Sentences with phrase «erroneous legal»

The Globe and Mail reports that largely because of erroneous legal advice, the families responded only in a perfunctory way to the legal action, believing that they could simply agree to reverse the sale and forget the dispute.

Unfortunately, it wasn't a cut - and - dried Strickland and Hill issue, since the case involved a defendant who declined a favorable plea offer based on erroneous legal advice and proceeded to trial.

The court, noting that this issue did not involve an area where the judgment of the GMC is to be afforded special weight in recognition of its expertise but concerned an erroneous legal judgment, decided that the GMC had misdirected itself in law and that there had been a breach of Art 6.

If you have received negligent or erroneous legal advice from a lawyer which has caused you financial or other harm, you may have grounds for a claim against them.

And last week, Murray Energy submitted a brief urging the Court to halt EPA's «illegal» rulemaking and vacate the agency's «erroneous legal opinion» that it may doubly regulate sources under § 111 (d) and § 112.

If debts for «all student loans» are presumptively non-dischargeable, then more than 10 million discharge orders have been issued with an erroneous legal conclusion since 2005.»

Early on, the state education agency, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction — no ally of school choice — signaled to the DOJ that their investigation was based on an erroneous legal theory:

Not exact matches

«There is a widespread and completely erroneous belief out there that there is some sort of legal duty that corporate managers have to «maximize profits» or «maximize shareholder value,»» said Cornell law professor Lynn Stout, author of «The Shareholder Value Myth.»

While this court is obliged to accept the bankruptcy court's undisturbed findings of fact unless they are clearly erroneous, it is not required to accept its conclusions as to the legal effect of those findings.

«The majority judgment rests upon a precarious legal foundation and erroneous assertions and propositions which, in the result, fail to satisfy the test for a rationally designed starting point that provides meaningful guidance to sentencing judges.»

One of the claimed benefits of legal spend management software is to use AI (artificial intelligence) to examine electronic legal invoices, then challenge expenses that look erroneous or excessive.

13 The defence suggests that the police should provide an informational basis as to the legal advantages or even consequences of not consulting with counsel or should force an accused to speak with a lawyer; and, conversely, that when they provide legal advice, the police must be held accountable if there is any error; that the police must provide legal advice as part of the informational basis, but are at risk if they provide erroneous advice.

It is unfair of you to claim that my strategy is to «drown out «anyone; it is to expose the unsupported and erroneous nature of the arguments in favour of ABS, to expose the stupidities of attacking low cost legal services and turning them over to anti-competitive cartels while leaving untouched high cost legal services, and to put forth constructive arguments in favour of real and beneficial changes to where the real problems are.

The Seventh Circuit said that the arbitrator's findings of fact may be set aside only if clearly erroneous, while the arbitrator's legal conclusions are subject to de novo review.

Topics: legal research, family law, Brett turner, Windsor update, Kitchen v. Herbert, majority opinion erroneous, fundamental right to marriage has qualifications, right to marriage is qualified

«A conviction under [such a law] is not merely erroneous, but is illegal and void, and can not be a legal cause of imprisonment.»

The point of law in JGE, a technical legal point, of whether there could be vicarious liability for a diocesan priest, a non-employee, was generally misunderstood in media reports and erroneous reporting was widespread.

In joining the legion of «how to cite according to The Bluebook» books and study aids it reinforces the erroneous impression that U.S. legal citation style is both uniform and static.

Never assume that the erroneous information relieves you of your legal responsibility.