Sentences with phrase «highest court declined»

It is unfortunate that Canada's highest court declined to hear a further appeal and provide national guidance on the important and divisive issues raised by this decision.

The high court declined to hear a final appeal, thus ending a bid to block NIH support for research using these cells

The High Court declined to review lower - court rulings that upheld a heating officer's decision ordering an Illinois school district to place a student with a behavior disorder in a private school.

The High Court declined to state expressly that a PSPO that was discriminatory, or violated a provision of the Equality Act, must also be ultra vires.

However, in 2016, the Taiwan High Court declined to recognise a judgment from the British Virgin Islands («BVI») because BVI has not recognised judgments rendered by Taiwanese courts.

Not exact matches

Although, the court clerks declined comments, it was learnt that the Judge was part of the Federal Capital Territory Judiciary delegation attending the burial ceremony of Justice Victoria Ayodele Uzo - Amaka Onejeme, a pioneer Judge of the Abuja High court who died recently.

The Federal High Court on October 20, 2015 declined the request of the Federal Government to put Mr. Okah under chains.

He is asking the judge to decline jurisdiction and transfer the case to Abuja Division of Federal High courts.

Defence counsel on Tuesday declined cross examination of a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Femi Fani - Kayode facing charges of money laundering before a Federal High Court, Lagos.

Meanwhile, Justice Festus Ntong of Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Ikot Ekpene has declined an application to stop ICPC or any other federal anti-corruption agency from investigating allegations of corruption involving the finances of the Government of Akwa Ibom State.

EFCC Clears the Air on Kafarati The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been drawn to media reports on the decision of Justice Abdul Kafarati of the Federal High Court, Abuja to decline ruling in the fundamental human rights enforcement case brought before him by Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

Democrat Roger Corbin, 70, of Westbury, surrendered after the state's highest court recently declined to hear his appeal.

A federal appeals court has declined to rehear a case involving high school students who were not allowed to wear American flag shirts to school on the day of a Cinco de Mayo celebration.

The High Court on May 1 declined without comment to review the case, Bloomingdale Public Schools v. Washegesic (Case No. 94 - 1383).

The U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to step back into a lengthy court battle between an athletically powerful private school and Tennessee's high school sports authority over recruiting violatCourt declined last week to step back into a lengthy court battle between an athletically powerful private school and Tennessee's high school sports authority over recruiting violatcourt battle between an athletically powerful private school and Tennessee's high school sports authority over recruiting violations.

More than 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, the nation's schools are still plagued by inequalities, yet the High Court today declines to intervene on behalf of equal educational opportunity for all children.

continuing problems in recruiting and retaining blacks and other minorities at the top law firms; the rise of a small group of lawyers who focus on Supreme Court cases; the decline in civil rights cases that make it to the high court; and the court's dwindling caseCourt cases; the decline in civil rights cases that make it to the high court; and the court's dwindling casecourt; and the court's dwindling casecourt's dwindling caseload.

In response to the argument that the trial judge had erred in declining to declare a mistrial the Court of Appeal found, oddly, that to allow a trial judge to ignore the juries findings would come perilously close to setting aside an award on the basis that it was inordinately high, which power is only reserved for the Court of Appeal.

In a useful reminder for parties who might not otherwise consider themselves to be subject to English jurisdiction, in the recent case of Bestolov v Povarenkin, the High Court confirmed that, where a defendant is domiciled in England, the courts of this country have jurisdiction and moreover no discretion to decline jurisdiction.

In the aftermath of the Woolf Reforms of 1998, civil litigation before the High Court has suffered a steep decline.

In Merlin [4], following the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash, the Crown Court declined to move outside the Guideline sentencing ranges, despite a turnover of # 400m and an offence in the highest harm and culpability categories.

I specifically want to exclude any cases where the matter does involve suspect classifications or fundamental rights, but where the court employs a rhetorical flourish and says «This wouldn't even pass rational review», or otherwise declines to focus primarily on existing triggers of higher - level review.

Of note with respect to the issue of damages is that the court declined to award punitive damages, notwithstanding Justice Boswell's finding, in paragraph 23 of his reasons for decision, that, «Mr. Dewji's conduct, as the sole director and officer of the defendant corporations, was oppressive, high - handed, callous and unfairly prejudicial to the rights and interests of the plaintiffs.»

Senior barristers have been declining briefs for very high cost cases (VHCCs) at the proposed rates, while both sections of the profession boycotted courts during a half - day protest earlier this month and have indicated they may stage another protest mid-February.

While the U.K. House of Lords thought it was necessary for U.K. society, the Australian High Court has so far declined to incorporate, into Australian common law, the material contribution to risk doctrine as an alternative method for proving causation in negligence.

As a result, the effect of the legislation is to require the High Court to condone unlawful administrative action by declining to issue any relief in respect of it.

With the greatest of respect, as well, one might question the Court's interpretation of the fourth element, where they seem to have greatly simplified the reasoning in Catania — moving the bar from the relatively high standard of determining, to use the wording in Catania, to decline the application if «the order would be of no effect in the situs», to the ridiculously low threshold of merely requiring that the order sought «must not be illegal or impossible according to the laws where the property is situated.»

Proceeding, however, on certain practice guidelines44, and taking into account causes bearing on the same question which were already lodged in the High Court, the Court upheld a preliminary objection, and declined to issue an advisory opinion.

In Ursic v. Ursic, the Ontario Court of Appeal declined to interfere with an award of joint custody in a high conflict case.