Sentences with phrase «supreme body of law»

The first - ever primer on Canada's Constitution for anyone who wants to understand the supreme body of law in the land.

* All countries have a supreme body of law, which may or may not be called a Constitution per se, and may not be contained within a single document.

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The foundation on which the Jewish establishment rested was the assumption that supreme and unquestionable authority resided in the Law of Moses and could be rightly exercised only by the governing body believed to be in true succession to the lawgiver.

In the federal employment anti-discrimination laws, a specific exception exists for religious bodies that discriminate on the basis of religion, and a couple of years ago, in the Hosanna - Tabor case, the Supreme Court held that the Constitution allows religious bodies to discriminate with respect to the employment of ministers.

The world becomes much more a body in which God lives than a machine in which the laws of mechanics reign supreme.

Parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament is the supreme law - making body: its Acts are the highest source of English law.

This is because the Supreme Court has ruled that, when a grant of regulatory authority «lay [s] down by legislative act an intelligible principle to which the person or body authorized to [act] is directed to conform», Congress is not unconstitutionally delegating its ability to make laws.

The umbrella body of Muslim faithfuls in Nigeria, the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), has announced its plan to embark on a nationwide protest against the Nigerian Law School over its law against the use of hijLaw School over its law against the use of hijlaw against the use of hijab.

PARENTEAU: It's testing these theories which are very similar against a body of state law, in different states as you just mentioned, and so it's probing, it's trying to find a breakthrough case where you can find a state supreme court willing to make a really bold decision finding not only a right to a healthy environment, or a safe climate, stable climate, but also finding a duty on the part of the government to take real tangible action to address that.

With its authority the Supreme Court has created two bodies that handle the admissions process: The Standing Committee on Character and Fitness and The Board of Law Examiners.

The Supreme Court of Canada, in a 2002 landmark decision, held that governing bodies, such as the provincial law societies, have no jurisdiction generally to sanction or penalize prosecutors for the exercise of their prosecutorial discretion.

As an international law firm, our Yangon office includes lawyers who are admitted in Myanmar and are regulated by The Supreme Court of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and lawyers who are qualified in other jurisdictions and who are regulated by the relevant regulatory body in their place of admission.

In 1982 Parliament — that same body elected by the Canadian people that now complains so bitterly — decided that Canada needed not just another law on par with all other federal laws, but a Constitutional law elevated as the «supreme law of Canada» [section 52 (1)-RSB- that would set limits and restrictions on all government powers in accordance with fundamental rights and freedoms inherent to all Canadians.

«I am pleased to announce the nomination of Mr. Justice Nadon, whose extraordinary body of legal work — as a longtime judge on both the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal; judicial member of the Competition Tribunal; expert in maritime and transportation law with almost 20 years as a practicing member of the Barreau du Québec; arbitrator; teacher; and author — makes him an ideal candidate for the Supreme Court of Canada.»

In the test case that came before the Supreme Court in 2010, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the Court held that it was constitutional to prohibit a group of humanitarian legal professionals (including a retired U.S. judge) «from engaging in certain specified activities, including training PKK members to use international law to resolve disputes peacefully; teaching PKK members to petition the United Nations and other representative bodies for relief; and engaging in political advocacy on behalf of Kurds living in Turkey and Tamils living in Sri Lanka.&raqLaw Project, the Court held that it was constitutional to prohibit a group of humanitarian legal professionals (including a retired U.S. judge) «from engaging in certain specified activities, including training PKK members to use international law to resolve disputes peacefully; teaching PKK members to petition the United Nations and other representative bodies for relief; and engaging in political advocacy on behalf of Kurds living in Turkey and Tamils living in Sri Lanka.&raqlaw to resolve disputes peacefully; teaching PKK members to petition the United Nations and other representative bodies for relief; and engaging in political advocacy on behalf of Kurds living in Turkey and Tamils living in Sri Lanka.»

The request for a preliminary ruling by the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Supreme Court of the Netherlands) is part of a growing body of case - law on the interpretation of Article 3 (1) of the InfoSoc Directive (Directive 2001 / 29 / EC).

Avvo General Counsel Josh King on the Supreme Court's decision in North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission: The court made no bones about it, siding with the FTC: the regulatory bodies of self - regulated professions (like dentistry and the law) only get immunity from antitrust liability if they are «actively supervised» by -LSB-...]

The invitation to participate in the survey was found on Lexum's Supreme Court of Canada's decisions web site (scc.lexum.org/en) and sent through the related e-mail distribution list, so it could be that the respondents come out of a group more interested in free access to law than the general body of legal information users.

Limits of «reasonableness» on ethical and practice rules: Implied limits on the powers of professional regulatory bodies to superintend their professions was illustrated by the B.C. Supreme Court's decision that a college unreasonably exercised its by - law making powers in Sobeys West Inc. v. College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, 2014 BCSC 1414 (under appeal).

Most of its public officials, its legislative body and many of its law enforcement agents have openly defied the desegregation decision of the Supreme Court.

«I am pleased to announce the nomination of Mr. Justice Nadon, whose extraordinary body of legal work — as a longtime judge on both the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal; judicial member of the Competition Tribunal; expert in maritime and transportation law with almost 20 years as a practicing member of the Barreau du Québec; arbitrator; teacher; and author — makes him an ideal candidate for the Supreme Court of Canada,» said Prime Minister Harper.

The Supreme Court's decision in R (on the application of E) v Governing Body of JFS [2009] UKSC 15, [2009] All ER (D) 163 (Dec) provides a fine example of the law of unintended consequences.

Thereafter, in either of the above cases, whenever the governor transmits to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house his written declaration that no inability exists such vacancy shall be deemed to have terminated four days thereafter and the governor shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the chief justice and a majority of the associate justices of the supreme judicial court, or such other body as the general court may by law provide, transmit within said four days to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house their written declaration that the governor is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.

Whenever the chief justice and a majority of the associate justices of the supreme judicial court, or such other body as the general court may by law provide, transmit to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house their written declaration that the governor is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the office of governor shall be deemed to be vacant within the meaning of this Constitution.