Sentences with phrase «legal powers only»

The local council were also able to use legal powers only available in Scotland to ban him from renting out homes in the future (something we could easily adopt in the rest of the UK).

Not exact matches

A few weeks after the announcement of the review, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) said that the acting director of ATF was unsure if the agency had the legal power to ban bump stocks in the first place, with regulation being perhaps the only available option unless Congress passed legislation.

Taking the Darwinian revolution into the law, Holmes rejected the antebellum idea of natural justice in favor of a supposedly scientific legal positivism that identified law only with power.

Even the compelling power of legal statutes is only as effective as is the action of those individuals whose task it is to judicially enforce those civil laws, or as the laws themselves are commonly upheld by the citizenry.

could not be matched by any legal transaction whatever — only by a profound deliverance, first, from the power of the flesh now, and second, from the very presence of the flesh in the great denouement.

The treaty seeks not only to confer power to corporations at the expense of governments and communities, but also to secure such power by providing a new and unique avenue for legal redress.

Professor Christine Parker, an expert in competition law from Monash University, says that this current investigation «only treats the symptoms and diverts attention away from the real cause of the problem: supermarket power»; and that because of the way the legal provisions are worded, it will be very hard for the ACCC to win any case against the supermarkets.

Umm... VJ... the only reason the NYS Republicans aren't having much in the way of legal problems at the moment, is because they have NO power, NO money and hold NO statewide offices.

The most striking fact is that constitutional law academicians were able to draw on the reputation and expertise of legal professional elites through their transnational networks, and with their backing to represent to both parliamentary and Executive politicians that the judicialisation of politics, already normal in the West, was the only legitimate model of judiciary - democratic power relations.

With more than 30 state lawmakers who have been embroiled in legal or ethical dilemmas since 2000, the state needs an independent watchdog with subpoena powers to not only examine individual instances of wrongdoing, but also to propose solutions to systemic problems of corruption that plague New York.

Canada and several other countries have enacted laws requiring that the power walls be hidden from view and only customers of legal age may view tobacco products.

The only problem: He doesn't have any real legal power.

Contains a lesson power point covering Legal Concerns only, See other resource for: 1.

As for wills, CIBC found 68 % of those with 65 - year old parent or older do have a will in place, but only 23 % of the same group have a financial plan for their senior years, 43 % have a legal power of attorney and 39 % a health - care power of attorney.

a type of municipal bond backed by the full faith, credit, and taxing power of the issuer, specifically its ability to collect taxes; only entities that have the right to levy and collect taxes can issue general obligation bonds; certain governmental entities are subject to legal limits on the amount of taxes that they can impose, and their issues are called limited - tax general obligation bonds; unlimited - tax bonds are issued by government entities that are not subject to those limits

The only entities that can't be beneficiaries are those that don't have the legal power to claim an asset.

In essence, it would not only take away the power of the legislature and municipal governments to regulate agricultural practices and our rights to legal recourse, it effectively takes away the power of the people to vote on changes.

We are not a law enforcing body nor do we have any legal powers, so can only act with an owner's consent and collaboration.

We are the only charity with the legal powers to help animals in need, and bring animal offenders to justice.

The cabinet in December 2012 agreed to fast - track construction (within four years) of 2,800 km of new power lines and upgrade of 2,900 km by designating, with approval from the country's 16 federal states, the Federal Grid Agency as the only competent planning authority and allocating legal disputes concerning the expansion to a single federal administrative court.

As I've demonstrated in other posts here on Climate Etc., the President and the EPA Administrator have the legal power and authority required to largely decarbonize America's economy, if they are willing to apply existing environmental law and regulation to the full extent the Clean Air Act not only allows, but also demands.

Pruitt will argue that requiring outside - the - fenceline changes exceeds EPA's legal authority, that EPA can only require changes to individual power plants themselves — say, boiler upgrades, or the like.

(That becomes part of a legal education that many lawyers do not have; they think they know the system, but they only know the system from a position of power.)

On that last point, there was more than one lawyer who was captured with G20 protestors; one female lawyer specifically commented that she had only known the legal system from a position of power, and it was a totally different experience to be on the receiving end.

This was a milestone in English - American legal tradition, because it not only established the power of the jury to find whatever verdict it wishes, without punishment, but also the rights of free speech and peaceable assembly.

Until landowners are prevented from signing away their land for a generation or more without a requirement they receive independent legal advice, until the legislation and regulation is made transparent to average voters (for example, until they understand why much of what they actually want to appeal may not be appealed so that, from their perspective, they in fact have no right of appeal), until they understand why of all structures it is only the power to approve the erection of wind towers that has been taken away from local municipalities, until they understand why applications for immediately adjacent areas (by gilead and wpd) abutting Lake Ontario in either the most dense or second-most dense bird migration area in all of Eastern Canada may not be joined into one proceeding [guess whose interests that favours]... the list of «untils» is a long one and there is no indication of any change on the way.

We have it in our power to remind those who are getting divorced that they have a responsibility to think of what's best for their kids and that fighting over anything and everything is only going to add stress, time and legal fees.

You may designate the Power of Attorney as «general,» granting broad powers to control your financial, health, legal, and other matters, or «special,» granting power for only specific situatPower of Attorney as «general,» granting broad powers to control your financial, health, legal, and other matters, or «special,» granting power for only specific situatpower for only specific situations.

Law societies only have so much control and power over these labour markets, which is why many of the larger structural and experiential issues in legal practice may be properly addressed simply by applying existing societal standards to the legal industry as well.

But this strategy of automatic appeal to the First Amendment is, I think, a poor strategy, even if the press is concerned only to expand its legal powers as far as possible.

In my view, a meaningful presumption resulting in a form of «creeping monism» is only slightly less troubling than a de jure monist system in the Canadian context, and for the same reasons: it would effectively permit the federal executive, in executing its power to adhere Canada to international legal obligations, to unilaterally modify, expand or contract the meaning of Charter guarantees.

«We spend a significant amount of time determining what that bonus structure looks like — not so much the quantum, but the structure --- and then to ensure that it actually ties not only to the objectives of the corporation, but also that of the law division,» says Brian Hilbers, Bruce Power's chief legal counsel and vice president, emergency management.

Plus, the Court likes to add, since other major trade powers such as the US and Japan do let the participants in their legal orders grasp these fruits, it would create a situation of imbalance if these high - hanging branches were only lowered to arm's reach in the EU.

This may suggest that the Commission's request was borne out of political expediency seeking to expand its powers only and avoiding any legal issues that may constrain its powers.

The Conservative government made more than 700 judicial appointments during its nearly 10 years in power and what surveys have been done suggest that the majority of them came from not only a narrow segment of the Canadian population but also a narrow segment of the legal profession.

So the bargaining power of a Dutch global class is only as strong as the legal ecosystem is plaintiff - friendly in the nations where they have claims or potential claims.

Consistent with these earlier reports, the Commission strongly favoured statutory appeals over judicial review as a simpler mechanism for legal oversight that can be calibrated to address the particularities of statutory tribunal decisions, and recommended that legislation contain a right of appeal on questions of law (and in certain instances on questions of fact) to the courts from the exercise of statutory power with only a few exceptions.

For example, if the legal team spent the same on external counsel this year, but received only 90 % of the total legal services, then it could be facing an erosion in purchasing power.

Since 1 April 2013, a number of cases involving applications for LSPOs have been reported, most notably that of Rubin v Rubin [2014] EWHC 611 (Fam), [2014] All ER (D) 97 (Mar), in which Mr Justice Mostyn provided detailed guidance about the principles and procedure governing the exercise of the court's powers to make LSPOs as well as making it clear that an order will only be made in relation to costs already incurred when the court is satisfied that, otherwise, the applicant will not be able to secure legal services going forward.

Stadlen J said the allegations against Bonhoeffer: «Could hardly be more serious... If proved, they would have a potentially devastating effect on his career, reputation and financial position... not only is this a classic case of one person's word against another but because the other alleged victims live in Kenya, neither the claimant nor the FTPP nor the GMC has any legal power to compel their attendance... It is hard to imagine circumstances in which the ability to cross-examine the uncorroborated allegations of a single witness would assume a greater importance to a professional man faced with such serious allegations.»

To that end, it advocates that the powers conferred by the Bill should be the subject of an overarching restriction, making them exercisable only insofar as is «necessary to adapt the body of EU law to fit the UK's domestic legal framework» and «to implement the result of the UK's negotiations with the EU».

Lastly, the lawyers themselves are given the power to decide on applications for legal aid, either in general, for all disputes as in Luxembourg, where the decision is made by the bâtonnier (president of the Bar) or his deputy, or only for criminal cases as in Italy, where this task is entrusted to the Bar.

Recently, it was announced that ROSS, a legal research artificial intelligence platform powered in part by IBM's Watson technology, was unveiling a new product, EVA, which will not only find applicable cases, but quality check case citations and history.

«But seeing those inequalities manifest themselves within the legal system is very powerful and as such does give you more impetus to say; if I ever had any power this is how I might exercise it, or down the road if I do get a chance to help people I can more thoroughly understand not only their own individual situation but how the changes in the legal system have affected them historically and how it might affect them in the future.»

Only law societies have the power and duty in law to make legal services affordable, as is required for example, by Ontario's Law Society Act, particularly s. 4.2.

The only entities that can't be beneficiaries are those that don't have the legal power to claim an asset.

In other words, out of 100 truly guilty suspects, a legal system with a power of 20 percent will find only 20 of them guilty.

Negotiating for an outcome that will affect legal rights and subject an individual to potential contempt and the police power of the state if agreed provisions are allegedly violated is the province of lawyers, and lawyers only, and not mental health professionals.

They are a large bully with only one goal, more competition, and the legal power to enforce that goal with no regard to the consequences.

Likewise, when a government entity exercises its eminent domain power to condemn private property for public use, the government should provide - as required by the 5th Amendment - «just» compensation to affected property owners that covers not only the value of the property condemned but also all other reasonable and necessary costs generated by the condemnation action including, but not limited to, hiring legal counsel, obtaining temporary housing, lost business revenue, severance damages.