It describes as a grey area the lawfulness of advocating or promoting terminations outside Northern Ireland.

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This is a fairly technical hearing in which the lawfulness of the request is examined.

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So, once a suspect has been arrested, they can challenge the lawfulness of the request.

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The lawfulness of the first bill passed by the assembly under its new law-making powers was challenged in the Supreme Court by the UK government.

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The council then appealed to the Supreme Court and now seven justices unanimously ruled in its favour, setting aside the certificate of lawfulness relating to the property.

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The people wanting the data have dubious records of lawfulness.

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Mr Beesley, 38, and his 35-year-old wife Sarah moved into the completed property in 2002 and applied for a certificate of lawfulness four years later - by which time they believed the time limit of enforcement action had expired.

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It's a mildly entertaining game to wonder what stories we would tell to justify the quick but often bad conclusion suggested by a raw number - the policy, social or cultural reasons that explain the apparent Finnish lawfulness, for example - "so much more civilized, those Scandinavians, even in prison" - or the performance of US universities.

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Asked to account for what appears to be such a tiny sum for such a huge and important campaign - remember, the very lawfulness of the legislation, as well as public confidence in the system depends on it - the minister and her officials said they'd based the costings in part on the campaign to educate the public on the smoking ban.

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