Sentences with phrase «legal cases which»

More importantly, a death claim can be one of the most significant and catastrophic type of legal cases which a family will ever have to contend.

The government has won a legal case which could have major implications for future benefit appeals.

The Law Society of British Columbia prepared a checklist for this application (known as a Rowbotham Application after the legal case which created it).

Not exact matches

The state government will introduce legislation into parliament tomorrow designed to finalise the long - running Bell Group legal case, in which the Insurance Commission of WA and other creditors are fighting over a $ 1.7 billion payout.

Billionaire Peter Thiel is funding the legal case against Gawker, which raises troubling questions.

But in other cases, it is more illuminating to think of which legal protections are necessary to protect the rights of persons who make use of the corporation as a way to carry out their own objectives.

After a report by Forbes, which the New York Times eventually corroborated, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel gave the NYT an interview in which he admitted to helping fund Hogan's legal case.

It is asking the Irish High Court to refer the case to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which would then decide whether to ban the use of «model contracts» — common legal arrangements used by thousands of firms to transfer personal data outside the 28 - nation bloc.

In fact, while the billionaire doesn't mention it in his op - ed piece, he has also reportedly been involved in financing several other lawsuits against Gawker that haven't gone to trial, some of which have even less legal merit than the Gawker case.

«There are tax cases in which someone will argue they had to spend $ 1 million on legal fees because a nasty divorce threatened the business,» said Wood of Wood LLP.

According to Chris, there are also legal issues that relate to the movement of the money, which even precludes the retailer from collecting at the point of delivery — if they decide to deliver the goods themselves — which in this case is solved by having the consumer pay the retailer directly via the mobile app.

The case is important not only because Hogan wants $ 100 million, which could ruin Gawker, but also because it highlights how Gawker is alone among new media companies in waging the sort of public interest legal fights that were once second nature for traditional media.

Waymo's tough negotiating stance, which has not been previously reported, reflects the company's confidence in its legal position after months of pretrial victories in a case which may help to determine who emerges in the forefront of the fast - growing field of self - driving cars.

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In the case of more traditional financial institutions, creditors have to abide by the Credit Practices Rule, which states that any financial institution, auto dealer, retailer or credit union must advise consumers about their legal obligations and more.

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It all suggests that the dramatic day and a half of legal proceedings are but a prelude to even more courtroom theatrics and combat in what has become a sordid, long - standing matter (for the full saga, read the Disturbing Decline of Sumner Redstone) that reflects poorly on countless participants, not least the boards of CBS and Viacom, which took no action to remove Redstone as their executive chairman until Herzer's case forced their hand.

The Greens also want Facebook to pay damages, which would make it easier for individuals in similar cases to take the financial risk of taking legal action.

Unlike Serial, which explored how a suspect's race and religion might have been held against him, The Jinx riveted viewers by exploring the role of privilege and how Durst's high - priced legal defense team could manage to help him evade the most serious criminal charges against him even when, in one case, he'd actually admitted to having dismembered a person's body.

Gun - rights organizations also weighed in, including the National Rifle Association, which argued that the case stood to «eviscerate» the gun companies» legal protections.

Qualcomm has appealed the South Korean fine in court and contends the FTC's case, which was filed in the waning days of the Obama administration, is based on a flawed legal theory and fails to show harm.

If there are conversations in which the lawyer is not providing advice on legal matters but that still involve topics of interest to investigators, that material can, in some cases, also be turned over to investigators.

However, the case hinges on issues the ride - hail company — which is no stranger to legal battles — has long fought across the globe: Background checks and being treated like other for - hire companies.

Case in point: Comstock Mining Inc., a young mining company which we own in our Gold and Precious Metals Fund (USERX), has managed to shrink operating expenses from $ 4.4 million this time last year to $ 3.8 million, mostly by lowering legal and advisory expenses.

We believe that market - rigging tactics of which banking institutions have been repeatedly accused — and, in many cases, are legal defendants in actions brought against them — have been disguised but are still widely practiced.

You can, as an alternative, elect at the outset to pay your own legal costs only, in which case you will not be liable for the other side's legal costs.

It can be financing the costs of a large single commercial litigation case or providing capital against a portfolio of legal claims, which allows pricing flexibility.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

To do such which results in a man having in one case years of legal procedure and suffer panic attacks is deplorable.

The legal limit is 24 weeks - unless there's a risk the child may be disabled when born - in which case abortion is allowed «up to birth».

As the late legal historian Kermit Hall notes, the court in this case «did not believe it was granting Catholics a benefit to which persons of other beliefs are not entitled.»

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

According to World Watch Monitor, an organisation which reports on cases of Christians seeing persecuted for their faith, people leaving Islam in Malaysia are being left in «legal limbo».

The Adnan Syed Legal Trust has raised $ 93,000 from supporters and is sponsoring the new podcast Undisclosed: the State v. Adnan Syed, which promises to «examine and explore the case in greater detail, from an investigatory perspective instead of a narrative one.»

So, in all the time gay marriages have been legal in many other countries, and in the time they've been legal in 5 of our own states and DC, there hasn't been a SINGLE case in which NAMBLA has succeeded in its quest, right, Greg?

Speaking on BBC Radio Lincolnshire, Peter Tatchell said: «He can't perhaps comment about the individuality of that particular case, but he certainly could comment on the principle, which is that he has, in the past, supported legal discrimination against gay people.

While Holmes frankly admitted that he hated facts and used them only as pegs on which to hang legal principles, Brandeis, as a practicing lawyer, immersed himself in the facts of a case to show that a particular outcome was the more just.

The first case, United States v. Windsor, challenged the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) of 1996, which defines marriage as» only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.»

The Christian Legal Centre, which has been supporting Mr Courney, said the case highlights the need for police to «understand how the law protects free speech».

It may also be the case that the individualism of our legal system is more thoroughgoing than that which exists in our culture.

One of the strongest arguments in recent years for abolishing the death penalty has arisen, not from the moral prohibition against the taking of life, but from the fact that with rare exceptions those who are executed are people who lack the means to secure good legal assistance, or lack the educational background to make full use of such assistance, or lack the social status which brings the case to public attention.11

The question might seem a befuddling one for a ballot in the heartland, but it stems from a New Jersey legal case in which a Muslim woman went to a family court asking for a restraining order against her spouse claiming he had raped her repeatedly.

In the pending court case for overturning California's Proposition 8, which banned «gay marriage,» two leading conservative legal scholars face off: Charles J. Cooper, taking the classical conservative line that organic social institutions such as marriage have an inherent value and can not be redefined by legal fiat, and Theodore Olson, taking the more libertarian line that government should simply regulate contractual relationships between individuals and not become involved in private matters.

In the pending court case for overturning California's Proposition 8, which banned «gay marriage,» two leading conservative legal scholars face off: Charles J. Cooper, taking the classical conservative line that organic social institutions such as marriage have an inherent value and can not be redefined by legal fiat, and Theodore Olson, taking the more libertarian line that government should simply regulate contractual relationships between individuals... Continue Reading»

The jury must determine whether the facts of the case as established by testimony in court fit the legal definition of the offense with which the defendant is charged — a definition likely to be complicated at best, incomprehensible at worst.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

Nevertheless, I am an attorney with 25 years experience, 13 of which were as a criminal defense attorney, and the video makes clear that by legal standards, the young lady WAS the aggressor — twice — no matter what was said prior (words are never an excuse for an attack) and yes Mixon has a valid (at least arguable) self defense case.

Unless baseball voluntarily complies with the decision, which seemed doubtful as of Monday, the case is likely to slog through the legal system and keep the nine umps in limbo for the rest of this season.

The fact that Mike Dean has not taken legal action, which would by itself have effectively killed his refs career, even though he would have won his case but which would have been therefore a Pyrrhic victory, does not excuse this unfair and incorrect accusation form Wenger.

In cases brought in the UK, members are fully indemnified in relation to the cost of legal advice and assistance from the point at which a claim is registered subject to certain exclusions.