Sentences with phrase «law against the respondent»

In a civil application, the applicant requests the Court determine a point of law against the respondent.

Not exact matches

This D.C. law provides that if, after a hearing, the judicial officer finds that there is good cause to believe the respondent has committed or threatened to commit a criminal offense against the petitioner or against petitioner's animal or an animal in petitioner's household, the judicial officer may issue a protection order that directs the care, custody, or control of a domestic animal that belongs to petitioner or respondent or lives in his or her household.

South Carolina now allows a judge to issue a protective order that prohibits the harm or harassment against any pet animal owned, possessed, kept, or held by the petitioner; any family or household member designated in the order; or the respondent if the petitioner has a demonstrated interest in the pet animal.The law also allows the judge to issue a protective order that provides for temporary possession of the personal property, including pet animals, of the parties and order assistance from law enforcement officers in removing personal property of the petitioner if the respondent's eviction has not been ordered.

The Supreme Court has unanimously allowed an appeal, in a case that required the court to consider whether a claim to damages against the UK Motor Insurers» Bureau was to be determined in accordance with English or Greek law, where the respondent had been injured by an uninsured driver while on holiday in Greece.

Civil law: The individual respondent, Larry Hrynew, and corporate respondent, Canadian American Financial Corp., were found liable of civil conspiracy against the respondent, Harish Bhasin, by the Alberta Court of Queens» Bench.

This was a family law case that resulted in a special costs order against the Respondent, Jagtar Singh Hansra.

Commercial Arbitration and Investor - State Arbitration under the rules of one of the major international arbitration institutions, such as the ICC, LCIA or ICSID and subject to a wide range of laws can be financed in a variety of venues, against respondents whose assets appear to be available to satisfy any award.

However, the court would review the following four issues if challenged by the respondent: (1) whether the foreign court lacks jurisdiction pursuant to Taiwanese laws; (2) whether a default judgment is rendered against the losing defendant, but the notice or summons of the initiation of action had been legally served in a reasonable time in the foreign country or had been served through judicial assistance provided under the Taiwanese laws; (3) whether the performance ordered by such judgment or its litigation procedure is against Taiwanese public policy or morals; and (4) whether there exists no mutual recognition between the foreign country and Taiwan.

[98] Some respondents championed LSPs as important for meeting the access to justice gap, but argued against their regulation by state courts on the grounds either it is unnecessary (they are already regulated by consumer protection laws), that it would unnecessarily increase costs, or that regulation would only enable the state bars and courts to exercise their «protectionist instincts.»

In addition, going through the Tribunal application process no doubt educated the respondent about service dogs and the fact that it is against the law to discriminate against someone for reason of a disability.

As a result of this, practitioners have anticipated a greater need for more specific drafting of non — molestation orders (see «Domestic Violence and Family Law: A New Era», Bansi Soni, Family Law Week, 13 July 2007), as opposed to the previously general form of: «the Respondent must not use or threaten to use violence against the applicant, or intimidate, pester, molest or harass the applicant.»

On day one, we heard from counsel for TWU twice; once as appellants against the Law Society of Ontario (formerly LSUC) and once as respondents to the Law Society of British Columbia.