Sentences with phrase «general presumption»

MacNeill says there is a «general presumption against the extra-territorial application of Canadian labour and employment legislation.»

He first introduces the top level of his hierarchical description with what he calls the general presumption of the whole and part, which is characterized as pure extension.

Young Catholics today grow up in a world where they are assaulted by numerous conflicting opinions, with the general presumption being that religion is for ignorant or stupid people and that the Church has nothing intellectually credible to offer society.

So in general presumption, it can be said that the minimum age of using a baby walker is 4 month.

Should there be a general presumption in favor of corporations» rights to engage in free contracting, and if so, should this be enshrined as a basic liberty?

However, even if you believed you'd found a brilliant and unassailable argument as to why failure to prosecute in this case constituted one of the rare exceptions to the general presumption that a prosecutor is acting permissibly when exercising prosecutorial discretion, you would still run into the problem of standing.

Section 10.4 of the Incentives and Earned Privileges guidelines reads: «To ensure that the Incentive Earned Privileges scheme is not undermined the general presumption will be that items for prisoners will not be handed in or sent in by their friends or families unless there are exceptional circumstances.»

The general presumption when it comes to dieting is that you should eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.

There is a general presumption that, once elected, they should receive equitable pay and benefits.

If an author offers a book for royalty share, the general presumption is that the author doesn't expect the book to sell well enough to cover the costs of per - finished - hour production.

The general presumption among media and bloggers is that Apple will use this event to unveil the next - generation iPad, possibly with a thinner body and new hardware such as a front - facing camera.

Maybe that should be a general presumption, but I think there are many, many examples in which it takes more than five years to figure out whether a stock is a wise selection.

To my mind this is quite a narrow exception to the general presumption... [146]

«The Advocate General has said that it isn't fair that the PPF compensation caps «establish a kind of general suspicion in respect of senior executives who have not yet attained the pension age... A general presumption of the existence of abuse is unlawful.»»

Courts must always police the boundaries of interpretation, in order to keep administrators in check and safeguard the rule of law, but the general presumption that the resolution of questions of law is a matter for courts should be jettisoned.

the general presumption that a successful claimant only receives costs on the standard basis is displaced by [old] rule 36.21 (4);

The territorial limitations in section 2 of the AWA have, in my opinion, no more effect for this purpose than that of the general presumption that statues are not «intended to apply extraterritorially to persons, things or events outside the boundaries of the enacting jurisdiction».

But the exceptions do not undermine the thrust of my general presumption — that you and your client are always «swimming upstream» when you urge a court to consider applying foreign law to your fact pattern.

Medical malpractice claims are notoriously tough because of the sophistication of the defendant and the general presumption of some that the decisions made by medical providers are in the best interest of the patient, which may simply be untrue.

The Anglican (6 August 1993), Presbyterian (5 June 1994) and United churches of Canada (27 October 1998) apologized for the general presumption of cultural superiority as well as the often systematic sexual, physical, emotional and psychological abuse inflicted under their watch.

That this is only the second case [see p 46] reported in Canada of one pleading guilty is genuinely shocking, and reinforces the general presumption that they are uniquely privileged in avoiding criminal sanctions.

The general presumption is, because it is hard or impossible to exclude payers from non-payers, the production of public goods through private means is limited.

In Luxor (Eastbourne) Limited and Others v. Cooper (1941), the judgment says, «The general presumption is that the parties have expressed every material term which they have intended should govern their agreement».