Sentences with phrase «other common law jurisdictions»

Much of the current attention given to how the Canadian legal profession is regulated is a result of moves away from lawyer self - regulation in other common law jurisdictions.
... as the law has developed it would not be appropriate to deny to plaintiffs in this province a common law remedy available to plaintiffs in other provinces and in other common law jurisdictions.
Article 84 The courts of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall adjudicate cases in accordance with the laws applicable in the Region as prescribed in Article 18 of this Law and may refer to precedents of other common law jurisdictions.
Given the nature of legal research in Canada, where our domestic law is researched with reference to precedent from other common law jurisdictions such as Australia, England, New Zealand and the United States, they rejected the strictly jurisdictional approach being developed by the Library of Congress, with each jurisdiction in its own separate classification schedule.
While the United States and other common law jurisdictions such as the United Kingdom typically afford broad protections based on privileges that include the attorney — client privilege, attorney work - product privilege, and joint defence and common interest privileges, many civil law and other jurisdictions provide far fewer protections.
As the courts in Canada continue to struggle with difficult issues relating to the enforcement of arbitration agreements and the enforcement of arbitral awards, it is worth looking at how courts in other common law jurisdictions see the relationship between the courts and arbitration.
Unlike the position in most civil law and many other common law jurisdictions, the arbitration culture in Australia is far from mature.
To complicated it further, Hong Kong borrows from other common law jurisdictions when necessary.
If they were worth their hire, the lawyers would probably make Mills's reminiscences too hot to handle in most other common law jurisdictions as well.
Finally, in exceptionally complicated areas, where the subject breakdowns for US material are inadequate (for example, non-United States constitutional materials), special tables were developed to accommodate the requirements of other common law jurisdictions.
For example, works on American corporate law are classed under the number KF 1414, while works from other common law jurisdictions are classed under KF 1415, with an added jurisdictional cutter number of ZA2 for Canada, ZC2 for Great Britain, ZD2 for Australia, etc..
Homeopathy has been regulated in other common law jurisdictions, but continues to receive criticism from the scientific community.
The industry in the United States has grown steadily each year; and in the last few years, it has spread to other common law jurisdictions such as the UK and Canada.
In addition to its permanent justices, the Court of Final Appeal has up to 30 non-permanent rotating judges, who can be from other common law jurisdictions.
Similar to other common law jurisdictions, privilege in the US attaches to communications relating to legal advice and documents prepared in anticipated litigation.
Here it can be concluded that there is a significant amount of law reform activity aimed at moving toward more permissive regimes with respect to voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide taking place right now in Canada and in other common law jurisdictions.
X can be convicted of murder in all jurisdiction in the United States (and probably the other common law jurisdictions).
James has also advised in relation to, and provided expert testimony for, cases in a number of other common law jurisdictions.
I am not aware that this is ever done in Canada or England, or other common law jurisdictions.
To offer students holding a bachelor degree recognized by the Quebec Bar a training that gives them the opportunity to be admitted to the Bars of common law provinces or other common law jurisdictions
For example, U.S. firms will often merge with English law firms, or law firms from other common law jurisdictions.
A somewhat quixotic mix of law, social policy and public administration, this approach emigrated to Canada (and other common law jurisdictions) from its Scandinavian homeland and natural civil law milieu in the 1960s and 1970s.
During the 2011 judicial calendar year, Commission reports were cited 310 times in UK judgments, and 38 times in the judgments of other common law jurisdictions.
There are similarly high numbers for the caselaw in other common law jurisdictions.
Our team can assist in a broad variety of situations in the BVI and Cayman Islands, as well as other common law jurisdictions in the Caribbean region.
Nor is the High Court's view on Indigenous rights accepted in other common law jurisdictions.
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