Sentences with phrase «on fairness of the process»

While the public focuses on fairness of the process, judges and lawyers tend to focus on fair outcomes, often at the expense of meeting the criteria of procedural fairness that are critical to public perceptions of the courts.

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Joel Reidenberg, a privacy expert with Fordham University, told me, «The relevant EU rules are based on general fair information practice standards, addressing a variety of aspects related to fairness in collection, purpose limitations, transparency of processing, accuracy, data subject access, and remedies for violations, and are more stringent because of their detail as well as some new twists.»

«Implementing these recommendations will improve our culture, promote fairness and accountability, and establish processes and systems to ensure the mistakes of the past will not be repeated,» Liane Hornsey, Uber's chief of human resources, said in a statement on Tuesday.

This means making sure the industry — which holds the promise to meet small businesses» capital needs — is built on transparency and fairness, and puts the interests of small businesses at the center of the lending process.

«I will not allow the NFL to impose a new process of discipline on me, ignore the CBA, ignore the deal they agreed to with me, and behave without fairness or accountability,» Peterson said in a statement.

«I will not allow the NFL to impose a new process of discipline on me, ignore the CBA, ignore the deal they agreed to with me, and behave without fairness or accountability,» Peterson said in a statement that can be read in full on the NFL Players Association website.

The Recordings do not create any property right and do not impose on the Village of Orland Park any duty of fairness or natural justice to anyone with respect to the contents of the Recordings or any process thereunder.

Whilst the Acting General - Secretary of NPP, Mr. John Boadu, assured the Police of the full co-operation of his party in the atmosphere of fairness and impartiality, Nii Allotey Brew Hammond, the Chairman of the PPP, called on the agencies involved in the electoral process to commit to their responsibilities, as the process is an integrated affair.

In sum, we strongly support the Open FOIL bill and based on a mountain of real world experience and research, we believe it will vastly improve the responsiveness, transparency and fairness of the city's FOIL process.

He said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) members on the Committee, will not frustrate the process, but will ensure that Martin Amidu passes the test of competence and fairness before...

Buhari noted that his administration had already started the process of ensuring fairness, justice and equity, in spite of challenges, and would work hard to consolidate on the gains.

«Internally, the agency should be very careful in establishing, on its own, procedures and guidelines so there is fairness in the bidding process and fairness in the completion of projects.»

«Our findings show that terrorism shifts public attitudes towards greater loyalty to the in - group, less concern with fairness, and greater prejudice against Muslims and immigrants, but it seems that this effect is stronger on those who are politically left - leaning than those who are right - leaning,» explain psychological scientists from the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent.

«CIHR embarked on the reform of its open funding programs and peer review process to improve the sustainability of our health research system, the transparency and fairness of our granting processes, and the quality and impact of the research supported by federal investments,» he wrote.

The School challenged OFSTED's Complaints Procedure on the basis that if an organisation, such as OFSTED, has an internal Complaints Procedure it ought to be «a fair and robust process that permits a substantive challenge and which gives the complaining party the possibility, in appropriate cases, of having the decision changed» (although it was accepted that «fairness» does not necessarily require an external appeals process).

The present report incorporates seven of those 13 dimensions that are outward facing for students and families and most likely, conceptually, to play a role in their exercise of school choice: Alternatives to traditional schools, e.g., number of seats in charter schools; Assignment Process, i.e., the extent of school choice and its» fairness; Common Application for traditional and charter schools; Accessibility of information on the choice process; Understandability of the information provided to parents on which to compare schools; Transportation to schools of choice; and School Quality in the diProcess, i.e., the extent of school choice and its» fairness; Common Application for traditional and charter schools; Accessibility of information on the choice process; Understandability of the information provided to parents on which to compare schools; Transportation to schools of choice; and School Quality in the diprocess; Understandability of the information provided to parents on which to compare schools; Transportation to schools of choice; and School Quality in the district.

Research suggests high - quality assessments of school principals should be, among other things, consistently applied and tested for fairness; seen as an ongoing process for professional growth rather than a «tool» or isolated event; and based on the best available evidence.

Research and best practice models suggest that high - quality assessments: (1) measure what they are designed to measure; (2) are consistently applied and tested for fairness; (3) regard assessment as an ongoing process for professional growth, not just a «tool» or an isolated event; (4) use the best available evidence, often from multiple sources; (5) reinforce the organization's core goals; (6) provide actionable feedback on what matters most; and (7) help build a culture of continuous improvement.

In all fairness, I commend his comment to you along with his point that we are focused here on only one aspect of the «inestimable value to the process» that he says he believes (and I do, too) most publishers add for most writers.

So, be aware of withdrawal provisions on your investments, both the formal ones listed in the prospectus or its equivalent, and the informal ones where ability to withdraw is suspended as a matter of fairness to all clients, and / or protecting a business at a financial firm (though risking lawsuits in the process).

Screening Process: Non-corporate issuers present a unique opportunity to focus on three key themes: • Increasing access to capital, especially for those historically underserved • Creating public goods, especially for those most in need • Filling capital gaps left by current financial practice These three themes flow from our belief that healthy economies must be built on a strong foundation of fairness and opportunity for all.

Writing for the court, Justice Brown noted that «fairness requires a judge to accommodate a self - represented party's unfamiliarity with the litigation process to enable her to present her case to the best of her ability: Davids v. Davids (1999), 1999 CanLII 9289 (ON CA), 125 O.A.C. 375 (C.A.), at para. 36.»

The court also found that the extension of the claim filing deadline would only be an appropriate remedy where the specific failure bears directly on the fairness of the liquidation or the claim filing process.

In a recent case the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has found that a «perfunctory and insensitive» redundancy consultation process can impact on the ultimate fairness of a redundancy dismissal.

Yet fairness to the participants in the administrative process surely suggests they should be able to make submissions in full light of the considerations the decision - maker will take into account; all relevant evidence and interpretive positions should be on the record in the proceeding (however informal), not magicked up after the fact.

While a tribunal's substantive decision - making under its home statute may survive a judicial review merely by being reasonable, a tribunal must still be correct about questions of general law, and must still reach decisions on a foundation of procedural fairness; legislatures do not authorize tribunals to decide matters through unjust processes (Dunsmuir at 128 - 129).

They covered the failure of the Lord Chancellor to consult on the process of the changes, the common law duty of the Lord Chancellor to ensure fairness; and grounds based upon the European Convention on Human Rights.

In La, Justice Sopinka emphasized, at para. 27, that «[t] he appropriateness of a stay of proceedings depends upon the effect of the conduct amounting to an abuse of process or other prejudice on the fairness of the trial.»

The former employee relied on the following grounds in his judicial review: bias of the adjudicator; fairness of the hearing; appropriateness of deciding the matter solely on the basis of abuse of process, and; whether the matter of genuineness of the emails was properly determined.

Garwill Law provides expert legal advice on customs and excise, tariff and excise tax, international trade law, constitutional and Charter law, immigration determinations, and administrative law (such as procedural fairness, reasonable apprehension of bias, or due process in courts and tribunals).

This was not, however, enough for the Court of Appeal for Ontario to make a finding of ineffective assistance of counsel, as there was no miscarriage of justice: counsel's actions did not impact on the reliability of a verdict which was well - supported on the evidence, nor did they detract from the fairness of the adjudicative process at trial.

«Basic principles of fairness and due process preclude retroactive application of the new ABC test in a way that would nullify years of litigation and a full trial,» Grubhub's lawyers at Gibson Dunn told the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday.

Unreasonable delay is a possible basis on which to raise questions of natural justice, procedural fairness, abuse of process and abuse of discretion.

So while lawyers are often involved at the end to advise their clients on the fairness of the draft agreement, it's rare for lawyers to be involved in the actual mediation process with their clients.

Checks will vary depending on the circumstances; making sure that all applicants follow the same process shows fairness and prevents the possibility of discrimination lawsuits.

Responsibilities include questioning parties, issuing subpoenas for production of witnesses and documents, holding conferences, ruling on objections and evidence admissibility, receiving exhibits, assessing witness credibility, and maintaining an atmosphere of fairness, impartiality, and due process under the law.

The spouses commit to negotiate all issues outside the court process, relying, instead on their commitment to fairness and the expertise of their lawyers to see negotiations to a successful end.

We teach a client - centered model of mediation, which is used extensively throughout the field by professional mediators who facilitate a process of resolving conflict and decision - making based on clients» creativity and their own sense of fairness.

This focus on the «strength and fairness of process» could have a further advantage of providing incentives to governments to ensure that native title claimants are adequately resourced and represented.

Courts do not surrender their jurisdiction to resolve controversies, even by agreement of the parties, unless it can be demonstrated on an ongoing basis that the tribunals to function in their stead are capable of providing an equivalent or superior «fairness,» or, as it is more technically described in the law, «due process.»