Sentences with phrase «majority judgment of»

And in, Canada (Attorney General) v. Federation of Law Societies of Canada, 2015 SCC 7, [2015] 1 SCR 401, although the Supreme Court of Canada found it unnecessary to determine whether the wider definition of, «the independence of the bar,» is a «principle of fundamental justice» (Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms section 7), i.e., that lawyers, «are free from incursions from any source, including from public authorities,» the majority judgment of Cromwell J., held that the narrower definition is a principle of fundamental justice, i.e., «that the state can not impose duties on lawyers that interfere with their duty of commitment to advancing their clients» legitimate interests.»

In Ferrara v. Lorenzetti, Wolfe6, the majority judgment of the Court of Appeal (Laskin and Sharpe, J.J.A.) held the plaintiff's claim against the defendant solicitor was NOT statute barred.

In Tannadyce, the Supreme Court in the majority judgment of Blanchard, Tipping and Gault JJ (delivered by Tipping J) confined judicial review to cases where the taxpayer was unable to bring its grievance within the statutory process.

Saraki's appeal filed through his lead counsel, Mr. Joseph Daudu (SAN), is challenging the majority judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja delivered on October 30, 2015, which affirmed the jurisdiction of the CCT to try him and the competence of the charges of false assets declaration preferred against him by the Federal Government.

The majority judgment of Ritchie J. in another Canadian case, Lavell [1974] S.C.R. 1349, (1974) 38 D.L.R. (3d) 481 was criticised for being «incomprehensible and, therefore, utterly unpersuasive.»

The Supreme Court had in its judgment in the appeal numbered SC / 133/2017 nullified the earlier majority judgment of the Port Harcourt Division of the Court of Appeal, of February 17, 2017 recognising Sheriff as the authentic chairman of the party.

Not exact matches

But the majority of macros trends such as inflation and interest rates are very difficult to predict and he doesn't make judgments on those.

In the majority's judgment, any resistance to its holding is beyond the pale of reasoned disagreement.

A person who lacks faith settles for the majority verdict — the good esteem of the crowd — while the disciple who has faith knows there is only one verdict that matters: the judgment of God.

To make such judgments about types, it should be noted, is not to suggest that civil authorities have any right to be the endorsing or disapproving agency, or that in the reaction to Jonestown, majorities have a right to go backlashing or would be wise to undertake a binge of repression.

(II, 1.2, # 18) This judgment, offered in the context of his larger teaching about the irresistible authority of common opinion in democratic times, indicates that despite their adherence to the Bible and other standards of doctrinal authority, the Americans could abandon or adapt Christianity whenever the gradual working of democratic currents made such changes attractive to a majority.

Since the judgment stands, and is no doubt explicitly represented in the thoughts of many of us as it is implicitly represented in the value standards of the great dominant majority of Americans, of American Christians and of American intellectuals, we must ask by what right, with what rightness can we honor Jonathan Edwards today?

Although a deductive approach more easily allows one to maintain the unity of Scripture by suspending judgment concerning supposed difficulties in the text, it has several problems which have caused the majority of evangelicals to opt for an inductive methodology.

Contrary to the belief of the majority of logicians, a proposition is not identical with a judgment; moreover, a proposition, according to Whitehead, is not even a linguistic entity.

Rather, all of this language, again in the judgment of the majority of mainline scholars, is the voice of the community, not the voice of Jesus.

The opinions collected here» some dissenting from the majority of the Court, others concurring in judgment but rejecting the majority's reasoning» show how Scalia applies his textualism to these issues, and how it differs from competing theories of interpretation, most notably the «living Constitution» view favored by many on the left and the varieties of intentionalism favored by many conservatives and moderates.

It's a judgment based on research provided by the StrangeFire speakers and contributors that the majority in the charismatic movement are involved in word of faith, the prosperity gospel, Roman Catholicism, or modalism.

The back - and - forth of crafting a law able to command a large majority reflects the correct judgment that, in the early twenty - first - century secular West, no one way of approaching the question of death and dying can command universal assent.

One of the most convincing pieces of evidence in favor of this judgment concerning the social dynamics of American Catholicism is found in Kenneth Underwood's study in depth of Protestant - Catholic relations in one city that has had a large Catholic majority for some decades.

While it will now be more likely that the justices will divide evenly on difficult cases, Justice Kennedy will remain the swing vote, providing a fifth vote for a majority of progressive justices (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan), and remaining with the conservatives (Thomas, Roberts and Alito) in tie votes, which will leave the lower court's judgment in place and will not operate as binding precedent on lower courts.

After failing to secure a promised Democratic majority, with the notable loss of three of her incumbent members, Democratic Leader Stewart - Cousins is in no position to pass judgment on how to lead and govern.»

That was the judgment of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in April — two months before the reinforcements General Petraeus needed to fully implement his new «surge» strategy had arrived in Iraq.

«Jim D * ke, a Republican consultant based in South Carolina and an adviser to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, called the nomination «an opportunity for the minority party to represent a majority of Americans who oppose judicial activism» but added that Republican would do well to wait until a nominee is chosen «before passing judgment lest they lose credibility with the American people.»

Michael Steele, called the nomination «an opportunity for the minority party to represent a majority of Americans who oppose judicial activism» but added that Republican would do well to wait until a nominee is chosen «before passing judgment lest they lose credibility with the American people.»

Jim Dyke, a Republican consultant based in South Carolina and an adviser to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, called the nomination «an opportunity for the minority party to represent a majority of Americans who oppose judicial activism» but added that Republican would do well to wait until a nominee is chosen «before passing judgment lest they lose credibility with the American people.»

According to an order for declaratory judgment which was sent by Rosenblum to a New York state Supreme Court judge on Oct. 17, the mayor will seek to nullify a decision by the Democratic majority of Leon Potok, David Finch and Ilissa Miller on the village board to authorize a ballot referendum that — if passed by public vote on Election Day — would restrict Rosenblum's ability to appoint a village attorney as well as certain land use board members.

Approval voting can be considered a form of range voting, with the range restricted to two values, 0 and 1 — or a form of majority judgment, with grades restricted to good and poor.

Members of both the GOP majority and Democratic minority said support for the measure to pay the judgment was far from guaranteed.

In a judgment that sets a far - reaching constitutional precedent and upholds parliamentary sovereignty, the court ruled by a majority of eight justices to three that MPs and peers must give their consent before the government can trigger article 50 and formally initiate Brexit.

For the vast majority of men, these worries are completely unfounded and based more on a fear of judgment than the «truth.»

The much - commented - on lapse in judgment that relegated Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy to the Frontier section last year affected its reception, not only because Frontier is a catch - all category for films that are regarded as too far - out for the majority of Sundancers, but more concretely, because Frontier films screen at the festival's lesser venues.

Issues of language are complex in Timor - Leste, but judgment aside, the decision to make Portuguese an official language — and the language of instruction — was made despite the fact that the majority of teachers in Timor - Leste do not speak Portuguese.

One after another, teachers used the words «meaningless» and «unfair» to describe the evaluations and the process used to arrive at those judgments... Another teacher said the majority of his autistic, special - needs students failed the SBA — a mandatory assessment test — yet he was judged «highly effective.

The change could mean the vast majority of judgments will not be reported — some estimates run as high as 96 %.

I suspect for a large majority of people with outstanding civil judgments there are many other negative tradelines in their reports.

Turning to the decision, the judge accepted at paragraph 17 of his judgment that the following propositions are supported by a vast quantity of research published in peer - reviewed journals worldwide and by the great majority of the world's climate scientists:

In Chester, if one takes the majority and dissent speeches (reasons for judgment) at face value — the split was 3 - 2 — the plaintiff succeeded on the normative basis that the duty of care in issue was so important that that justified dispensing completely with any requirement for a causal connection between the defendant's negligence and the plaintiff's injury.

It does not appear from my reading of either the majority or minority reasons for judgment in Harmeling that the section then equivalent to our present s. 6 was under consideration.

The CAT dismissed that appeal by a majority judgment (Sales LJ and Clare Potter) with Dermott Glynn, an economist member of the CAT, dissenting.

The risk is that diversity of opinion, so vital to the healthy development of the law, may be relegated to the occasional murmur, particularly so if the very same judges who sit on a majority of sentence appeals insist on inflexible adherence to horizontal stare decisis and maintain that their judgments, being «first at bat», must be followed by their colleagues.

Lord Justice Ward (giving the lead majority judgment) said that the wife's statement was about her present intention and carried no implication of her future intentions.

[169] I would have thought that the overwhelming majority of documents on Litigator are the product of judgment and skill, especially since Thomson advertised this feature in promoting litigator, but, nevertheless, Thomson is entitled to assert that a particular document is not subject to copyright protection, and it can not be simply assumed that originality exists in all of the court documents available on Litigator...

The majority judgment accorded no deference to the College of Teachers by constructing the College decision as one concerning human rights, an area firmly within the judiciary's traditional territory.

Neither Kimbrough nor Spears authorized district courts to categorically reject the policy judgments of the Sentencing Commission in areas outside of crack - cocaine offenses, as the majority suggests.

Although the majority based their conclusion on his right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions, the partially concurring and dissenting opinions and the judgment as a whole provide an interesting insight into the way freedom of conscience challenges are to be approached in a secular society where religion holds less sway than individual ethical positions on certain issues.

Meanwhile, the majority judgment as well as Binnie J. purport to be more deferential (reasonableness standard) as they see the question as concerning the arbitrator's interpretation of its governing legislation.

In delivering the judgment of the majority, Lord Templeman thought that the key indicator of tax avoidance was an arrangement in which the financial position of the taxpayer was unaffected (save for the costs of devising and implementing it) and through this arrangement the taxpayer sought to obtain a tax advantage without the reduction in income, loss or expenditure which Parliament intended to be suffered by any taxpayer qualifying for a reduction in his liability to tax.

Most famously, in Chevron v. NRDC, Justice Stevens» wrote a majority opinion for the Court that sternly rebuked the D.C. Circuit for substituting its judgment for that of the Reagan EPA, which sought to give industry more flexibility in meeting their Clean Air Act obligations.

Tipping, McGrath and Gault JJ («the majority judgment») undertook a fairly lengthy review of the judgments in Challenge.

«This case considers whether Mr. Lam, a cancer patient, has ownership of the sperm he produced, such that he can contract for its storage to enable his personal use of the sperm at a later date,» wrote Bennett, on behalf of Justice David Frankel in the majority (Justice Edward Chiasson wrote a concurring judgment).