Sentences with phrase «precedent in»

Suppose that you are convicted of a crime, but after your conviction, a court holds as a binding precedent in another case, that the crime that you were convicted of is unconstitutional or otherwise invalid in your circumstances (e.g. in a U.K. scenario, you are convicted of trespassing on the walkway to someone's front door since that is private property, but a later precedent hold that members of the public are legally entitled to use such a walkway unless there is a «no trespassing» sign posted which no one disputes wasn't present in your case).

In this year of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee, I hope (after nearly four years) I will be able to have the Queen's Counsel Act [BSBC 1996] Chapter 393 amended to include a «revocation clause for cause» and establish legal precedent in a Royally Unpalatable: Wrong Without A Remedy.

There is a precedent in the field of medicine (also not considered in Re A): that the content of a doctor's discussions can not be passed on to a child's parents (Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech AHA [1986] 1 AC 112; [1985] UKHL 7); nor can it be passed on to other parties or to other public authorities save in the narrowest of circumstances (W v Edgell [1990] Ch 359; [1990] 2 WLR 471).

Yellow Flag Fever: Describing Negative Legal Precedent in Citators.

You may have a very rare case that allows for it and if you do, you will probably set precedent in BC.

There has been enormous diversity as to how this phrase has been interpreted in various United States courts (it is always very fact - sensitive), but there is some precedent in Japan via lower courts that have made decisions regarding the phrase when deciding which applicable laws to apply in certain cases.

Protonotary Tabib, acting as case management judge, noted that there was no precedent in the Federal Court for such a procedure.

This tax refund case set the precedent in the interpretation and construction of local Philippine taxation laws on imposition of excise taxes to aviation fuel purchased by international carriers for consumption outside the Philippines and its treaty obligations arising from the Chicago Convention and various bilateral air service agreements with other countries.

Canadian Appeals Monitor Beer, Bedford, and beyond — the Supreme Court of Canada and the limits of precedent in R. v. Comeau

This may depend on a specific school, but, hopefully, the experts on here will know of some legal precedent in this regard: Let's say a student and a professor start a business together, where the...

To do useful comparative analysis requires an understanding of both models — a bit like citing a precedent in court, actually (and I DO understand how that is done).

Saffold said the decision was important not only to TWU «but also, we believe it sets an extremely valuable precedent in protection of freedoms for all religious communities and people of faith in Canada.»

She's surveying the field so she can trace the development of precedent in common - law systems before embarking on her bold new theory.

A circuit court normally hears cases before a 3 - judge panel; that panel's decision is normally binding precedent in federal courts throughout the circuit, including on future panels of the same circuit.

I'll admit that I'm unfamiliar with the legal precedent, but I do know the precedent in reality, and reality is overwhelmingly in your favor.

According to The Associated Press, there is some precedent in Zambia's favor.

Mexico's INDC sets a precedent in the G77 group, presenting the opportunity of building momentum and climate leadership in other countries.

«We are realising that the Anthropocene is a phenomenon on a massive scale — it is the transformation of our planet by human impact, in ways that have no precedent in the 4.54 billion years of Earth history.

In the 1980s, international conferences and new types of scientific groups began to shape the agendas of governments to a degree that had little precedent in other areas of world politics.

But make no mistake about it, the very nature of its existence is setting a dangerous precedent in our politics: That Congressmen, lacking any formal expertise, may find it in their province to directly refute scientific findings they deem inconvenient for political gain.

Gavin Scmidt and James Hansen have set a terrible precedent in this regard.

The current warming trend 1998 - 2005, has no precedent in recent Arctic memory, there were a few unique occasions when open water was seen during mid-winter over Barrow Strait, but this was at roughly 10 year intervals, now the intervals are totally irregular, but between Islands ice cover is not the best indication of warming, monthly temperature readings for the past 4 years or so, have been mostly above normal by 1 to the occasional 4 to 5 degrees.

Despite this concern, Paul Gipe, a U.S. renewable - energy analyst, said Ontario's proposed feed - in tariffs set a precedent in North America and ratchet up the competition for green - collar jobs.

The study concludes that the current downward trend in sea ice has no precedent in duration or scale of ice loss since 1850.

Consider the winter ice storm in Montreal in 1998 (too far north) and the hurricane in Brasil in 2004 (no known precedent in the South Atlantic).

With little to no precedent in extremely cold climates like ours, all parties agreed that this would become somewhat of a pilot project.

A more practical way to promote change within the sustainability movement would be to a) create narratives that portray and encourage the desired ideas and actions as historical and current reality or as historical precedent in support of a nuanced evolution within the current orthodoxy, rather than to portray them as a significant change in belief or practice; b) to portray the desired ideas and actions as long - held beliefs and practices of the most widely - admired leaders of the orthodoxy and as actions and ideas typical of orthodox believers; or c) to shame believers into seeing the desired beliefs and actions as acceptable means of atonement for past sustainability sin or as new «stones» that can be thrown at non-believers.

Add to all these the peculiar case of 1998 — a year of a powerful El Niño temperature oscillation in the Pacific that took temperatures to a level with no precedent in history — and the contradictions could be reconciled.

Public participation (described as access to information and judicial remedy, as well as participation in decision making) in development projects not only has legal precedent in international accords but also has been incorporated into the procedures of international lending organizations.

«New York is setting a national precedent in growing clean - energy businesses and battling climate change, and this momentum continues with the 76West Competition,» Governor Cuomo said.

The idea that Spencer's religious belief will necessarily taint his science and that he should not be published is one that has only one obvious precedent in history — Lysenko.

Overlain on the Figure 1.4 adaptation is a series of seven temperature rate - of - change trend lines spaced in 0.1 degree increments, each of which begins in the year 2007, and each of which also has a historical precedent in the Central England Temperature record.

The new results indicate that the similar and seemingly unstoppable melting of huge swaths of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) today by relatively warm ocean waters has precedent in an earlier era, members of the research team and other scientists said.

LONDON, 29 March, 2017 — Far below the Dead Sea, between Israel, Jordan and Palestinian territory, researchers have found evidence of a drought that has no precedent in human experience.

These kind of public attacks and behavior by The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, is without precedent in the scientific world, as far as I know.

An important precedent in the public disclosure of sources of research funding and related research matters that is especially relevant to the matter under discussion was set by the Center for Astrophysics in 2009/2010.

Placing so much emphasis solely on carbon footprints gives traction to foolhardy ideas such as carbon capture, iron seeding of the ocean and the expansion of nuclear power, which have no precedent in geologic history and seek to reduce net carbon emissions at the cost of much greater environmental damage.

There is certainly precedent in other federal environmental law for aggressive citizen action.

And this should give any reasonable person — and society — concern about the consequences of forcing the climate into a state that is without precedent in modern society.

I mean have we a precedent in the available records on climate to know this for certain?

One can temper that with studies of paleoclimate sensitivity, but the ensemble results still should be borne in mind, since doubling CO2 takes us into a climate that has no real precendent in the part of the climate record which has been used for exploring model sensitivity, and in many regards may not have any real precedent in the entire history of the planet (in terms of initial condition and rapidity of GHG increase).

But the color itself, an ochre set against a deep green, seems a genuine attempt to suggest the woman's skin tone, the like of which has no real precedent in Western painting.

He then elaborated on how Murray was setting a new precedent in the structure and introducing emotion in her seemingly geometric work.

Ms. Koether's radiant sketchiness and pop - culture flavoring has precedent in the work of Sigmar Polke and Kenny Scharf.

The work finds visual precedent in earlier sculptures with the same cast of characters and related configurations, such as Train, Mechanical, Pig Island (2007), Mountain (2009) and Static (2004 - 2009).

This evaluation of both visual and bodily experience via materials and space has a precedent in work of the 1960s and 1970s, something well understood before the mid - «60s, when dogmas hardened around different styles like Pop, Minimalism, Color Field painting, etc..

There's even good precedent in the success of abstract work over the last few years by younger artists who produced at similar volumes.

Noticeably, younger artists in the exhibition, such as Abigail DeVille and Brenna Youngblood, who incorporate found objects with hints of representational imagery, find precedent in the torn pieces of postcard landscapes and bits of exhibition invitations imbedded in Howardena Pindell's Autobiography: Japan (Shisen - dō, Kyoto)(1982).

As a new sculptural category, Louise Bourgeois's Cells «occupy a place somewhere between a museal panorama, a theater set, an environment or installation which, in this form and quantity, is without precedent in the history of art» (Julienne Lorz).

Abandoning Cubism with a completeness for which there was no precedent in either influence, he began to feel, think, and conceive almost exclusively in terms of open color.