harness the power of predictive analytics and machine learning in litigation and in - house at major global corporations, and discovering the advantages other industries have been gaining from this use of technology.

It's a fair analogy, as legal operations professionals gain more power in corporate legal departments around the world.

The Court has held many times that power gained through some natural and legal advantage such as a patent, copyright, or business acumen can give rise to liability if «a seller exploits his dominant position in one market to expand his empire intothe next.»

As defined by a Houston victim legal advocacy agency, Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence Fact Sheet: Domestic abuse is a systematic pattern of intentional intimidation that is reinforced by violence or the threat of violence, for the purpose of gaining or maintaining power and control over one's partner.