Sentences with phrase «legal conflict between»

While it is undeniable that past Crown grants created interests potentially incompatible with the pre-existing Indigenous interests, what has created the legal conflict between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous rights to land is the legality accorded to the Indigenous title since the decision in Mabo.
While the legal conflict between Activision and two former senior employees of Infinity Ward rages on, Jason West and Vince Zampella have found a new studio under the name of Respawn Entertainment.
Infinity Ward has been hemorrhaging staff ever since the controversial firing of Vince Zampella and Jason West, but the consistent flow of resignations has surprised even the most liberal reactions to the legal conflict between developer and publisher.
Town Supervisor James Quigley III said last week that altering the governance of the water system could lead to a legal conflict between the two communities.
The legislature voted on September 19 to hold Brega as the lowest responsible bidder, pointing to Brega's prior transportation record in Rockland County, acting to end a protracted legal conflict between Brega, MV Transportation, and the legislature.

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The reason is that whether the lawyer works for a business or runs one, questions arise regarding the intersection of, and perhaps conflict between, legal ethics on one hand and business ethics on the other.
For example, by 30 percentage points (67.3 percent to 37 percent) native - born citizens are more likely to believe that the U.S. Constitution should be a higher legal authority than international law if there is a conflict between the two.
The legal challenge is yet another major conflict between key suppliers and one of Australia's retail heavyweights.
Divorce also can strain parent - child relationships, lead to lost contact with one parent, create economic hardships, and increase conflict between parents (including legal conflicts — for a way to avoid these see Emery's Divorce Mediation Study).
In what could become a major conflict between Trump and local governments, the showdown on «sanctuary cities» likely will result in legal challenges testing how far the White House can go in dictating its priorities.
He said he believed there was a «serious legal and constitutional conflict» between the boundary changes and the relatively recent recognition of the Cornish as a national minority.
This moral versus legal conflict magnifies the schism between the father and his progeny.
The legal debacle surrounding the various allegedly illegal reviews of Alone in the Dark, and Atari's subsequent handling of said reviews underscores the growing conflict between videogame producers and videogame journalists.
As well as the risk of onward disclosure by the ICO's staff, there would be a conflict between the lawyer's professional and legal obligations.
With respect to the «conflict» between allegedly self - interested family lawyers and allegedly self - interested paralegals wanting to do more family law, the answer is not to flood the family law market with thousands more legal service providers all trying to make a living off the miseries of family breakdowns out of the wallets of people whose non-legal expenses have already risen (two homes, etc.).
(7) a conflict of interest between the law society's duty to regulate the legal profession so as to make legal services adequately available, and its duty to represent the interests of lawyers, i.e., law societies» regulatory powers conflict with their representative powers, and being elected by their lawyer - members, benchers deal with the problems and complaints of those who elect them;
This could be a double knockout blow, since most SOWs also provide that, in the event of any inconsistencies or conflicts between the terms and conditions of the SOW and those of the existing legal agreement (s), the terms and conditions of the SOW will prevail.
Effective and fair conflicts rule must strike an appropriate balance between conflicting values: the high repute of the legal profession and the administration of justice, and the values of allowing the client's choice of counsel and permitting reasonable mobility in the legal profession.
Layer on top of that, technology that reduces the number of lawyers needed for certain tasks, the conflict between hours targets and the «do more for less» challenge, alternative legal providers, the growth of contract lawyers, permanent associates, partners who aren't permanent, the growth of paralegals, as well as a clear message from partners at most law firms that there is no more room at the top.
Hadfield's solution to this conflict is to «cut the ties between the two functions,» and «begin to build differentiated legal professions that are not dragged under, in either sphere, by the weight of the other.»
RAND Europe was commissioned by FTI Consulting to prepare a short paper exploring the conflict between the European legal framework for privacy and data protection and the sometimes competing requirements of electronic discovery («e-discovery») imposed on US firms with European subsidiaries by legislation such as the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
The main points of conflict in criminal legal aid policy seem to boil down to fee rates and how the work should be divided up between providers.
In practice, international child custody cases often yield complex and messy conflicts between the laws and courts of different countries, demonstrating serious clashes of societal views about culture, religion, gender roles, parental rights, and children's rights, as well as of the role of the legal system in intervening in disputes about children.
[2] Furthermore, EU loyalty covers not just the present state of EU law but also «the foreseeable future development of EU law» and should hence be interpreted as requiring certain actions or omissions in the present in order to avoid a potential future conflict between international legal obligations and EU law.
Starting from an historical introduction of Member States» practice of concluding BITs, the chapter delves into the legal framework that governs most aspects of the interaction — and conflictbetween EU law and BITs, with specific attention to the «grandfathering» or «sunset» Regulation (EU) 1219/2012, which governs how Member States must deal with their BITs in force.
In the light of the conflict between its own case law and the EU legal framework, the Constitutional Court (in Plenary Chamber) clearly struggled with Melloni's petition, and in 2011 decided to ask the CJEU for a preliminary ruling.
It aims to avoid legal and administrative conflicts and to build the structure for effective international co-operation in child protection matters between the different systems (Outline).
There continues to be a conflict between First Nations cultural values, legal traditions and ideologies and those that form foundation of the Canadian justice system.
But advertising in law isn't going away, and as we see more examples of boundary - pushing (or exploding) ads both from within the profession and from non-lawyer entities competing against traditional legal service providers, the conflicts between lawyers over what is and is not «appropriate» marketing are sure to grow.
Moreover, just weeks after St. Simons and RFF were decided, the ABA House of Delegates passed a resolution urging all «federal, state, tribal, territorial and local legislative, judicial and other governmental bodies» to support applying the attorney - client privilege to protect from disclosure «confidential communications between law firm personnel and their firms» designated in - house counsel made for the purpose of the rendition of professional legal services to the law firm» and to reject any claim that conflict of interest principles or the «fiduciary exception» undermine that claim of privilege.
U.S. law has a whole sub-field a statutes and legal doctrines like the Rooker - Feldman doctrine designed to prevent these conflicts from coming up when they arise between federal and state courts.
The main legal question would be whether there is any conflict between the lease and local law: while the basic idea of a lease is universally recognized, there may be peculiar conditions or procedures applicable in that country.
Attorneys will not take on legal malpractice case if there is a conflict of interest between that lawyer and the lawyer you want to sue.
Expanding Judicial Discretion: Between Legal and Conflict Considerations.
The result of this would improve the trust which clients and the wider community have in the legal profession and reduce the conflict between the economic interests of a law firm and the ethical responsibilities the legal profession places on practitioners.
Keynote speech to contextualize the issues and discuss conflict between the naturally fluid state of the internet and the expectations by legal professionals that once something is published (in whatever form) that it should be static.
It will bring conflict and legal battle between users, designers, companies and will catch the eyes of more lawyers and regulators.
When patients make claims of negligence the process of discovering whether negligence occurred requires investigating medical records, interviewing the involved parties (through sworn depositions), finding experts, sorting out conflicts between the opinions of experts, reinvestigating the records and testimony as new insights are uncovered and then reaching some kind of consensus, if possible, about what actually occurred and whether those facts meet the definition of legal negligence.
The legislation, in other words, creates a conflict where legal counsel would be forced to choose between their clients» interests and their own.
When a conflict between a consent and another written legal permission from the individual exists, as described above, the covered entity may attempt to resolve the conflict with the individual by either obtaining a new consent from the individual or by having a discussion or otherwise communicating with the individual to determine the individual's preference regarding the use or disclosure.
We believe covered entities will rarely be faced with conflicts between consents and other written legal permission from the individual for uses and disclosures to carry out treatment, payment, and health care operations.
(2) A covered entity may attempt to resolve a conflict between a consent and an authorization or other written legal permission from the individual described in paragraph (e)(1) of this section by:
In my experience it is often the disconnect between these two perspectives that is a cause for conflict and I hope in this discussion to move past this issue and establish that the expansion of legal clinics in Canada are in the interests of both the profession and the academy.
Suggested topics include conflicts and the duty of loyalty, whistleblowing, the adversarial role, judicial ethics, emerging legal ethics issues from new technologies, parallels between legal ethics and other professions, the legal history of ethics,
Layer on top of that, technology that reduces the number of lawyers needed for certain tasks, the conflict between hours targets and the «do more for less» challenge, alternative legal providers,... [more]
The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia sidestepped the conflicting rights between LGBT students and religious freedoms of Evangelical Christians, and focused instead on the legislative authority of the Society under the Legal Profession Act to require law schools to change its policies, following their 10 — 9 vote against accreditation.
The arguments for the opponents are said to be that (i) owners who are not themselves providing legal services are not personally invested in the labour of the enterprise and will accordingly be interested only in profits and not professional ideals and norms, (ii) non-lawyer ownership creates the potential for conflicts between the duties owed to investors and the duties owed to clients and the justice system, (iii) providing non-legal services together with legal services creates greater risk of misuse of confidential client information and unauthorized practice of law.
The paper notes the risk for systemic conflict of interest between insurers and injured persons and the likelihood that economic efficiencies are not likely to much affect access where injured persons generally do not pay for legal services whether because of contingent fees, insurance or other arrangements.
Suggested topics include conflicts and the duty of loyalty, whistleblowing, the adversarial role, judicial ethics, emerging legal ethics issues from new technologies, parallels between legal ethics and other professions, the legal history of ethics, ethics issues that arise in relation to such areas as environmental, human rights, privacy, international or health law, or any other aspect of ethics and law.
In Hoang v. Vicentini, 2015 ONCA 780, the Court of Appeal recently reiterated the criteria to be considered when determining whether there is a conflict of interest between an insured and his insurer with respect to the insured's legal representation.
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