Sentence examples for statutes reform from inspiring English sources

Despite these statutes reform in this area was still needed, and Lord Haldane presented reform bills to parliament in 1913, 1914 and 1915 with no real progress thanks to the opposition of the Law Society.

The meeting came after Labour moved to ensure it will have the option of adding tough statute-backed reform into the Crime and Courts Bill next week.

The Ordainers also took care to confirm and elaborate on existing statutes, and reforms were made to the criminal law.

Powderly wrote that the U.S. Congress should stop "winking at violations of this statute" and reform the laws which barred Chinese immigration, which he believed could have prevented incidents such as "the recent assault upon the Chinese at Rock Springs".

In April, House Republicans were forced to cancel a vote to amend the law after a flurry of lobbying by Internet activists who said the measure being considered would expand the statute, not reform it.

The group also wants bishops to stop spending money on lobbying efforts to prevent statutes of limitation reform and to turn over all documents related to abuse to law enforcement officials. .

Cardinal Timothy Dolan has made defeating statute of limitations reform one of his top legislative priorities.

"We are confident that the health care reform statute is constitutional and that we will ultimately prevail," Ms. Schmaler said in a statement.

The law's leading opponent was the Roman Catholic Church, which has been working hard to defeat statute of limitations reform across the country.

And as Marci Hamilton, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, has written, bishops "publicly rail against statute of limitation reform as though it were the equivalent of mandatory abortion".

"This ruling marks the first time a court has considered the merits of any challenge to this law," said Tracy Schmaler, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department, "and we welcome the court's decision upholding the health care reform statute as constitutional".