Sentences with phrase «significant legal power»

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Even if the so - called Clean Power Plan survives the legal gantlet, however, the United States will still fall short in meeting its pledged reductions for 2025 without significant additional efforts, according to researchers at the federal government's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.

«The significant factor in the current situation is that, since 2010, the government has undermined local authorities» legal powers to deliver new school places.

The significant factor in the current situation is that, since 2010, the Government has undermined local authorities» legal powers to deliver new school places.

The passage of SB620 in the Senate is, without a doubt, a significant first step in providing Michigan parents with the legal power to transform underachieving schools that are failing their children.

While the Paris agreement and the Clean Power Plan are almost certainty dead and gone, significant legal and political obstacles confront Republicans wishing to go further.

[xii] The path to a liberalised power market is long — another round of voting is held in 2018 before a legal framework for a deregulated electricity market is implemented by 1 July 2023 — but this vote is hugely significant in demonstrating the desire of consumers in this region for a fair marketplace that enables the same access to renewables as well as incumbent fossil fuels.

In its Judgment of 20 September 2012 in case T ‑ 154 / 10 French Republic vs. European Commission, the General Court of the EU (GC) has established a new test of «bankruptcy - proofness» as an advantage contrary to Article 107 (1) TFEU that may generate a significant shake up in the control of State aid granted (implicitly) to establishments of an industrial and commercial character (EICC, or EPIC in their French acronym)-- ie legal entities governed by public law which have distinct legal personality from the State, financial independence and certain special powers, including the performance of one or more public service tasks.

During this time, the «courts, not acting as traditional regulators of the legal profession, but as appliers of external limits on the profession's power to police its members, for the first time entered the fray and forced significant change on an unreceptive legal profession.»

The Committee find that the Bill risks undermining the legal certainty it seeks to provide, gives overly - broad powers to ministers, and has significant consequences for the relationship between the UK Government and the devolved administrations.

Sonnedix plays a significant role in solar power generation globally and we are proud to support them,» says Edward B. Koehler, who led the Hunton & Williams legal team and has served as counsel in respect of more than 16,000 MW of generating capacity and US$ 6.5 billion in capital markets, commercial, leveraged and structured financings.

It must have been a decade ago in DC when I heard Dov Seidman tell a group of sceptical partners that he (and an adjunct group of academics, powered with technology) could seize a significant part of the market for business clients who wanted legal research.

«Decisions concerning: (1) the problem of unaffordable legal services and its consequences to the population; (2) the great power of instant and wide - spread communications provided by the internet, the social media, and the news media in dealing with those consequences; (3) the self - regulation debate; and, (4) all matters as significant as the regulation of the provision of legal services by other professions, should each be considered as to their impact upon the other three.

«We spend a significant amount of time determining what that bonus structure looks like — not so much the quantum, but the structure --- and then to ensure that it actually ties not only to the objectives of the corporation, but also that of the law division,» says Brian Hilbers, Bruce Power's chief legal counsel and vice president, emergency management.

The legal industry itself is in crisis, and without significant change there is concern we will lose our power to self - regulate entirely.

Many self - represented litigants feel that despite the merits of their case, the legal fire - power on the other side puts them at a significant disadvantage.

One last thought on leadership. When truly disruptive innovation collides with any market, historically the big boys don't survive. They are lacking the bold leadership required to make major course corrections. The top ten most profitable law firms - 9 of which have no blogging presence to speak of — will lose their position if they don't join the party. As Kevin O'keefe noted this week, anonymity online is a losing proposition, while others disagree. We aren't just talking about blogging though, it's the whole social media system - Legal Onramp, JDSupra, and even LinkedIN, Twitter, and Facebook. These are powerful tools, and real leaders will understand, like their younger counterparts, it is much more significant to harness the power of fire, than to simply try and stamp it out for fear of getting burned.

In McGuffie, Justice Doherty also relied upon the power imbalance rationale that was emphasized by Chief Justice McLachlin in R v Suberu, [2009] 2 SCR 460, where she and Justice Louise Charron wrote jointly, at para. 40: ``... [T] he purpose of s. 10 (b) is to ensure that individuals know of their right to counsel, and have access to it, in situations where they suffer a significant deprivation of liberty due to state coercion which leaves them vulnerable to the exercise of state power and in a position of legal jeopardy.

If on the other hand one views the 2008/2009 crisis as a once - in - a-generation event that has caused a significant economic reset — that the balance of power in legal services has shifted in favour of corporate counsel and the «more for less» mantra is more than just a passing fad, outside counsel should pay very close attention to the lesson learned here.

She is the legal mind behind the significant and successful commercial negotiations for Capital Power, including leading the legal and regulatory teams involved in the acquisition of a 50 % interest in the Shepard Energy Centre.

The fact of the matter is that, when a family mediation business decides to offer family mediation legal aid, it hands over a significant amount of the decisions making power to the LAA, in return for the benefit of being able to offer an every decreasing section of society who qualify for legal aid, their family mediation services.