Statutory law

Statutory means “of or related to statutes”, or what we otherwise call laws and regulations. Compliance means to comply with or adhere to. The term Statutory Compliance is most often used with organizations that are required to follow a lot of regulations. The purpose is to safeguard the employees and the enterprise from risks by the management on issues such as retirement benefits and taxation. In HR, statutory compliance refers to the legal framework within which organizations must operate,…

constitutional for an agency to replace the meaning of the Supreme Court with its own reading of the statute is often questioned. The Supreme Court may apply rules of statutory interpretation to the agency. The statutory interpretation is a process in which the court must determine how a statute should be enforced and then requires a statutory construction. With that being said, it is not constitutional for an agency to supplant the interpretation of the Supreme Court unless there are certain…

outside the scope of the Act or whether it was for the purpose, which could not be license under the Act. The main statutory interpretation approach discussed by the judges in deciding the appeal was the purposive approach. It was held that the embryos created by cell nuclear replacement were protected under the Act. The court took into consideration the intentions of parliament and laws were to be construed accordingly. The wording in the act, which suggested that the Act applied only…

League’s eligibility rules a condition of employment under the collective bargaining process and thus protected under the non-statutory exemption from antitrust laws (www.lexisnexis.com)? The National Football League’s eligibility rules are a condition of employment under the collective bargaining process and thus enjoy protection under the non-statutory exemption from antitrust laws (www.lexisnexis.com). ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFFS: The plaintiff argues, that the NFL rules are arbitrary and…

non-legal actions are effective in administering justice for consumers. Consumer law has continually evolved in order to maintain its ability to protect consumers within the ever-changing modern marketplace - progressing from the common law notion of caveat emptor to an intensive legal framework recognising the fundamental need for consumer protections. While much of this contemporary framework - comprised of statutory bodies, law courts and tribunals, and working in conjunction with a myriad of…

Each state of the United States of America follows one of the particular judicial selection processes. The typical approaches to the choice of the judges are: partisan and non-partisan regular elections, merit selection and gubernatorial or legislative appointment (Chertoff, 2010). In most states a mix of those approaches is applied to the judicial selection processes within their own court system. This makes every state’s judicial selection process exceptional and unique. While all of those…

and Political Rights 1996 (Int) (ICCPR) into domestic law. ICCPR is a treaty between states to recognize civil and political rights of individuals. Australia is the only western democracy in the world without either a constitutionally entrenched bill of rights or non-entrenched, statutory bills of rights. United State and Canada are examples of countries with constitutionally entrenched bills of rights. Examples of countries with statutory bills of right include United Kingdom and New…

the U.S. Constitution. This document describes the relationship between statutory law and regulatory law, the Federal Register, and the concept of intangible property rights. Statutory and Federal Law According to the North Dakota Constitution, “The legislative assembly shall enact all laws necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this constitution” (North Dakota Constitution). This is the basis for statutory law in North Dakota and all these statutes can be found in the North Dakota…

Most jurisdiction do not contain provisions dealing with consolidation and neither does the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. The U.S., England (sec. 35 Arbitration Act 1996), France (art. 1520 Code of Civil Procedure), Switzerland (art. 373(3) Code of Civil Procedure) , allow consolidation only if parties consent thereto. Some countries…

In Beck, the Court of Appeals interpreted New York vehicle and Traffic Law (NYVTL) 463(2)(ff)(“the Modification Law”) to provide a dealer with a private right of action to “challenge a modification and places on a franchisor the burden of proving that such modification is fair and not prohibited.” 27 N.Y. 3d at 393. In furtherance of the legislative intent, to counter the unequal will of the manufacturer, the Modification Law contemplates legal action prior to the cause of the negative…