Sentences with phrase «novel points of law»

Many of the cases that Joanna has handled are high value or involve novel points of law, requiring a creative and commercial approach to achieve a successful outcome.

Corker Binning's extradition work is often high - profile, and the firm devotes itself to taking on complex or unusual extradition cases which raise novel points of law, whether under the European Arrest Warrant scheme or cases emanating from outside the EU.

Has advised on a number of complex cases, including those concerning novel points of law.

The plaintiff, who lost on summary judgment, sought only minimal costs based on public interest because he claimed the case dealt with a novel point of law and fact situation.

It also gives the court discretion to award no costs where the class proceeding was a test case, raised a novel point of law, or involved a matter of public interest.

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The present ruling does raise a novel (at least to the extent not already covered by Châteauguay) point of law, which is the circumstances under which delay can serve as a trigger to render a municipal or provincial regulatory requirement inoperative or inapplicable.

ITO - Int» l Terminal Operators v. Miida Electronics, [1986] 1 SCR 752 at 788: «I would observe on this point that conceptual difficulties of this nature are not a novel feature of the common law.

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The judge wrote: «Since the parties were not able to point me to any case which had considered the issue of the existence of a duty of care by a volunteer in circumstances where the volunteer's act allegedly had caused, or contributed to, damage to the property of the person to whom he was volunteering his services, I conclude that the question of law raised by this case is a novel one, or at least one in which the case law has not been fully settled.»

The mainstay of Ben's practice comprises complex public and private law commercial and regulatory disputes before the English and European Courts, regularly involving novel points in developing areas of the law.

The third point of rebuttal by the government to the CERD decision is that the Committee did not allow a margin of appreciation in legislating in such a novel area of the law.