Sentences with phrase «presented the law reform»

In addition to being litigators, mediators and advisors to individuals, organizations and business, Pink Larkin launched a full - time pro bono practice focused on systemic litigation that presents law reform possibilities for the poor — a first - in - Canada approach to actively providing access to justice.

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The basis of Josiah's reform, centering the cult practice of Yahwism exclusively in Jerusalem, purifying and simplifying Yahweh's worship, and rearticulating the «law of Moses,» was the original unit of the present book of Deuteronomy, that is, chapters 12 - 26 (perhaps also including chapter 28), or even the larger block, chapters 5 - 26.

Legislators considering changing their divorce laws should consider the full range of legal options available to them, such as those compiled by Americans for Divorce Reform and posted on their Internet «Divorce Reform Page «69 This site presents arguments for and against the initiatives as well as model legislation.

In addition, the Poloncarz administration authored and presented 19 reform proposals, two of which have been adopted by the State Legislature and signed into law.

Education reform groups like StudentsFirstNY and the New Teacher Project say a lawsuit against New York State inspired by the Vergara case could change local tenure laws and present a long - awaited opportunity to legally assess long - term sticking points with the unions, such as merit pay and seniority rules.

The Länder, which are largely responsible for university legislation, are at present experiencing a wave of new university laws which imitate rather than shape the reforms developed by the universities.

This issue brief, which was funded by the Commonwealth Fund, notes that the federal health reform law might help as many as six million «lawfully present» immigrants either find affordable health insurance through health insurance exchanges or enroll in Medicaid.

The report outlines the opportunities as well as the obligations that the federal health reform law will bring to lawfully present immigrants, people who have obtained green cards or visas allowing them to work, live and study in the United States.

Supporters of the landmark reform law that created local councils to govern Chicago's schools will gather at the Illinois capitol this week to present strategies for amending the law to make its voting procedures constitutional.

The new law presents both opportunities and dangers for the testing resistance and reform movement.

Passed in 2010, the California law enables parents whose children attend a persistently failing school to «trigger» reforms, including replacing staff or turning the school into a charter, by presenting their school district with a petition containing at least 51 percent of their signatures.

Congress took its first real stab at reforming the law in October 2011 as Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, of Iowa, and Republican Sen. Mike Enzi, of Wyoming, presented a comprehensive revision to No Child Behind.

His book Redemption presents the No - Kill Equation (the formula for ending the killing of animals in shelters), promotes the need to legislate no - kill through shelter reform legislation, and includes a proposed model law.

Bankruptcy filings on track to hit 1.4 million in 2009 — Spurred on by high unemployment, bankruptcies have steadily climbed toward the level present before a 2005 reform law that was supposed to hold down filings.

Also at the annual meeting, the MBF presented Attorney General Martha Coakley with its 2011 Great Friend of Justice Award and heard remarks from Allan Rodgers, who recently retired as executive director of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute after 41 years there.

The problem is that both past and present governments have simply not had the stomach for the reform of family law; it is the ultimate political hot potato.

2014, «Law Reform Commission's and Manitoba's Review of the Environmental Licensing regime for Manitoba,» presented at the Manitoba Environmental Industries Association's «Emerging Issues» conference

In addition to its work with community groups, Legal Research and Reform began exploring a special problem area in consumer law with the view of presenting a brief to the provincial government recommending rReform began exploring a special problem area in consumer law with the view of presenting a brief to the provincial government recommending reformreform.

Indeed, the greatest and most effective form of «patent reform» might simply be to knock these self - impressed patent litigators and Federal Circuit judges off their pedestals, recognize patent law as simply just another area of law in general, and present the issues to a jury without delay, followed by a review, if appropriate, in the appropriate Circuit Court of Appeals.

Regardless of whether my proposal finds fertile soil, it seems to me that ruminating on our emotional responses to family breakdown might offer some valuable insights toward the reform of our present management of family law disputes.

The presenters are part of the larger dialogue about gender - based reform in criminal law — its past, present, and future.

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In 2011, Congress passed legislative reforms to patent law in response to growing concerns that the patent system was unable to deal with challenges presented by several issues:

In 2011, Congress passed legislative reforms to patent law in response to growing concerns that the patent system was unable to deal with challenges presented by the ever growing number of patent applications being submitted and the increasing complexity of the technology for which a patent is being requested.