Sentences with phrase «narrow points of law»

Litigants pay their respective attorneys outrageous fees to research and argue the same, narrow points of law based on the firm's credo: «the longer C & C fights on behalf of a client, the more C & C gets paid.»

Niall Dickson, chief executive of the GMC, said: «It is important to note that the judicial review was on a narrow point of law about the admissibility of some of the evidence.

Not exact matches

From a meta - ethical point of view this suggests the idea that ethics could be based on this command without falling back into narrow legalism, an idea worth further study, not least in the development of natural law theory.

One can certainly point out that after the Skelos and Silver convictions the definition of the law known as «Honest Services Fraud» was greatly narrowed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the corruption case of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

What the UK Twitter report didn't point out, but should have, is that boutiques and smaller firms produce many of the best law firm Twitter feeds — not because they're more «personal» and «engaging,» I believe, but because they necessarily pursue a narrow focus: they're restricted in the type of work they offer and / or the marketplaces in which they offer it.

Mostly, the right of access to courts (which the parties tended to refer to as access to justice, although — as the provinces pointed out — access to justice involves many different things) was said to flow from the constitutional principle of the Rule of Law, which the Supreme Court has long recognized, albeit giving it a very narrow meaning.

Peisley points out that the facilitative / evaluative divide has been almost an article of faith in mediation circles for the past 15 years (citing Professor Leonard Riskin's theory of mediator orientation as facilitative or evaluative and the problem definition as either «narrow» [position - based] or «broad» [interest - based]-- Riskin, «Understanding Mediator Orientations, Strategies and Techniques: A Grid for the Perplexed» (1996) 1 Harvard Negotiation law Review