Sentences with phrase «of form over substance»

[iv] Adrian Vermeule, Judging Under Uncertainty: An Institutional Theory of Legal Interpretation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006) and Paul Daly, «The Unfortunate Triumph of Form Over Substance in Canadian Administrative Law» (2012) 50 (2) Osgoode Hall Law Journal 317.

For the majority, the Appellant was really making a complaint of form over substance — that the Appellant was not in fact prejudiced by the Respondent's failure to file and serve a formal notice of application for the summary dismissal (although, at para. 17, the majority accepts that in some circumstances, prejudice may be caused to the opposite party).

The Unfortunate Triumph of Form over Substance in Canadian Administrative Law (2012) 50:2 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 317.

Paul Daly, «The Unfortunate Triumph of Form over Substance in Canadian Administrative Law» 50:2 Osgoode Hall LJ [forthcoming in 2012].

If you are a regular follower, you have probably seen these before, but two of my recent essays have been published and are now available for free download and citation: The Unfortunate Triumph of Form over Substance in Canadian Administrative Law (2012) 50:2 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 317.

Gigi is a triumph of form over substance.

Not exact matches

Many of these assertions appear to elevate form over substance.

The concept of God with say the Hebrew reflected and agreed with the form and substance as held over thousands of years.

It is knowledge that, as we come to know it more and more deeply over many years, will give form and substance to our entire imagination, to our whole way of being in the world, to our very existence.

Ultimately, the inter-connectedness of reality and form takes primacy over the Cartesian preference for substance and quality in Whitehead's philosophy (PR xiii).

Process theology may refer to all forms of theology that emphasize event, occurrence, or becoming over against substance.

When you leave the chia seeds to soak in liquid over night (as in this chia pudding), the seeds absorb the water and form a gel - like substance that coats the middle of the seed (a black center).

Formed over 45 million years ago, Baltic amber is an organic substance, a «fossil resin» produced by pine trees which grew in Northern Europe - from southern regions of the present day Scandinavia and nearby regions of the bed of the Baltic Sea.

He covered all of the bases needed to leave the Hill smiling and fulfilled and yet... the zeitgeist again; form over substance, the product adapted to suit the audience.

This slow digesting protein mainly forms a gel kind of substance in your gut, which results in a constant release of amino acids into your blood stream over time.

Will it finally dispose of the legal quibbling over form versus substance regarding the payment procedure?

By painting layer upon layer of whites and off - whites over silkscreened elements used in previous works — monochrome forms taken from reproductions, enlargements of details of photographs, screens, and polaroids of his own paintings — he accretes the surface of his pressurized paintings while apparently voiding their very substance.

By invoking the extreme mediation of experience and meaning, Brown's work provocatively calls into question the power of image, as well as the appeal of surface over the substance of cultural forms.

The Turner Prize is much more about a media event than art, and as such reflects an increasing trend of modern life, form over substance.

The sneaker morphs into various forms — a bat, a castle, an oozing red substance — over the course of approximately three minutes.

-LSB-...] Bradley, CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research, said: «BP put form over substance and took their eye off the ball» and called «Beyond Petroleum» -LSB-...]

The travaux préparatoires show that various concerns were raised over the form and substance of this principle, including concerns that severability of arbitral awards would in practice «open the door to a review as to substance», 794 which the drafters of the New York Convention sought to prevent.

It set me thinking about the extent to which, in more general terms, form over substance is a familiar feature of the actions, decisions and priorities of some of the legal and professional publishers.

This was very much the case with his article Legal Publishing and Market Research — Getting It Right, in which he succeeds in identifying «form over substance» motives in some publishers» research and in so doing highlights something short of honesty behind much of it.

And that's why I favor the solo and practice blogs that aren't form over substance or full of jargon but those that teach me, by example, how to practice law and deliver legal services to my clients better, faster and less expensively.

Lawyers understand the importance of principles and substance over form.

That's why, as quoted above, she prefers legal blogs of substance over form.

Mr. Heffernan, who co-authored an amicus brief on behalf of the Real Estate Bar Association and the Abstract Club with Danielle Andrews Long, states that he was happy that the First Circuit certified the issue to the SJC, considering the «fairly harsh» Bankruptcy Court decisions on technically defective acknowledgements, which he calls «elevating form over substance.»

We are unwilling to fortify the armory of those who attack the law as famous for its ability to elevate form over substance.

Thus in the fall of 1979, [following the decision in Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 963 v. New Brunswick Liquor Corporation (1979), 79 CLLC 26 14,029 (S.C.C.)-RSB- the Board could give ascendance to its objective of creating a better climate for labour relations problem solving at its hearing by discontinuing recording and avoiding the formality and regard for form over substance that accompanied recording.

* While the procedural rules must of course be observed, the need to achieve the right result for that person requires an emphasis on substance over form.

Despite the apparent consensus in the BEPS Reports, each country's view of «fair share» will be different Paying a «fair share» is a difficult concept in a «rule of law» tax system like Canada whose courts have eschewed «substance over form» in their decisions.

The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals has said you can't go beyond it out of a desire to elevate substance over form.

[5] Such a «strict procedural approach,» according to the Supreme Court, «places a premium on form over substance, and relegates to the back burner the Charter right to vote and the enfranchising objective of the Act.»

Dismissal is a matter of substance over form.

«Market participants, including lawyers, trading venues and financial services firms, should be aware that we are disturbed by many examples of form being elevated over substance, with form - based arguments depriving investors of mandatory protections.