Sentences with phrase «own legal infrastructure»

By establishing a standard for measuring such efforts, B Corporations are a step in that direction — giving social entrepreneurs a place in the legal infrastructure of the corporate system and investors a framework for assessing their performance.

Without that legal infrastructure, companies will find it exceedingly difficult to obtain a social license to operate at the local level.

To deal with the coming profusion of tokens we will need review sites like Coinlist, portfolio management tools like Prism, exchanges like GDAX, and many other pieces of supporting technical and legal infrastructure.

In a State of the City address titled «More Justice,» City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito outlined Thursday a plan to reinvent the city's criminal justice system and target some of the most systematically troubled parts of the city's legal infrastructure.

There isn't actually a legal infrastructure in place for you to have a legal business.

But its legal infrastructure is inadequate.

Going from paper to electronic records will require as much change in our legal infrastructure as going from horses to motor vehicles.

There is a price to be paid in necessary legal infrastructure of laws and courts if it is to provide adequate controls and safeguards for the technology upon which our lives are dependent and judges» decision are based; see: «Guilt By Mobile Phone Tracking Shouldn't Make «Evidence to the Contrary» Impossible» (pdf.; and see the summary, using the same title on Slaw, October 4, 2016).

The corresponding increases in legal infrastructure necessitated by electronic records and information management technology will be much greater and develop much faster.

Electronic records management is a complex technology, which makes current legal infrastructure of statutes, guidelines, and case law that controls the use of electronic records as evidence very inadequate because it ignores these facts: (1) electronic records technology, and pre-electronic paper records technology are very different technologies — each requires its own unique legal infrastructure; (2) the many serious defects frequently found in electronic records management systems (ERMS's), and... [more]

Consider in comparison, the massive increase in the size and complexity of the legal infrastructure of laws, agencies, officials, police forces, educational facilities, courts, judges, and lawyers made necessary by motor vehicle transportation's replacing horse - powered transportation.

She states that it puts England & Wales in «a much better position to meet the challenges of building better legal infrastructure for an increasingly complex world.»

In «Legal Infrastructure and the New Economy,» [5] Hadfield provides fascinating and valuable insight on the challenges that companies like Google, Mozilla and Cisco Systems face in obtaining legal services.

She rightfully points out that rather than objecting to rules, and seeking to avoid them, we should be happy for their existence and, especially, we should appreciate and be glad for how our «legal infrastructure» protects us.

[108] This suggestion ironically echoes Hadfield's description of a «lousy legal infrastructure» where courts can be bribed by those richer and better connected, and it exacerbates the failure of law to provide equal protection for all citizens.

Other cases include Uganda, Tanzania's border neighbour made its own attempt to harmonise its legal infrastructure with the establishment of a specialist commercial court to address the needs of businesses.

The more complex the technology, the more ways it can break down and fail, and the more demanding must be its maintenance procedures, and the more demanding and complex must be the legal infrastructure needed to regulate its use, to guarantee the reliability of the evidence it produces, and guarantee a sufficiently low probability of wrongful convictions and judgments.

More troubling is the fact that legal infrastructure is simply not on the research agenda in our universities.

To review the technical, financial and legal infrastructure requirements, evaluate the current developments and identify major barriers;

Another answer is that lawyers practicing alone in small consultancies don't have access to business and legal infrastructures that would make practice better both for the lawyer and for the client.

Some of the transactions could involve a structure that emerges from a different jurisdiction in which you could find a sound, legal infrastructure to support and allow for such structure, but which the local law may not necessarily support.

Started in 2005, CodeX organises technologies into legal document management, legal infrastructure and computational law.

Only one factor (improvements to the national arbitration law) directly related to formal legal infrastructure.

I've known lawyers who dramatically underestimate how time consuming and expensive it can be to build and maintain legal infrastructure.

As for the father's lack of apparent remorse, he just seems to me to be able to see past the emotion to the legal infrastructure of the situation, which includes the best interests of his three surviving children who do NOT have meningitis.

Secondly, the Canadian Payment Association, which administers the clearing and payment of all items in Canada, had to have the necessary legal infrastructure in place to enable the exchange of image capture payment items through the CPA system.

Blockchain technology may be the most important addition to legal infrastructure since the Norman Conquest gave rise to the common law.

Similarly, close to two - thirds (62 %) of respondents to the 2010 White & Case and Queen Mary University survey Choices in International Arbitration stated that a jurisdiction's «formal legal infrastructure» remains the most important factor when choosing a seat for international arbitration.

For example, motor vehicle transportation would be too dangerous to use without its current legal infrastructure, which must be vastly different and greater than that which controlled horse - powered transportation systems.

Also at McGill, «you are surrounded by both teachers and their peers who are very much questioning the very work that they do... the structure in which the legal infrastructure is set up,» she says.

Behold, I bring you a third dimension to property rights (Control) pervading our legal infrastructure based on the Internet of Things.

Four billion people around the world live without basic legal infrastructure — can we build a blockchain - based global contracting platform to allow small traders in poor and developing countries to reliably participate in global supply chains?

In summation, «records management law» will bring these necessary innovations as part of the legal infrastructure controlling the use of electronic records technology:

Electronic records management is a complex technology, which makes current legal infrastructure of statutes, guidelines, and case law that controls the use of electronic records as evidence very inadequate because it ignores these facts: (1) electronic records technology, and pre-electronic paper records technology are very different technologies — each requires its own unique legal infrastructure; (2) the many serious defects frequently found in electronic records management systems (ERMS's), and in their software; (3) the electronic records «system integrity concept» (records integrity requires proof of records system integrity) in the electronic records provisions of the Evidence Acts (e.g. ss.

ERMS technology will require at least as much legal infrastructure as do motor vehicles.

The function of the legal infrastructure we're talking about is to provide a reliable framework for interaction — which mere words on paper can't be without a lot of other features being in place.

The legal infrastructure they support is the legal infrastructure that makes them better off than the alternative.

In this book, Hadfield deplores the «abysmal» state of «our knowledge about legal infrastructure.»

It exposes the consequences for access to justice of an important element of legal infrastructure — the use of legal institutions to generate revenue — an element that Simpson persuasively argues has not received sufficient attention to date.

Regardless of Sessions's future in office, his exclusion from the all - star cast signaled that the Trump administration — like most policy thinkers — has a blind spot for the most fundamental economic infrastructure of all: our legal infrastructure.

Legal infrastructure includes not only the legal rules you can find in law books but also the quality — and cost — of the legal advice, planning, and solutions you can access.

The dream of Neom should be for a bridge to the legal world that can sustain a better life for all Saudis, and a case study of how a reinvented legal infrastructure — propelled by new technology — can be the lynchpin for a more prosperous and just society.

All countries, rich and poor, are today facing the challenge of a deep mismatch between their legal infrastructure and the pace of change brought about by globalization, digitization, and the technologies of the future.

More precisely you will be looking for good legal infrastructure — the term I use to describe all the legal resources that will make a difference to your venture.

She deplores that «legal infrastructure is simply not on the research agenda in our universities.»

She continues: «there is next to no research on the fundamental questions of how most effectively to provide legal infrastructure in different environments.»

She bemoans that «research on how to build legal infrastructure in the face of mounting costs, with the dramatic upheavals of the complex global economy, or in places where legal order is absent or broken» is barely on the radar.

Two of the four components for the necessary legal infrastructure are already in place: (1) Canada has an authoritative national standard for e-records management, which is based upon well established international standards; and, (2) there is a developed profession of experts in e-records management.

But the present legal infrastructure for this new technology is inadequate.

The development of such legal infrastructure is necessary given: (1) the dependence of every legal service upon e-records; (2) e-records are the most frequently used kind of evidence; and, (3) other widely used areas of the law such as privacy and access to information, electronic commerce, taxation, and criminal law, are dependent upon e-records.