Sentences with phrase «only legal evidence»

The insurance certificate or cover note issued by the insurance company constitutes the only legal evidence that the policy to which the certificate relates satisfies the requirements of the relevant law applicable in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Island of Guernsey, the Island of Jersey and the Island of Alderney.

Not exact matches

It is a question about which policymakers have aimed to provide clarity, not only from an ethical and legal standpoint but to offer parents the assurance that they've made the right choice based on the weight of current medical evidence.
Here it's important to note that Russia always had the view that there was no evidence that Iran's nuclear program was used for a weapons program so there were no legal grounds for adopting a chapter 7 UNSC resolution for which the requirement is not only that there must be a problem but that this problem must put international peace and security at risk.
Silver's lawyer, Michael Feldberg, in his opening statement, insisted the evidence would show that there was no corrupt agreement, quid pro quo or bribe involving his client, saying: «Everything that happened in this case was not only legal, it was designed to — and did — help people.»
Interventions are only allowed where the judge considers that the organisation's evidence will add value to the legal process.
The BHA was called to give evidence to the Commission's inquiry into whether there should be a change in law to legalise assisted dying in the UK and made the case that there are good ethical reasons not to limit legal assisted dying only to terminally ill people but to others who are incurably suffering, and to permit voluntary euthanasia as well as assisted dying to maximise autonomy of patients who wish to end their lives but are unable to do so themselves.
Indeed, legal scholars — and even Bharara, during public events — have suggested it is difficult to make cases if the only evidence surrounding an official action is a campaign contribution.
However, legal experts have warned against scrapping the reduction for a guilty plea, saying it is the only incentive for offenders to confess, thus ensuring victims do not have to give evidence in court and speeding up the whole justice process.
Ellen Yaroshefsky, professor of legal ethics at Hofstra University's Maurice A. Deane School of Law, said: «If the cooperator is the only evidence, then that's a problem.»
After five years of our evidence being ignored, we felt legal action was our only option.
It only threatens legal action against the biggest offenders, and in cases where the evidence appears overwhelming.
Yet another publisher complained that when confronted with the error of selling import editions, Amazon only agreed to stop selling the books once they were presented with evidence of their legal obligation to do so.
In fact, not only is it legal, on mainland Abaco, evidence of sea turtle slaughter is everywhere.
Rather than provide any real smoking gun evidence to the case, this last citation of Oreskes only begs for a pair of really troubling questions: are the lawyers for the San Mateo / Marin / Imperial Beach plaintiffs committing legal profession suicidal by citing evidence which is not available to read?
The CRU emails clearly show: - intent to hide / delete data — actual evidence of deliberate FOI avoidance (illegal in the UK - they only esaped prosecution due to a legal loop - hole which has now been closed).
Steven Goddard has amassed massive amounts of graphs and data evidence of fraud with GISS, NOAA, BOM ect., No one actually cares or is even looking at this study, Hopefully it is because no one cares about global warming anymore except a few warmist fanatics and skeptics etc... Only serious legal action funded by a wealthy skeptic or the like will actually make anyone notice that is the sad fact I'm afraid.
Schnare and Horner join a transition that not only rejects the scientific evidence for climate change, but has other members involved in legal bullying to go after climate scientists.
When there is evidence of an actual improper intent for taking official action, the legal standard for striking it down as discriminatory or violating the establishment clause is much lower than when intent can only be inferred, and the administration's public statements showed improper intent.
«The certification motion was straightforward only in the sense that there were no complex factual and legal issues and no expert evidence filed,» he wrote.
Indeed, in her review of evidence, in the context of clarifying customary international law, the international judge should not restrict her search to, for instance, only legal systems which share a common ideological basis.
I would have specialized in this back in law school if anyone had matched evidence classes with legal research classes («databases» only referred to Lexis and Westlaw way back when).
While we welcome respondent's introduction of empirical evidence on the effectiveness of Oregon's legal rules, its statistics are undermined by the fact that the Oregon average is computed from only two punitive damages awards.
«The Panel believes that the evidence presented showed by clear and convincing evidence that there was a scheme, an ill conceived plan to get together with a friend, sell paintings to each other, make claims against Pay Pal and then pursue legal action to recover not only the Money Back Guarantee, but treble damages and attorney's fees.»
No matter what kind of lawyer you are, documents are a substantial part of what you do, and they may be the only tangible evidence of your legal work.
If we're trying to reduce delays in our legal system, setting these arbitrary limits and then making people have to challenge them by introducing evidence to the contrary and challenging the practice of the analytical process employed in the particular case is only going to cause more significant delays.»
The evidence before the SCC indicated that repudiation had occurred only twice in the entire breadth of Alberta legal jurisprudence.
[5] While there is evidence to support the claim that only legal aid and / or pro bono will actually increase access to justice, there is no evidence to support that programs like the LLLT program will.
Legal principle must try «to keep the law abreast of the society in which [the judges] live and work»: «If the law should impose upon the process of «growing up» fixed limits where nature knows only a continuous process, the price would be artificiality and a lack of realism in an area where the law must be sensitive to human development and social change... Unless and until Parliament should think fit to intervene, the courts should establish a principle flexible enough to enable justice to be achieved by its application to the particular circumstances proved by the evidence placed before them.»
If it were simply a rule of evidence, a client could only prevent disclosure in legal proceedings.
When it comes to raising the bar of excellence in service, there's not much more compelling evidence that a legal vendor has not only raised the bar, but in fact set a new standard in service, than testimony from attorney - clients.
Their consensus was that, (a) even after two years, there was no evidence to date that the public will ever benefit from ABS in the ways naively claimed, and (b) the main (in the sense of virtually only) «benefit» has been that ABS allows access to outside capital to fund consolidations in the legal market place.
Not so the coalition, who proposed that legal aid be restricted to physical violence and, then, only where there was «clear objective evidence» of domestic violence.
What hasn't been emphasized sufficiently in the ABS debate is, the independence of the legal profession is essential to the independence of the judiciary — judges make decisions only on what evidence and argument that is provided by lawyers.
The Board misapplied the legal test in a second way when it said that «it could only consider evidence demonstrating an alcohol and drug problem within the bargaining unit» (emphasis added) instead of the workplace generally as long as there is not an overly broad approach to doing that.
Re: lawyers practising in association with non-lawyers: - Absolutely necessary because: (1) technology will be the basis of almost all laws, therefore we will have to practice with other experts in that technology; (2) records management law will be a major area of practice because, records are the most frequently used form of evidence and e-records depend for everything on their e-records management systems (ERMSs), and they must be compliant with the National Standards of Canada for e-records management, which standards require legal opinions, and every significant change to an ERMS requires a legal opinion re ability to produce records able to satisfy laws as to e-discovery, admissibility of evidence, privacy & access to information, electronic commerce, tax laws, and compliance with National Standards of Canada for e-records management; (3) all new technologies require a legal framework, which means more work for lawyers; and, (4) otherwise, other professions and service providers who now provide «legal information,» will begin to provide «legal advice» and other services that only lawyers should be providing.
At the Florida law firm of Stephen T. Holman, P.A., we not only bring together decades of experience and exceptional legal skills, we also bring a commitment to our clients that we evidence through the levels of service we provide, including:
The advisor will spend around 3 hours helping the client obtain the necessary evidence for legal aid and then advising her, but will only be paid # 86.
Only then is it possible to make sure that key evidence is preserved for later use and that important legal issues that could affect, or limit, your recovery are addressed head on.
'» [72] The documents described in (2) above issued by the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania and of Georgia and by the NOBC and CCJ evidence that, with respect to the regulation of legal services, it would be impossible for a state's review mechanism to provide any kind of «realistic assurance» because, in fact, there is no state review mechanism to speak of — the regulators have abdicated their regulatory responsibilities to persons who can only be described as «active market participants.»
Legal ethics authorities reason that the only effect of that kind of testimony is not to bring out relevant evidence but simply to prejudice the jury against the witness.
Under the present regime to qualify for legal aid applicants must submit evidence from a prescribed list only (eg, an unspent conviction, a letter from a doctor detailing injuries or a condition consistent with domestic violence or a domestic violence protection order) from a period of five years before the legal aid application.
Thus, the judge had a good deal of discretion in making his decision and would only be reversed by the appellate court if he made a legal error or if the evidence was insufficient as a matter of law.
In Canada a quick search turned up only four cases, and in each case the blog was relevant to the evidence not to the legal analysis:
Legal Aid Practitioners Group director Richard Miller says: «The evidence shows that the Birmingham and Liverpool PDS offices performed worse in quality terms than the average of all private practice firms in their region, while the other offices performed only a little better than average.
There is strong evidence, both quantitative and qualitative, that lawyers do not serve the entire potential market for legal services — in fact, it would appear that we serve only a small percentage of potential legal system users.
PRESUMPTION - a legal fiction that is used in certain cases, one which is rebuttable or refutable only by clear and convincing evidence that it is false.
With regard to which evidence is needed to prove eligibility for legal, I can only recommend that the mediator pays close attention to the Legal Aid Agency Guidance provided and focus particular attention on the month up to the date readlegal, I can only recommend that the mediator pays close attention to the Legal Aid Agency Guidance provided and focus particular attention on the month up to the date readLegal Aid Agency Guidance provided and focus particular attention on the month up to the date read more
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