Sentences with phrase «by ignorance of the law»

In my opinion, the respondent's actions were characterized by ignorance of the law and a lack of diligence in securing professional advice, amounting to wilful blindness.

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For great physical and moral strength, man bands together to form societies and thus protect himself by laws and restraints and thus assure his freedom; he pools his knowledge and experience and transmits them to future generations to assure the conquest of ignorance and mistakes.

In physics, for example, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle or principle of indeterminacy has been interpreted in three ways: 1) that the «laws of nature» are deterministic, and that any uncertainty is due to human ignorance, which in due time will be resolved by science (Einstein), 2) uncertainty can be always explained by present experimental limitations (Neils Bohr), and 3) indeterminacy is an objective characteristic of reality Werner Heisenberg).

We are passing through a great cultural change in which the idea, long dominant in science, that chance is «only a word for our ignorance of causes» is being replaced by the view that the real laws of nature are probabilistic and allow for aspects of genuine chance.

In between shaming the poor and revealing their ignorance around what exactly they voted for, the GOP's principal talking point has been that the version of the bill that passed the House will be altered by the Senate and the ultimate law will be significantly different.

The way to resolve this is by way of a new wild mammals welfare law that would address such situations and any accusations of causing unnecessary suffering would then be tested in court on the basis of evidence, rather than prejudice or ignorance.

It is amazing that the Commissioner failed or refused to realize that her impunity in not complying with the Constitution and the law in disqualifying the aspiring candidates disclosed more about her failure as the head of the Electoral Commission than the ignorance or lack of attention on the part of the aspirants in filling the complex nomination forms designed by her office for the Presidential Elections.

Worse, she knows next to nothing about criminal law, court procedure or pressing justice issues, as proven by her preposterous display of ignorance in speaking with the Daily News Editorial Board.

A lawyer for retired NYPD Deputy Inspector James Grant suggested his client could use the same defense cited by the FBI in clearing the Democratic presidential candidate in her email scandal: ignorance of the law.

On his website, Mr. Ashby called the state's SAFE Act, a package of gun - control laws, a «sickening display of ignorance,» while Ms. Doran wrote on her Facebook page that she «refuses to stand by as mass shootings cause immeasurable heartache.»

But just as ignorance of the law is no excuse, so, too, ignorance of the laws of nature doesn't mean that you will not be affected by them.

And - since I and other taxpayers have to pay for the result of that kind of ignorance and irrresponsibility by funding shelters and dealing with the overwhelming numbers of homeless animals, I absolutely DO have a right to demand mandatory spay / neuter laws and will support those kinds initiatives whenever possible, especially in my own community.

Having had the luxury of studying in a multitude of disciplines, I was shocked and appalled by the lack of innovation and progression and the general ignorance of technology that is evident in the way law schools execute their curriculum.

'' [S] pecialist policyholder counsel like me can add real value because we (or at least some of us) have tools available that help us win our cases — not unfairly, mind you, but by overcoming ignorance and protecting the interests of our clients that the law already protects.»

Outside the law school context, writing center scholars have long debated whether generalist tutors (those that are not expert, or even conversant, in the writer's subject matter) can provide the right amount of feedback.105 Some believe generalist tutors are the ideal, because «the ignorant tutor, by virtue of her ignorance, is just as likely — perhaps even more likely — than the expert to help the student recognize what must be stated in the text.»

-- Any judge who, by reason of inexcusable negligence or ignorance shall render a manifestly unjust judgment in any case submitted to him for decision shall be punished by arresto mayor and temporary special disqualification.chanrobles virtual law library

I'm not aware of any particularly rich site on droit d'auteur offered by Quebec law libraries — feel free to poke my ignorance — but a good collection of sources on Canadian copyright reform is at Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada found at http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/copyright/copyright-f.html

As I wrote almost exactly a year ago, there is hidden in plain sight, right at the beginning of the Criminal Code, one of our law's most laughable presumptions: Ignorance of the law by a person who commits an offence is not an excuse for committing that offence.

An all too common source of claims are caused by ignorance of recent law.

If the maxim Ignorantia juris neminem excusat («ignorance of the law excuses no one») means something in a society governed by the Rule of law, legislative materials ought to be made available in a manner that makes the most out of current information technologies.

After all these years wouldn't one perhaps wonder why CREA (the industry mother ship) has not produced a boatload of buyer agency ads or actual training for the public, specifically, for the real estate law firms, and last but certainly not least, for the press who insists on declaring that only «sellers» pay the commission, creating misrepresentation by their comments and articles, either intentionally or out of genuine ignorance.