Sentences with phrase «legal distinction»

As a result, the traditional legal distinctions between corporations and their shareholders should not be relied upon to interfere with the availability of these oppression remedies.

What is missing from the exceptions granted to learning is the stronger sense of learning involving a coherent category of intellectual property, deserving of legal distinction as such.

The respondent relied on the traditional legal distinctions between a corporation and its shareholders, asserting that it was the corporation that had sustained losses, not the individual shareholder.

It should be noted that there is no formal or legal distinction between animal rights, animal welfare and animal protection organizations.

That is an important legal distinction in his interminable defamation suit against me, but it is also true in a broader sense.

The lawyer, George Freeman, told me that there is a large legal distinction between government documents like the Pentagon Papers, which The Times published over the objections of the Nixon administration, and e-mail between private individuals, even if they may receive some government money for their work.

Having clearer legal distinctions between the various types of engagement is a great idea in principle, but the practical reality is much more difficult to achieve given the endless scenarios and situations that arise.

Last year London's mayor, Boris Johnson, effectively voiced support for this point of view, writing in The Telegraph that: «At present that law is being systematically broken — or at least circumvented — by the use of the Uber app», and adding: «Until Parliament has the guts to change the law we must uphold the existing and long - standing legal distinctions between black cabs and minicabs.»

Though much of the amicus briefing addresses both cases in one brief, there are notable factual and legal distinctions in the cases the Supreme Court has taken up:

The court in Rea noted that corporate losses are not shareholder losses, relying on the traditional legal distinction between the two, and further finding that a plaintiff in an oppression action must show some grounds as to why he or she was personally harmed by the defendants, and that a general harm suffered by all shareholders equally for a harm actually done to the corporation can not ground an oppression action.

Such legal distinctions are illustrated in the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell.

From a practical, European, standpoint let's just accept the legal distinction.

But most startling was the scale of the ambition of the writers, which included proposing the benefits of «the removal of all legal distinctions between homosexuality and heterosexuality».

Such homosexual activism in favour of loosening the legal distinction between adult and adolescent might seem an isolated phenomenon.

@AnViL, Do you really not understand the legal distinction or are you trying to make some sort of point?

So the legal distinction between the two doesn't matter so much here.

The legal distinction he made there is correct.

Perhaps that is only a technical distinction, but it is also a legal distinction in the United States.

The New York Insurance Association, a trade group that represents property and casualty insurance industry, opposed Cahill's bill because it would «needlessly increase mandatory minimum limits of liability and fails to preserve the legal distinction between using a vehicle for personal uses and for ride - sharing services, which will result in greatly increased costs for all New York auto insurance consumers.»

Again, there is no legal distinction between a campaign committee with exploratory committee in its name and a «regular» campaign committee.

The courts, in her view, are making a legal distinction without a practical difference.

These decades of trials, for all of their legal distinctions, ultimately come down to the same idea: Although Connecticut has a constitutional obligation to educate its students, it's doing a bad job for many of them.

It could be that until you hold more than a certain percentage of the company's stock, no legal distinction kicks in to say that you're entitled to any say over the company's management, etc., etc,.

To be an employee (W2) or independent contractor (1099) is a legal distinction.

In the US there is some legal distinctions as well.

I don't understand the legal distinction between goods and services

«There are no legal distinctions between the mere presence of a substance and an adequate amount of a substance in a product,» says Stluka.

The legal distinction between the two is nebulous, often allowing presidents to pick whichever form is most convenient.

When the Attorney General exercises the prerogative and issues Her Majesty's Letters Patent, it is a legal distinction recognized across Canada and throughout the Commonwealth of Nations.

That means there's no legal distinction between you and your business.

I propose that every Q.C. appointed lawyer in B.C. and across Canada surrender their titles, to the AG of the province, in a «flash mob» protest (dancing is optional) to ensure equal protection and defence of Her Majesty's legal distinction across Canada.

This is a legal distinction (judicial independence) which is considered, in a democracy, to be another safeguard to help ensure a reasonable and principle balance between the gov» t and the people.

That all changed with the Supreme Judicial Court's 2010 decision, Papadopoulos v. Target Corp., in which the court abolished any legal distinction between natural and unnatural accumulations of snow and instead said that a property owner has a duty to act «as a reasonable person under all the circumstances» with regard to removal of snow and ice.

The legal distinction between reality and virtual reality applied to court cases is very much open to debate, however, assuming that the environment is as accurate and detailed as possible, the evidence has been integrated correctly and the technology is used in an appropriate way, there is no reason that the virtual can not be accepted as the real; in the same way that security and disability audits can be conducted for the construction industry using 3D models and virtual reality.

Since there is no legal distinction between the business and its owner, thatmeans that the owner remains fully liable for any debts created by the business.

There is no question that legally Truscott is deemed to be innocent once acquitted — there is no legal distinction between «not guilty» and «innocent».

«Lame names» (my classification; not a legal distinction) are products, services, or company names without a spark of creativity.

A Sole Proprietorship is a form of business where no legal distinction is made between the business itself and its owner.

At the outset, it should be noted that there is a legal distinction between an «insolvent» estate and a «bankrupt» estate.

Although there is no legal distinction between an older employee and his younger counterpart, workplace changes should be considered under the lens of the employee's ability to adapt.

The legal distinction between an invitee and licensee used to matter a great deal and still does in some states.

She also cited the 1917 Ontario Court of Appeal judgment in Campbell v. Hedley, the only case dealing with an escaped animal (a fox in that case), which teaches the legal distinctions between tame and wild animals.