Sentences with phrase «appropriate standard of proof»

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[17] In particular, the lower standard of proof that applies in civil (as opposed to criminal) proceedings is appropriate, Professor Brown argues, because of its relation to risk management.

The criminal standard of proof is appropriate when the liberty of the accused is at stake.

The civil standard of proof applied in administrative proceedings is more appropriate because it treats corporate treasuries as no more worthy of protection than the health and safety of employees.

Regarding proof, shifting the burden or using a higher standard of proof than usual do not seem to be appropriate solutions to address the difficulty to prove bribery.

[154] The standard of proof to be applied in making an appropriate damage award under this category is simple probability, not the balance of probabilities.

The central problem in the handling of causation in the courts below arose not in their failure to have appropriate regard to the less stringent standard of proof required by the legislation here, but from their fundamental misapprehension of how causation ̶ irrespective of the standard of proof ̶ may be inferred from evidence.

The basis on which it was argued at the instant hearing that a lesser standard of proof might be appropriate was that the standard of proof of unlawful killing needed to be revisited when the inquest was intended to be the mechanism by which the obligation under Art 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) was to be discharged.

It alleges that the motion judge reversed the onus of proof by requiring the appellant to establish that an action would have been appropriate when the allergic symptoms first appeared in 2010 and also that she applied a subjective rather than objective standard to the determination of when a proceeding would be an appropriate means to seek to remedy the injury, loss or damage.