Sentences with phrase «national laws seemed»

In each case, too, national laws seemed incapable of holding the new class of global corporations to account.

Not exact matches

As oppressive as this legislation seems, it is fitting that these new regulations come under the guise of an anti-terrorism law, because that fits well into the narrative of protecting Russian national identity and deeply held Russian values against dangerous foreign influences.

Asked what he thinks the study means for the living wage legislation currently under consideration at the City Council, Paul Sonn, legal co-director of the National Employment Law Project, still seemed optimistic.

Seems like a pretty ambiguous law, any foreign national that discusses politics with a US citizen is going to have an influence over the person they are talking to, I don't see why campaign donations should be some sort of separate category in this regard, seems absurd tSeems like a pretty ambiguous law, any foreign national that discusses politics with a US citizen is going to have an influence over the person they are talking to, I don't see why campaign donations should be some sort of separate category in this regard, seems absurd tseems absurd to me.

There are too many Labour politicians (step forward, Ed) who are indistinguishable from Lib Dems or Conservatives (or Greens or the SNP or Plaid Cymru) in that they have never had a job outside politics or the media or practising law, and hardly any Labour MPs have had manual jobs or office / secretarial jobs... this disconnect has meant that politics at national and local level seems simply to be the public arm of yet another middle class «profession».

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

is a new twist and seems to be based on the success of the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Agriculture which over-rides any national laws designed to protect consumer health.

And, last but not least, looking at the result of the case — the Court declared it had no jurisdiction — the Court also seems to be willing to let fundamental rights cases be decided at the national level, when there is no convincing connection to EU law which would establish its own jurisdiction.

With regard to the question of compatibility of the imposition of a residence condition with Articles 29 and 33 of the Directive, after having found that these Articles in principle require an equal treatment of all beneficiaries of international protection as regards the freedom of movement (Article 33) and a treatment that is equal to nationals of the relevant Member State in the matter of welfare benefits (Article 29), the Court concludes that a residence condition can still be imposed on beneficiaries of subsidiary protection status, if they are not in an objectively comparable situation with beneficiaries of other international protection status or nationals of the Member States as regards the objective pursued by the national law that seems to infringe on Articles 29 and 33 (point 54 of the judgment).

124] It is not entirely clear what situations fall under the second situation, but it seems that Bot has in mind those situations where EU law allows the Member States discretion in implementing, and where implementation can be realised with both respecting national rights standards as well as the effectiveness of EU law.

Moreover, the Directive's scope is limited to natural persons: the EU legislator does not seem to be willing to consider to grant protection to legal persons, regardless of the fact that they can be held criminally liable in most MS.. In sum, the real added value of the Directive will depend on its implementation in national law and the willingness of the national courts, as well as of the Court of Justice, to ensure that the Directive contributes to the enhancing of defence rights in the EU.

This looks like a much more generous formulation: as long as someone went to another Member State on the basis of EU law, the fact that they may now be living there on the basis of national law does not seem to exclude them.

Law firms across the country seem to have picked up on the same pattern, with outfits of varying sizes, both regional and national, putting together practice groups and special packages aimed specifically at serving startup clients.

This seems to be just the sort of structure the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission warned against in its 2003 «Diversity In Law Firms» report which stated, «In large, national law firms, the most pressing issues have probably shifted from hiring and initial access to problems concerning the terms and conditions of employment, especially promotion to partnership.&raqLaw Firms» report which stated, «In large, national law firms, the most pressing issues have probably shifted from hiring and initial access to problems concerning the terms and conditions of employment, especially promotion to partnership.&raqlaw firms, the most pressing issues have probably shifted from hiring and initial access to problems concerning the terms and conditions of employment, especially promotion to partnership.»

In principle, it seems thus that EEA law allows that under national law the Supreme Court of Iceland could amend the District Court's request for an advisory opinion.

I think we've reached consensus on this point, as the truckload of recent reports from the national Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, the Canadian Bar Association and a handful of law societies seems to suggest.

«As we were contemplating the NLJ 50 Business of Law Trailblazers & Pioneers, it seems that every time we explained the idea, we got the same reaction: «Oh, you mean people like Jay Jaffe,»» noted the National Law Journal.

First, the approach taken by the German Constitutional Court years ago in respect of the supremacy of EU law over German constitutional fundamental rights, often described as the solange approach, seems to me to be well merited when it comes to addressing the relationship between national law and international law.

Perhaps most fun of all it seems that the better the system of law that a nation has the better chance it has to do well at the World Cup, which raises obvious questions about Canada's national team or maybe Canada's laws?

Jim Middlemiss seems to have broken the story first on the National Post, and it was quickly picked up by the huge American blog Above the Law, so I won't repeat all of the facts here again or provide too much commentary on the case.

Despite the differences, what seems universal are concerns about the national laws and legal procedures families must rely on when they can not solve their own problems, whether these are problems associated with divorce or child protection matters.