BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Ambit Claim

  • a claim made to an arbitration authority for higher pay or improved conditions that is deliberately exaggerated because the claimants know that they will subsequently have to compromise

Wiktionary Definition for: Ambit Claim

  • an extravagant initial demand made in expectation of an eventual counter-offer and compromise

Additional Resources

Duty on transfers of land and goodwill.
Jul 10, 2003 (Law Institute Journal - ABIX via COMTEX) In Australia, the Commissioner of State Revenue has released a draft revenue ruling: "Transfer of land and goodwill". Lawyers should note the ruling must be regarded as an ambit claim. Already the Victorian Parliament...
Tags: Australian Taxation Office, FINANCE, goodwill, Taxes
Research articles 2003-07-11
Work in progress.
Byline: Max Walsh May 03, 2007 (The Bulletin - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The new Australian Labor Party leader, Kevin Rudd, has unveiled a Soviet-style industrial relations policy that restores trade union power. Business was expecting a rough continuation of conservative macro-economic policies...
Tags: U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-05-03
Defamation claim is not within ambit of FELA and thus is not preempted by FELA
Rivera v. National R.R. Passenger Corp., ___ F.3d ___, No. 01-16232, 2003 WL 21338916 (9th Cir. June 10, 2003), amended, 2003 WL 21940493 (9th Cir. Aug. 14, 2003).The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a railroad employee's suit against the railroad alleging liability for defamatory statements made by other...
Tags: Amtrak, defamation
Research articles 2003-10-01
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