Sentence examples for precedent upon which from inspiring English sources

Each case sets a legal precedent upon which the next can build.

The Lakers, two-time defending champions, disintegrated in the fourth quarter again Friday night and entered that playoff place — down by 3-0 thethe Mavericks — where there is no precedent upon which to peg their return.

It is only when the law changes in some respect that an assertion of nonretroactivity may be entertained, the paradigm case arising when a court expressly overrules a precedent upon which the contest would otherwise be decided differently and by which the parties may previously have regulated their conduct.

The question of female eligibility for the throne had thus never been broached, giving Philip an opportunity to argue for the exclusion of women from succession, yet no clear precedent upon which to base that argument.

With such cases, the goal of the competent observer is to advance beyond debate about contested factual details of the past (the noise of what happened) and, by process of induction, to identify wider issues of principle and precedent upon which to make reasoned improvements (the signal to guide what should happen differently in the future and why).

The art of the competent and prudent observer is to rise above debated factual details of the past (what happened?) and to identify wider issues of principle and precedent upon which to make reasoned changes (what should happen in the future?).

Though WP29's word is not law, its views often set precedents upon which data regulators in each European country base their laws.

An otherwise valid statute or ordinance conferring a privilege, is not rendered invalid merely because it chances that particular persons find it hard or even impossible to comply with precedent conditions upon which enjoyment of the privilege is made to depend.

'Their Lordships regard the use of precedent as an indispensable foundation upon which to decide what is the law and its application to individual cases.

So how can the footballing authorities bend that precedent and not the precedent which allows suspended players to go up and receive their medals in the Champions Leaguee final?

However, if the power to detain is not contingent on precedent facts, the court's task is only to determine whether there exists evidence upon which the authority could reasonably have acted.