Sentences with phrase «leading jurisdictions for»

During this time, we emerged as the nation's top state for student achievement and one of the world's leading jurisdictions for overall student performance.
Los Angeles County is the lead jurisdiction for Portraits of Hope's latest civic project which will see the program revitalize and visually makeover animal shelters and care centers across the country in a bid to highlight the sites as public destinations and drive more people to visit and take home a shelter dog, cat, rabbit, horse, or other animal.
England is a leading jurisdiction for fraud litigation.
Although Mauritius is better known as a gateway for investments in Africa and India, the country has also grown to become a leading jurisdiction for private client services in the region.
Malta is looking to position itself as a leading jurisdiction for DLT and hopes that blockchain companies will become as numerous as the already flourishing online gaming sector.

Not exact matches

«We believe the acquisition of the William Hill Australia business gives us the scale and customers to become a leading force in the market and the tools we will need to prepare for potential positive regulatory movement in other jurisdictions
The average lead time for gold mines worldwide is close to 20 years, though it can sometimes be more, depending on the jurisdiction.
That led TM to seek a ruling from the NEB confirming that the Board had the jurisdiction to authorize TM's activities, and, to the extent that Burnaby's by - laws were making it impossible for TM to carry out the necessary tests, a ruling that the by - laws were constitutionally inapplicable, or if not inapplicable, were in conflict with the provisions of the National Energy Board Act and therefore inoperative on the basis of the paramountcy doctrine.
Christiaan De Bruyn is director of trust services for the Trident Trust Group in Hong Kong, a leading independent provider of corporate, fiduciary and fund administration services with offices in 24 jurisdictions.
Justice Antonin Scalia, perhaps the leading exponent of this criticism, emphasizes the purely procedural quality of the argument by declaring abortion, for example, to be a matter entirely outside the purview of constitutional law and, therefore, beyond the jurisdiction of courts.
Each of the 14 primary industry and eight cross — industry sectoral strategies have been allocated a lead agency, which is responsible for delivering the strategies through collaborating with jurisdictions.
The Perennial Pepperweed Control Handbook was created in 2011 for municipalities, nonprofit organizations, and others who will lead the effort to identify and control pepperweed in their given jurisdiction.
Nadhim Zahawi, a leading Brexit supporter and Conservative MP for Stratford - upon - Avon, wrote in the Mail on Sunday that paying a proportion of the UK's annual # 8.5 bn would be worth it for favourable trading arrangements combined with freedom from the EU's immigration rules and the jurisdiction of its courts.
Small dams in China «often lack sufficient enforcement of environmental regulations» because they are «left to the jurisdiction of the province,» said Guy Ziv, lead scientist for the Natural Capital Project, an organization which develops tools to assess and quantify natural resources, and a researcher for the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University.
An army of students led by ecologist P. Dee Boersma of the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, pored over 136 recovery plans — FWS's blueprints for endangered species under its jurisdiction.
Leading Learning provides something tangible to frame growth for all jurisdictions and for every school in Canada.
Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.
Leading for impact: Australian guidelines for school leadership development, sets out evidence - based guidance to support a nationally coherent and standards - based approach to leadership development in all jurisdictions and schools.
Juan D'Brot joined the Center in February 2016 and has led and contributed to work on developing ESSA - aligned accountability systems, growth models, exploring graduation options for students based on local legislation, peer review submissions, and revising readiness assessments for educational organizations and numerous states and jurisdictions.
Well, actually the «founders of No Kill» have always been a very select group whose love of all animals gradually but steadily led to the changing mindset and philosophy of saving rather than killing; not nearly enough credit has been given to all the independent and non-profit rescues, adoption groups and especially TNR groups who were promoting and practicing S / N and vaccinations long before low cost S / N clinics became available... such clinics still NOT that readily available in many jurisdictions; as for the veterinary community, for the most part, they were and are a major part of the problem along with their associations which remain regressive with their rather antiquated and self - serving leadership; for decades and even to this day it has long been known that the NUMBER ONE REASON people do not get their animals «fixed» (pet, stray, feral, it doesn't matter) is because of the lack of affordable S / N fees!
The Environment News Service reported two years ago that 70 of the old buildings «have been responsible for the deaths of as many as 130,000 Laysan albatross chicks since jurisdiction of Midway was transferred from the Navy to the Department of the Interior in 1996» and that as many as 10,000 chicks a year die from disorders and illness caused from ingesting the lead paint chips.
The Canadian province of Ontario looks poised to follow the lead of other jurisdictions in Canada and in the United States by implementing a carbon pricing program, with provincial regulators asking for opinions on what type of program should be implemented.
Experience with the voluntary carbon market shows REDD projects can lead to real reductions, if only a portion of avoided emissions is tradable, it factors in the total deforestation in a jurisdiction and creates a buffer for uncertainty.
California is just leading the way for other states and jurisdictions that will ultimately follow,» says Richard Frank of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy at the University of California - Berkeley.
«Keep your eyes open for this, and if you lead by privacy by design it will be more likely you will be compliant with the GDPR and you will be more likely to be meeting the requirements of many jurisdictions because privacy by design raises the bar considerably,» she said.
Nowadays, courts in leading jurisdictions do understand that public policy is not a hunt for the better law and is not destined to offer national protectionism beyond that which is indispensable.
Susan Acland - Hood, chief executive, HM Courts & Tribunals Service, said: «The court will be fully equipped with 21st century technology, and will be a world - leading centre for economic and cybercrime, as well as working across other activity and jurisdictions
In a jurisdiction that has prided itself on the importance of «doctrine» in interpreting the law, the fact that the major French language university opts for content with the lowest common denominator, while a foreign owned commercial publisher offers an authoritative work by leading academics and legal practitioners, is a remarkable case of role reversal, as well as a reflection on how times have changed.
The previous restrictive reading of the BVI CPR had led to the situation that foreign judgments obtained in all but a small number of countries could not be enforced in the BVI because there was no «gateway» to provide for service out of the jurisdiction.
In addition, the content for each jurisdiction has been vetted by leading lawyers within that jurisdiction, they said.
Many law schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culturefor study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culturefor decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal cultureFor example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culturefor International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culturefor a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culture.20
Director of knowledge management development at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Julia Randell - Khan, who led the KM Project Athena team in collaboration with the firm's IT department, said, «An extensive review of the firm's KM activities found a significant change in the type of work clients require, from the traditional jurisdiction driven work to demand for cross-border product driven work.
Clinton Hempel said: «Bringing Cora Gold to market at this challenging time demonstrates the resilience of the British Virgin Islands and is further evidence that the world's leading offshore corporate jurisdiction is certainly open for business.
Thus, the reasons which led the Court to interpret widely the jurisdiction provided for in Article 22 (4) of Regulation No 44/2001 do not require that, in a case such as that in the main proceedings, Article 31 of that regulation should be disapplied.
AB & David — one of Ghana's leading law firms and winner of the African Small Practice Law Firm of the Year award for the second year on the bounce — founded AB & David Africa (ABDA) in 2015, with Zambian firm Tembo Mulengeshi & Chanda, and Chilume & Co from Botswana, to provide a pan-African service for clients seeking to do business in multiple jurisdictions.
In other jurisdictions, a quick order enjoining a defendant from selling its product or offering its services can be a significant risk, leading to a higher willingness to pay the patent owner for a license.
Vitol SA v Morley [2015] EWHC 613 (QB) Successfully resisted application for an order that # 1.3 million be transferred by defendant subject to a worldwide freezing order from out of the jurisdiction and paid into court (led by Michael Todd QC).
The Court of Appeal decided that a reference to the CJEU was necessary as, although the decision of the Bundesgerichtshof was persuasive (as it is the highest civil court in Germany), the meaning of «the Member State where the act of infringement has been committed» in Art. 97 (5) / 125 (5) of the EU Trade Mark Regulation had not been decided by the CJEU, and it considered that the decision not to allocate jurisdiction in circumstances where there was activity in Country A which led to infringement of the EU trade mark in Country B, would give rise to there being no jurisdiction at all for such infringement.
Our view is that the jurisdiction of the Ombudsman must not be steam - rollered by the Courts, as inevitably this could lead to higher costs for complainants and defendants or deter parties from bringing complaints altogether.
Press Release NEW TITLE April 2013 Disclosure of Information: Norwich Pharmacal and Related Principles Simon Bushell and Gary Milner - Moore The first and only book to offer an in - depth examination of the controversial Norwich Pharmacal jurisdiction «A discussion with any civil law practitioner hearing about the concept for the first time and appreciating its ramifications is guaranteed to lead to a...
In particular, Jeremy was the successful Junior Counsel for Scott Law in the Court Appeal, in the leading case of RBS v Highland, where the Court found that the «unclean hands» of RBS meant it should not be granted anti-suit injunctive relief, despite an exclusive jurisdiction clause.
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals, following the lead of courts in other «common law» jurisdictions, has qualified the rule to account for «reasonable» use of the uphill property.
The Global Legal Group called for our contribution to the 2015 edition of the reputed Global Legal Insights — Mergers & Acquisitions publication, which contains 27 country chapters drafted by leading practitioners from around the world and is designed to provide general counsel, investment bankers, government agencies and private practice lawyers with a comprehensive insight into the realities of M&A — practical issues, policy issues, strategic issues — by jurisdiction, highlighting market trends and legal developments as well as practical and strategic considerations.
The Global Legal Group called for Maravela Asociații «s contribution to the 2015 first edition of the reputed Global Legal Insights — International Arbitration publication, which contains 36 country chapters drafted by leading practitioners from around the world and is designed to provide general counsel and comprehensive insights of International Arbitration — practical issues, policy issues, strategic issues — by jurisdiction, highlighting market trends and legal developments.
In 2016 Maravela Asociații was ranked as» recognized firm» for 2016 by IFLR 1000, the guide to the world's leading financial and corporate law firms and lawyers, whose first rankings were published in 1990 and which currently conducts research over 120 jurisdictions worldwide.
Any other interpretation, warned the court, could lead to a whole slew of laws being invalidated: environmental or public health regulations, agricultural controls on the production and distribution of eggs, dairy or poultry, for example, and «innumerable» other exercises of provincial jurisdiction.
Served as lead counsel for the defendant and obtained reversal by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals of a district court's order certifying a 29 - jurisdiction class action alleging consumer fraud by a Fortune 50 retailer, and subsequently successfully moved for dismissal with prejudice of named plaintiff's claims and obtained a nationwide injunction against future attempts to certify a class based on similar allegations.
The Acquisition International Legal Awards are now in their third year and have rapidly become a go to resource for professionals within the legal and financial services communities in recognising the leading players practicing in their field and jurisdiction.
That early life as a solicitor then developed into working in Atlanta, being a diplomat for 3 years, a stint in a dot com, until in 2002 I fell into the litigation funding world, at that time non existent in the UK and many other jurisdictions after a «Sliding doors» moment on a tube train led to a chance encounter with an old colleague.
This led to injunctions in the major European markets and the team won victories for the client in all jurisdictions.
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