Sentences with phrase «ways under the treaty»

(This is on top of the legal arguments about whether Iceland can have it both ways under the treaty.)

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The treaties we possess from the Hittites (an ancient Indo - European people who once inhabited what is now the modern state of Turkey) established the way these suzerains interacted with the city - states under their control.

Cabinet minister Oliver Letwin, who is heading Whitehall's Brexit unit to prepare the way for negotiations, said the legal advice was that article 50 of the Lisbon treaty can be invoked under the royal prerogative, which does not require parliamentary approval.

All but one set of adjusted figures show that we will have already passed 1 °C before the next round of UN talks on a global climate treaty get under way in December (see graph).

Almost in the same breath, Stern said that the need for parity under a final climate accord made such a deal unlikely any time soon but added that the treaty negotiations remained the best forum for finding ways to divert the world from business as usual on heat - trapping emissions:

Dec. 7, 1:11 a.m. Updated below With the latest round of contentious international climate treaty negotiations getting under way in Durban, South Africa, it's worth revisiting what would be required to meet ambitious targets set for greenhouse gases in California, a state that already has pledged meaningful action.

Hundreds of negotiators from industrialized countries are to convene this week in Lyon, France, and again in late November in The Hague to try to firm up ways to cut emissions of greenhouse gases under a 1997 climate treaty called the Kyoto Protocol.

The standard way to employ sanctions under current international law is to put tariffs on the imports from countries that are not complying with a treaty's provisions.

One of our suggestions was that looking at the enforcement of and compliance with decisions rendered under international investment treaties could prove a useful means of measuring progress on the rule of law, since the way countries deal with their disputes provides evidence of accountability.

Evidence of any proclamation, order, regulation or appointment, made or issued by the Governor General or by the Governor in Council, or by or under the authority of any minister or head of any department of the Government of Canada... may be given in all or any of the following ways: (a) by the production of a copy of the Canada Gazette, or a volume of the Acts of Parliament purporting to contain a copy of the treaty, proclamation, order, regulation or appointment, or a notice thereof; (b) by the production of a copy of the proclamation, order, regulation or appointment, purporting to be published by the Queen's Printer; [and further provisions about treaties and about documents certified by a public official.

Of course, there are many paths which the commission could follow, and it will face a difficult legal task in altering the way in which the Convention is incorporated into UK law — no doubt under significant political pressure to restrict unpopular rights — whilst still remaining within the fairly narrow margin of appreciation which is permitted under European treaty obligations.

This arises from the likes of multinational ventures, such as energy projects, and can be instigated in two ways: investors and host states either consent in contracts to use international arbitration to resolve disputes, or investors make claims under bilateral (or multilateral) investment treaties (BITs).

While we are witnessing a shift in the way certain protections are worded in the newer generation of model BITs, many of which also expressly protect a state's right to regulate, these changes do not impact on existing treaties under which investments have already been made.

While, for instance, responsibilities for education and health are shared between the Commonwealth, States and Territories, responsibility for record - keeping and access resides separately with each jurisdiction; that for juvenile justice and welfare lies with the States and Territories, and the Commonwealth has «special» responsibility for Indigenous people under s 51 (26) of the Constitution (the races power), as well as for Australia's international human rights obligations by way of its Executive power to ratify treaties and its power to «incorporate» them into domestic law under s 51 (29) of the Constitution.

[149] Consequently, where there is ambiguity [150] courts should interpret statutes in ways that accord with the obligations of Australia under an international treaty.

Where there is ambiguity, statutes should be interpreted in ways that accord with the obligations of Australia under an international treaty (Chu Kheng Lim v Minster for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs (1992) 176 CLR 1 at 38 per Brennan, Deane and Dawson JJ).