Sentences with phrase «controversial case of»

Overseen by the academic editors from Cardiff University, some of whom founded the series, the first case BMLR published was the controversial case of Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee (1957) 1 BMLR 1 in which it was decided there was no breach of standard of care if a responsible body of similar professionals support the practice that caused the injury.

Unlike in the highly controversial case of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., Garner's arrest was videotaped, leading some community members and elected officials to believe that an indictment was possible.

This section outlines a number of the more famous and / or controversial cases of casus belli which have occurred in modern times.

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It turns out that Eich contributed $ 1,000 to California's controversial Proposition 8, an anti-same-sex marriage bill that passed with broad voter support in 2008, and which became the basis for one of the gay marriage cases argued before the Supreme Court in 2013.

Cynthia Tice found that to be the case when she and her co-founder launched Lily's Sweets in 2011, when public sentiment was turning against foods high in sugar (thanks in part to books such as Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health).

As with so much else in the increasingly fraught relationship between the US and Mexico, one of America's biggest trading partners, it may have come down to President Trump and the controversial things he says — or, in this case, declined to say.

He is also the author of several IGOPP policy papers, which offer new perspectives on a range of controversial issues including: Dual - class voting shares, Corporate Citizenship, The place of women on boards of directors, Say - on - Pay by shareholders, The Gordian knot of executive compensation, The Troubling Case of Proxy Advisors, among others.

It seems inevitable that the Supreme Court of Canada's R. v. Comeau decision, in what will forever be known as «the Beer Case,» will go down as controversial and perhaps even deeply unpopular.

Milos Barutciski, a lawyer with Bennett Jones LLP in Toronto familiar with the SNC - Lavalin affair and who has co-operated with authorities on certain aspects of the case, said he believes the Trudeau government will study both allowing deferred prosecution agreements and changing the mandatory blacklist provisions in the Conservatives» controversial government procurement rules.

The Senate voted Tuesday night to kill a controversial rule that would have allowed Americans to file class - action suits against banks instead of being forced in many cases into private arbitration.

These can supplant older revelations, as in the case of the church's historically most controversial doctrine: Smith himself received God's sanctioning of pol - ygamy in 1831, but 49 years later, the church's President announced its recision.

Update (June 10): Karen Hinkley, a former missionary at the center of a controversial church discipline case at the Village Church, says she forgives church leaders there.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on a controversial case on hiring and firing of «ministerial employees.»

The controversial case concerned picketing by Phelps» Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) at the Westminster, Maryland, funeral of Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.

These can supplant older revelations, as in the case of the church's historically most controversial doctrine: Smith himself received God's sanctioning of polygamy in 1831, but 49 years later, the church's President announced its recision.

Yet deciding what it means to act justly in particular situations (whether it's a case of affirmative action or the huge global inequalities in living standards) is highly controversial.

The case of China has been controversial, with opinion in the United States sharply divided on the desirability of conditioning trade preferences on compliance with specified human rights.

As a result of the Supreme Court unanimously ruling the government was acting unlawfully and unconstitutionally, the government will have to take immediate steps to stop charging the controversial fees of up to # 1,200 for taking a case to tribunal.

One of Noonan's more controversial cases involved the scope of religious freedom.

Former USC assistant Todd McNair's defamation lawsuit against the NCAA should provide a wealth of illuminating details about the controversial Reggie Bush case.

And of course the Michigan Wolverines, who found themselves on the wrong side of a controversial spot in one of the best games of the year against Ohio State, finished ranked 6th, unable to make a solid case for an invitation to the top four.

I can understand why this decision could be controversial, and there seems to be some layers of politics behind this specific case.

Firstly, Arsenal would surely be mad to bid on a player who still has 6 games left of his League ban, and with a nasty streak in him which will in all likelihood see him involved in another controversial case.

This is perhaps the most controversial but most important during this time of the year - restraint system in the case of a crash.

Even as a controversial Champaign case of a mother breastfeeding her 6 - year - old came to light, Mothering magazine made a case for breastfeeding toddlers, saying that most U.S. mothers wean their children by age 6 months.

So Supreme Court cases are already controversial and they still ended in unanimous decisions thirty out of seventy - four times in 2014.

Many aspects of the UK's aviation noise control regime are highly controversial, as demonstrated by the HACAN case.

It was the context behind the re-use of Michelle Obama's speech by Melania Trump that made that particular case of text - re-use controversial.

In fact, this was a case of the NHS deciding not to make a controversial decision which could be the subject of election campaigning.

The gods choose to intervene in the affairs of men when they will and in controversial radio personality, Blakk Rasta's case they intervened in a most unusual way.

A close read of Cuomo's recent controversial executive order shows that it doesn't actually guarantee people on parole the right to vote — what looked like a sweeping restoration appears to be more of a case - by - case decision.

Under the Bloomberg administration, Jewish parents were required to sign a consent form before the controversial ritual, which has been linked to two deaths and two cases of brain damage since 2000.

Hanna joins former Utah governor and presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, HP CEO Meg Whitman and ex-Vice President Dick Cheney in signing the amicus, which is being filed with the Supreme Court as justices prepare to take on several court cases challenging same - sex marriage laws, including the controversial Proposition 8 measure in California and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

The Post has previously reported on Sattler's controversial decision — in the custody case of Manuel Mehos versus Lisa Mehos — to allow evidence about the woman's post divorce abortion.

Speaking on LBC's Call Clegg, he added he knew the plan to make some naturalised British citizens stateless was controversial, but justifiable in a very small number of cases.

The extraordinary seizure was part of an ongoing probe by the attorney general into Abelove's controversial handling of a case in which a Troy police officer was cleared in the April 2016 shooting death of a DWI suspect.

A State Supreme Court judge ruled against the city in the controversial Broadway Triangle rezoning case in which a coalition of community groups allege...

When the time came to implement controversial but necessary policies, Field could in the best case scenario bring with him some of his parliamentary colleagues.

A controversial online media, Saharareporters has released an audio conversation of Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, allegedly bribing a tribunal judge who handled his election case in 2015, Justice Akon Ikpeme.

The bill adds the controversial cell phone cases to a list of «imitation weapons» that are currently banned under state law.

Documents published today set out further details of the controversial new offence that removes the need to prove intent for the most serious cases of failing to declare offshore income and gains (making it a «strict liability» offence).

The NYC Health Department reported the year's first case of neonatal herpes believed to be caused by metzitzah b» peh, the controversial circumcision ritual that involves orally sucking blood away from the wound.

At the time, the PAC's focus was trying to to force out Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for his controversial handling of the Vito Lopez sexual harassment case.

E.g. in case of the hugely controversial Brexit, the debate in Britain about whether or not to go ahead with this has been closed after the referendum.

Earlier this year, Cuomo signed another order that allowed Schneiderman's office to expand that investigation and examine Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove's controversial handling of the 2016 shooting, including his decision to rush the case before a grand jury that cleared the sergeant, Randall French, less than a week after the shooting.

The Phil Woolas Case - whilst controversial - will have profound implications for the conduct of future elections.

After reviewing 30 cases of potential wrongful imprisonment for murder from the tenure of his controversial predecessor Charles Hynes, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson's office has begun to investigate the former prosecutor's non-homicide felony convictions, too.

It reveals that the AG's own staff is worried about flaws in Cuomo's controversial July 8 executive order that handed responsibility in cases of killings by police to Schneiderman — an ally of the Rev. Al Sharpton — in the face of intense political pressure from black Democrats that resulted from the tragic death of Garner and other cases involving police killings across the country.

Other defendants in this case include Kelly, a former executive with Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), which has for years been developing a controversial gas - fired power plant in Orange County, N.Y., while successfully pushing one in Oxford; and Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, top executives with COR Development of Syracuse, which secured contracts on a number of projects initiated by Albany - based SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

One of the more controversial bills would require semiautomatic handguns made and sold in New York to have unique identifying information on spent bullet casing — a process known as microstamping.