Sentences with phrase «new statutory basis»

The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 introduced a new statutory basis for the management of the civil service, and a new parliamentary process for the ratification of treaties.

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Even if we assume that SNA loses its current tax deductions and just pays the new statutory rate of 21 %, that would be worth an additional $ 87 million based on 2017 NOPAT, a 13 % increase and a bump up in NOPAT margin to 18.5 % from the current 16.3 %.

Whereas the earlier Canadian Bill of Rights of 1960 had only a statutory basis and was thus effectively beyond the scope of judicial review, the new Charter was an entrenched constitutional document similar to that of the United States.

«The new memo also defends applying statutory protections for «hiring persons of a particular religion'to include protection for religiously based standards of conduct for employees, including in the funding context — and potentially (although this is not said explicitly) when the category of prohibited discrimination that's asserted is sexual orientation, not just when it's religion.

The comptroller wants a statutory cap on debt, based on the personal income growth of New Yorkers.

«The new statutory exemption will help to clarify what is a trivial benefit in kind and we welcome a movement towards a more «principles based system» rather than the current subjective one.

A new statutory maintenance scheme - the «gross income scheme» - is planned to be introduced from 2012 based on the latest available tax year information from HMRC.

In January DECC submitted an appeal in which they noted that «the High Court's decision was based on the view that the proposed approach to implementing new tariffs for solar PV is inconsistent with the FIT scheme's statutory purpose of encouraging small - scale low - carbon electricity generation» But DECC said «The overriding aim of the proposed reduction in tariffs for solar PV (as set out in the recent consultation) is to ensure that over the long term as many people as possible are encouraged to install small scale low - carbon generation (including other technologies as well as solar PV) and benefit from the funding available for the FIT scheme.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

Courts have authority to consider new evidence of actual innocence without regard to the statutory one - year limitation period for newly discovered evidence, and that the standard for granting a new trial based upon newly discovered evidence should not be a strict «outcome - determinative» test, at least where the state relied at trial upon facts that turned out to be false.

The simplest and humblest of law firm communication vehicles — a collection of lawyer - written articles on new statutory or case law developments, bundled together into a stiff, saddle - stitched document that's mailed out to clients on a regular basis (or more recently, placed online and e-mailed).

In addition to common law negligent misrepresentation claims, they make a claim based on the new statutory cause of action found at s. 138.3 of the OSA, which can only be commenced with leave of the court.

«The House of Lords may have closed the door on pleural plaque compensation claims made on the basis of negligence or breach of statutory duty, but at the same time they have also opened the window, by unexpectedly flagging up a potential new line of argument — that claimants could sue for breach of contract,» he says.

Based on ground - up case law analysis it constructs a new taxonomy on the grounds of judicial review: mistake, procedural impropriety, ordinary common law statutory interpretation, discretionary impropriety, relevant / irrelevant considerations, breach of an ECHR protected right or equality duty, and constitutional allocation of powers, constitutional rights, or other complex constitutional principles.

A new report based upon research by Family Rights Group which reveals that 26 (17 %) of English local authorities, including 30 % of London local authorities are failing to comply with the most basic requirement of statutory guidance issued in 2011, to have a published policy setting out their approach towards promoting and supporting the needs of children living with family and friend carers.

Based on the specific statutory mandate to combine the disclosures under TILA and RESPA, the Bureau is amending Regulation X and Regulation Z to establish new disclosure requirements and forms in Regulation Z for closed - end consumer credit transactions secured by real property, other than reverse mortgages.