Sentences with phrase «unanimous judgment of»

On appeal, May LJ gave the unanimous judgment of the Court of Appeal.
Sir Anthony Clarke MR, delivering the unanimous judgment of the Court of Appeal, was clear that (para 12) «there was an interference with the liberty of the appellants which amounted to the tort of false imprisonment unless it was lawful».
According to the unanimous judgment of the seven member panel of justices, the President who has the sole power of appointment vested in him is not bound by the advice of any statutory body to appoint anyone.
The unanimous judgment of a three - man panel of the appeal court also dismissed the suit which Melaye had filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja to challenge the validity of the recall process.
It is no coincidence that the near unanimous judgment of science fiction writers is that a world dominated by technological hardware is a world in which individual human self - identity is missing.
The complainants lost with the unanimous judgment of a panel of three judges — two appointees of Obama and one of Clinton.

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Gawker Media Group has put itself up for sale (bids are due Monday afternoon) in part to satisfy the legal judgment of a unanimous jury that ruled against Gawker and assessed damages of $ 140 million, proving that there are consequences for violating privacy.
(The unanimous moral judgment of a body of Christian theologians on most of these matters is stated in the report on «Atomic Warfare and the Christian Faith» issued by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.)
The claim is made that the Bible is still authoritative, for on the fundamentals of the faith — what C. S. Lewis labels «Mere Christianity» — there is unanimous judgment.
The matter is quite analogous to the problem of selecting components for a «hi fi» set; here too one finds less than unanimous judgments.
The most significant reason for optimism is that the Supreme Court itself has made a number of decisions recently that protect religious freedom of institutions, not just of individuals, notably the 2012 Hosanna - Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC judgment, which was unanimous.
The Supreme Court, in a unanimous judgment, declared Makarfi as the authentic chairman of the party to put an end to the leadership crisis in the party.
Delivering unanimous judgment on the appeal, Justice Nasiru, said he decided to take great caution not to go out of bound since the tribunal was yet to deliver judgment on the main petition.
However, in considering the main appeal, a panel of five Justices of the Supreme Court in a unanimous judgment today resolved all the issues against the appellant (Daudu) and accordingly dismissed the appeal in its entirety.
A five - man bench of the court held in a unanimous judgment that Ezeonwuka was not the winner of the party's primary conducted ahead of the 2015 National Assembly election in his constituency.
In a unanimous judgment delivered by the Justice Ibrahim Saulawa - led panel, the appeal court nullified the Certificate of Return issued to Miller by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Justice Karakatsanis, writing for the unanimous Court, wrote that the Court of Appeal did not provide enough emphasis to the principles behind Rule 1.04 when determining summary judgments, and instead relied too heavily on the full appreciation test.
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Writing for a unanimous court, The Chief Justice, noted (at paragraph 31): «Nor is lack of originality alone a flaw in judgment writing; on the contrary, it is part and parcel of the judicial process.»
«I conclude that all the claims of Imperial [Tobacco] and the other tobacco companies brought against the government of Canada are bound to fail,» Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in the long, complex, and unanimous 9 - 0 judgment.
On 24 February 2014, the Court of Appeal delivered their unanimous judgment in the long awaited appeal in
On 24 February 2014, the Court of Appeal delivered their unanimous judgment in the long awaited appeal in Pillar Denton Ltd and Ors v Jervis & Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 180 (Game).
The unanimous judgment stated: «Solicitor - client privilege has evolved from being treated as a mere evidentiary rule to being considered a rule of substance and, now, a principle of fundamental justice.
The unanimous judgment by the Supreme Court emphasised the importance of the rule of law and, in particular, the constitutional right of access to the courts which is inherent in the rule of law.
At time of writing, the McLachlin Court has handed down more than a hundred unanimous constitutional law decisions that meet some minimal threshold (arbitrarily but not unreasonably: reserved judgments over 5,000 words in length), of which fewer than one in six attracts this anonymous treatment.
All are unanimous decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada in which the reasons for judgment — the explanation as to why the outcome is the legally and constitutionally appropriate one — are not attributed to any specific named judge or judges on the Supreme Court, but rather to a mysterious entity called THE COURT.
The unanimous judgment, written by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, on behalf of the seven judges who presided over the case:
In the Alberta Court of Appeal ruling reported as R v Wagar, 2015 ABCA 327 Justice Brian K. O'Ferrall, speaking for a unanimous court, made short shrift of Justice Camp's judgment, at p. 1: ``... [W] e are satisfied that the trial judge's comments throughout the proceedings and in his reasons gave rise to doubts about the trial judge's understanding of the law governing sexual assaults and in particular, the meaning of consent and restrictions on evidence of the complainant's sexual activity... We are also persuaded that sexual stereotypes and stereotypical myths, which have long since been discredited, may have found their way into the trial judge's judgment
In a unanimous judgment, Birmingham Employment Tribunal, by Employment Judge Woffenden, dismissed all of the Claimant's claims.
The court also referred to a unanimous judgment from the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), in which the SCC recognized a general organizing principle of good faith contractual performance — i.e., that there is a common law duty which applies to all contracts to act honestly in the performance of contractual obligations.
The Court delivered a unanimous judgment upholding the March 2012 decision of Henderson J in some respects and overturning it in others.
There are stats for cases filed, applications for leave submitted, appeals heard, judgments (including number of unanimous vs. split decisions), and average time lapses (time lines in the life of a case at the Court).
The Court's unanimous judgment was delivered orally on the date of hearing, and it is now available here.
In two unanimous decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal, Justice MacPherson allowed the appeals, set aside the judgments of the application judges, and declared both insurance company appellants did not have to defend or indemnify the respondents in the underlying actions.
In a unanimous judgment, the Court said that hosts who take away the car keys of intoxicated guests may be exemplary, but the law does not impose a duty to assert themselves against other adults who make their own choices and must bear the consequences.
The English Court of Appeal has today handed down a unanimous judgment dismissing an appeal from the earlier Commercial Court decision of Phillips J upholding the enforcement of a New York Convention (CIETAC) Arbitration Award for a significant US dollar sum.
«Looking at the opinions the individual judges wrote last year (as distinct from judgments they simply signed on to without comment) Chief Justice McLachlin and Justice Charron were the most solid majoritarians in the sense that they did the least concurring and dissenting, both wrote a total of nine majority or unanimous opinions, and Justice Charron wrote more unanimous judgments than anyone else — five.»
he unanimous judgment in Canada v. Federation of Law Societies, written by Justice Thomas Cromwell on behalf of the court, renders provisions of Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act unconstitutional as they apply to lawyers.
In spite of differing outcomes, the unanimous ruling, written by Justice Andromache Karakatsanis, provides a clear and ringing endorsement for summary judgment — going as far as promoting a «shift in culture» away from expensive and time - consuming trials and towards swifter and more accessible justice.
Chief Justices bang heads, twist arms, and break legs in order to get their courts to produce more of it, but they don't always succeed, and unanimity remains at least somewhat scarce on the U.S. and Canadian Supreme Courts (although more on the former than on the latter, which has been unanimous in judgment in between two thirds and three quarters of its decisions rendered since 2010).
On June 25, 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States released its unanimous judgment in Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 1 (2014) in which it was held that a warrantless search and seizure of digital contents of a cell...
The Supreme Court has handed down a unanimous judgment in favour of the ratepayer, overturning the Court of Appeal decision.
In 2013, a unanimous Supreme Court of Canada delivered judgment on Antrim Truck Centre Ltd. v. Ontario [2013] 1 SCR 594 in which the Camerons were awarded $ 393,000 as compensation for their loss of business and market value in the land.
The decision of the unanimous court, however does not attempt to tackle all of Justice Sanderson's «lengthy, detailed and complex reasons for judgment».
Purdy's solicitor, Saimo Chahal, partner at Bindmans, says: «It's a fantastic victory and all the sweeter for the fact that it is a unanimous decision and the very last judgment of the House of Lords which expands the ambit of Art 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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