The government has been defeated by 201 to 191 in the House of Lords over plans to restrict legal aid.
Speaking today in Tehran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated that Western nations have no legal right to restrict his country's nuclear research.
It is equally sensible to restrict legal aid to meritorious cases where there is a good chance of success and to allow only qualified firms to undertake such work.
Unfortunately, increasingly, foreign laws and legal doctrines that would restrict or deny these liberties are finding their way into U.S. court cases, thanks largely to the rulings of transnationalist judges.
To manage change, and to ensure that lawyers do not find new ways to restrict competition, a Legal Services Board should be set up.
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But the case of Angel Moya, who was locked up for years in connection with his political activities, indicates that Cuba intends to exercise a legal clause by which it retains the right to restrict some citizens' right to travel.
Potential threats include continuing legal challenges such as a land dispute court case in Michigan that Meister said increases the likelihood of other legal challenges to gambling projects and state regulations that restrict Indian casinos and limit expansion.
Nor should we restrict our pursuit of knowledge about a medical condition, legal situation or political group for fear of those queries will become associated with our public record.
By showing that legal sales of pseudoephedrine are correlated with meth lab abundance, we should restrict pseudoephedrine sales even further.
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These bureaucrats have a dangerous combination of legal savvy, little business experience, and a passionate desire to punish, restrict and regulate business without regard to economic consequences.
If doctors who restrict unnecessary testing according to the new guidelines can be provided with appropriate legal protection, then it's more likely that they will actually do so.
Antitrust law is widely accepted to be a tool for protecting consumers against the most damaging practice of monopolists, which is to artificially restrict supply so they can drive up prices and profits, and not a legal weapon for small companies to attack their larger competitors.
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But legal aid has been one of the fastest growing areas of public expenditure, so it makes sense to restrict state resources to cases which cannot be pursued by other means.
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