Former Labour minister Lord Bach said the government had failed to honour an earlier commitment by former Lord Chancellor Kenneth Clarke to allow support in "point of law" cases at the first-tier tribunal level - the first stage of the tribunal process.
We feel that the issue of whether APIs are copyrightable is sufficiently far-reaching that it should be addressed as a point of law in its own right.
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Firstly, and on a black-and-white point of law in places with stricter Information Privacy Law than the US, as soon as Facebook renders photos personally identifiable, they are deemed to have Collected Personal Information.
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But those who hope it is the start of a positive trend can point to a recent change in corporate law in the state of Delaware, which took effect on August 1st, to make it easier to introduce such reimbursement bylaws.
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While a company set to be the next big thing can dramatically throw out these kinds of metrics because of its spectacular potential, there comes a point where the law of scale kicks in and promise must turn into reality.
Defense lawyer Luciano Ghirga reminded the jury repeatedly Monday morning that the prosecution needed to prove its case "beyond a reasonable doubt" -- a standard he made a point of saying was rooted in Italian law and was not imported from America, in a nod to the nationalistic tensions that have sometimes seemed to underpin this case.
They point to the vague definition of terrorism in the Anti-Terror Law used to make the arrests, extended pre-trial detention periods ranging from six months to a few years, and lack of credible evidence for the arrests.
And what is the point of being in Congress, if you can't pass a law that shortens your commute?
One cannot fault Buffett for striving to maximize after-tax returns for himself and his shareholders within the confines of the law as it existed at any point in time.
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Dewey will have to negotiate with landlords who could at some point move to seize office equipment in lieu of rent payments unless the law firm seeks bankruptcy protection, this person said.
The problem has concerned investigators to the point that high schools in some of these areas have been briefed by law enforcement to watch out for signs of radicalization among their Somali male students.
Although the status-check provision contains no criminal sanctions or authority for the state to hold illegal immigrants without federal permission, it emerged as the flash point of controversy over effectively enlisting every Arizona law officer in a state campaign to "discourage and deter" the presence of illegal immigrants, as the statute says.
The more substantial point is that as long the rule of law remains absent in eastern DR Congo, the vacuum is going to be filled by the likes of M23 and Rwanda.
Case in point: a series of stories I wrote for the legal blog Above The Law earlier this year about Justice Antonin Scalia having his privacy invaded by a Fordham Law School professor.
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The Supreme Court has made an elegant start at cleaning up the mess of employment discrimination law, in part by insisting on a critical point.
Many of those who object to the change in the law don't point to moral concerns.
The whole point of the 1996 welfare reform law was to give states broad discretion in revising the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) welfare program.
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The security and sporadic rule of law in Afghanistan set the tone for the summit a point underscored by the ongoing captivity of 21 South Korean aid workers.
His position in the past has been in favor of renewing the assault weapons ban, which would, at this point, be a new law.
She said family members made a point not to change their phone numbers so that law enforcement officials could reach them in case of any developments, even years later.
Prosecutors point to a re-interpretation of criminal law after the conviction of John Demjanjuk, in May 2011.
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Second, where is the tipping point between the value of more data on customers and privacy law restrictions as the company expands in overseas markets?
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Just last week we read at the Point of Law blog and elsewhere about a Third Circuit ruling which rejected an absurd cy presdistribution in an antitrust class action settlement.
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But from the point of view of the plaintiffs, asset-protection trusts frustrate the public policy of accountability enshrined in common law.
As reported elsewhere, some of this purchase order is for hollow-point rounds, forbidden by international law for use in war, along with a frightening amount specialized for snipers.
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Carroll said Cuomo's overall 15-point drop in favorability in part of the Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday now appears to be linked only to the gun control law, not his broader "liberal" agenda as Carroll believed on Wednesday.
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