Sentences with phrase «legal under international law»

In his final advice to the government on March 17 2003, Lord Goldsmith said the use of force was legal under international law and removed the equivocations and doubts contained in his earlier statement.

Not exact matches

Both Canada and Mexico intend to export medical marijuana to the U.S., a legal practice under international law.

In September, Roskomnadzor warned CNN International over alleged violations of Russian media law.101 In October, the Ministry of Justice warned Radio Svoboda and Nastoyashcheye Vremya — the Russian - language outlets of U.S. - funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE / RL)-- about the possibility of being designated as foreign agents.102 These warnings were apparently aimed at preparing a legal basis for countermeasures if the United States required Kremlin mouthpieces RT and Sputnik to register as foreign agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Both Mexico and Canada have legalized medical marijuana nationally and intend to begin exporting the drug, a legal activity under international law.

Although I dispute his apparent view that recognized» as opposed to fanciful» norms of international law or codes of professional conduct would restrict actual practice under the regimen ridiculously called «enhanced interrogation,» as described in the Office of Legal Counsel memoranda profligately disclosed by the current administration, I have nothing against «conscientious reflection» on the issue and lively discussion of it.

Likewise, it is not, in general, possible to apply principles of international law to a dispute to determine if something is or is not legal under...

Stateless vessels upon the high seas do not enjoy the legal protection accorded to flagged ships under international law.

Hague explained: «Given our need to fulfil our obligations under international law to deliver a suspect for questioning on serious offences, we have ensured that the Ecuadorian authorities have a complete understanding of the full legal context in this country.»

Mr Miliband said the organisation's work was «completely legal under Russian and international law» and added «it is very important to defend the integrity of officials in the work they are doing».

«All government in Nigeria at all levels are under legal and moral obligation even above citizens to obey the law of the land and all part of international law binding on her.

The State Department's legal theory is that international agreements lacking new and material legal obligations are not treaties under United States law, and therefore need not undergo the Senate's advice and consent process.

Instead of serving up an all - encompassing formal treaty that requires ratification of a certain mix of countries to take effect under international law, an agreement's legal force on emissions could stem from domestic laws countries pass to implement the emission - control efforts they pledge.

The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal rights to Mother Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we need to be going in terms of the highest level of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying whole swaths of the planet, with little to no concern for the effect on all the creatures that live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against life itself.

Nor am I aware of any legal authority or case law under Canadian or international law that entitles you to require me to remove the discussion at Climate Audit.

If I am incorrect in my interpretation of your email and it is your view that I am obligated under either Canadian or international law to comply with your request, I would appreciate it if you would explain the basis of your legal theory.

While he has been Attorney - General, however, the single most noted legal position represented by Mr. Mukasey in his public appearances and statements is his consistent refusal to acknowledge the illegality — under international and domestic law — of waterboarding and other extreme forms of interrogation practiced in the past by the current Administration.

A legal challenge is being filed at the Federal Court of Canada, arguing that the federal government's cuts to refugee health care are unconstitutional, and in breach of Canada's obligations under international law.

«These cuts are inconsistent with Canada's basic legal obligations under domestic and international law».

The Canadian Cross-Border Legal Coalition currently has teams of lawyers and law students on call at Toronto Pearson (YYZ), Montreal's Pierre - Elliott Trudeau Airport (YUL), Vancouver International Airport (YVR), and Ottawa's Macdonald - Cartier International Airport (YOW) to assist any travelers unsure about their status under the ban and to ensure that anyone who has been legally cleared to travel can do so freely.

There is no place in a legal text for a number that has meaning under international copyright law that you know does not represent the number of potential beneficiary persons with print disabilities worldwide when you know that number does not represent the number of print disabled persons worldwide.

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?

Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.

In other words, the Court does not agree with the Belgian government, which argues that it is obvious that visa - applications submitted under the Visa Code should not be dealt with under EU law if the applicants» aim is to prolong their legal stay beyond 90 days on arrival in the Member State they applied to through an application for international protection.

That sphere of EU law — a core focus in this book — displays some of the European Union's most distinctive features that differentiate that legal order from the framework of international trade law under the WTO.

Advising an international organization that functions as a Central Bank on its legal personality and immunity under both international law and UK law and on UN and UK economic sanctions

Bill is also the author of the Canada Chapter in Media, Advertising and Entertainment Law Throughout the World published and updated annually by Thomson Reuters, and a number of published articles on legal topics such as Merger and Acquisitions representations, Cultural Industries under the FTA, International Commercial Arbitration and Equipment Leasing.

LRW professors may legitimately ask why foreign or international law should take priority over other legal issues that may also be neglected in the first year.90 For example, lawyers in practice often face issues arising under regulations but administrative law is rarely the focus in most LRW courses.

The whole point of an article 218 (11) reference, moreover, was «to forestall the legal complications caused by situations in which the Member States enter into international commitments without the requisite authorisation when, under EU law, they no longer have the necessary legislative competence to put those commitments into effect» (para 47).

It outlines how a proper case for self - defence was not made in respect to necessity and proportionality, and Canada's NATO obligations were therefore improperly invoked under international law, points that have been raised before by other legal academics.

Therefore, any Swiss internal investigation or international internal investigation with a Swiss angle needs to carefully assess at the outset the requirement for confidentiality and the scope of the legal privilege under Swiss law available and to structure the investigation accordingly.

This line of argument, then, seems to lead to a duty — under EU law — to interpret treaties in accordance with international law: after all, the GC's legal interpretation of the Agreement in which it failed to take international law into account led to an error in law.

Section 2 (c) of the Act defines the term «International Commercial Arbitration» and it means an Arbitration relating to disputes arising out of legal relationships, whether contractual or not, considered as commercial under the law in force in Bangladesh and where at least one of the parties is: (i) an individual who is a national of or habitually resident in, any country other than Bangladesh; or (ii) a body corporate which is incorporated in any country other than Bangladesh; or (iii) a company or an association or a body of individuals whose central management and control is exercised in any country other than Bangladesh, or (iv) the Government of a foreign country.

A legal challenge has been launched in the Federal Court of Canada, arguing that the federal government's cuts to refugee health care are unconstitutional, and in breach of Canada's obligations under international law.

She drafted Opinions, «Rule 36» indications under the Commission's Rules of Procedures and prepared Observations in response to UK Government's Observations; and conducted a joint seminar, which related to case studies on international human rights law to legal practitioners and non-governmental organisations.

For example, in 1998, the SCC was asked by the federal government to opine on whether it was legal, under either Canadian or international law, for Québec to unilaterally secede from Canada Interested parties can apply to the Court to make submissions as interveners.

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For example, in 1998, the SCC was asked by the federal government to opine on whether it was legal, under either Canadian or international law, for Québec to unilaterally secede from Canada (Reference re Secession of Québec, [1998] 2 SCR 217).

Still, there is one chapter that I would particularly recommend, at least if you have some basic affinity for legal theory: George Pavlakos and Joost Pauwelyn's «Principled Monism and the Normative Conception of Coercion Under International Law «(pp. 317 - 341).

[s] ome of the topics for discussion include an analysis of the UGC [user - generated content] exception under Canadian copyright law, the interaction of the UGC exception with fair dealing, specific legal aspects of fan fiction and appropriation art, and whether the UGC exception is in conformity with international treaty standards.

Hence, the most likely outcome would be the separation of Scotland from the UK to create an entirely new entity under international law known as the successor state, while «rUK» would continue to exist and would retain the legal identity of the UK, known as the continuator or predecessor state.

While we will be featuring posts over the coming days on this award that dissect and analyze the award, its international legal significance, and its larger geopolitical consequences for all claimants to the South China Sea dispute and third - party actors (such as the United States), for now, a close read of all 479 pages of this arbitral award reveals it to be an extremely rich and fertile piece of international jurisprudence, one that will certainly have far - ranging doctrinal impacts as an international judicial decision that is also an authoritative subsidiary means for determination of the international law rules under UNCLOS, especially on questions such as the: 1) normative weight of «historic rights» and differentiating the same from «historic title» and «historic rights short of sovereignty», and clarifying what could still possibly amount to historic rights that States could still validly assert within the UNCLOS treaty regime;

He is also listed in the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory under Environmental Law and Property Development and is listed in the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, under Environment, Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Environmental Lawyers and the National Post-Best Lawyers in Canada directory, among other listings.

Under a public law approach to international investment law, parallel problématiques in domestic public law and in other international legal regimes should be studied in order to resolve investor - State disputes in ways that are acceptable to all stakeholders.

* The Mayer Brown Practices are: Mayer Brown LLP and Mayer Brown Europe - Brussels LLP, both limited liability partnerships established in Illinois USA; Mayer Brown International LLP, a limited liability partnership incorporated in England and Wales (authorized and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and registered in England and Wales number OC 303359); Mayer Brown, a SELAS established in France; Mayer Brown Mexico, S.C., a sociedad civil formed under the laws of the State of Durango, Mexico; Mayer Brown JSM, a Hong Kong partnership and its associated legal practices in Asia; and Tauil & Chequer Advogados, a Brazilian law partnership with which Mayer Brown is associated.

While at this point there is not yet a crystal clear general legal requirement in Canadian law to consult with Indigenous peoples on the negotiation and ratification of international treaties, a number of «modern'treaties, called comprehensive land claims settlements, include explicit obligations on Canada to consult with the Indigenous party in advance of new international treaties that might affect rights under these agreements.

These depend on identifying the legal effects of an incompatibility of a Member State international agreement with EU law, which creates different obligations on different actors under different legal orders.

There are published papers and reports (e.g. «Hate Speech Rules Under International Law, February 2010 «-RRB- and a section on Legal Work, containing... [more]

Legal claims brought against a Sovereign State or its instrumentalities by a foreign investor under a bilateral or multilateral investment treaty, or a contract or a domestic investment law, require a legal team of the highest international caliber: with great expertise in international law, a deep understanding of the civil and common law systems, extensive experience in the various fora and rules under which claims are raised, an enhanced capability to analyze complex facts and industries, broad language abilities, and sensitivity to political and cultural issues in the various regions of the wLegal claims brought against a Sovereign State or its instrumentalities by a foreign investor under a bilateral or multilateral investment treaty, or a contract or a domestic investment law, require a legal team of the highest international caliber: with great expertise in international law, a deep understanding of the civil and common law systems, extensive experience in the various fora and rules under which claims are raised, an enhanced capability to analyze complex facts and industries, broad language abilities, and sensitivity to political and cultural issues in the various regions of the wlegal team of the highest international caliber: with great expertise in international law, a deep understanding of the civil and common law systems, extensive experience in the various fora and rules under which claims are raised, an enhanced capability to analyze complex facts and industries, broad language abilities, and sensitivity to political and cultural issues in the various regions of the world.

Many clients working on cross-border matters are indifferent as to the legal structure their law firms operate in, whether that be a fully financially integrated international firm, a Swiss verein (which is effectively an association of law firms operating under a common brand and with a level of management and strategic co ordination, but usually without full profit - sharing between the member firms), an association, a network or a best friends arrangement.

The two clear indications of practicing Chinese law would include appearing in front of a Chinese court and they can not give legal opinions under Chinese law,» said another international lawyer.