Sentences with phrase «human rights cases»

SALC trains attorneys, supports human rights cases, and carries out other programs to advance the rule of law.

The expectation was that a number of human rights cases, particularly those closely related to a civil cause of action would be diverted to the courts, thereby preventing multiplicity of proceedings.

Solomon Sacco is a Zimbabwean lawyer who works for Interights, a human rights litigation centre litigating on human rights cases.

Kevin is a practising solicitor with experience of conducting criminal and human rights cases in courts at all levels.

The EHRC has power to participate in human rights cases before the courts and to seek judicial review of decisions raising human rights issues, but the legacy of history will encourage the new commissioners to keep equality as the dominant focus of its activity.

«We thought if we started a case where there was a genuine access barrier, not like the ones in the U.S. and Australia, which were human rights cases, if we brought a case that put access at the forefront, it would help to create a pathway forward,» says Lipkus.

Out of all the human rights cases you have dealt with, which has had the most positive impact?

While Joan Biskupic at CNN, writes that Jesner is evidence of increasing tension between the liberal and conservative blocs on the Court, Walter Olson, at the Cato Institute, argues that the decision «[confirms] that is it up to Congress, not the judiciary, to decide whether and when American courts should entertain international human rights cases against foreign defendants.»

The number of lawyers taking up human rights cases now, not to mention those who take up the less sensitive public interest cases, has grown to a few hundred, if not a thousand.

However, the intimidation has not scared off these and other brave lawyers in taking up human rights cases or in exercising their own rights.

Sui Muqing's experience exemplifies how much pressure a lawyer in China faces now if he or she takes up human rights cases considered sensitive by the authorities.

The Guardian sums it up rather nicely: Theresa May can not dictate to judges on human rights cases, lawyers warn

Andrew has appeared in a number of recent important human rights cases including R (Plantagenet Alliance) v Sec of State and others concerning the appropriate resting place of the recently discovered remains of Richard III.

A & W Canada, 2013 HRTO 1259, below) employers are seeing considerably more human rights cases.

Civil Liberties and Human Rights: «He does crazily huge human rights cases in Strasbourg.»

Immigration: All aspects of immigration, asylum, nationality and refugee law with particular emphasis and expertise in: asylum and human rights cases; overlap between asylum and extradition law; representing children subject to immigration control; representing victims of trafficking and other vulnerable clients; detention and deportation; immigration issues in adoption and surrogacy cases; immigration for family members of British and settled people; EEA - related matters, in particular relating to third - country national family members; appeal work in FTT and UT and the higher courts; public law challenges to Home Office in judicial review; and immigration bail.

I think we're going to see not only more of a shift to human rights cases, but potentially a call for a change to the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000 to include the right of reinstatement following dismissal, similar to what is already provided for in section 240 of the Canada Labour Code.

In 2008, amendments to the Human Rights Code («Code») permitted Ontario civil courts to hear human rights cases for the first time provided that the claimant also had a separate issue that would normally be within the jurisdiction of the civil courts.

Armed with these quasi constitutional statutes, judges can now in some circumstances apply the law in ways which are contrary to the unambiguous will of Parliament (albeit in human rights cases via the» shrewd compromise» of declarations of incompatibility).

In 2008, amendments to the Human Rights Code («Code») permitted Ontario civil courts to hear human rights cases for the first time provided that the claimant also had a separate issue that would -LSB-...]

However, more human rights cases are having far - reaching implications after going to senior courts, he added.

Rachel also provides legal advice in human rights cases, workers» compensation matters, and assistance to organizations in relation to privacy law and CRTC compliance.

Topics will include workplace drug and alcohol testing, family status accommodation, accessibility and recent trends in damage awards in human rights cases.

Which courts decide human rights cases, when, and by what rules?

In Ontario, there have been several human rights cases in which the Human Rights Tribunal determined there was discrimination on the basis of sex because male waiters were allowed to wear pants while female waitresses were mandated to wear skirts.

Unusually they have handled European human rights cases concerning not only the UK, but many other European countries, including Spain.

Hodge Jones & Allen is one of the leading law firms in the UK specialising in human rights cases (Chambers 2016).

I've seen cases out of India citing ground breaking Canadian human rights cases, and we ought to be proud that the world looks to us for forward thinking judgments.

So now civil legal aid scarcely exists, save for a few domestic violence and human rights cases.

A few recent human rights cases have highlighted the need for employers to accommodate the need for parents to take time off for childcare.

The report recommends the common law section review its accommodation practices and policies, create a new openness to meet with advocates, and train appeal committee members on how to properly handle human rights cases.

The student federation's Student Appeal Centre often works with the CEHR on human rights cases.

Peter has appeared and advised in a number of human rights cases, particularly, but not exclusively, in the indirect tax field.

Retirement allows others to progress in society by making room for others, and was an exception in respect to other human rights cases.

L. Rev. 67, 70 (2009)(asserting that domestic courts perform a «global governance function» in resolving transnational human rights cases).

Human rights cases provide an array of interesting procedural issues, including questions of personal jurisdiction.137 Several important cases brought under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) 138 could form the basis for interesting LRW problems involving corporate structures and personal jurisdiction or other procedural issues.

Although it can be ordered in human rights cases, it is usually viewed as an exceptional remedy, reserved for few cases, if at all.

CCD's argument relied on a long line of human rights cases that say that the right to nondiscrimination means that service providers and others must take positive steps to accommodate and remove barriers to provide access for persons with disabilities.

In 1985 COPOH intervened in two human rights cases; Bhinder v.

Isabel practises in both Claimant and Defendant public law and human rights cases, including in the fields of healthcare, tax, and immigration.

It is therefore anticipated that a substantial percentage of all human rights cases involving handicapped complainants will involve indirect discrimination and the question of whether the respondent should accommodate the complainant's handicaps.

Her work spans commercial disputes and human rights cases, with significant strengths in securities litigation, intellectual property issues and immigration law.

Specifically, Wyndham states researchers need to identify the barriers and challenges in having the information gathered through these technologies admitted as evidence for human rights cases.

At the HRC, corps members are also trying to gather evidence in support of ongoing human rights cases.

Smaller missions, such as to Kenya (1988) to attend an inquest into the death of a man who had been tortured and document how the court applied the medical evidence, and to the Sudan (1990) to investigate the jailing of physicians and scientists, provided experiences for AAAS to contribute directly to individual human rights cases as well as learn lessons on the political and cultural complexities of human rights work.

Also, in January 2012, they published another report by their head of research Robert Broadhurst which claimed that the UK loses three quarters of its human rights cases in the European courts, which was covered widely in the tabloids but dismissed by experts as «misleading» (the real figure is closer to one out of 50).

In recent years we have intervened in support of Tony and Jane Nicklinson's and Paul Lamb's attempts to overhaul the law on assisted dying for the terminally ill and incurably suffering by taking human rights cases through the courts, as well as supported parliamentary attempts to legalise assisted dying for the terminally ill.

In recent years the International Court of Justice — the World Court — has ruled against the U.S. in human rights cases brought by Nicaragua and Paraguay.

Lotfy is a lawyer who specializes in human rights cases and also a member of a youth coalition that comprises young Egyptian revolutionaries of varied ideologies.

A landmark European court of human rights case in 2003 found that the government was permitted to balance the economic interests of airlines in allowing night flights against the right to sleep of those living near to airports.