Sentences with phrase «law on a technicality»

The court invalidated the law on a technicality, citing Parliament's passage of the legislation without a legal quorum the previous December.

The government should think again about tampering with the law on technicalities and unsafe convictions, says Peter Ferguson QC

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That wasn't even Olson's case, but with assists from a federal district court judge who came out as being in a same - sex relationship only after ruling and retiring, and elected officials who chose to forgo their traditional duty to vigorously defend state law, Olson and Boies did succeed in disenfranchising millions of Californians on a procedural technicality.

The serious presidential complaint is that a politicized Court would strike the law down on what is basically a questionable technicality, not giving the law the democratic respect it deserves.

To keep the focus on the question of purity and eating with «defiled» hands, the lectionary omits the verses in which Jesus counterattacks by lifting up an example of using a technicality of the religious law to avoid fulfilling a deeper obligation.

Laws to stop judges being able to free criminals on technicalities will be unveiled by the government today.

New City — The Rockland County Legislature convened on February 2 to discuss various matters, paying particular attention to a contentious resolution, which fills a potentially unfair gap left by a technicality of law.

The conviction was reversed on a technicality, but the law was permitted to stand.

on Commissioner Pryor, can you tell us which laws are «laws» and which are «bureaucratic technicalities»?

Virginia's Supreme Court has now turned down AG Cuccinelli's demand, based on a technicality in the interpretation of the Virginia law.

The lawyers hopped across the technicalities like frogs on so many lily pads, from potentially conflicting amendments that first slipped into the law when it was amended in 1990, to a footnote to the Supreme Court's 2011 decision in another climate case, American Electric Power v. Connecticut.

Granted, i'm no expert on this specific legal technicality, but as they deliberatley broke the FOI law, i was under the impression that they'd be charged under said law, rather than contempt of court??

A fascination of this case is to watch a judge treading a careful path between the technicalities of issue estoppel and a possible strike out on the one hand, balanced against a clear emphasis on the court's duty to protect the welfare of a child in the widest possible sense: the first a matter of analysis of law, the second a matter of pure discretion.

The Criminal Law Group secured a full withdrawal in its new R. v. A.Y. [2014] for Assault Causing Bodily Harm strictly on the basis of an evidentiary technicality.

Moreover, the TWU case was decided after Rev. Hawkes put the issue squarely on the public radar by performing the first gay marriage in Ontario in January 2001 (exploiting a technicality in Ontario's marriage law) which would latter be the subject of the Halpern decision.

he Criminal Law Group secured a full withdrawal in its new R. v. A.Y. [2014] for Assault Causing Bodily Harm strictly on the basis of an evidentiary technicality.

A side point about this case: I sometimes feel like the most frequent misconception about the law is that it's all about winning cases on «technicalities».

Sharon Keller may have got off on a technicality, but a majority of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct found that she did not accord a person about to be executed with access to open courts or the right to be heard according to law.

While a case sometimes turns on a «technicality», like a limitation period or statutory notice requirement, the law is usually flexible enough that judges are encouraged to take a fairly pragmatic and realistic view.

In criminal law, you can have your habeus corpus, but the public sees a dangerous person sprung free on a «technicality.»

In contract law is small wordings important in the sense of getting out on technicalities important?