Sentences with phrase «neutral arbiters»

If society is expected to buy into the notion that judges are neutral arbiters of the law, they can't engage in this kind of behaviour, he adds.

The recent decisions of federal district judges Nicholas Garaufis and Shira Scheindlin in cases involving the New York City Fire and Police Departments highlights the importance of the Senate's role in recommending federal judges to the President and in confirming judges who are neutral arbiters of disputes.

These courts are supposed to be neutral arbiters — a way to correct for the power imbalance that existed prior to NAFTA, when Canada and Mexico had to take their grievances to US courts.

Washington used it regularly during the Reagan years, which meant that the US was unilaterally making decisions on global trade rather than consulting with the international community or working through a neutral arbiter.

The bet would also need a neutral arbiter — we propose, for example, the director of the Hadley Centre, home of the data used by Keenlyside et al., or a committee of neutral colleagues.

It's important to remember that in 2006, both sides in the hurricane - climate argument were awaiting Kossin's paper and saw it as a first attempt by a neutral arbiter to come in and reanalyze the global hurricane intensity data.

I'm glad that you bring up the Office of Special Masters of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, as it is frequently referred to as some sort of neutral arbiter substantiating anti-vaccination claims.

Here's the main problem: unlike most civil cases, in guardianship proceedings the judge plays a dual role: he or she serves both as neutral arbiter and as the person ultimately responsible for protecting the ward's best interests.

What I see happening here is a well - intentioned judge trying to balance the somewhat conflicting demands placed upon him in a guardianship proceeding, where he's expected to serve both as neutral arbiter and as the person ultimately responsible for protecting the ward's best interests.

At the heart of this appeal are two potentially competing tensions: (1) the adversarial system, which relies on the parties to frame the issues on appeal, and reserves the role of neutral arbiter for the courts; and (2) the need for an appellate court to intervene in order to prevent an injustice.

When settlement differences are arbitrated, a neutral arbiter hears the arguments of both sides and then makes a final decision.

Not exact matches

«You have to be, you know, a neutral and fair arbiter as attorney general.

So, it appears there's something of a disconnect at Sundance, between the idea of a perfectly neutral, non-partisan arbiter of artistic merit, the festival that focuses on the stories while politically, as Redford put it elsewhere in the press conference, «the pendulum swings,» and the reality of a filmmaking body that is deeply, sometimes radically, political.

While it also relies on a neutral party chosen by both sides, the arbiter has a wholly different assignment.

The construction of law as the neutral, objective, arbiter of social conflicts is, in fact, a gendered construction.

There are further comments in the case about the judge's role as «neutral, passive arbiter» (para. 67) and the basically adversarial nature of the sentencing phase of a criminal proceeding (ibid.).

Rather than keeping a neutral ledger that lacks discrimination, he's becoming the arbiter of smart contracts and a benevolent dictator for Ethereum.