Not exact matches
And the religious denominational plurality along with strong middle class and later working class groups committed to atheism destroyed any possibility of return to Christendom, and the
only option for national unity was to secularize the state with
equality under
law for all religious and secular thought and groups.
Nor does it impose an abstract norm of
equality; it requires
only that whatever protection the
laws of a state provide must be provided equally to all persons within the state's jurisdiction.
Only by reading this account will folks fully understand the extent to which the fight for
equality was a fight to change the
law and the scale of that task is hard to imagine today.
The State ensures the progress in fulfilling the People's Will by subduing the individual's will to the
Law, the Law to the Consensus of the majority of the People and by ensuring equity - the equality of All human activities before the law, thus allowing for the Benefit of any Activity to be the only argument giving it Priority over anoth
Law, the
Law to the Consensus of the majority of the People and by ensuring equity - the equality of All human activities before the law, thus allowing for the Benefit of any Activity to be the only argument giving it Priority over anoth
Law to the Consensus of the majority of the People and by ensuring equity - the
equality of All human activities before the
law, thus allowing for the Benefit of any Activity to be the only argument giving it Priority over anoth
law, thus allowing for the Benefit of any Activity to be the
only argument giving it Priority over another.
In a post this week highlighting the intersection between freedom of speech and women's issues, Women's
Law Project not only looks at the law involved, but explains why the attempt to vulgarise female anatomy offends standards of equali
Law Project not
only looks at the
law involved, but explains why the attempt to vulgarise female anatomy offends standards of equali
law involved, but explains why the attempt to vulgarise female anatomy offends standards of
equality.
The duty to make legal services adequately available should be given constitutional status based upon a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms s. 15 «
equality rights» argument that recognizes, «legal services at reasonable cost» as a constitutional right, based upon the principle that being middle class, or of «middle income,» and unable to obtain legal services at reasonable cost, is a state of one's condition that is «immutable, or changeable
only at unacceptable cost to personal identity,» and to one's ability to invoke constitutional rights and freedoms, and the rule of
law.
If jurors
only had the official responsibility set out by the trial judge in Stanley, their ethical duties would be straightforward, and very similar to those of a judge — to be impartial, diligent, principled, respectful of
equality, and fair in their assessment of the evidence in light of the
law set out by the trial judge.
By presenting ethical training as the sort of «easy» course students take in order to graduate,
law schools may simply be creating new lawyers who are, as Professor Rosemary Cairns Way described,
only «rhetorically committed» to
equality.
Trump's demonization of Mexicans and Muslims foreshadows an assault not
only on the safeguards against racial discrimination developed since the 1950s (and which moulded our own
equality laws) but even on the fundamental rights of the individual to freedom from arbitrary detention and punishment.
As the
Law Society has indicated, in the documentation accompanying the recommendation as well as the legal opinion that accompanied the report to Convocation, the duty to promote
equality, diversity and inclusiveness — not
only in our legal practices, but also in our public lives — is implicit in the existing rules and obligations governing licensees, and not a new obligation.
Here, contract compliance (once a particular bugbear of Mrs Thatcher's government) is not normally considered (if at all) in the context of wage protection, but instead in the context of the advancement of other social goals, in particular under
equality / discrimination
law, eg
only giving contracts to firms who show that they are equal opportunities employers.
In my view this latter approach is consistent with a state's international
law obligation not
only to proscribe
laws that limit the enjoyment of rights but also to promote
laws that seek to achieve
equality.
The report concludes that, on the High Court's own analysis, the extinguishment of native title, both under the Native Title Act and at common
law, is not
only discriminatory at international
law but fails to meet the standards of
equality under domestic
law.
Judge Tanaka of the International Court of Justice stated, in the South West Africa case, that «The principle of
equality before the
law does not mean the absolute
equality, namely the equal treatment of men without regard to the individual, concrete circumstances, but it means the relative
equality, namely the principles to treat equally what are equal and unequally what are unequal... To treat unequal matters differently according to their inequality is not
only permitted but required», (1966) ICJ Rep 6, pp303 - 305.
The principle of
equality before the
law does not mean the absolute
equality, namely the equal treatment of men without regard to individual, concrete circumstances, but it means the relative
equality, namely the principle to treat equally what are equal and unequally what are unequal... To treat unequal matters differently according to their inequality is not
only permitted but required.