Sentences with phrase «various bodies of law»

Among the various bodies of law in which we focus on are Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the New York State and City Human Rights Laws, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the Family Medical Leave Act, as well as common law causes of action in breach of contract, covenants not to compete, duty of loyalty, fiduciary duty, and unfair competition.

Not exact matches

In terms of the international environment and the practices of governments observed abroad, various governing bodies impose vastly - differing ideals and laws.

The Electoral Commission has called on the various political parties in the country to desist from declaring results of the 2016 general elections saying the EC is the appropriate body mandated by law to do that.

«President Mahama pledges to the people of Ghana that the NDC will continue to make corruption a high risk activity punishable in accordance with rule of law,» he said, assuring that the various investigative and prosecution bodies will be strengthened to support quest to fight corruption.

A scaling law basically represents how various measurements in a system — say, the bodies of mammals — change proportionally as size changes.

GA maps the land masses below the ocean's surface through basic geological work and seismic and bathymetric analysis (measuring water depth at various places in a body of water) to better define and legally extend Australia's continental shelf for a submission to the United Nations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

«The investigation shows that China is facing various problems with wetlands protections,» Zhang Yongli, vice director of the forestry body, told a news conference, adding that loopholes in protection laws imperil the shrinking wetlands.

2 Price may not have been able to pinpoint the exact nutrients needed for various individual health conditions, nor all the nutrients contained in various foods, but he understood this fundamental law of nutrition, that without provision of the nutrients we need, no body can be built strong and resistant and no lasting healing can take place.

We summarize a body of work documenting that when institutions can not consider race in admissions — as has been the case in states that have banned affirmative action via ballot measures or other policies — racial and ethnic diversity has declined across various educational sectors, not just at selective undergraduate institutions, but in the professional fields of law, business, and medicine, as well as other graduate disciplines.

This suggests that the various and varied written product of a law firm can somehow automagically coalesce itself into a body of work worthy of distribution and amplification.

Various EU Directives, transposed into English law by the Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance)(Information Centre and Compensation Body) Regulations 2003 (SI 2003 No 37) ensured that compensation was available for victims of motor accidents occurring anywhere within the EU.

There are a number of draft laws currently being considered by various governmental bodies for issue in 2018 or 2019 including: the Public - Private - Partnership Law, new Foreign Capital Investment Law and the new Commercial Companies Law.

The making of laws by a legislative body, such as the senate, the house of representatives, the various state and municipal bodies, parliaments, etcetera.

A second example of the strong, if not vehement objections to the Taskforce's proposals came from a collective group of eight out of the 18 members of the Consultative Group and consisting, for the most part, of leaders of various Australian Law Societies (again, representative bodies that share regulatory authority with the independent Legal Services Commissions).

Littler provides services designed to address the increasing government pressures to maintain compliance and ethics programs, and help our clients comply with the various legal requirements under the ever - expanding body of labour and employment laws, regulations, and legislation.

During the course of his practice, he has participated on various panels and authored a number of papers in presentations for The Law Society of Manitoba, the Canadian Bar Association and other professional bodies.

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Other than the guidance provided by the various professional bodies, a significant factor in determining the length of cover is the relevant limitation period fixed by law - the time limit within which any claimant must commence proceedings against a professional.

A. 20 In effect, this means that whilst decisions of the DSB create an obligation on the part of the losing party to comply with WTO rules, enforcement can be achieved by various means — including amicable settlement, compensation, or the suspension of trade concessions.101 Indeed, it was for this reason that the CJEU found in the case of Portugal v Council that a DSB decision did not oblige the losing party to achieve full implementation of its recommendations, where the possibility of temporary compensation or retaliatory measures remained available.102 In other words, the outcome was prescribed, but not the means.103 This contrasts with the position under EU law, where there is a right to an effective remedy from a judicial body.

In addition to the various administrative bodies mentioned, our lawyers routinely represent clients at all levels of Courts, including on health law issues.

Our name may belie it, but Legal Files software is fully customizable to the needs of many different types of organizations, from universities to government bodies, to various corporate entities — not just law firms.

An amendment of this nature would potentially create a new venue for international Internet law — one that operates very differently from existing venues such as the OECD, ICANN (and its Canadian counterpart, CIRA), the Council of Europe, the Internet Governance Forum and the various standards - making bodies such as the Internet Engineering Task Force and the World Wide Web Consortium.

Judicial review seeks to address an underlying tension between the rule of law and the foundational democratic principle, which finds an expression in the initiatives of Parliament and legislatures to create various administrative bodies and endow them with broad powers.

Various legislative and executive bodies in the United States and in other countries may in the future, adopt laws, regulations, guidance, or other actions, which may severely impact the development and growth of the RepuX Protocol and the adoption and utility of the RepuX Tokens.

They should also be aware of accounting laws and regulations as set by various financial regulatory bodies.

However, there is a developing body of law some people call «family responsibility discrimination law» or «caregiver discrimination law» which combines elements of various existing laws, state and federal, to help people in your category: parent of sick child.

Justice Wilcox found that in 1829 the claim area was occupied and used by «Aboriginal people who spoke dialects of a common language and who acknowledged and observed a common body of laws and customs».47 He accepted that what united and distinguished them from neighbouring groups was a «commonality of belief, language, custom and material culture».48 Though sub-groups or families exercised particular rights and responsibilities for particular areas to which they «belonged», those rights and responsibilities arose from a wider normative system that operated within the broader Noongar society.49 The rights of the sub-group were burdened by the entitlement of others to access land for various purposes.50