Sentences with phrase «individual charter rights»

The more important issue, however, may be the sacrifice of individual Charter rights for the sake of the collective rights of a people — even a people who have faced grave historic injustice.

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And so it is left to Don Walker, the company's chief executive officer and a 24 - year company veteran, as well as other managers, to sustain the unique Magna corporate culture that includes profit sharing and stock ownership for employees, an employee charter of rights and generally small factories that are individual profit centres and encourage managers to be entrepreneurial.

Prior to the adoption of general incorporation statutes in the mid-1800s, the best evidence as to corporate voting rights is found in individual corporate charters granted by legislatures.

ColorOfChange, an online civil rights organization «comprised of Black folks from every economic class,» announced in a press release that it has joined nearly a dozen groups and more than 200,000 individuals in opposing a merger between Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) and Time Warner...

In Section 504, the Congress enacted a charter of equality to help end the shameful national neglect of handicapped individuals and to translate many of their legitimate needs into legal rights.

Amar's thesis, in a nutshell, is this: 1) The Bill of Rights was not conceived by the framers as a charter of individual liberties in the manner now routinely employed by the Court.

Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self - defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.

This tension between the rights of the individual and the rights of the state are written into the very texture of the UN Charter of 1945.

«Second because the court recognised that Algeria has changed so as to allow us to deport this individual without jeopardising his human rights, thanks to the Algerian Charter on Peace and National Reconciliation and the assurances we have received from the Algerian government.»

The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self - defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

On 15 June 1215 at Runnymede (a small meadow outside of London, marking the midpoint between two armies locked in civil war) King John set his seal on Magna Carta — the «great charter» that has become synonymous throughout the world with opposition to arbitrary rule, and with the protection of individual rights and liberties.

Article 5 The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self - defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self - defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.

«The Nigerian constitution and several international charters, to which the country is a signatory to, recognise the right to freedom of association by anybody, whether individual, corporate or institutional.

States are right to be concerned about how to best regulate virtual charter schools — they ought to measure their results based on the growth of individual students and shut down poorly performing ones.

Your right to choose an alternative public charter school is guaranteed by the federal law, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

When you look at schools in other states that don't have high accountability, that don't have the right laws in place, some of the individual charter schools have practices that are unfair, inappropriate or unjust, those things need to be dealt with.

The discussion of vouchers and charter schools, in its focus on individual rights, has failed to take into account American society at large.

Polaris Charter School will not discriminate nor violate individual civil rights in any manner prohibited by law.

So between this summer's news and now, there was ample time for individuals and organizations that promote charter schools — often with the statement that they constitute «the civil rights cause of our time» — to consider where they may have gone wrong.

To Betsy DeVos, school choice is not simply the inherent right that every parent has to choose their child's educational setting, it is all about requiring taxpayers to pick up the tab for that parent's private individual choice, regardless of whether the parent chooses a public school, a charter school, a nonprofit private school, a religious school or even a fly - by - night online virtual school.

When these provisions of a statute are at issue, the full panoply of Charter rights are engaged for the individual's protection.

Canna Clinic argued that the existing laws violate the s. 7 Charter rights of individuals in need of cannabis for medical purposes in two respects: their right to liberty and their right to security of the person.

The obligation imposed on an individual to stand criminal trial regardless of previously established statutes of limitations periods interferes undoubtedly with the fundamental right to effective judicial protection, safeguarded by Article 47 of the Charter.

By contrast, in Kücükdeveci a subjective right for individuals could already be derived from Article 21 (1) of the Charter which contained a prohibition of discrimination on grounds of age (para 47).

While there is no doubt that the Covenant's refusal to accept LGBTQ expressions of sexuality is deeply offensive and hurtful to the LGBTQ community, and we do not in any way wish to minimize that effect, there is no Charter or other legal right to be free from views that offend and contradict an individual's strongly held beliefs... Disagreement and discomfort with the views of others is unavoidable in a free and democratic society.

[2] Section 10 (b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees that detained or arrested individuals have the right to retain and instruct counsel without delay.

The Court held that the security certificate process, which prohibited the named individual from examining evidence used to issue the certificate, violated the rights to liberty and habeas corpus under sections 7, 9 and 10 (c) of the Charter.

The Ontario Court of Justice in R v Fountain, 2013 ONCJ 434 has already ruled that these «street - level encounters» are a breach of an individual's Charter right to be free from arbitrary detention.

So, putting the new supplemental definitions of «core mandate» and «respect» to the attestation we get: «Both the job and the applicant's primary activities do not seek to remove or actively undermine existing individual human rights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights...&rights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights...&Rights...»

It was the government that required employers to attest that: «Both the job and the organization's core mandate respect individual human rights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as other rrights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as other rRights and Freedoms as well as other rightsrights.

The Charter is a bill of rights that forms part of Canada's constitution and protects individual rights and freedoms from unreasonable and unjustified actions by federal and provincial governments.

The phrase «principles of fundamental justice» had been borrowed directly from section 2 (e) of the Canadian Bill of Rights, Canada's proto - Charter enacted in 1960, and had been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean that everyone was entitled to a fair hearing before an impartial tribunal.29 Put another way, fundamental justice incorporated a procedural guarantee synonymous with «natural justice,» meaning that the state may certainly deprive an individual of life, liberty or security of the person, but only if procedural safeguards have first been met.

The trial judge excluded all the computer evidence given that the police had conducted a warrantless search of the work laptop, breaching s. 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the «Charter») which protects an individual's right to be secure from unreasonable search and seizure.

This shows a systemic bias against protests in common law courts and the lack of implementation of Charter rights when corporations sue individuals and community groups.

Since there is difficulty for certain individuals that fall under enumerated grounds under the Charter and the Ontario Human Rights Code to get legal services, it falls upon the individual to be their own «lawyer».

This reasoning is set out in paragraphs 90 to 106 and is a highly recommendable read with the CJEU concluding that «the protection conferred by Article 47 of the Charter does not require that an individual should have an unconditional entitlement to bring an action for annulment of European Union legislative acts directly before the Courts of the European Union» nor «that fundamental right [or] the second subparagraph of Article 19 (1) TEU require that an individual should be entitled to bring actions against such acts, as their primary subject matter, before the national courts or tribunals» (paras 105 - 106).

The protections within our legal system, including our Charter rights, can not be applied selectively, or withdrawn for individuals we don't like, or we think are likely to get away with a crime.

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While Canadian governments are bound by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms («Charter») each province has individual human rights laws that apply to selected activities of individuals and governRights and Freedoms («Charter») each province has individual human rights laws that apply to selected activities of individuals and governrights laws that apply to selected activities of individuals and governments.

We will argue that individuals who go to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario because of discrimination they've faced under a government policy should be granted damages for the harms they suffer, regardless of whether damages would have been granted under the Charter.

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has held that they do not have the power to order damages to an individual who was discriminated against by a government policy, because of cases decided under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Charter is different from human rights statutes, which protect individuals from discrimination by the government and private actors (for information on human rights regimes, click here).

The decision of the Supreme Court in Kokopenace was divided, with four of the seven judges finding that despite the underinclusion of individuals living on reserves in the District of Kenora on jury rolls, Mr. Kokopenace's right to a fair, impartial and representative jury under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was not violated.

Although Justice Fish almost certainly went too far when he claimed that it is «difficult to imagine a search more intrusive, extensive or invasive of one's privacy than the search and seizure of a personal computer,» the fact remains that such a search represents a serious infringement of an individual's right to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure under s. 8 of the Charter.

The protections within our legal system, including our Charter rights, can not be applied selectively, or withdrawn for individuals we don't like, or we think are likely to... [more]

It is noteworthy in this regard that the right to good administration under Article 41 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (OJ 2007 C 303, p. 1) sets an obligation on the administration to justify its decisions and that this motivation is not only in general, the expression of the transparency of administrative action, but it must also allow the individual to decide, with full knowledge of the facts, if it is useful for her to apply to a court.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms specifically addresses the rights of individuals who have been detained by police or charged with a Rights and Freedoms specifically addresses the rights of individuals who have been detained by police or charged with a rights of individuals who have been detained by police or charged with a crime.

Section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects people from unreasonable search and seizure, but defines privacy as «a biographical core of personal information» that tends to reveal «intimate details of the lifestyle and personal choices of the individual.»

In the March 29, 2012 decision Re Rowan, the Ontario Court of Appeal decided, among other issues, that individuals involved in proceedings at the Ontario Securities Commission (the «Commission») who are subject to monetary penalties imposed under the Ontario Securities Act (the «Act»), are not afforded the protections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.