Sentences with phrase «legal policy principles»

MinLaw vets all Government Bills to ensure that they reflect sound legal policy principles and are consistent with Singapore's Constitution.

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It's a moral principle that is embedded in our legal system, and that ought to have been embedded in Connellsville's HR policies.

I could admittedly do better, and would certainly have captured more upside from temporary speculation, had I committed myself to the principle that central banks will act strictly to defend the bondholders of the banks they represent, even if it means trespassing into fiscal policy, subordinating public interest, empowering the worst stewards of capital, violating legal restrictions, and inviting long - term instability.

To be clear - we don't know what policy will follow from these legal clarifications and vague statements of principle.

Although legal requirements may vary from country to country, XYMOGEN intends to adhere to the principles set forth in this Online Privacy Policy even if, in connection with the above, we transfer your Personal Information from your country to countries that may not require an «adequate» level of protection for your Personal Information.

But in cases like Texas v. Johnson, Scalia remained true to his legal principles and struck down an anti — flag - burning law that, as a matter of policy, he obviously favored.

Like many Western countries, South Africa has adopted an urban asylum policy, which is based on the temporary protection of refugees.1 To that end, refugees and asylum - seekers are treated as «temporary residents,» a legal position that implicitly subjects them to restrictive immigration principles, namely exclusivity and self - sufficiency.2 Such treatment is inimical to the purpose and principles of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugees in Africa.

Policy Recommendations: Effective Accountability Mechanisms for New York State's English Language Learners On October 1, 2012, AFC and The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) jointly released this policy paper, which sets forth key principles for a sound ELL accountability framework in New York Policy Recommendations: Effective Accountability Mechanisms for New York State's English Language Learners On October 1, 2012, AFC and The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) jointly released this policy paper, which sets forth key principles for a sound ELL accountability framework in New York policy paper, which sets forth key principles for a sound ELL accountability framework in New York State.

Finally, librarians teach social responsibility, including legal principles and ethical policies and conduct as well as social and ethical issues surrounding the use of information.

(4) Raise novel legal or policy issues arising out of legal mandates, the President's priorities, or the principles stated in the Executive order.

48 - 52) If there is any doubt that economic self - interest is not compatible with the idea of «equity» it also is an unacceptable basis for establishing national climate change policies because economic self - interest is also inconsistent with well established international legal principles including:

IPCC can, however, distinguish between prescriptive and descriptive questions that arise in relevant socio - economic literature about climate policy - making, identify important ethical and justice issues that arise in this literature, where there is a consensus on ethics and justice issues in the relevant literature describe the consensus position, where there is no consensus on ethical and justice issues describe the range of reasonable views on these issues, and identify hard and soft law legal principles relevant to how governments should resolve ethical and justice issues that must be faced by policy - makers.

A strong ethical case can be made that if nations have duties to limit their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions, a conclusion that follows both as a matter of ethics and justice and several international legal principles including, among others, the «no harm principle,» and promises nations made in the 1992 UNFCCC to adopt policies and measures required to prevent dangerous anthropocentric interference with the climate system in accordance with equity and common but differentiated responsibilities, nations have a duty to clearly explain how their national ghg emissions reductions commitments arguably satisfy their ethical obligations to limit their ghg emissions to the nation's fair share of safe global emissions.

In finding that Coachman had a duty to defend Mr. Kelley in the underlying action, the Court first reviewed the well - established legal principles applicable to assessing an insurer's duty to defend and the interpretation of insurance policies, generally.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has consistently held that the insured is «entitled to a defence... at no cost to them».2 In other words, an insured is «entitled to be made financially whole» for legal costs incurred in securing a defence under the policy.3 This broad principle has not only been used to indemnify insureds for their past defence costs, but also the future defence costs of counsel of their choice, the costs of the coverage application and the costs of any subsequent appeal.4 This principle of full indemnity is based, not in the law of costs, but in the law of contract.

Limitations on access through terms of use or the assertion of copyright on primary legal materials is contrary to long - standing public policy and core democratic principles and is misleading to citizens.

Even within religious - based legal systems (Islam is not the only one) social policy plays an enormous role, and has historically borrows heavily on many of the principles you cite.

The protection afforded by an insurance policy depends on the precise language of the policy (e.g. definitions, coverage descriptions, restrictions and exclusions) interpreted in accordance with legal principles established by Canadian courts.

Recent Canadian court decisions demonstrate that the protection afforded by an insurance policy will depend on the language of the policy interpreted in accordance with established legal principles.

The protection afforded by an insurance policy depends on the precise language of the policy (e.g. definitions, coverage descriptions, restrictions and exclusions) interpreted in accordance with established legal principles.

In setting policy, I take a law agnostic approach, identifying the legal principles to provide clear parameters as well as guidance for our IP managers.

Indeed, Justices LeBel and Cromwell rebuked the tribunal for not having employed legal principles: its decision to adopt a dictionary meaning of «expenses» and to articulate a beneficial policy outcome «led the Tribunal to adopt an unreasonable interpretation of the provisions [in issue].»

Clinics» Network critiques the KPMG report for providing a flawed analysis, exceeding the mandate of an independent value for money audit and making policy recommendations based on their misunderstanding of Ontario workers» compensation law and legal principles.

Laura Snyder takes the OECD's six principles of effective regulatory policy and forensically applies them to legal services.

Neither the policies nor legal principles giving rise to the claims for framing the rights are the same.

IWC calls for legal discipline in Board policy and decisionmaking (i.e. adjudication in adherence with the law and legal principles rather than the current aggressive and «cost - effective» approach), and for consideration of institutional memory and historical perspective in adjudication (Meredith and Weiler principles).

[W] e request your support in preserving fundamental attorney - client privilege protections for all clients and ensuring that the proper policies and procedures are in place at NSA to prevent the erosion of this important legal principle.

A consultation on the principles of best value tendering (BVT) for criminal defence services, and a policy paper — Assuring and Improving Quality in the Reformed Legal Aid System — have been published by the Legal Services Commission (LSC).

Any Internet policy guidelines developed by the OECD should be grounded in legal principles that are widely accepted, and be compliant with international human rights standards.

In doing so, Justice Hinkson specifically mentioned the definition of a «legal principle», which was previously defined by the SCC in R v. Malmo - Levine, 2003 SCC 74 as one within the sphere of the judiciary and not public policy.

The Policy restated the oft - cited legal principles that underlie the duty to accommodate as follows:

For example, it concedes, in principle, that some questions of bias or procedure might not be questions of general law of central importance to the legal system but rather questions of discretion, policy or interpretation of a decision - maker's home statute to which a deferential approach should be applied.

[82] The issue addressed in the passage from Gordon v. Palmer (1993), 78 B.C.L.R. (2d) 236 (S.C.) quoted in Lubick was whether the «no crash, no cash» policy of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia was founded on a valid legal or medical principle.

The law has become clear that while ICBC's LVI policy is not a legal principle and is not a valid legal defence, the amount of vehicle damage is a factor judges and juries can consider in a BC injury claim.

When policies are driven by «look to deny» cost - cutting rather than legal principles, and «medicalized» decision - making blames age or pre-existing conditions rather than the impact of a work - related cause, our system seems increasingly to be run on the private insurance model — far from Meredith's call for «full justice, no half - measures».

In September 2017, the LSUC's Board of Directors approved, in principle, «a policy to permit lawyers and paralegals to provide legal services through civil society organizations (CSOs), such as charities and not - for - profit organizations,» according to the Law Society Gazette.

Kay LJ said the policy of NCND was not a legal principle, but was a «departure from procedural norms relating to pleading and disclosure».

Whether the challenge of legal practice in administrative law with comment dockets numbering in the tens of millions, protecting fundamental legal principles in practices using complex software systems controlling the fate of defendants, or improving and expanding access to law and policy services, the paper describes the expanding role of computer science and law and a path forward for legal practitioners in the computational age.

The main sources of adjudicative law I describe are underlying legal principles, social practice, and judicial fiat implementing a court's policy judgment.

Backgrounder discusses how these policies reject the legal principles (including the thin skull doctrine) and instead try to «medicalize» the decision - making process through not only challenging causation but use of «expected recovery times» — rather than individualized assessment — as a tool to cut off benefits.

Lord Hoffmann, giving the leading speech, moved away from the policy considerations which weighed with the Court of Appeal and instead sought to apply established legal principles to resolve the issues.

The language of «principles» as opposed to «policy» or «practice» clearly suggests belief rather than conduct, and the upcoming educational (CPD) requirements, on equality, diversity and «inclusion» (the latter being a term that is undefined in the case law but which has variously been defined by the Working Group (in the report) as «making a better space for everyone» and (on the definitions website) with reference to RBC's corporate policy — which we can celebrate as the first time that a corporation's principles have been incorporated by reference into legal requirements!

Although legal requirements may vary from state to state and from country to country, CoverHound intends to adhere universally to the principles set forth in this CoverHound Privacy Policy.

Investigations and Law Enforcement — Selected Duties & Responsibilities Build and implement investigations programs and security solutions to enable effective organizational administration, threat detection / elimination, conflict / issue resolution, and other critical discovery functions Utilize various technical applications, including cameras, A / V equipment, transmitters, recorders, and bugs, to generate valuable information and isolate parties responsible for criminal and civil malfeasance Create issue and security reports to enable development of new policies and procedures aimed at preventing further wrongdoing and protect valuable resources team Integrate investigative principles into corporate strategic mission, ensuring management and program accountability, proactive prevention of discrimination, case efficiency, and legal analysis Perform security and crime analyses of firm infrastructure against related compliance requirements as well as on - going vulnerability assessments to continuously mitigate risk Develop investigatory standard documents to serve as guide and rules resources to promote fair and legal probes Supervise related departmental staff, including performance plan development and assessment, technical oversight, personnel recruitment and training, staff discipline, and other pertinent functions Work as a member of the corporate incident response team in the execution of all related tasks, including incident response plan development, damage minimization, resource restoration, and firm integrity protection Communicate all issues and user feedback to members of management, law enforcement professionals, and other interested parties, generating situational reports and follow - up recommendations based on investigatory results Maintain a strong working knowledge of all software, hardware, applications, techniques, trends and other critical tools which aid in effective investigation React quickly based upon limited and confidential information, drawing upon extensive police and military experience in tense, complicated situations Collaborate in the preparation of necessary legal documents, including search and arrest warrants Assist management with various other duties as assigned

In his dissent, Justice Kirby considered the interpretation of the LAA through examining legal authority, legal principles and legal policy which «demand respect for the legal rights to property of private individuals in Australia generally, and in particular the legal rights of Aboriginal Australians...» [68] He focused on the general principle of common law which requires that legislation depriving individuals of established legal rights must be clear and unambiguous: [69]

[236] The central principle is free, prior and informed consent at all levels: in relation to legal and structural changes and the development of new policies as well the implementation of reforms and the involvement of individuals.

Also offers strategies for overcoming legal and policy challenges, principles of family - centered practice, and tips for those who supervise CPS intake staff.

Crucially, this stated that policies should be underpinned by the twin principles that children and carers should receive the support they need and that support should be based on need, not simply legal status.

It includes chapters on the research evidence and legal framework for family and friends care, and suggests the principles that should form the basis for a family and friends care policy, and how these can be turned into practice.

Dr. Warshak's starting point is the assertion is that mistaken beliefs about the genesis of parental alienation and appropriate remedies have shaped both socio - legal policy and therapeutic and legal practice in ways that have failed to meet children's needs during and after parental separation, and therefore are contrary to the principle of the best interest of the child.