Sentences with phrase «justice legislation since»

One must therefore be careful before jumping in to criticise the 68th piece of criminal justice legislation since 1997.

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Multiple states have initiated legislation to ban the devices in the months since the shooting, and Donald Trump's Justice Department is currently considering a ban.

But the transparency Liberals crave could be given with one hand only to be taken away with the other, since justice minister Helen Grant hinted in a recent Westminster Hall debate that rejecting FOI requests on cost ground could be made easier through new legislation.

In the week since Election Day, we've seen more than 100 years of social and economic justice advocacy and legislation threatened and the cherished diversity of American society thrown into question.

If the state raises the age of criminal responsibility, it will be the first major criminal justice reform legislation since the law ending the shackling of pregnant inmates in 2015.

The suit argues that the exclusion of benefits for chronic mental stress violates the Charter of Rights, seeks to have the legislation preventing entitlement to compensation declared immediately invalid, and calls for retroactive justice with reconsideration of claims rejected over the past 20 years (since the ban was introduced with passage of Bill 99).

Only a few days after the Court of Justice of the European Union buried the hatchet in the so - called Taricco saga, the Italian Constitutional Court issued a decision that may inaugurate the most significant shift of its jurisprudence in European affairs since 1984, when the Constitutional Court fully accepted the principle of primacy of EU law and blessed the disapplication of national legislation incompatible with EU law.

Born 1952; graduated in law from St Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia (1975); Doctor of Laws (1979); Lecturer (1977 - 84), Senior Lecturer (1984 - 90) and then Professor at St Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia (1990 - 2013); Dean of the Faculty of Law of St Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia (1988 - 91); member of the Council on Legislation at the Bulgarian National Assembly (1995 - 97); Jean Monnet Professor at the New Bulgarian University (2002 - 05); Chairman of the Council of Legal Advisers to the President of Bulgaria (2002 - 03); Judge (2003 - 09), then President (2009 - 12), of the Bulgarian Constitutional Court; Head of the Constitutional Law Department at the Faculty of Law of St Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia (2013 - 16); member (2006 - 16) and Vice-President of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (2013 - 15); member of the Constitutional Council at the Bulgarian Ombudsman (2015 ‑ 16); editor of a number of legal journals; author of numerous legal publications; Advocate General at the Court of Justice since 19 September 2016.

It was the first time that Cyprus was found to have violated Article 6 of the Convention ever since remedial legislation has been introduced, although the problem of delays in the administration of justice remains to a great extent.

DOJ CALLS ON SUPREME COURT TO DROP MSFT CASE — The Justice Department on Friday urged the Supreme Court to dismiss a case the agency had levied against Microsoft, since newly passed legislation addresses the question at the heart of the suit.

This aspect was not subsequently addressed in the High Court's ruling in the Wik case, and the first instance decision on mineral rights has since been judicially doubted because of subsequent High Court rulings about government «ownership» of resources: Justice North in the (minority of) the full Federal Court appeal decision in Ward - v - Western Australia observed of the Federal Court decision in Wik that «the conclusion that the mining legislation in Queensland conferred full beneficial ownership on the crown sufficient to extinguish native title can not be regarded as correct» (2000) 170 ALR 159 at para 843.