Sentences with phrase «new legal issues»

These new technologies will raise new legal issues as well, as the law evolves to meet the pace of change.
After law school, lawyers encounter many new legal issues other than those discussed during legal training.
While we have been representing injury victims for decades in this area, it is amazing how often new legal issues can come up.
Likewise, judges hearing cases have faced new legal issues involving electronic discovery and searches of computers.
However, in most cases, the consultations must be limited new legal issues.
As reflected by the recent controversy of child pornography involving under - aged students in at least 70 public and private schools throughout Australia, the increased rate at which the use, and misuse, of technology in schools has generated a multitude of new legal issues surrounding the use of social and other digital media that most could not have anticipated a few short years ago.
In addition, the issues may be revisited if new legal issues are raised as a result of significant developments in the law, or if there is a change in the circumstances or evidence that «fundamentally shifts the parameters of the debate».
This study will look at whether the information users found in the wikibook actually helped them to resolve their current legal problem, and whether it provided them with the capacity to identify and deal with new legal issues.
«With the adoption of the 3D Internet comes new legal issues — and we're just beginning to see what they are.
As Snapchat stakes its claims as a social media powerhouse, new legal issues arise in the litigation context.
Years ago, I thought that the law report editors should not be bound by the Abridgment Classification system because the latter was not an effective tool in integrating new legal issues that emerged through the case law.
In the late 1990's, he was approached by a client asking him to research a relatively new legal issue without using LexisNexis or WestLaw, as they were trying to reduce online legal...
Google knows how to correct the problem, but like so much of the nonsense surrounding NFC deployment, the companies involved are getting into a power struggle; there's concern that doing all PIN authentication on - board the NFC secure element, which would fix this problem, would create new legal issues over just which company would now be liable for secure PIN storage.
This is in accordance with the Supreme Court of Canada's recent pronouncement that a law previously adjudicated «may be revisited if new legal issues are raised as a consequence of significant developments in the law, or if there is a change in the circumstances or evidence that fundamentally shifts the parameters of the debate».
Today we have very few railroad lawyers, but we have our own new technologies that will spawn many new legal issues.
As ever, the new legal issue simply adds to the possibility of the Brexit process, and its related uncertainty, being drawn out even further — something the BCC has made crystal clear will be very unhelpful to British businesses.
To study this new legal issue, the Board on May 11 voted to recall its final - form regulations from regulatory review.
The scenario is a good example of the new legal issues that «remix culture» have created.
It held that lower courts should only depart from binding precedent «if new legal issues are raised as a consequence of significant developments in the law, or if there is a change in the circumstances or evidence that fundamentally shifts the parameters of the debate.
The good news is, with all of these new legal issues emerging, it becomes even easier for lawyers to find a niche and specialize in it.
An individual client might attend once to orient themselves to a new legal issue they're encountering or return multiple times for on - going support.
So if certain aspects have not been discussed, in the written observations or in the hearing, it is difficult for the Court then to raise new legal issues.
In my view, as discussed above, this threshold is met when a new legal issue is raised, or if there is a significant change in the circumstances or evidence.
The new legal issue for consideration is whether the discriminatory conduct of TWU Law is an acceptable infringement of the equality rights of LGBTQ people, and consistent with an evolved public interest in the administration of justice.
So you're saying that the law society as a regulatory body can revisit precedent based on para. 44, i.e., «this threshold is met when a new legal issue is raised, or if there is a significant change in the circumstances or evidence.
In the recent SCC decision in Canada v Bedford, Chief Justice McLachlin outlined two basic conditions that each permit a lower court to depart from precedent set by a higher court: (1) a new legal issue is raised by the parties or by significant developments in the law; and (2) new circumstances or evidence fundamentally shift the parameters of the debate.
Howard Bashman points to a pair of articles from the San Francisco Chronicle today on the new legal issues faced by divorcing gay couples.
But now he'll need to find an Illinois injury attorney to help him with his newest legal issue.
As Canada implements legislation to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, new legal issues will surface.
The court stated that «re-characterizing the type of expression alleged to be infringed did not convert this argument into a new legal issue, nor did the more current evidentiary record or the shift in attitudes and perspectives amount to a change in the circumstances or evidence that fundamentally shifted the parameters of the debate».
The SCC held, in the reasons written by the Chief Justice, that a trial court judge can consider and decide arguments based on Charter provisions that were not raised in the earlier case, as this constitutes a new legal issue.
That being said, the threshold for readdressing a matter is not an easy one to reach, as it requires a new legal issue to be raised, a significant change in the circumstances, or the introduction of evidence that fundamentally shifts the parameters of the debate.
«The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously held in [Canada (Attorney General)-RSB- v. Bedford that its precedents may be re-visited when «new legal issues are raised as a consequence of significant developments in the law, or if there is a change in the circumstances or evidence that fundamentally shifts the parameters of the debate.»
These professional development conferences always served as a terrific method for challenging my thoughts to accommodate new trends or new legal issues.
Rather, it seeks to determine the frequency with which certain legal issues arose, changes in that frequency, and indications that new legal issues were arising.
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