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.
Not exact matches
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.
There are stats for cases filed, applications for leave submitted, appeals heard,
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of unanimous vs. split decisions), and average time lapses (time lines in the life
of a case at the Court)... [more]
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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.