Sentences with phrase «where legislative intent»

This creates a labyrinth of documentation to navigate for any complex matter where legislative intent is important, but it limits the ability of legislators to capriciously enact laws.

Not exact matches

These reforms would negate the power of the teachers unions and their legislative toadies, all of whom seem intent on maintaining an abusive status quo where failure all too often has become acceptable.

Here is one area where there may be a gap between the idealized vision of legislative intent and gritty reality.

The Alberta Court of Appeal gave us a surprising new exception to the presumption of deference owed to statutory tribunals by ruling in Capilano, ABCA that the statutory right of appeal set out in section 470 of the Municipal Government Act demonstrates a legislative intent for an intrusive judicial role into municipal property tax assessment and therefore is an indication that the standard of review should be correctness (see Where Are We Going on Standard of Review in Alberta?

Stratas cites the SCC's recent decision in Kanthasamy v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)(in which the court set aside the rejection of a humanitarian residency application) as a «baffling» case where the court flouted its own principle of «legislative supremacy» by ignoring Parliament's expressly stated intent that the Federal Court of Appeal should have the final say in the matter.

2d 651) holding that no cause of action exists under the Property Condition Disclosure Act; court finds buyer entitled to $ 500.00 credit under RPL § 465 (1) where seller delivered an incomplete Property Condition Disclosure Statement; seller failed to perform the duty to deliver a Disclosure Statement pursuant to the PCDA when the statement was incomplete; cause of action exists under RPL § 462 (2) for willful failure to perform the requirements of the PCDA where (i) a deliberate misstatement or misstatements in a fully completed and timely delivered PCDS regarding the defective condition complained of (ii) that would tend to assure a reasonably prudent buyer that no such condition existed, and (iii) which a professional inspector might not discover upon an inspection of the premises that would meet generally accepted standards in the trade; definition of «willful failure to perform» acknowledges legislative intent not to alter the respective burdens of the buyer and seller in the transactions; statutory cause of action replaces buyer's burden of having to plead and prove the seller's active physical concealment of the condition with proof that the misstatement about the condition on the PCDS was deliberate