Sentences with phrase «determine on a balance of probabilities»

Modify cartel laws so they apply conduct affecting goods or services supplied or acquired in Australian markets and are confined to conduct involving firms who are actual or likely competitors (determined on balance of probabilities)

The impossibility referred to in case law does not describe scientific impossibility, but rather the impossibility to determine on a balance of probabilities which specific tortfeasor was at fault.

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Avoidable damages are to be determined by assuming that the plaintiff has agreed to an operation not yet performed rather than looking at what on the balance of probabilities would have happened had the operation taken place.

If the court determines that a provision is ambiguous, then the parties can present extrinsic evidence to support their interpretation and the court decides based on the balance of probability, sometimes deciding ambiguity against the drafter or party with the stronger negotiating position as a rule.

Before a hearing can be held to determine if the test has been satisfied, the accused must show on a balance of probabilities that the evidence he is proposing to admit is capable of meeting the test.

The trial judge was therefore required to presume the advance was not a gift and to determine whether the respondent had satisfied the burden of rebutting the presumption of resulting trust on a balance of probabilities (para. 44).

The presumption of resulting trust determines the result only where there is insufficient evidence to rebut the presumption on the balance of probabilities — Pecore at paras 20, 222 - 225.

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The court must determine: (i) whether the evidence establishes the employee's deceitful (dishonest) conduct on a balance of probabilities; and (ii) if so, whether the nature and degree of the dishonesty warrant the employee's dismissal.

In accordance with this test, a trial judge must instruct the jury to determine: (1) whether the evidence established the employee's deceitful conduct on a balance of probabilities; and (2) if so, whether the nature and degree of the dishonesty warranted dismissal.

The Court of Appeal determined that the appellants» case foundered at the first logical question in the causal reasoning process: have the plaintiffs proven, on a balance of probabilities, that a delay in treatment led to the plaintiff's injuries, considering only what he needed by way of timely diagnosis and treatment in order to avoid the injuries?