Sentences with phrase «number of appeals against»

It cites the shocking number of appeals against welfare benefits decisions as one example (340,000 in 2011 — 2012), more than a third (35 %) are upheld at a cost to the taxpayer of # 66m.

Imogen has been instructed by the ICO to draft the Commissioner's Responses to a number of appeals against decisions of the Information Commissioner in relation to Freedom of Information requests.

The number of appeals against the marking of this year's «tougher» SATs tests has risen — with one in ten reviews resulting in scores being overturned.

Ofqual chief Glenys Stacey has explained that number of appeals against grades soared to more than 400,000 in 2014.

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I will refer in particular to three criticisms highlighted in the report: the slowness to remove foreign national prisoners from the UK, the concern with the high rate of appeals brought against UKBA's decisions which are decided against the Agency, and the large number of unresolved immigration cases still awaiting decision.

David Parks, head of physics at Graveney school, argues against the new GCSE, saying it shows a «confused and contradictory situation» where ministers promise to increase the number of science graduates but «dumb down» the subject to broaden its appeal.

We only have to look at the number of people initially judged fit for work who have successfully appeal against their assessment, to gauge how well the WCA is progressing.

The number of grounds for appeal against deportation is also being reduced from 17 to four, which ministers say will simplify the system.

Meanwhile, the DWP has appealed the against a decision to demand they publish the total number of deaths.

A recent ruling by a federal appeals court may shield school districts in a growing number of states against some types of lawsuits brought against them in federal courts.

The Mini Clubman has been reinvented as a considerably larger and roomier estate model in a move aimed at providing it with broader sales appeal against a growing number of premium - brand hatchback rivals.

No matter how you model scenarios, or slice & dice the numbers, I don't see how an actual penalty exceeding 5 - 10 % (EUR 54 - 108 mio), of the total figure could possibly be ever ruled upon, appealed against, and actually collected on.

Linklaters partner Jonas Koponen says it could shorten cartel proceedings and reduce the number and scope of appeals brought against Commission decisions.

After reviewing the key paragraphs of the Court of Appeal's judgment in Mitchell and a number of subsequent authorities as well as outlining the principal criticisms which had been leveled against that case, the Court of Appeal went on to set out the new guidance.

This article suggests that a significant number of benefit appeals could be avoided if that tribunal was given the power to award costs against public authority parties where they have behaved unreasonably.

changing the voting rules at the last stage of the comitology procedure (the Appeal Committee), so that only votes in favour or against an act are taken into account; this will reduce the use of abstentions and the number of situations where the Committee is unable to take a position and the Commission is obliged to act without a clear mandate from the Member States;

On May 5, 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada denied a group of Nortel's bondholders leave to appeal the Ontario Court of Appeal's previous ruling that Nortel's bondholders were not entitled to US$ 1.6 billion in post-filing interest on their unsecured claims against Nortel.4 Between 1996 and 2008, certain of Nortel's Canadian and U.S. entities issued and / or guaranteed a number of unsecured bonds (referred to in Nortel's CCAA proceedings as the «Crossover Bonds&raappeal the Ontario Court of Appeal's previous ruling that Nortel's bondholders were not entitled to US$ 1.6 billion in post-filing interest on their unsecured claims against Nortel.4 Between 1996 and 2008, certain of Nortel's Canadian and U.S. entities issued and / or guaranteed a number of unsecured bonds (referred to in Nortel's CCAA proceedings as the «Crossover Bonds&raAppeal's previous ruling that Nortel's bondholders were not entitled to US$ 1.6 billion in post-filing interest on their unsecured claims against Nortel.4 Between 1996 and 2008, certain of Nortel's Canadian and U.S. entities issued and / or guaranteed a number of unsecured bonds (referred to in Nortel's CCAA proceedings as the «Crossover Bonds»).

In a landmark decision in Lungowe v Vedanta Resources Plc [1] the Court of Appeal has ruled that a number of claimants can pursue their claim against a Zambian mining company and its English parent in the English courts despite the claim's limited connection to England.

The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of the Ermineskin Nation et al. against the Federal Court of Appeal ruling that denied the plaintiffs» claim that the federal government had a fiduciary role under Treaty Number 6 such that the oil and gas revenues resulting from extraction under the plaintiffs» land should have been invested for their benefit.

Findings by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that a number of seismic streamer patents belonging to WesternGeco LLC were unpatentable and that inter partes review petitions filed in response to a pending patent infringement lawsuit filed by WesternGeco against Petroleum GeoServices, Inc. were not time barred have been upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Claims of unlawful abduction, kidnapping and removal to Libya in March 2004 brought against a number of UK officials and departments were not barred by state immunity or by the act of state doctrine, the Court of Appeal has held in Belhaj & Anor v Jack Straw & Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 1394.

Floyd's clients have included The McGraw - Hill Companies in a large number of litigations around the country involving claims against its subsidiary, Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC, The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case and others, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Time Magazine, Business Week, The Nation, Reader's Digest, Hearst, AIG, and others in trials, appeals and investigations.

Notable mandates: Successfully overturned a $ 100 - million pension obligations judgment against MTS Allstream on appeal; represented the City of Winnipeg in interest arbitration with paramedics; lead negotiator for the University of Brandon in talks with its faculty association; acted for the Puratone Corp. in its CCAA proceedings and purchase by Maple Leaf Foods; negotiated first labour agreement for the Canadian Human Rights Museum; Manitoba counsel on a number of P3 deals, including the Pan / Parapan American Games Athletes» Village Project.

The LSE review also demonstrates that wildly inaccurate figures have been published in the Daily Mail about the number of successful appeals against deportation.

The practice has gained traction over the past five years, with national companies being forced to defend against an ever - increasing number of increase appeals in which school districts seek discovery of the property owner's confidential real estate information and then use it against the owner to justify an increase in assessment.