Sentences with phrase «damaging allegations against»

Mr. Riley declined to discuss the latest and potentially most damaging allegations against Mr. Clinton with reporters last week.

Not exact matches

«Requiring the banks to pay treble damages to every plaintiff who ended up on the wrong side of an independent Libor ‐ denominated derivative swap would, if appellants» allegations were proved at trial, not only bankrupt 16 of the world's most important financial institutions, but also vastly extend the potential scope of antitrust liability in myriad markets where derivative instruments have proliferated,» the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York said in the ruling.A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived private antitrust litigation accusing major banks of conspiring to manipulate the Libor benchmark interest rate, in a big setback for their defense against investors» claims of market - rigging.

Witnesses would be under oath and they're of course obligated by law to tell the truth, those who have been the ones who have perpetrated this smear campaign against one of the stellar companies in the country... I think they'll have an obligation then to explain themselves why they could not base their allegations on facts and what they've done to damage an industry.

He said the party had become obsessed with the allegations against its former chief executive, which was «very, very damaging».

This is probably the most widespread and damaging allegation made against him, and to some extent it has stuck, partly a result of people abiding suspicion of the Tories when it comes to gay rights issues.

Eleven SSP members, including Mr Fox and MSPs Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, gave evidence against him in the case, in which Mr Sheridan won # 200,000 in damages for the defamatory allegations made by the newspaper about his personal life.

The Weinstein Company said that it would file for bankruptcy following the collapse of sale talks with an investor group, extending the damage from sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein, its co-owner and a onetime force in Hollywood.

The most damaging allegation to emerge against News International today was that its directors took part in an orchestrated cover - up of criminal wrong - doing and sought to destroy incriminating evidence.

Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahene, will later today, Wednesday, appear before the party's Steering Committee to answer questions on some damaging allegations he made against his party in a leaked audio that has gone viral.

In contrast, David Davis's perceived role in the drug allegations seems to have damaged his campaign — while only 20 % of members thought that the Davis campaign or its supporters were actively involved in smearing Cameron, 36 % thought that David Davis conspiculously failed to distance himself from the media campaign against Cameron and 50 % of members thought that the episode had done more damage to Davis than to Cameron.

According to party sources, there are several reasons for the decision not to nominate the former minister for a peerage: his support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq; a damages claim that is being brought against him by a Libyan couple who were «rendered» to one of Muammar Gaddafi's prisons; an ongoing inquiry by Westminster's intelligence and security committee (ISC) into that and other rendition allegations; and the words that were captured by the undercover reporter.

Pamela Adlon, who many feared would be damaged by the fall of her friend, mentor and executive producer Louis C.K., got a nod in the comedy acting category while «Transparent,» its fate still unclear after harassment allegations against star Jeffrey Tambor, was shut out from all categories for the first time since its premiere.

Paul Watson, the charismatic and controversial leader of the Sea Shepherd campaign against Japanese whale hunts, has offered a potent rebuttal tonight to allegations that he ordered the scuttling of the Ady Gil, a million - dollar anti-whaling patrol boat damaged after a collision with a Japanese ship in the southern ocean early this year.

The most common reasons include: The amount of damages that the plaintiff will recover are not enough to justify the cost of pursuing the claim, especially if litigation is necessary; whether or not the healthcare professional breached the standard of care owed to the plaintiff is questionable, and there are strong defenses to this allegation; or / and causation is unclear, and the defense has a strong argument against a plaintiff's claim of causation.

I see there is a recent 304 paragraph decision in B.C. — Newman et al v. Halstead et al, 2006 BCSC 65 — in which the court awarded damages totalling $ 681,000 against an individual defendant (who did not appear at the trial, hence there was no defence per se) for her liability in making defamatory statements on her website, chat rooms and email about various teachers in which she made allegations of misconduct and allegations that the School Board mishandled or covered up this activity.

Recent work includes acting for Sainsbury's against MasterCard and Visa pursuing damages claims based on the allegation that the interchange fees charged by MasterCard and -LSB-...]

«Caring, conscientious, experienced, and astute litigator» and team leader Clare Langford led the team acting in a claim concerning allegations of delayed treatment for meningitis resulting in permanent neurological damage; and acted in a claim against an NHS trust concerning poor mental health treatment provided to the client's husband who committed suicide.

The Court concluded «that they were concocted... after the fact» and that punitive damages were therefore warranted because DMR «persisted in advancing serious personal allegations of impropriety against the plaintiff without being able to maintain them and without having conducted a reasonably fair and unbiased investigation.»

Defended a domestic automobile manufacturer in dozens of actions in Ohio against personal injury and fire damage claims involving allegations of airbag non-deployment, seatbelt failure, brake failure, wheel - off, transmission explosion, car jack collapse, wiring failures, and other alleged design, manufacturing, and warning defects.

Subsequently they each brought actions against the MPS for failure to conduct effective investigations into allegations of crimes committed against them, seeking damages and declarations under the Human Rights Act 1998 («the HRA»), ss 7 and 8 on the grounds that the police investigations had been so significantly flawed that they constituted violations of the duty to investigate inherent in the right under ECHR, art 3 not to be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment.

The RFP states that ICBC will require that lawyers retained to act as part of a legal team for ICBC decline to act against it in bringing actions which include allegations of bad faith or claims for punitive, aggravated or exemplary damages.

Moreover, where the consequences of failing to properly investigate allegations of employee misconduct are becoming so large, including the possibility of damages being awarded against employers, employers may no longer be able to afford not to retain a lawyer.

Attorneys Aivar Pilv and Anneli Aab from Leadell Pilv in Estonia have successfully defended clients Karl and Kaarel Liivapuu in Harju County Court against a civil claim for damages of over EUR 127,000 based on allegations that they improperly influenced «a member of management board... to perform a transaction harmful for the company by selling an apartment under its market value.»

The case of Q. (P.) c. L. (A.), Quebec Superior Court, concerns a claim by a father for damages against his former wife and the mother of his children, based on the fact that she made unfounded allegations of improper sexual touching of their two young daughters against him.

In 2012, the Ontario Superior Court found that «none of the plaintiff's allegations against the Defendant provide a legal footing on which he can base his claim to damages.»

The damage to children of a system that incentivises the coaching of children by an alienating parent to make false allegations against the other parent, is greater than the damage that would be inflicted by allowing a fair system of tested evidence, or a system that risked occasional child abuse.

The broker had filed a motion to have the negligent misrepresentation allegations against it dismissed, but the U.S. District Court determined that under Illinois law, a party may allege negligent misrepresentation if another individual owed it a legal duty, that duty was breached, and damages arose from that breach.

Klotz told the Star that the allegations against Mangat have damaged his reputation and that his arrest was «unfair and unjust» for a man of his «calibre and prominence» in the community.