Sentences with phrase «legal issue is raised»

This is in accordance with the Supreme Court of Canada's recent pronouncement that a law previously adjudicated «may be revisited if new legal issues are raised as a consequence of significant developments in the law, or if there is a change in the circumstances or evidence that fundamentally shifts the parameters of the debate».

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Top executives at Uber used the encrypted chat app Wickr to hold secret conversations, current and former workers testified in court this week, setting up what could be the first major legal test of the issues raised by the use of encrypted apps inside companies.

As Aaron Wright, chair of the alliance's Legal Industry Working Group, told Coin Telegraph, «Lawyers are poised to serve as the catalysts for blockchain technology, and the Legal Working Group will serve as a neutral space to explore blockchain - based legal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.&rLegal Industry Working Group, told Coin Telegraph, «Lawyers are poised to serve as the catalysts for blockchain technology, and the Legal Working Group will serve as a neutral space to explore blockchain - based legal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.&rLegal Working Group will serve as a neutral space to explore blockchain - based legal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.&rlegal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.&rlegal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.»

While SunTrust insists the clause only referred to legal issues, the terminology was vague enough to raise concerns.

It is an easier form of raising money as it allows you to raise money from unaccredited investors without the myriad legal issues that often arise with these investors.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

A one - minute call made from the university - issued phone of Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze to a number associated with a female escort service was raised as a potential issue in the back - and - forth between the university's legal counsel and the attorney for former Rebels football coach Houston Nutt, according to records and correspondence obtained by USA TODAY Sports.

If they can't make the FFP rules stick (Arsene Wenger and many others have raised serious doubts and there's the legal issue of kicking clubs out of major competitions), Arsenal's problems will unravel, and they will need to consider their whole structure in terms of the direction the club takes.

But with a birth parent in the picture, and if the birth parent were willing — well, that raises a host of legal and liability issues.

[Mike was going to raise the following issues, but most were covered by a speaker from ACTARES and another speaker: There are people taking legal action to stop Nestlé taking water from their communities.

«Certain board members tended to raise more questions than others, but those questions were often to clarify how the loan would be used to reimburse specific elements of the project rather than to settle broader legal or programmatic issues.»

The statement recalled that Mr. MacManu, who was present at pertinent meetings, «had ample opportunity to raise the issue of the inclusion of the ERTS in the law either at IPAC, or the Legal Committee of IPAC where the law was drafted; or even before the subsidiary legislation committee of Parliament.»

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's ability to raise money to pay off his legal bills will be greatly restricted by a new Conflict of Interest Board finding issued today.

Seeing a loophole to be exploited between the loose language of the law and the clear intent, when it came time to shut down the government, furlough workers, and stop checks from being issued, they got a convenient legal ruling that said, yes, suspending their own pay is considered altering the pay of Congress (because the law didn't just say pay raises) during the same session, therefore, it is illegal for them not to collect their paychecks during a shutdown.

«It hardly bears repeating that the leak of a document alleging potential criminal violations by individuals specifically named raises serious legal and regulatory issues that should be fully investigated,» Laufer wrote.

He argued that owing to the nature of his application, he could not commence cross examination of the witness until the legal issues raised were determined.

Based on these comments and other issues raised at last week's meeting, the committee is now drawing up a set of policy recommendations on the use of gene editing and its ethical, legal and social implications.

Collins: Well, from the beginning of the genome project — an experiment that raises ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI)-- it was decided that this was a scientific effort that ought to take on some responsibility toward trying to answer these types of questions.

But the new rule «really raises legal issues that have never been raised before.»

And although the actual retrieval of sperm is relatively simple, a 2015 paper in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology points out that it «raises numerous ethical questions and medico - legal issues, including the rights of the deceased, the question of informed consent, the best interest of the child, and the motivation of the applicant.»

About Blog The SkeptVet blog will be addressing the broad range of philosophical, ethical, economic, legal, political, and most of all scientific issues raised by complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), particularly as it is applied to veterinary medicine.

But hiring nonunion staff could raise other legal issues because Madison's current collective bargaining agreement with Madison Teachers Inc. requires district schools to employ union staff — although Howard said there's disagreement about that interpretation.

The issues raised in this book not only are significant for lawyers and legal scholars, who are the chief authors of the book's chapters, but are also topics pertinent to the lives of scholars and practitioners of citizenship education.

From the start of the NSA eavesdropping scandal, I began writing every day about what I believed were the profoundly important legal, political, and constitutional issues raised by the Bush administration's secret surveillance program.

As Jeff notes in his piece on the legal issues raised, the ultimate outcome of the DoJ case is far from certain.

So for legal reasons, which lead into issues Cyrus raised in his comment above, this is important.

Founded in the Summer of 2008, the Student Chapter of the Animal Legal Defense Fund of the University of Chicago Law School has already been very active in raising awareness of animal welfare issues at the law school.

CIMAM's board — which, following the three resignations, consists of 12 people — had announced that the «events at MACBA have raised important questions regarding freedom of expression, censorship, and institutional responsibility, with complex ethical, legal, and artistic implications» and decided such issues would be debated at the committee's Annual Conference in Tokyo, which occurred this past weekend.

They seemed to be saying that they would openly discuss only uncontroversial positions (they gave the diplomatic immunity proposal as one example) while actually blocking a legal amendment proceeding under the Kyoto Protocol just to avoid talking about other, unspecified issues which had been raised.

Too busy might have been a sensible excuse initially, but when matters got serious and legal issues started to raise their head, then the Law does not accept «too busy» apart from under very specific circumstances which are laid down in detail.

The Court of Appeal began its analysis by determining that because the resolution of issues raised involved the legal effect of undisputed facts, the appropriate standard of review was correctness.

But legal issues aside, Miller doesn't see these agreements as a very wise practice since they raise questions about a doctor's conduct (as in, «Why wouldn't this doctor want to be rated?»)

Dan, I am curious to know how the courts would deal with the intangible legal problems associated with some of the inter-jurisdictional legal issues raised in your questions.

If the response involves discussions of the law, one approach a lawyer might take is to stress that your response should only be considered as a general guideline to the issues raised by a particular question, but that to provide legal advice you would need to speak personally to better understand the particular facts of the case being presented.

It is also responsible for raising awareness, controls and efficiencies around cross-border legal issues for client business in Africa, providing business legal advice on new products and initiatives, as well as handling restructuring and reputational matters on the continent.

Also, oil & gas offers a league of its own, where gas pricing and oil related disputes raise novel and intricate legal issues that necessitate hands - on expertise in a dynamic field that is in a constant state of flux.

A possible explanation for the Court's silence might be that the issue was simply not raised at any stage of the legal proceedings; not by the legal representation of the EU citizens concerned, not by the referring Court, not by the Advocate - General nor suo motu by the Court itself.

Each legal opinion must be: (1) accurate; (2) comprehensive as to dealing with all issues raised by the fact - pattern and the requirements of the research request; and, (3) very well written so that it can be quickly understood and applied without need to spot - check its accuracy and adequacy.

[4] This interplay between the competition authority and the legal services regulatory provides an example of a productive interplay in which competition issues are raised while the regulator keeps independence.

Determining whether an invention obvious, at what point in time, to whom, and with what level of effort, all raise complicated evidentiary and legal issues that often have to be analyzed as part of patentability and validity opinions or at trial.

But in a Family Law case from a few years ago called Yunger v. Zolty, it was the flip - side: It was the wife who wanted to raise the husband's sex addiction to bolster her legal position on various disputed issues, namely to shed light on the reason for the marriage breakdown and to cast doubt on his ability to parent their daughter.

Needless to say, from a public - interest standpoint, the data breach and its fallout has been particularly «sexy» fodder for discussion (pun intended); it has raised sort of legal issues and water - cooler chat relating data integrity, privacy, and criminality, not to mention the more obvious social issues relating to infidelity, ethics and morality.

This raises several interesting legal issues, and perhaps most importantly: is a ruling by a group of anonymous jurors assembled online to rule on the disputed outcome of a smart contract, legally compliant and legally binding?

These meetings are intended to be educational — recent developments in the law will be discussed, difficult legal questions canvassed, and ethical issues raised for discussion.

A typical law school exam is as follows: You will be asked to draft several long essays based on prompts (usually fact patterns), often with the aim of «issue spotting» — facts are peppered in that raise potential legal issues, as well as some red herrings designed to throw you off.

The obvious answer is the insurers, assuming there is insurance cover, but when this rather dramatic event happened to some three - storey townhouses in Docklands, it raised important legal issues.

When discussing cost efficiencies, this necessarily raises the issue of how legal services are billed to clients.

Here are five of the more common issues that clients raise over legal bills in disputes over payment.

Today we're going to talk more about this report and focus a little bit on some of the legal issues raised by the report.

«Given that the previous Federal Court decision raised complex legal issues it was prudent for Canada to obtain a decision from a higher court.»