Sentences with phrase «relevant international treaties»

As RCICAL has been around since 1989, and because Nigeria is a signatory to the New York Convention as well as other relevant international treaties, arbitration has become increasingly accepted within Nigeria.

In order to properly advise these familiesfamily lawyers must have a firm understanding of private international lawprinciples, jurisdictional rules and the relevant international treaties and conventions.

Other relevant international treaties do not impose an obligation on States to allow foreigners to enter their territory in order to apply for international protection.

If the children have been taken to a country with which the UK is a signatory to a relevant international treaty (such as The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980) then the left behind parent can seek the children's return using this treaty.

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These considerations are made even more relevant because of present United States commitments to international treaties on human rights, which could conceivably, at some time, put United States positive laws relating to abortion and the judges who implement them at variance with and in violation of a future international consensus on that issue.»

However, in the application of international law, relevant norms deriving from a treaty prevail between the parties over norms deriving from customary law.»

For example, a scientific study can set out the relevant evidence to help solve a disagreement between two countries, or can provide benchmarks by which international treaties are regulated.

The Coalition's work is grounded in the principles and laws set forth in the International Bill of Human Rights and all other relevant international human rights treatiInternational Bill of Human Rights and all other relevant international human rights treatiinternational human rights treaties and norms.

We also monitor compliance and implementation of New Zealand's international obligations in accordance with the requirements of the international conventions New Zealand has signed, and have prepared shadow reports for relevant United Nations treaty bodies to be considered alongside official reports.

The goal is to be «policy relevant, but not policy prescriptive,» especially in anticipation for the international climate treaty that's scheduled to be hashed out in Paris next year.

Co-operation with third countries (those outside the European Economic Area) is dependent on their ratification of relevant international agreements or the existence of a mutual assistance treaty agreed between them.

Thus, the statutory meaning of the relevant provision was not to be restrictively interpreted because some of the activities made offences under the 2000 Act were criminalised as a result of the UK's international treaty obligations.

Doing so effectively calls for research skills beyond those that students acquire through working with domestic legal resources.56 Mary Rumsey explains that students must go beyond their dependence on domestic databases to learn how to access the different resources relevant to international and comparative law.57 She describes, as examples, the need to find customary international law through treaties, laws of other nations, diplomatic correspondence, and scholarly works, and she points out that civil law research requires much more emphasis on statutes and scholarship than on the case law that plays such a dominant role in American legal analysis.58 While there have been significant advances in access to foreign and international legal sources, there are still substantial barriers, 59 and the research methods needed to obtain these resources can be different (in ways either subtle or stark) from those that apply to domestic law.

With chapters written by leading international experts, topics covered include: the government's role in energy ownership and development; industry standards for establishing liability; legal concepts excusing performance during periods of commodity price or supply volatility; right of access to infrastructure; barriers to entry for foreign companies; criminal, health and safety, and environmental liability; sovereign boundary disputes; and relevant energy treaties.

The Court identified three relevant rules of applicable international law that the GC should have taken into consideration: the principle of self - determination, the territorial scope - rule codified in Article 29 VCLT, and the principle of the relative effect of treaties (also known as the pacta tertiis principle).

It therefore remains for all intents and purposes a dualist jurisdiction in which those international treaties requiring domestic implementation must be adopted by the relevant legislature before becoming binding in Canada.

In the 1987 Labour trilogy, Dickson attempted to introduce a distinction between general international human rights law which served as the context for the Charter's adoption and was therefore «relevant and persuasive» in Charter interpretation, and human rights treaties to which Canada is a party, which would serve as the benchmark for all Charter rights.

It declared that Syria and Egypt's existing international treaties and obligations would remain valid within the relevant territory and it was admitted to the UN.

Any lawyer who needs to consider international matters, and increasingly any lawyer whose work involves domestic legislation with any international connection, is at risk of encountering a treaty provision which requires interpretation, whether the treaty provision is explicitly in issue or is the source of the relevant domestic legislation.

It will explore the WTO's interaction with different sources of international law, including regional trade agreements like the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), as well as Bilateral Investment Treaties and analyze relevant U.S. constitutional and statutory provisions concerning domestic and foreign trade.

The Crown had untrammelled power to act on the international plane, but that did not extend to withdrawing from the relevant EU Treaties where such withdrawal would, as the secretary of state conceded, have a major effect on the content of domestic law.

A. International treaties and the interpretation of Statutes B. International treaties and the development of the common law C. International law and the Constitution D. Relevant human rights norms

The relevant parts of international treaties which enshrine these rights and to which Australia is a signatory are scheduled to this document.

These norms together with the various treaties [7] and other international standards provide principles relevant to the formulation of government policies and legislation which affects Indigenous people.

Recommendation 3: That the Government provide formal legislative recognition of Aboriginal Customary Law in the Sentencing Act by inserting a new section into the Act which requires magistrates and judges to determine in all matters whether Aboriginal Customary Law is a relevant consideration and if so, to provide appropriate weight to customary law in sentencing decisions and to apply it consistently with human rights standards (as defined in the six human rights treaties to which Australia is a party and through the instruments of the United Nations and under international law).

Not only was the Declaration informed by and drafted with Indigenous peoples, it catalogues all human rights contained in international treaties and mechanisms that are particularly relevant to Indigenous peoples being able access their lands, territories and resources.