Furthermore, the Basic Law - itself a national law - plays an interfacing role between the two legal systems.
"A law is a law -- it might not be like it's working immediately, but it's got staying power, " says White, adding that more needs to be done to raise awareness about the reforms and to inform widows of their rights.
The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) wants to create a by-law to set a minimum price.
Opposition parties have disrupted most of the proceedings in the past few sessions of Parliament over issues such as corruption, derailing the government's plans to bring in legislation to ease foreign-investment rules in sectors like pensions and insurance and amend a more-than-a-century-old law on acquiring land for industrial and infrastructure projects.
In a statement, ParalympicsGB confirmed that it does not have a bye-law in relation to anti-doping that prevents athletes with a doping violation competing at future Paralympic Games.
India, after all, has a common-law legal tradition and a stockmarket that is 130 years old.
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The power of the CFA in a common-law system must include a power to finally interpret all laws in Hong Kong.
In its most extreme interpretation, the rule would require a company that hires a labor-law firm to evaluate a potential acquisition with unionized operations, say, to report the relationship even if that blows its cover on secret due diligence activities.
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Kennedy International Airport while carrying a stun-gun on Wednesday, a law-enforcement official said.
"This is a very basic consumer-protection law and it is also a very basic civil-rights law, " said Mr. Mintz.
What India s case law shows, says Marco Ventura, a religious-law professor, is the contrast between conversion in rich, liberal societies and traditional ones, where discrimination tempts people to make tactical moves.
Andy Walker, of wellbeing and health organisation Our Life, said he hoped a by-law in Greater Manchester would be passed and create a "domino effect" nationally.
The Sadrists -- who say the constitution does not spell out a process for voting on international agreements -- are backing a draft law calling for a two-thirds majority for such agreements to pass.
This non-linear tendency is why complex systems are more likely to follow a power-law probability distribution than the more familiar bell-curve distribution.
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Colleen Graffy, a London-based law professor with Pepperdine, a not-for-profit Californian university, says the private sector is more innovative in designing courses and more flexible in providing them.
Three elements have to be present to violate most state gambling laws--namely "prize, chance and consideration, " says attorney Chuck Humphrey, a gaming-law specialist and author of the Gambling Law U.S. blog.
The bill is set to specifically exclude the Church of England and Church in Wales to avoid a clash between Canon Law - which defines marriage as that between a man and a woman - and UK civil law.
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Of course Dr. Reddy's can only succeed in becoming an international drug major if India adopts--and polices--a product-patent law by 2005.
The Institute for Justice--a public-interest law firm that fights to protect free speech--is challenging laws in several states that effectively inhibit free speech in this way.
In 1989, Hungary's Parliament purged the constitution of its Stalinist elements to create a Western-style basic law for a return to multi-party democracy.
Lochner, which was effectively reversed in a series of post-New Deal decisions, did not involve a federal law--contrary to the president's claim--and thus had nothing to do with the Commerce Clause, which concerns only the powers of Congress.
If you have a funeral to attend, you need to have Friday off and you are deemed to have a funeral when the dead person is a parent, a sibling, a child, a spouse or partner, an in-law, a grand-parent, a cousin, an aunt, an uncle, a friend, a classmate, a nephew, a niece, a boss, someone you go to church with, a workmate, a neighbour and of course, a president.
Doncaster Council is seeking to introduce a by-law to ban people from spitting in the borough.
The local Democratic Party is therefore having to rely on a by-law of the Democratic National Committee.
All of these factors lead us to conclude that Mainstay was a common-law employer of its leased employees.
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It comes after the town's elected mayor, English Democrat Peter Davies, said he wanted such a by-law to be introduced.
In recent weeks two badly needed laws, a bankruptcy law and a loan-guarantee law, were passed after months stuck in Congress.
The local government will be evaluating the regulation in a month, after which it could turn into a by-law, he added.
"Design patents used to be in the backwaters of the patent system, " said Christopher Carani, a design-law expert and lawyer in Chicago.
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