Sentences with phrase «correcting errors of judgment»

Appellate review serves many functions in law, including: promoting equal justice, correcting errors of judgment committed by the trial court, and developing a precedent of law to be applied in future disputes.

The driver should not assume that these systems will correct errors of judgment in driving.

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The errors of idolatry are also corrected by the perpetual judgment rendered on every finite good as never exhausting the infinitude of goodness.

Because the adults in professional sports are seemingly unable to correct their errors in judgment and actions, I am calling on the next generation of student - athletes to save professional sports for future generations to enjoy.

The flagbearer of the All People's Party (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has welcomed a High Court order to the Electoral Commission to allow him correct errors on his nomination forms describing the judgment as proof that the nation's democracy is working.

The FOMC would simply follow the judgment of the marginal short - term fixed income investor, which wouldn't make the policy correct, because markets a a whole make forecasting errors.

Though reliable authorities are correct in judgments related to their area of expertise more often than laypersons, they can still come to the wrong judgments through error, bias or dishonesty.

The prevalence of shorter, simpler emails is also consistent with my recent legal experience as a litigation associate in a large law firm before starting to teach legal writing full - time — an experience I have drawn on in trying to design realistic assignments.59 The emails I wrote often dealt with relatively straightforward substantive matters, procedural questions surrounding litigation, or some combination of the two, such as the steps for having an appellate court relinquish jurisdiction to correct a scrivener's error in a lower - court judgment or the timeline for responding to an in rem civil forfeiture action.

We are at a loss to understand upon what principle of law, applicable to appellate jurisdiction, it can be supposed that this court has not judicial authority to correct the last - mentioned error because they had before corrected the former, or by what process of reasoning it can be made out that the error of an inferior court in actually pronouncing judgment for one of the parties in a case in which it had no jurisdiction can not be looked into or corrected by this court because we have decided a similar question presented in the pleadings.

On the contrary, it is the daily practice of this court, and of all appellate courts where they reverse the judgment of an inferior court for error, to correct by its opinions whatever errors may appear on the record material to the case, and they have always held it to be their duty to do so where the silence of the court might lead to misconstruction or future controversy and the point has been relied on by either side and argued before the court.