Sentences with phrase «groups intervened in the case»
The groups intervened in the case to block it, and they have used similar language challenging widely accepted facts of climate science in their court filings.
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Legal group Christian Concern has intervened in a case concerning the application of sharia law in E...
The aim of the seminar is to examine the likely impacts and future trends in these practices will have and assess the case for Government to intervene in this area to create incentives for groups and individuals to telework or teleconference.
After DOJ mounted its first attack on the voucher program in 2013, a group of black parents and the Louisiana Black Alliance for Educational Options requested to intervene in the case.
So on the other side, a broad array of states, environmental and health groups (including NRDC), forward - looking power companies, and clean energy and high - tech firms have intervened in the case to help the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice defend the Plan.
Jan. 14, 2016: Federal judge gives standing to API and other pro-fossil fuel groups to intervene in the case.
Given the importance of the likely ruling, Resolution, a group of 6500 Family Lawyers (including myself), has been given permission to intervene in the proceedings and make representations in the case.
West Coast LEAF has been granted leave to intervene in a case that has potential ramifications for all marginalized groups that may need human rights protections.
(This was seen as a significant departure from existing practice, and many lawyer groups intervened in the appeal hearing of the case to get more clarity on the law.)
Douglas Judson, director of Out on Bay Street, an LGBTQ advocacy group that intervened in the case, hails the decision.
This week, West Coast LEAF, in coalition with the Community Legal Assistance Society, intervened in a case that will determine how difficult it will be for a marginalized group — in this case, homeless people — to address discrimination Read More
When an individual, group or body is given leave to intervene in a case, they usually submit a written argument (called a factum) and are also given permission to make a brief oral submission to members of the court.
Recently the Supreme Court of Canada made the news when, on July 27, 2017, Supreme Court Justice Richard Wagner rejected four Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning (LGBTQ) groups that had applied to intervene in a case about a law school at Trinity Western University (TWU).
For example in Ishaq v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2015 FC 156, (a case about whether a woman could wear her niqab during a citizenship ceremony), six public interest groups — including the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Council of Canadian Muslims — were refused permission to intervene, as the court determined that they could not advance their proposed arguments without social science evidence to back them up; nor could the court take judicial notice (facts and materials are accepted on a common sense basis without being formally admitted in evidence) of any of the facts necessary to support the arguments.
According to campaign group Privacy International, which intervened in the case, the government may now have to rewrite «large parts» of the Act, which received Royal Assent in December 2016 after a controversial passage through Parliament.