Example sentences of "[adv] party to " in BNC.

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1 As early as 1917 Roxburgh demonstrated that many municipal legal systems had developed devices to avoid the restrictions and inconveniences caused by a rigid adherence to the analogous rule that contracts bind only parties to them , a process that continues .
2 They do not become parties to the treaty but to the Protocol , while the treaty parties are not parties to the Protocol .
3 The Court reiterated that ‘ the Convention does not govern the actions of States not parties to it , nor does it purport to be a means of requiring the Contracting States to impose Convention standards on other States . ’
4 ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached .
5 By a notice of appeal dated 13 August 1991 the applicant appealed against that decision of the Divisional Court on the grounds , inter alia , that it had erred ( 1 ) in holding that there was no obligation on Lautro to give the applicant an opportunity to make representations prior to the issue of that notice ; ( 2 ) in asserting that there was a principle of law that a regulatory body should know with precision from whom they must invite representations ; ( 3 ) in perceiving any difficulty in identifying persons who should have been given advance notification , so as to be treated fairly , of any proposals by Lautro to issue a notice since such notification should at least be given to anyone who would be directly affected by such a notice and/or whose conduct was in issue ; ( 4 ) in regarding as apposite the remarks of Lord Diplock in Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190A since the non-application of the legal concept of natural justice to all persons effected by but not parties to a dispute was not and had never been in issue ; and ( 5 ) in failing to have regard to the absence of any rights of appeal according to the rules of Lautro in deciding whether the principle of natural justice applied .
6 In Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190 , Lord Diplock said : ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached . ’
7 Note 62/3/2 in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 explains that rule 3(2) only applies to a right of a party to recover costs ‘ from any other party to the proceedings ’ and will not apply to the right of a mortgagee to retain costs out of a mortgaged property on redemption or to any other contractual right to costs out of a fund or from persons who are not parties to the proceedings .
8 An order requiring the third , fourth and fifth defendants , who were not parties to any Euramco transaction and who did not receive anything under any Euramco transaction , to repay the investors the money paid for the Euramco shares , is , he submits , a compensatory order , not a restitutionary one .
9 Secondly , it was emphasised that ex hypothesi the responsible third parties — and in particular the solicitors in this case — were not parties to the transaction and received nothing under it .
10 The basis of these decisions was that strikes would result in unlawful ‘ secondary ’ action involving employers who were not parties to the dispute .
11 Merkur Island were not parties to any contract for the supply of towage services , so it was not possible to say that the purpose of the action was to prevent the supply of services between an employer who was party to the dispute ( Merkur Island ) and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action related ( the tug owners ) .
12 I suggest to the Solicitor-General that a clear intellectual distinction can be drawn between evidence that relates to those who are parties to a trial and those who are not parties to a trial .
13 Diplock LJ said " A contract in restraint of trade is one in which a party ( the covenantor ) agrees with any other party ( the covenantee ) to restrict his liberty in the future to carry on trade with other persons not parties to the contract in such manner as he chooses " .
14 The argument was put before the Court that since all the Member States were already parties to the 1950 Convention , there could be no need for action by the Community under Article 235 , since all the Member States would , by definition , already be applying the same rules .
15 But the appeal of the romantic movement does not explain why those who were not party to it , such as Michael Faraday , who was a visionary and wrote beautifully , have been completely written out of conventional histories of 19th century Britain , as if he ( and David Brewster and Thomas Henry Huxley and the rest ) were just peripheral figures , keeping things ticking along so that statesmen could make grand decisions and the widening of human understanding could be left to poets .
16 That was , Lord Jauncey said , a clear undertaking by TBL not to exercise its statutory powers for a period that could last for as long as any one of the parties to the agreement remained a shareholder and long after the control of TBL had passed to shareholders who were not party to the agreement .
17 But the angels of hell are not party to the councils of heaven .
18 The Company is not party to any arrangement to enable any Director or his family to acquire benefit through the acquisition of any shares , debentures or loan stock of any other company .
19 In fact , the 1907 Hague Conventions were not formally applicable to that conflict , because several of the belligerents were not party to them , and under the so-called ‘ general participation clause ’ the Hague Conventions could not therefore apply even between those who were parties .
20 Alford distinguishes the lay popular interest in development of services as the third and largely repressed force : it is not organized as a permanent lobby and is not party to the agenda setting between the monopolists and the rationalizers .
21 It is difficult to believe that the historians were not party to such constructions , although Goody might justifiably envisage that such honourable men as Thucydides would have been shocked if his material had been manipulated in this way by the politicians .
22 Interestingly , Egypt described the Memorandum as changing the United States ' role from one of ‘ partner ’ ( but not party to the Peace Treaty ) to one of ‘ arbiter ’ which it considered inappropriate .
23 The incomer might not agree to any existing house rules or feel that they can ignore them because they were not party to them initially .
24 The House of Lords held that since the ship owners were not party to any contract with the tug owners ( the arrangements had been made by the charterers of the ship ) the secondary action was , again , illegal .
25 But that 's something we 're not party to .
26 Nothing was omitted , no aspect of her being was not party to this miraculous moment of ultimate sharing , and in the final vibration of the after-shock set up by the last incredible convulsion of ecstasy , she heard Luke gasping her name and understood that she did n't hate him and never had .
27 This was not possible as BBA has some 325 member banks in all and most of these are not party to the agreement .
28 Having said that , the hon. and learned Member for Burton makes a good point : it would offend against the views of ordinary persons and would be a crying sense of injustice if people who were not party to the aggravated crime and who had sought to distance themselves from it were found guilty because the balance of probabilities had fallen on them to prove their innocence .
29 However , such an agreement should not prejudice other Network members who are not party to the ad hoc arrangement .
30 Note that the contract can not bind those who are not party to it .
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