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LEGAL SERVE [14 records]

Record 1 2024-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Hearing
  • Social Services and Social Work
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
OBS

From its inception, Canadian Hearing Services has played a significant role in supporting and meeting the needs of the Deaf and hard of hearing. Canadian Hearing Services has worked diligently to champion accessibility in the workplace in such sectors as healthcare, education and the legal field. In addition, as a service provider, Canadian Hearing Services has always strived to provide a broad range of products and services that serve to remove barriers to communication, advance hearing health, and promote equity.

OBS

The "National Society for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing" was founded in 1940. It changed its name to "Canadian Hearing Society" in 1956, then to "Canadian Hearing Services" in 2020.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Ouïe
  • Services sociaux et travail social
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
OBS

Depuis leur création, les Services canadiens de l'ouïe ont joué un rôle important dans le soutien et la satisfaction des besoins des personnes sourdes et malentendantes. Les Services canadiens de l'ouïe ont toujours œuvré avec diligence pour défendre l'accessibilité sur le lieu de travail dans des secteurs tels que les soins de santé, l'éducation et le domaine juridique. En outre, en tant que prestataire de services, les Services canadiens de l'ouïe se sont toujours efforcés de fournir une large gamme de produits et de services qui servent à éliminer les obstacles à la communication, à faire progresser la santé auditive et à promouvoir l'équité.

OBS

La «Société nationale des sourds et des malentendants» a été fondée en 1940. Elle a été renommée «Société canadienne de l'ouïe» en 1956, puis «Services canadiens de l'ouïe» en 2020.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Business and Administrative Documents
  • Meetings and Assemblies (Administration)
CONT

A meeting report summarizes the key discussion points and outcomes from a meeting. It serves as an official record of the meeting for members who were present, as well as others who were unable to attend.

CONT

Unlike meeting minutes, which have a more formal tone and can even be considered a legal document, a meeting report offers a more relaxed structure. While both serve the purpose of recording the essential parts of the discussions, the report tends to be more approachable and easy to digest.

CONT

The difference between minutes and report of a meeting is that minutes are more structured and detailed, while a report is shorter and covers the main points.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écrits commerciaux et administratifs
  • Réunions et assemblées (Administration)
CONT

Le compte rendu de réunion résume les discussions tenues lors de cette dernière afin d'informer les participantes et participants, les absentes ou absents ou une tierce personne de ce qui s'y est dit. Son objectif est de relater des faits. Il n'est pas considéré comme un document officiel et n'est pas présenté de manière aussi rigide qu'un procès-verbal.

Spanish

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Record 3 2023-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Road Safety
OBS

[The Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety is a] permanent body in the United Nations system that focuses on improving road safety... Its primary function is to serve as guardian of the United Nations legal instruments aimed at harmonizing traffic rules.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Sécurité routière
OBS

Le Forum mondial sur la sécurité routière […], organe subsidiaire du Comité des Transports intérieurs de la Commission économique des Nations unies pour l'Europe (CEE-ONU), assure le service des instruments juridiques internationaux relatifs à la sécurité routière […]

Spanish

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Record 4 2021-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Names
  • Aboriginal Law
OBS

The Indigenous Legal Lodge will house the University [of Victoria] 's new dual degree program in Canadian common law and Indigenous legal orders, and will serve as a foundation for debate, learning, public education and partnership on the revitalization of Indigenous laws.

OBS

Indigenous Legal Lodge: program announced in the 2019 federal budget.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d'édifices et de bâtiments
  • Droit autochtone
OBS

Le Indigenous Legal Lodge hébergera le nouveau programme de diplômes universitaires doubles de l'Université [de Victoria] en common law canadien et en ordonnances juridiques autochtones et servira de base pour des débats, l'apprentissage, l'éducation publique et un partenariat en matière de revitalisation des lois autochtones.

OBS

Maison du droit autochtone : programme annoncé dans le budget fédéral de 2019.

Spanish

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Record 5 2020-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Insurance
  • Legal Profession: Organization
OBS

[The mission of the Canadian Bar Insurance Association] is to serve the financial needs of Canada's legal community by providing high-quality investment and insurance solutions at very competitive pricing.

OBS

The Canadian Bar Insurance Association sells plans and products under the brand "Lawyers Financial."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Assurances
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)
OBS

L'Association d'assurances du Barreau canadien vend ses produits et programmes sous la marque « Financière des avocates et avocats ».

Spanish

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Record 6 2020-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
  • Water Resources Management
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
CONT

Water quality criteria are thresholds or recommendations that permit us to assess whether different water uses are compromised by the presence of a substance. The criteria are not standards and therefore have no legal force. However, they still serve as a reference for evaluating aquatic ecosystem health.

Key term(s)
  • water quality criterion

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
  • Gestion des ressources en eau
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
CONT

Les critères de qualité de l'eau sont des seuils ou des recommandations qui permettent d'évaluer si les différents usages de l'eau sont compromis par la présence d'une substance. Les critères ne sont pas des normes et n'ont donc pas force de loi. Ils servent toutefois de référence pour évaluer la santé des écosystèmes aquatiques. Toute substance dont la concentration dépasse le critère est susceptible de causer un effet indésirable sur une composante de l'écosystème.

Key term(s)
  • critère de qualité de l'eau
  • critère de qualité des eaux
  • critères de qualité des eaux

Spanish

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Record 7 2019-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Proper Names
  • Courts
Universal entry(ies)
4421
classification system code, see observation
OBS

Sheriffs execute and enforce court orders, warrants and writs, participate in [the] seizure and sale of property and perform courtroom and other related duties. Bailiffs serve legal orders and documents, seize or repossess properties, evict tenants and perform other related activities. Sheriffs and bailiffs are employed by provincial or territorial courts, and bailiffs may be employed as officers of the court or in private service as agents for creditors.

OBS

4421: classification system code in the National Occupational Classification.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations diverses
  • Tribunaux
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
4421
classification system code, see observation
OBS

Les shérifs exécutent et poursuivent les ordonnances, les décrets et les brefs de la cour, participent à la saisie et à la vente de biens et effectuent d'autres tâches connexes et liées à la fonction judiciaire. Les huissiers de justice signifient les ordonnances et documents de la cour, saisissent ou reprennent possession de propriétés, expulsent les locataires et effectuent des tâches connexes. Les shérifs et les huissiers de justice travaillent pour les tribunaux provinciaux ou territoriaux. Les huissiers de justice peuvent travailler comme officiers de justice ou dans le secteur privé, comme représentants de créditeurs.

OBS

4421 : code du système de classification de la Classification nationale des professions.

Spanish

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Record 8 2017-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Medical Staff
OBS

The Canadian Society of Medical Evaluators(CSME) was founded in 1996 to serve Canadian physicians and other health care professionals in performing medicolegal evaluations that rely on evidence-based medicine, best medical practices and professional practice guidelines.... Members are drawn from the healthcare and legal professions and also include members from the case-management, rehabilitation and insurance industries.

OBS

The Canadian Society of Medical Evaluators (CSME) is the leading national organization of professionals involved in independent medicolegal and clinicolegal evaluations using evidence-based medicine, best clinical practices and practice guidelines. In addition to providing outstanding educational programming, CSME provides a forum for the sharing of knowledge, experience and innovation amongst Canadian clinician evaluators.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Personnel médical

Spanish

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Record 9 2011-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
DEF

The legal relationship under which one person engages another to serve him, and to do certain work for him, having power to direct and control what work is to be done and when, where and how it is to be done.

DEF

The relation ... exists where one person, for pay or other valuable consideration, enters into the service of another and devotes to him his personal labour for an agreed period ....

OBS

relation of master and servant : Such term has generally been replaced by "employer and employee".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
DEF

Rapport de dépendance, caractérisé par la subordination du préposé, et un rapport corrélatif de supériorité caractérisé par l'autorité du commettant.

CONT

En Belgique comme en France, la jurisprudence caractérise le lien de préposition par le «droit» de donner des ordres plus que par la constatation en fait de l'exercice de l'autorité de commettant sur son préposé.

Spanish

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Record 10 2009-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Christian Theology
DEF

Catholics for Choice(CFC) was founded in 1973 to serve as a voice for Catholics who believe that the Catholic tradition supports a woman's moral and legal right to follow her conscience in matters of sexuality and reproductive health.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Théologies chrétiennes

Spanish

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Record 11 2008-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Gov. Provincial Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Paramedical Staff
OBS

Early in 1995, a steering committee of Paramedics began the ambulance task of creating a legal and administrative structure for the Ontario Paramedic Association. The professional association is a registered ’not for profit’ organization representing Paramedics across the province. Since it formation, the OPA has worked to enhance the professional image of paramedics, to improve communications between paramedics, and to lobby for improvements to the standards of patient care. Our mission is to provide leadership for Paramedics and to promote the art and science of Paramedicine. We serve Paramedics and their patients by advocating the highest ethical, educational, and clinical standards for the protection of Paramedicine.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités provinciaux non gouv. canadiens
  • Personnel para-médical

Spanish

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Record 12 2007-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Executive (Constitutional Law)
  • Parliamentary Language
  • Administrative Structures (Publ. Admin.)
CONT

Government accountability means that public officials--elected and un-elected--have an obligation to explain their decisions and actions to the citizens. Government accountability is achieved through the use of a variety of mechanisms--political, legal, and administrative--designed to prevent corruption and ensure that public officials remain answerable and accessible to the people they serve.

OBS

accountability : The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; the obligation to bear the consequences for failure to perform as expected; accountableness.

OBS

Responsibility: means [in this context] answerability or accountability.

Key term(s)
  • government liability
  • answerability of government

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pouvoir exécutif (Droit constitutionnel)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
  • Structures de l'administration publique
CONT

[...] le Conseil constitutionnel a veillé de la manière la plus stricte à ce que la responsabilité du Gouvernement ne puisse être mise en cause que dans le cadre du dispositif constitutionnel, en refusant notamment aux assemblées toute possibilité de procéder à des votes non prévus explicitement par la Constitution.

CONT

La pratique de la responsabilité politique du Gouvernement devant l'Assemblée nationale est exceptionnelle.

OBS

Lorsqu'on parle de responsabilité du gouvernement, il faut comprendre qu'il s'agit de sa responsabilité politique. Dans ce cas, la notion de responsabilité ne peut pas être considérée dans le sens d'obligation de réparer les dommages ou préjudices causés à quelqu'un.

Key term(s)
  • responsabilité du cabinet ministériel
  • responsabilité politique du Cabinet

Spanish

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Record 13 2001-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Volleyball

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volleyball

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vóleibol
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Record 14 2000-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Treaties and Conventions
  • International Public Law
CONT

The Martens Clause is indisputably one of the contemporary legal myths of the international community. Being particularly ambiguous, it has been variously interpreted. The author dismisses the more radical interpretation whereby the clause upgrades to the rank of sources of international law the "laws of humanity" and the "dictates of public conscience". The other, less extreme interpretation, whereby the clause merely serves to reject a possible a contrario argument, is equally without merit. He suggests that the clause was essentially conceived of, at the 1899 Hague Peace Conference, as diplomatic gimmick intended to break a deadlock in the negotiations between smaller and Great Powers. The clause could nevertheless be given a twofold legal significance. First, it could operate at the interpretative level : incase of doubt international rules of humanitarian law should be construed in a manner consonant with standards of humanity and the demands of public conscience. Secondly, the clause, while operating within the existing system of international sources, could serve to loosen-in relation solely to the specific field of humanitarian law-the requirements prescribed for usus whilst at the same time raising opinio to a rank higher than normarly admitted.

OBS

Martens clause: Expression reproduced from the Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traités et alliances
  • Droit international public

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratados y convenios
  • Derecho internacional público
CONT

Enunciada en el preámbulo de la Convención de la Haya de 1907 y reproducida en el párr. 2 del art. 1 del Protocolo I adicional a los Convenios de Ginebra de 1949. El comentario de la Cruz Roja sobre ese párrafo decía, entre otras cosas: "La cláusula de Martens impide interpretar que todo lo que no está expresamente prohibido en los tratados pertinentes está autorizado".

OBS

cláusula de Martens: Expresión y contexto reproducidos del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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