Sentence examples for compensation on behalf of from inspiring English sources

Thomas's name was found by the GMB union, which is pursuing compensation on behalf of a number of its members and others such as environmental activists.

Opening a claim for compensation on behalf of the girl, now seven, lawyers argued that she was entitled to payments from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA).

Last week, the legal action involving 100 families seeking compensation on behalf of their children against a multinational drug came to a premature end.

In October 2013 a U.S.-based group, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, filed a lawsuit in New York City against the UN, seeking compensation on behalf of Haitians affected by the epidemic.

This amounted to waiting for a firm's share price to fall, searching for some way to blame this on management (an inappropriate public comment, say), and suing for compensation on behalf of shareholders.

By yesterday, Mr. Feinberg's office said that 2,878 families had received, or were about to receive, compensation on behalf of dead victims that averaged almost $2.1 million per family.

The compensation case, brought on behalf of the Ngaliwurru and Nungali people in the township of Timber Creek, sought damages for the extinguishment of native title in the area through acts attributable to the Northern Territory and commonwealth governments in the 1980s and 1990s.

After the report was published in 2000, there were 140 compensation claims settled on behalf of the victims, and numerous recommendations about children in care homes.

On Thursday, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, rejected a legal claim for compensation filed in 2011 on behalf of cholera victims in Haiti.

Lawyers for the child, who were seeking compensation from the Government on behalf of a local authority in the north-west of England, said they were "disappointed" and that the fears surrounding the case had been "misplaced speculation".

The legal challenge launched by Leigh Day, the firm that secured £20m in compensation from the government on behalf of victims of torture during Kenya's Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s, is highly unusual but not without precedent.