Sentences with phrase «equally at fault»

If this is the first case whereby a judge has found the sellers and buyers equally at fault, which cases (or case) will from here on in be used as precedent (s)?

According to Bob AAron... «This seems to be the first case in which a judge found the sellers and buyers equally at fault.»

The idea that both parents are equally at fault is predicated on assumptions.

If you're recommending that people download something that is bad, you are equally at fault.

In most parking lot accidents all drivers are considered to be equally at fault.

In a certain case, for instance, the jury may determine that the total damages are $ 50,000, but the victim and the defendant are equally at fault.

The camera system is equally at fault with its smooth yet nauseous movement as I constantly fought the controls.

Screenwriter David Loucka adapts from a story by Jonathan Mostow, and both are equally at fault for why this movie doesn't work.

When the schoolyard bully takes a swing, there's a bizarre tendency in our culture to pretend that the kid who swings back is somehow equally at fault for the fight.

I had another «friend» several years back with a different child whom was only 6, call the principal of the school to complain about an incident between the children resulting in my child getting in trouble when both children were equally at fault.

People are firm in their belief that both partners are equally at fault in any divorce.

LMA is equally at fault for that.

Not exact matches

The team assumed the faults were equally stressed and very close to failure, «which is clearly not the case at most times,» he notes.

Clearly, the fault isn't in the stars but in a storyline that focuses on Greg at the expense of two equally interesting characters who often feel more like moons circling Greg's planet than fully defined people in their own right.

Equally, when you mess things up at the last minute, it's infuriating, though that's never the game's fault, and the small - scale levels ensure it doesn't take long to rectify your mistake.

As an example, if there was «split liability» were you and another driver were equally 50 % to 50 % at fault; your right to sue the other drivers insurance company for «damages / losses» would be reduced by 50 %.

In states that use a modified comparative fault rule, the plaintiff will not receive any portion of the payout if he is equally or more at fault for the sustained damages.

Your attorney will work equally hard to ensure that the at - fault parties are held responsible through the pursuit of civil litigation.

However, a Maine plaintiff who is found to be equally or more at fault than a defendant — 50 % or more at fault — may not recover at all.

1 (1) When by fault of 2 or more persons damage or loss is caused to one or more of them, the liability to make good the damage or loss is in proportion to the degree in which each person was at fault but if, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, it is not possible to establish different degrees of fault, the liability shall be apportioned equally.

This is in effect conduct through the «back door» and the approach was criticised by the House of Lords and sensibly so, as it would be a rare case in which the parties had equally decided that their marriage / civil partnership was at an end and that there had been equal fault on both sides.

Equally it may be difficult to prove or establish definitively that you were not at fault.

In many states, legal marriage means that all of the assets, wealth, property, and debt belong to both of you equally, regardless of who earned it during the marriage or who's «at fault» for the divorce.