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Panel [fr. panellum, Lat.; panneau, Fr., a square or panel]. 1. A little part, or rather a schedule or page, containing the names of such jurors as the sheriff returns to pass upon a trial; and empannelling a jury is nothing but the entering them into the sheriff's roll or book, Jac. Law Dict.; Co. Litt. 158 b.2. In Scots law, the accused person in a criminal trial after appearance in court.3. Panel of Arbitrators, the name given to the permanent Court or Tribunal established under the Hague Arbitration Convention.The term is often applied to the list of such medical practitioners as have agreed to administer the Medical Benefit under the National Health Insur-ance Acts. Those entitled to be treated by such a medical practitioner are popularly called 'panel-patients,' and the word is used to denote a list of any authoritative persons or consultants where determination or advise is required by statute, e.g., arbitrators under the (English) Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation...
paneled
Decorated with panels or wainscoting used of walls as a paneled family room...
paneling
The act or process of forming in panels or decorating with panels...
Adoption panel
Adoption panel, means a panel established in accordance with the Adoption Agencies Regulation, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 5(3), 2001, 4th Edn., Para 544, Note 7, p. 279....
panel
panel 1 : a group of community members summoned for jury service 2 : a group of usually three judges among the judges sitting on an appellate court who hear a particular appeal compare full court ...
panel physician
panel physician Embassies and consulates which issue immigrant visas have selected certain doctors to do the medical examinations for immigrant visa applicants. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Crime of violence
Crime of violence, is whether the has been the infliction or threat of force or the doing of a hostile act, R (August) v. Criminal Injuries Panel (CA), (2001) 2 WLR 1452.May be committed when there is no use of force, but the victim is put in reasonable fear of immediate physical harm, Regina (August) v. Criminal Injuries Panel (CA), (2001) 2 WLR 1452.Includes personal injury caused by arson and by poisoning, R. (August) v. Criminal Injuries Panel (CA), (2001) QB LR 774....
Fixtures
Fixtures. Things of an accessory character which are not something which is part of the original struc-ture, Boswell v. Crucible Steel Co., (1925) 1 KB 119, annexed to houses or lands, which become, immediately on annexation, part of the realty itself, i.e., governed by the same law which applies to the land, in conformity with the maxim quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit. The application of this legal principle, however, is not uniform, as may be thus shown:(1) Between landlord and tenant. If the chattels be not let into the soil, they are not fixtures at all, and may be removed at will, like any other species of personal property. When the chattel is connected with the free-hold, by being let into the earth, or by being cemented or otherwise united to some erection attached to the ground, the question arises-when may the tenant remove such fixtures?The general rule as to annexations made by a tenant during the continuance of his term is the following-Whenever he has affixed anything...
Interest
Interest, an interest for the purposes of the regula-tion was not limited to a direct financial interest and included membership of a panel such as the panel of which the claimant's solicitors were members that, therefore, the Claimant's Solicitors had had an interest in recommending the insurance which they recommend to her; that, in the circumstances, there had not been sufficient disclosure of that interest; and that, accordingly, there had been a material breach of regulation 4(2)(e)(ii) and the conditional fee agreement was unenforceable [See (English) Conditional Fee Agreements Regulation, 2000 (SI 2000/692), reg. 4(2)(c)(e)(ii)], Garrett v. Halton BC, (2007) 1 WLR 554 CA Cir.Interest, inter alia as the compensation fixed by agreement or allowed by law for the use or detention of money, or for the loss of money by one who is entitled to its use; especially, the amount owed to a lender in return for the use of the borrowed money [Black's Law Dictionary (7th Edn.) pp. 393-94 para 3...
arbitration
arbitration [Latin arbitratio, from arbitrari to judge, arbitrate, from arbiter onlooker, arbitrator] : the process of resolving a dispute (as between labor and management) or a grievance outside of the court system by presenting it to an impartial third party or panel for a decision that may or may not be binding compare mediation final offer arbitration : interest arbitration in which the arbitrator must accept or reject the final offer of any party and may not decide to compromise grievance arbitration : arbitration of a dispute over something in an existing collective bargaining agreement called also rights arbitration compare interest arbitration in this entry interest arbitration : arbitration of a dispute over the provisions to be entered in a new contract compare grievance arbitration in this entry rights arbitration : grievance arbitration in this entry ar·bi·tra·tion·al [Ä r-bə-trā-shə-nəl] adj ...
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