Sentences with phrase «about prejudicial»

The Court of Appeal's judgment means that a defendant's complaints about prejudicial reporting are likely to fall on deaf ears.

By contrast, I have heard of cases pertaining to some newer member states where the state in question would not even send a representative or written arguments to the court (here again I think it was about prejudicial questions, not infringement proceedings but it shows how specific countries approach EU litigation in general).

Not exact matches

«I took this on to tackle prejudicial attitudes,» DeMoss says, explaining how he approached Romney about running for president in 2006, convinced that the then - Massachusetts governor was the most qualified man for the presidency that he'd ever seen.

Dahl then zeroed in on television coverage: «Voters are asked to make judgments about the character of the candidates — without real discussion, with advertising and sound bites that trivialize their differences and give limited and prejudicial information.

They need to ask themselves, as the Groupe des Dombes suggested, «whether their too frequent silences about Mary are not prejudicial to their relationship with Jesus Christ.»

(Reuters)- Lawyers for once - powerful former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver asked a judge on Tuesday to throw out federal corruption charges against him because a top prosecutor made «prejudicial» public statements about his guilt.

If we are going to allow some of these self - acclaimed media analysts to influence our perspectives about what is true or false, right or wrong then we will continue to have difficulties with rising above mediocrity, petty - mindedness and prejudicial thinking.

The publisher of GQ magazine has been found guilty of contempt of court over a «very seriously prejudicial» article about the phone - hacking trial of Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson.

Aaron Schock's lawyers say witnesses in the case against the former congressman have been asked «distasteful, offensive,» and «prejudicial» questions about every part of Schock's sex life including whether he is ga... Read

These biases create some immediate concerns about our increasing reliance on artificially intelligent technology, as any AI system designed by humans to be absolutely «neutral» could still reinforce humans» prejudicial thinking instead of seeing through it.

Before you even start sending out applications, it's smart to prune prejudicial content (politics talk, margarita selfies, rants about your current boss) from your social - media accounts, says Therese Macan, a professor at the University of Missouri — St. Louis, who studies the process of employee selection and recruitment.

Concerns about privacy, security issues, and personal factors could be prejudicial and prevent from meeting like - minded senior singles.

It's not really about the law, the case, or the social mentality that would impose prejudicial restrictions on the love between two people, simply based on the respective colors of their skin.

I have never demeaned a student nor held prejudicial viewpoints about any student or family; nor have I cast aspersions on anyone because of their profession.

They volunteer their time to help correct the prejudicial myths about pit bulls through community outreach and education.

The appeals court rejected Sienkowski's argument, holding that under Indiana law a party can not attack the validity of a verdict by juror testimony about jury deliberations unless it relates to (1) drug or alcohol use by any juror, (2) the question of whether extraneous prejudicial information was improperly brought to the jury's attention or (3) whether any outside influence was improperly brought to bear upon any juror.

Via Siouxsie Law I came across an interesting recent opinion of the Supreme Court of Georgia that reversed a murder conviction because the trial court allowed the prosecution to introduce «irrelevant and highly prejudicial character evidence» about a teenage defendant's «goth» lifestyle.

What Alexander teaches about keeping from evidence this prejudicial effect of their undocumented status applies equally to Cincinnati, Ohio and other jurisdictions as it does in Alexander's home in Indianapolis.

Referring to the doctrine of cumulative cause, the Ontario Court concluded that there was just cause to terminate Mr. Chopra's employment because Easy Plastic had given him ample verbal and written warnings about poor performance and misconduct, the cumulative effect being serious and prejudicial (indeed, in at least one instance, intended to harm Easy Plastic).

Sept. 15, 2010), the court found that social media posts about the length of the trial were not prejudicial.

Judges I've spoken to expressed no concern about such motions, but it's reasonable to suggest that the more potentially inflammatory and therefore prejudicial the evidence, the more difficult it might be for a judge to not be influenced or affected by it.

The procedure is that the member files a petition to the court under section 996 of the Companies Act 2006 and a detailed witness statement which includes all the necessary formal information about the company as well as full evidence about the unfairly prejudicial acts.

A judge's instruction to the jury on how they could weigh testimony about a defendant's possible change in appearance at trial - in this case, wearing glasses - wasn't prejudicial, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals has ruled.

[168] It was during the oral hearing itself that the Complainants learned of some prejudicial evidence the IAMAW had about them.

Besides the potential to divulge information protected by attorney - client confidentiality, or information which would be embarrassing or prejudicial, attorney - bloggers must also be mindful of the message that writing about clients sends to other clients, potential clients and colleagues.

Children must be free to draw their own conclusions about each parents, without the prejudicial influences of the other parent.

The law is very specific about REALTORS» not being prejudicial in any way.

Seller has quickly been educated about potential legal fallout from prejudicial behaviour as well as about contractual obligations re commission liability by his / her salesperson, and unhappily accepts offer.