Sentences with phrase «uniform act»

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Among the many objections to Collaborative Law in general and the proposed Uniform Act in particular was the ethical questions raised by the practice of Collaborative Law in Divorce.
For this reason the draft uniform Act creates different rights of access to records about communications in the hands of the services named in the federal statute and to the contents of the communications.
The proposed Uniform Act says arbitrators must be independent and impartial, which is not new or controversial.
The provision in the existing Uniform Act allowing arbitrators to refer costs questions to a court taxing officer has been removed.
Should a new Uniform Act expressly deal with the use of legislative history by the courts, and if so, how?
The existing Uniform Act allows appeals on questions of law.
If the service providers have the US federal barriers in mind, or just come to look for statutory authority in the US Uniform Act, then Canadian fiduciaries may find it helpful to be able to point to a similar source of authority.
The 17 OHADA states now share the same business laws, based on a civil law system, namely uniform acts regarding companies, commercial law, debt recovery, securities, insolvency, transport and arbitration.
Many state laws (such as the Uniform Commercial Code) are based on uniform acts promulgated by the Commission.
The proposed Uniform Act significantly overhauls and clarifies the grounds for setting aside an award.
Probably a database would be included as a digital asset to which the fiduciaries to which the draft Uniform Act applies would have access — but what is the importance of whether it is «property»?
Others address specific drafting issues with the previous Uniform Act.
The proposed Uniform Act permits an arbitrator to act as mediator, conciliator, or in a similar capacity, if all parties and the tribunal agree.
However, it has dropped the provision in the current Uniform Act that, if there is no majority, the decision of the chair shall govern.
The proposed Uniform Act says the arbitrator must disclose «any circumstances of which the person is aware.»
Among the grounds that have been removed from the proposed new Uniform Act is the failure to comply with the procedural requirements of the Act.
In a recent letter published on Coincenter, which worked with the ULC, fifteen CEOs from enterprises currently conducting business with virtual currencies came out in favor for the uniform act.
This report will be the culmination of a detailed research project of all Federal agencies (that have Uniform Act obligations), fifty (50) State DOT's, and selected LPA's that are actively involved in land acquisition using the waiver valuation provisions in the Uniform Act (Public Law 91 - 646 as amended).
The Delaware Debt Management Services Act (source) was modeled after the uniform act developed by the National Council of Commissioners on Uniform Laws (NCCUSL).
This Bill incorporates the 2008 changes for consistency with other states adopting the uniform act.
This bill incorporates changes to the uniform act by NCCUSL so that the provisions are consistent with federal regulation and no advance fees can be collected.
The changes also make fee caps consistent with the uniform act.
Where the federal Act permits disclosure (i.e. of non-contents records), the Uniform Act is likely to require it, since disclosure will not violate federal law.
The Uniform Act as drafted would apply only to fiduciaries whose appointments arise after the Act comes into force in the applicable state or from court proceedings begun after that date.
The ULC Committee is developing a Uniform Act on the topic, known familiarly as FADA.
The app also includes citations and links to state statutes based on the uniform acts for easy comparison.
The Uniform Act is scheduled for final reading at the annual meeting of the Uniform Law Comission in July.
A Uniform Act may find a warm welcome..
The implementation started at the Uniform Law Conference, which adopted a report and a Uniform Act in 2001.
and unlike the Uniform Act (which had not been adopted in its current form when the Alberta Act as passed), it does not have an «including in electronic form» clause.
In deciding what to include or leave out, Canada had to consider the two main features of the Model Law that were adopted by the Uniform Act: they were minimalist and they were technology - neutral.
Question: is there any point, in the light of this decision, for a province or territory that has not legislated on court jurisdiction — enacted the Uniform Act, probably — to do so?
The purpose of the Model Law and the Uniform Act, and thus of most Canadian legislation, was to remove barriers to the legally effective use of electronic communications.
The Standard was, by the way, developed with a view to providing a way to satisfy the requirements of the Uniform Act, as well as to be a generally good way to keep electronic records.
The Uniform Act was clear in its policy that excluding land transfers was not a statement that these transfers should never be done electronically, but only that additional security might be needed.
It was pretty clearly the law before the Uniform Act that courts could look at industry standards in evaluating conduct.
The Uniform Act was adopted by the ULCC as a complement to the Uniform Enforcement of Canadian Judgments and Decrees Acct.
The court held (wrongly, in my view) that the Alberta Evidence Act (which implements the Uniform Act) required compliance with the CGSB Standard, but the proponent of the electronic evidence persuasively qualified its witness and the witness showed the court that her employer had complied, and the evidence was admitted.
All the common law provinces, Yukon and Nunavut have enacted the Uniform Act, as shown here.
The Uniform Act says that where the law requires writing or an original, the requirement may be satisfied by an electronic document of certain characteristics.
The Uniform Act on jurisdiction contains two parts, the other — as its title indicates — providing a method to transfer a proceeding from one Canadian jurisdiction to another.
To make things clearer, the Uniform Act codified the rule, without changing it.
The reason that section 6 on standards was put into the Uniform Act was to try to ensure that such standards would be read broadly, toinclude if need be these private agreements on how electronic evidence would be handled.
The Uniform Act still leaves some decisions on technology to governments, at least if they choose to intervene.
The American equivalent to the Uniform Act, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, did not exclude land transfers.
(All of the Conference's working papers and the Uniform Act itself are on the Conference web site.)
Most provinces at the time of the Uniform Act did not have electronic land registration, and Ontario's system was tightly controlled as to access and technology.
In any case, in typical Canadian fashion, notwithstanding the role of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada, the discussion paper prepared for the Law Commission of Ontario did not propose the adoption of the uniform act, just a similar act.
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