Traduction de «affaires diverses » (Français → Anglais) :

By and large, the Supreme Court of Canada, in all of the cases that have been taken up to it, including cases that challenge the constitutionality of the very legislation we recommended in our report and three-quarters found that the legislation is constitutional has invariably found that the legislation offends against the charter and its liberties, the ones I've identified, but the legislation has, for a variety of reasons, been found to be justified in our free and democratic society.

The High Level Group of Company Law Experts pointed out that groups of companies, which today are frequent in most, if not all, Member States, are to be seen as a legitimate way of doing business, but that they may present specific risks for shareholders and creditors in various ways.

As the President, Mr Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias, points out in the foreword to the annual report, the mere number of the cases decided over the past year cannot provide an accurate measure of the level of judicial activity, since cases brought before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance, and their degree of complexity, differ so much; each case must be dealt with in an appropriate manner, at greater or lesser length and in varying depth. None the less, that figure is deserving of the closest attention, inasmuch as a comparison with the number of cases brought makes it possible to measure the impact which the year gone ...[+++] by has had on the number of pending cases and, therefore, on the duration of proceedings.

[81] The Charter urged greater involvement of young people in public affairs at regional and local level and called for the implementation of "various forms of participation" which should apply "to all young people without discrimination".

Where there have been cases dealing with extension of government benefits and I mentioned in my oral submission Egan and Nesbit, for example. The court has dealt differently with that situation; it has said that there are situations where it is constitutionally justifiable to have different benefits available for different people in different types of relationships.

There were several significant changes to the Standing Orders, as recommended by the Standing Committee: Members’ names rather than individual items would be drawn, which meant that Members with one motion or bill would have the same chances as those with several motions or bills; separate lists of bills and motions were established, and the number of votable items was set at three bills and three motions; the time for debate on votable items was reduced from five hours to three; and Private Members’ Business was suspended on Supply days.