Sentences with phrase «precedent setting judgments»

For more than 35 years, Brain & Injury Law has obtained excellent results for survivors winning more than $ 350 million in precedent setting judgments and settlements for survivors in British Columbia and worldwide.

This precedent setting judgment shows that obtaining legal counsel with experience, knowledge, and expertise in estate litigation can get you results previously unheard of.

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It included the $ 7 million precedent - setting judgment against the United Klans of America on behalf of the mother of Michael Donald, a young black man lynched by the Klan in Mobile, Alabama.

However, at the 19 June hearing, the Court found a loophole in the law to enable Laura and Eunan to have the humanist ceremony they want, without reaching a final judgment in their case, or setting a precedent for other couples also seeking humanist marriages.

In a judgment that sets a far - reaching constitutional precedent and upholds parliamentary sovereignty, the court ruled by a majority of eight justices to three that MPs and peers must give their consent before the government can trigger article 50 and formally initiate Brexit.

The Evans judgment has set a precedent which other borrowers can use to either challenge redemption figures calculated using the rule of 78, or to recover overpayments from their lenders.

These judgments often get appealed up to a court that is not bound by the precedent who can then set a new precedent.

Now, lower courts are bound by precedent, even if that precedent was set in the 1700s - indeed there are plenty of judgments where the judge says «I don't agree with agree with it but Lord Farquart said in Some Guy v Some Other Guy [1856]...».

Notable mandates: Represented physicians involved in providing care to Ashley Smith during the 2013 coroner's inquest; acted for Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne in a defamation action against Ontario Progressive Conservative party leader Tim Hudak and energy critic Lisa MacLeod; in Wise v. Iran, acted for a Canadian victim of a suicide bombing (executed by individuals who received material support from Iran) who sought leave to intervene in ongoing proceedings commenced by United States plaintiffs in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice seeking orders recognizing the enforceability in Ontario of judgments they obtained from a U.S. court against Iran totaling about $ 370 million; in Khadr v. Edmonton Institution, acted as lead counsel for an intervener, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, to argue that in interpreting Omar Khadr's sentence for the purpose of enforcing it in Canada, Correctional Services Canada was obliged to consider Khadr's right to liberty and principles of fundamental justice; acted for a physician in a malpractice claim in Moore v. Getahun, a precedent - setting case about restrictions on communication between counsel and experts in preparation of expert reports.

We have won more than $ 350 million dollars for clients in complex brain injury cases and precedent - setting settlements and judgments in BC and worldwide.

July 2013 — In a precedent - setting judgment, an Ontario court rules that HudBay can potentially be held legally responsible in Canada for the shootings, murder and gang - rape that occurred at HudBay's Fenix mining project in Guatemala.

During his career he has been involved in precedent - setting legal decisions and numerous judgments.

While it is true that judgments based on statutes will be binding only while the relevant parts of that statute is in force, I suppose my question deals with the scenario where judges would prefer to rule in a certain way, however are unable to do so because of statutes that haven't been amended to reflect changing community values, and they do not want to set a precedent in the meantime.

«If judgments are made on the basis of fairness rather than evidence then that could set a dangerous precedent»