Sentences with phrase «to make new law»

It's not often lawyers actually get to help make new law.

However, a total lack of precedent can lead to many problems, especially where a court essentially has to make new law where no previous law existed.

In that case, the judge is in some sense making new law.

I am sure there is a legal reason we do not do this, so lets look at making new law that makes life for the majority of instances easier!

Notwithstanding these petitions, this Court can not make new law based upon a political party's agenda,» Richmond County Supreme Court Judge Phil Minardo wrote in a 19 - page decision issued Friday.

«This is as much about a better way of making new law as it is about putting bereaved people at the centre of a service designed to help them.

In recent years Angela has been known for her work on the Pilots litigation which made new law on the meaning of»em ployer» in pension legislation and the Nortel case, involving the pursuit and recovery of a # 2bn deficit in proceedings in Europe and North America.

If you do not want other nations out number you in your land, it is either you should not allow immigration or make new laws as to Divorce and Marriages beside taking into consideration allowing polygamy if permited by the first female partner whether she is well giving birth or sick unable to give birth... You can not go on wiping reducing nations every time they exceed your populations??!

Notwithstanding these petitions, this Court can not make new law based upon a political party's agenda,» Minardo wrote.

«Thank you to all those who courageously stood up for our students to make this new law possible,» said Bree Dusseault, Executive Director at Green Dot Public Schools Washington.

These Court decisions make new law that are precedents in later judicial reviews.

Even if the legislature does make a new law to protect Oklahomans, they may find themselves hopelessly tied up in court against big agricultural companies and conglomerates who are happy to waste taxpayer money on frivolous litigation while their companies continue to rake in huge profits at the expense of ordinary Oklahomans.

We can all cite examples where it seems that the lawyers (especially the House of Lords panels) have avoided making new law in their judgments.

Michael Ellis, the new MP for Northampton North, also noted Labour's obsession with making new laws:

Now, consider the US government making a new law.

In his words, «we are committed to working with the present Lagos State administration to make the new law succeed and we have already set up a technical committee to come up in ten days, with directions, recommendations and position of the Institution on the law in order to collaborate with the government for a better society.

The movement is getting so big I am afraid that cities are going to pick up on it and start making new laws about it right before I build mine.lol I too am from Southern Oregon, lived in Medford almost my entire life, my question to you is about water.

Though it ultimately held that it was not actually making new law, it clearly understood the significance of this case and the ripples that would run through the legal community.

Defended financial institution in $ 50 million dispute under revolving credit agreement, making new law under UCC Article 9 - 318 with respect to liability of assignee of accounts receivable

However two recent unpublished family court opinions make new law — or would make law if they were published and therefore -LSB-...]

When judges articulate «new» common law rules or principles are they in fact making new law or merely declaring the common law as it has always been?

Some of the efforts in Tallahassee involve making new laws and increasing state regulation; others dismantled state oversight and decrease the State of Florida's regulatory responsibilities.

Instead of making a new law to get Sir Fred's pension back, why doesn't the government use exiting legislation which can take pensions away for gross negligence.

«Our students, families, staff and community supporters have helped shape the the culture of Destiny Middle School and made this new law possible,» Dusseault said.

«The SJC has made new law in holding that, yes, in fact, attorneys can be liable [for their negligence] even when there's contributing judicial error,» Ms. Deluhery told the publication.

While these dismissals do not make new law, they do solidify the Court of Appeals» decisions.

Some groups such as the Lutherans argued that this made a new law out of the gospel, washed out all real theological concern in favor of sheer action, and was a distortion of the full gospel of judgment and redemption.

The man is committing numerous crimes including fraud, libel, child abuse, defamation, slander, harassment, etc. — so just take one of those things — like child abuse — and make a new law that covers one of the crimes he is committing and make the punishment whatever you like.

But they couldn't make a new law, in the sense of forbidding a particular activity.

Court officials said the display focused on a mix of civil and criminal cases in which the appeals court made new law, and was tilted toward convictions because appeals generally occur in a criminal case after a conviction.

I believe he was simply using the death penalty as an illustrative example of a contentious public policy issue with a tenuous link to appropriations... the point being, to what degree does the Governor get to «make new law,» if you will, in budget bills?

«If we allow this case in this instance, not only will the federal court be making new law that is contrary to New York law, but it would be opening the floodgates (to) thousands and thousands and thousands, millions of plaintiffs who have been exposed, (but) who have no present injury.»

Here again, one finds Scalia willing to abandon originalism not to follow precedent but to break from it (or at least to make new law).

How laws are made Invite students to create a graphic organizer to illustrate the steps elected representatives take to make a new law.

For U.S. Department of Education officials instead to make new law themselves, is arrogant, usurpatious, and illegal.

While the authority to grant waivers is very broad, it doesn't extend to making new law.

Angela Merkel, step in and make a new law that German cars need to look somewhat respectable and presentable...

With this constitutional amendment, the Oklahoma legislature will be unable to make new laws to protect Oklahoma citizens from agricultural practices that are hurting Oklahoma families and communities.

In a 2007 California dispute over community property (In re Marriage of Ross), the court gracefully declined to make new law and «to boldly go where no [rational analysis] has gone before.»

And he made new law on the extent to which litigants can badger a non-party in depositions: see 197 F. 3d 922 (1999) MISCELLANEOUS DOCKET MATTER # 1, Appellees, v. MISCELLANEOUS DOCKET MATTER # 2, Appellants.

It does not consider a lot of things, including the quality of the decisions, whether the decisions she wrote were particularly complex (i.e. a 2 paragraph decision dismissing a simple appeal is not the same as a 200 paragraph decision that makes new law) and how often she was in the majority on a decision (if you're a frequent dissenter, then you're more likely to write reasons given that you're being chosen from a smaller pool of potential authors).

But the scope of the recall, he wrote then, could present the appropriate opportunity «to test the old assumptions and make some new law in this area.»

Michael, as well, has extensive experience with complex financial issues in divorce; a recent Illinois Appellate case that made new law in the area of divorce financial assets was tried by Michael in Will County, Illinois in 2016.

-- it makes new law by dealing with a novel situation or by extending the application of existing principles

As he put it in Pugh v. Duke of Leeds in the same year, the proper judicial task was «not to make new law, but to vindicate the old from misrepresentation.»