Sentences with phrase «legal systems of the world»

The contemporary legal systems of the world are generally based on one of four basic systems: civil law, common law, statutory law, religious law or combinations of these.

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The case is seen as a new test for Norway's legal system, as the country tries to forget the name of the perpetrator behind the deadliest carnage on its soil since World War II.

The «old world» ethic stressed loyalty to the client, even at some cost to the legal system; the «old WASP» ethic emphasized fidelity to legal institutions and their improvement, even at the cost of sometimes having to say no to clients.

Speaking in Westminster Hall in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI spoke movingly about Britain's heritage of constitutional government: «Your common law tradition serves as the basis of legal systems in many parts of the world, and your particular vision of the respective remains an inspiration to many across the globe».

They were the most notable series of ethical teachers in the ancient world and the fountainhead of the noblest moral qualities in the Hebrew faith, but the great prophetic writers were comprehended within four centuries, and not only the legal but the sacrificial system preceded, underlay, and outlived them all.

Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4's World at One that the UK has to «face up to the fact» that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.

All of the nations of the worlds laws are based around Gods word, take a long look at them and if you have taken time to read Gods word you will clearly see the outline for our worlds laws or legal systems.

Examples of these human marks include the fact that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, that the Old Testament world was a world of temples, priests and sacrifice, that Israel as well as the surrounding nations has prophets that mediated divine will to them, that Israel was ruled by kings, that Israel's legal system shares striking similarities with those of surrounding nations, that the creation narrative and the story of Noah resemble other ancient stories of the time, that the writers of Scripture operated within the paradigm of ancient cosmology, etc..

But legal systems as such do not produce anything that corresponds to the biblical sensitivity which forcefully enjoins against the source of all violence, namely, the realm of thought and contemplation, the intangible but critically powerful world of human imagination.

The government says the cuts are a vital way to reduce expenditure on one of the most expensive legal aid systems in the world.

In the western world's justice and political system, you can buy yourself out of prison and you can pay for legal (and martial) defence by an attorney (or an army).

Libertarians around the world praise the Dutch system, saying what two people do of their own accord should remain legal.

Reed Brody, legal counsel for campaign group Human Rights Watch, which is supporting Mr Kyere's campaign along with Trial International, says Ghana would be an ideal country for the trial because it has a strong justice system and provisions to prosecute people for the «enforced disappearance» of Ghanaian citizens anywhere in the world.

«In both Delaware and New York, the government can have no idea who owns a company,» said Heather Lowe, legal counsel and director of government affairs at Global Financial Integrity, a nonprofit that promotes transparency in the world financial system.

Each of these systems, along with many other versions practiced by countries around the world, creates its own specific incentives, obligations, limitations, and legal requirements that everyone working within it must understand.

European law and the Hungarian legal system, current issues of business law and private law, environmental law at the beginning of the 21st century, rule of law and the Hungarian legal order, human rights and international relations in a globalizing world, general questions of the theory of the legal system.

The World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to The Law in These Parts (from Israel), directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz — Israel's 43 - year military legal system in the Occupied Palestinian Territories unfolds through provocative interviews with the system's architects and historical footage showing the enactment of these laws upon the Palestinian population.

A biopic that plays out like a cerebral thriller, this film traces the life of Alan Turing, the British maths genius who essentially invented the computer and won World War II before being driven to suicide by a cruel legal system.

Your honest answers to these questions clearly indicate your school culture or «life world» — that part of your school that creates meaning and value, in contrast to the «systems world» of the school, which refers to aspects of compliance, such as testing, say, or your legal duty of care.

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Its twin - turbo engine, state - of - the art at that time electronically controlled chassis, all - wheel drive system and aero body helped it become the world's fastest street - legal production car after reaching 317 km / h.

With libraries around the world coming under almost as much threat of demise as brick - and - mortar bookstores, one UK library system is taking legal action to fight back against proposed budget cuts in their county that will mean the planned closing of a number of local public libraries.

It is one of the most widespread systems of Law prevailing in the legal system around the world.

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I try to buy stocks that operate in stable parts of the world, with reasonable legal systems.

Maragos goes on to check out Valve's Steam content distribution system («For titles with little chance of success in the Darwinian (no pun intended) world of retail, Steam is more and more an attractive alternative»), and also discusses Xbox 360 Live Arcade, particularly mentioning the re-releases of classic games («Digital downloads of cheap, legal emulated games could fill a niche that no retail channel has yet been able to provide, and ensure that yesterday's generation of seminal games isn't gone forever.»)

The ruling came as a surprise to environmental and indigenous activists around the world who were well aware of corruption in Guatemala's legal system and had been skeptical of the court's ability to see how egregious these violations had been.

English common law is the most widespread legal system in the world with 30 % of the world's population living under its rule, according to new research by Professor Philip Wood, special global counsel at Allen & Overy, and author of Maps of World Financialworld with 30 % of the world's population living under its rule, according to new research by Professor Philip Wood, special global counsel at Allen & Overy, and author of Maps of World Financialworld's population living under its rule, according to new research by Professor Philip Wood, special global counsel at Allen & Overy, and author of Maps of World FinancialWorld Financial Law.

It would be hyperbolic to say that the water is now boiling [vi], but we are in quite a different world so far as protection of information in the legal system is concerned.

More work is needed to address judicial diversity and issues with recruitment that threaten the UK's world - renowned legal system, the House of Lords Constitution Committee has warned.

Peter Fleischer, Google's global data protection counsel, put it succinctly when he acknowledged that in the real world, in the absence of legal certainty there was «a compromise between the breakneck pace of information technology and the inertia of legal systems».

The list of past courses shows the great diversity and richness of this Association, and its efforts to provide its members and others in the profession with the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and understanding of legal systems and issues in various parts of the world.

«Legal researchers do not have to satisfy the world's hunger for information, they have to satisfy the court's expectation of presenting authoritative information that can withstand the challenges of a system that relies upon that authority to drive the decision it makes.»

http://www.slaw.ca/2016/08/09/a2j-unaffordable-legal-services-concepts-and-solutions/ We must change law societies» management structure substantially, or get rid of them, or go on serving out the rest of our careers in a very seriously depressed profession — a profession that is rapidly losing its size, power, purpose, and prestige to, inter alia, the commercial world of LegalX and LegalZoom, and to law society - sponsored «alternative legal services,» which are charity instead of affordable lawyers provided in exchange for that majority's paying for the justice system whereat benchers earn a very good living.

After seven hours of discussion over five months, the ideas proffered for improving access to justice were (1) more money for legal aid (to be extracted somehow from the most indebted sub-national government in the world), (2) more e-filing, (3) more pamphlets in more languages, (4) re-purposing the Shirley Dennison fund to laud someone who does something beneficial wrt A2J, and (5) encouraging indigenous peoples to use circles of healing instead of the court system.

«National laws do not yet correspond to the realities of the modern world and existing legal cases have clogged the already overburdened judicial system, which has coincided with a steep rise in the cost of legal services and litigation.»

I recall that as a very new lawyer pre-Internet, my «practice of law» consisted largely of researching information that was only accessible to those who knew the arcane legal research system — and very little analysis and application to the client's world.

Because numerous jurisdictions and legal systems can intersect in one international arbitration proceeding, our team operates in cross-border teams, regardless of where they are physically located, which allows us to cover legal disputes all across the world.

In that capacity, Florian helps startups and corporations navigate the uncharted waters of applied blockchain technology in a world of legacy legal systems.

At the end of Rules for a Flat World [1], Gillian Hadfield offers five steps to improve how legal systems operate.

The SLBA is trying to figure out how to provide credentials to its members (who might otherwise remain anonymous), what roles lawyers might play in a virtual world without a court system, and of course get some CLE credit, which California has granted (last weekend's seminar: Legal Research on the Internet).

However, by 1991, the Government Printing Office was distributing the opinions through an Internet bulletin board system (BBS), and in 1993, the Legal Information Institute took advantage of the nascent World Wide Web to create the first hypertext front - end to the decisions.

The Luxembourg Court, in adherence to the great shift in thoughts aimed at protecting «the rule of law at the national and international levels», as the United Nations General Assembly urges (see UN GA Resolution A / RES / 67 / 2012), and intended to repress the crime of serious VAT fraud, with established an effective measure (i.e., the disapplication of national rules incompatible with Article 325 (1) TFEU, Article 2 (1) of the 1995 PIF Convention as well as Directive 2006/112 on the EU's common system of VAT, read in conjunction with Article 4 (3) TEU) which, alongside the guilty, condemns States defaulting and disrespecting EU law and the founding principles of the world legal order.

In the most sweeping reform of Japan's legal system since World War II, the doors are opening wide for a flood of new lawyers to handle cases in an increasingly litigious society.Experts say the reforms underscore a big shift in social attitudes that is forcing Japan to change its policy of keeping the number of lawyers low.

In 1992, the Canadian Bar Association issued a report («Reading the Legal World: Literacy and Justice in Canada») that noted that our legal system is based almost entirely on the written word: «if you have trouble with the act of reading, it may not be possible to work through the system&raLegal World: Literacy and Justice in Canada») that noted that our legal system is based almost entirely on the written word: «if you have trouble with the act of reading, it may not be possible to work through the system&ralegal system is based almost entirely on the written word: «if you have trouble with the act of reading, it may not be possible to work through the system».

ATLANTA — June 17, 2015 — Aderant, the world's largest independent legal software company, announced today that a leading global law firm, Holland & Knight, has selected Aderant Expert as its new practice management system following a thorough review of the market and a detailed evaluation process.

Integreon is unique in having more than a decade of experience building and supporting a wide range of review systems for the world's leading law firms and corporate legal departments.

The first and most apparent point is that for now legal AI, and those technologies such as expert systems and bots, are being developed by a myriad of teams all over the world.

ATLANTA — March 5, 2015 — Aderant, the world's largest independent legal software company, today announced the upcoming deployment of its industry - leading Aderant Expert practice management system at Cordell & Cordell, a thriving firm focused on family law with more than 110 offices across the United States.

ATLANTA — January 29, 2015 — Aderant, the world's largest independent legal software company, announced today the latest release of Aderant Total Office (formerly Client Profiles), Aderant's case management system.