Sentences with phrase «significant appeals involving»

But, like most appellate lawyers, he is a generalist and at GMSR has also handled multiple significant appeals involving healthcare, family law, personal injury and bankruptcy.

Not exact matches

Presumably, if the idea of God is to be even minimally significant, some sort of religious experience is necessary.16 This appeal to religious experience is itself a qualified one, since Hartshorne is prepared to argue that positivism can not exhibit a coherence in its basic life principles that is comparable to a theistic position.17 So he operates in general on the assumption that the crucial issues involved in man's attempts to conceptualize God can and must be adjudicated by a rigorous analysis and criticism of the various views of God which are logically possible.

The Supreme Court of Canada has now heard an appeal from an Alberta First Nation that, if successful, could have a significant impact on First Nations» role in the creation of legislation where it involves their treaty rights.

Importance: The Court of Appeal noted support decisions are fact driven, involve considerable discretion, and should not be overturned unless the decisions reveals: 1) an error in principle; 2) a significant misapprehension of the evidence; or 3) unless the award is clearly wrong; Hickey v Hickey, [1999] 2 SCR 518 (SCC) at para. 11.

The appeal court's decision is «significant and important» as one of the first racial profiling findings by the court that doesn't involve law enforcement agents, Pieters told Legal Feeds via e-mail.

A 5 - member panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal released a significant, 150 - paragraph reasoned decision this morning involving conflicts of laws and when Ontario should take jurisdiction over out - of - province defendants — see:

We will continue to monitor developments arising from the Taylor Review and we are also awaiting the outcome of an appeal to the Supreme Court in another significant case on employment status involving Pimlico Plumbers.

The major issues on the appeal were the effect of an insurance covenant in a contract made between the plaintiff and one of the defendants (UPS) in a significant claim involving damage to vaccines stored in a temperature - controlled environment, and whether the defendants other than UPS, including Hilly's client, were entitled to take the benefit of the insurance covenant.

7.5 RULE: WCAT will normally grant the appellant's request for an oral hearing where the appeal involves a significant issue of credibility, where there are significant factual issues in dispute, and / or where there are other compelling WCAT reasons for convening an oral hearing (e.g. where an unrepresented appellant has difficulty communicating in writing or in English).

In some cases your lawyer may be willing to file an appeal on your behalf, but lawyers who are receiving contingency fees will typically only agree to handle an appeal if they believe that there is a significant chance of having a dismissal or verdict overturned, and of obtaining sufficient compensation after that reversal to cover the costs involved in the litigation, including the appeal and legal proceedings that occur after the appeal.

The appeal involves issues of general principle and public importance which are likely to affect, to a significant extent, persons other than the parties who are before it.