Sentences with phrase «legal effect»

What is the purpose and legal effect of including this statement, and what are the consequences of not including it?

Does the answer depend on whether one is talking about giving legal effect to a document or about admitting it in a court proceeding?

That Act provides that information can have the same legal effect regardless of its medium (the «support»).

And, it will have the same legal effect in either case once entered into by the parties.

... It is recommended that legislation be enacted to provide the obligations created or recorded by deed have the same legal effect as obligations contained in a simple contract.

They are not necessarily intended to be statements with legal effect.

Furthermore, the content can be relevant because the law sometimes imposes requirements of form on particular kinds of document before legal effect can be given to them.

The intention, and thus legal effect, depend on context.

While I agree that a number of different legal effects might be alleged for an email message, I don't find the cases cited helpful on the point of this thread.

However, nothing in the legislation guarantees that an apology will have any particular legal effect, except that it can't itself be used to show fault.

At this final stage in the divorce process, only the judge's signature is necessary for the divorce and any settlement agreements to hold legal effect.

Or is the fact of making a declaration sufficient to give the declaration legal effect?

Here, there was no such legal effect in the first place.

This paper examines the leading cases defining these related states of mind and their differing legal effects.

It simply refers to the authoritative version as «the» record, the one (singular) with legal effect.

Clearly, the special recognition procedure does not imply a second conviction, it merely deals with the attribution of the same legal effects to the foreign judgment as to a domestic judgment.

Either way, the privacy rules were enacted on a limited basis in January, while a provision that would generally require ISPs to «engage in reasonable data security practices» in the event of security breaches was set to go into legal effect on March 2.

In response, the AG quotes case - law of the CJEU holding that for an act to be actionable, it must be binding and capable of producing legal effects.

While these decisions related to documents submitted on paper (and refused legal effect because held to be unsigned), they could apply as well to electronic signatures.

The Court of Justice of the European Union shall review the legality of legislative acts, of acts of the Council, of the Commission and of the European Central Bank, other than recommendations and opinions, and of acts of the European Parliament and of the European Council intended to produce legal effects vis - à - vis third parties.

The GDPR does not set out what legal effects or other serious consequences are.

This language would have been superfluous and without legal effect if, as Waxman assumes, EPA already had authority since 1970 to regulate carbon dioxide as an «air pollutant» or greenhouse gases in general based on their» global warming potential.»

Some of that might be done via executive action, but it is our view that he will need another statute to completely eliminate all domestic legal effects of NAFTA.

«Data subjects have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.»

On April 1, 2018, the «equal pay for equal work» amendments to the Employment Standards Act, 2002 (the «ESA») by Bill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act 2017, come into legal effect.

The only legal effect of the Supreme Court's decision was to allow the government to proceed to trial, where Miller would be allowed / expected to present evidence.

Declarations adopted in the Summit of the Americas process do not have the nature of norms of international law in the strict sense, although, according to Sanahuja, they would fall within the scope of the so - called soft law, without direct legal effects but with visible influence on policies and domestic legislation.

This has very little legal effect.

Presumptions of legal effect for identity management systems or trust services that meet certain requirements.

It is now generally recognized that «code is law»: how computers process the millions of on / off, yes / no signals in their binary universe can have legal effects beyond their obvious output.

Must, or should, a declaration permitted under an international convention be expressly «implemented» in Canadian law, or is implementation of the convention as a whole sufficient to give legal effect not only to the convention but also to any declaration made by Canada?

The White House Office of Management and Budget still must sign off on some aspects of the FCC reversal before it takes legal effect.

The Human Rights Act (1998) gives further legal effect in the UK to the fundamental rights and freedoms contained in the European Convention on Human Rights.

In an election year, it is important for the ordinary citizen to know the true legal effects of laws passed by Parliament, judgments issued by courts and tribunals, and Regulations and Administrative Instructions issued by the EC and other relevant administrative bodies.

In the House of Lords debate on the withdrawal bill last week, Brexit minister Lord Callanan repeated the line that Article 127 was not necessary in order for the EEA to cease legal effect.

Keith Vaz, the chair of the Commons» home affairs committee, famously said in 2000 the charter of fundamental rights had no more legal effect than a copy of the Beano.

It might be necessary to get an affidavit or something similar from the White House to authenticate the Tweet for it to have practical legal effect.

In other words, similar legal effects of the extension of the notion of «communication to the public» could be achieved through different means outside the law of copyright, or possibly through different mechanisms within.

Is there a predictable legal effect to one's plain vanilla endorsement by retweeting?

I've worked with very senior commercial lawyers who were astonished that affixing a red sticker that they bought at Office Depot could have a significant legal effect.

Requiring the adoption of the basic UN legislative texts on e-commerce will help harmonize the grounds on which e-communications can be given legal effect among commercial parties.

Conferring a specific legal effect on a legal document because it is legitimately in possession of a specific person, I suggest, is a different legal issue.

Unlike convictions, acquittals have no beneficial legal effect on liability in a subsequent civil proceeding that is based on the same alleged wrongdoing that resulted in the acquittal.

Consequently, although under normal conditions silence by the insurer could not be interpreted as an acceptance or denial of the claim, in this case there was a «type of positive silence», which had two main legal effects: