Sentences with phrase «generally has no legal effect»

Prior to Divorce When a couple begins to live separate and apart (which may include a separation under the same roof), without obtaining a limited divorce or legal separation order and without signing a separation agreement, the fact of the estrangement alone generally has no legal effect on the inheritance rights or fiduciary authority of a surviving spouse.

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Either way, the privacy rules were enacted on a limited basis in January, while a provision that would generally require ISPs to «engage in reasonable data security practices» in the event of security breaches was set to go into legal effect on March 2.

It is now generally recognized that «code is law»: how computers process the millions of on / off, yes / no signals in their binary universe can have legal effects beyond their obvious output.

If law societies regulated fees, I suggest it would have two effects (1) increase both the availability of legal services to the poor generally, and the size of the pool of potential clients who could seriously even consider retaining a lawyer, and (2) in the long term, change the character of the legal professional (as a collection of individuals) for the better by making the practice of law more like social work, rather than drawing in the sorts of people who's skills are better employed in such fields as sales and business entrepreneurship.

2) The Order itself is an acknowledgement on the part of the Supreme Court that how lawyers are regulated generally, and the unauthorized practice of law rules specifically, have a direct and demonstrable effect upon the extent to which citizens of a state are able to access legal services.

Civil courts have taken a hard line on the legal effect of acquittals, finding they are generally irrelevant to a civil suit for damages based on the same alleged misconduct and, therefore, are inadmissible.

When providing legal advice, an appreciation of the knock - on effects the advice is likely to have on your client's business more generally is crucial.

Speaking generally, if a mandatory contractual or statutory provision required a party to give a notice in a particular form in order to achieve a result identified in the contract or statute and if a purported notice given by that party failed to comply with the mandatory contractual or statutory provision, then the normal position was that the notice had no legal effect.