Sentences with phrase «error of judgment by»

When a collision is due to an error of judgment by a vehicle driver rather than the rider, it is usually because the driver was inattentive, did not see the motorcyclist, was distracted, drunk, affected by drugs, driving too fast or did not allow sufficient room between themselves and the rider.

Bankrolling a state - sponsored cover - up is a massive error of judgment by Haringey Council, and compounds their mishandling of the whole affair.

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We should remember his words: «It was the greatest and boldest operation ever undertaken by the Federal Reserve System, and, in my judgment, resulted in one of the most costly errors committed by it or any banking system in the last 75 years.

«It was the greatest and boldest operation ever undertaken by the Federal Reserve System, and, in my judgment, resulted in one of the most costly errors committed by it or any banking system in the last 75 years.

It is a grave error of judgment to assume that terrorism can be stamped out by war.

An honest, conscientious error of judgment, made by a person who is willing and able to change his mind when shown to be in the wrong, is a very different thing from the sin that Jesus condemned.

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

If we accept the account of human nature given by the Western theological and philosophical traditions — that we are free, rational beings, limited and imperfect, prone to diversity of opinion and errors in judgment — we may be more inclined to be not only tolerant but gracious and loving toward those with whom we disagree.

When practicing the Law of Love, we are pretty much «flying by the seat of our pants,» relying on common sense and intuition rather than a moral manual or theological dogmas to keep us from making errors in judgment.

With Governing Council inaugurated, Vice Chancellor and other Principal Officers of the University appointed and take - off fund in NIMASA 2015 Appropriation Act passed by the National Assembly; it is clearly an error of judgment to contemplate scrapping the Nigeria Maritime University.

Mr Watson first revealed he favoured a shake - up of Labour Party rules last month, saying former leader Ed Miliband had made a «terrible error of judgment» by ditching the electoral college system and shadow cabinet elections.

However he makes an error of judgment early on in the story by exposing the nuns as vulgar, using the f - word freely and taking their frustrations out on a gardener whom they accuse of ogling them, beating him to a pulp.

So here, for the umpteenth time and in the service of any animals whose very life might depend on the decisions made by anyone who might be misled by Clifton and Young's errors of fact, judgment, and ethics, is a point by point refutation of each of their erroneous claims.

Peter Salovey, the dean of Yale College, and Robert Storr, dean of the School of Art, issued a statement finding «serious errors of judgment» by Shvarts's adviser and art instructor.

Unfortunately it shows, in my judgment, a current tendency by this group of scientists and their supporters to react by down grading some serious and basic statistical errors and inabilities to place uncertainty measures on results to a level of «minor» flaws and to characterize the criticisms as personal attacks.

Our estimates of key climate model uncertainties are constrained by observations of the climate system for the period 1906 - 1995, 7 and uncertainty in emissions reflect errors in measurement of current emissions and expert judgment about variables that influence key economic projections.

This is a writ of error to the County Court of Oneida County, in the State of New York (to which court the record had been remitted), to review the judgment of the Court of Appeal of that State affirming the judgment of the Supreme Court, which itself affirmed the judgment of the County Court, convicting the defendant of a misdemeanor on an indictment under a statute of that State, known, by its short title, as the labor

He or she is not to be judged by the result, nor is he or she to be held liable for errors of judgment.2 For instance, in Crits v. Sylvester, 3 the Ontario Court of Appeal noted, and the Supreme Court of Canada re-affirmed, the following:

And here, since it appears from the statement in the order of the Court of Appeal that the question whether the Syndicalism Act and its application in this case was repugnant to the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment was considered and passed upon by that court — this being a federal question constituting an appropriate ground for a review of the judgment — we conclude that this Court has acquired jurisdiction under the writ of error.

court of Orleans is created, taken in connection with the Judicial Act, and that a writ of error would lie to a judgment rendered by the court for the District of Kentucky in such a case as this.

This is the first of several writs of error to sundry judgments rendered by the Court of the United States for the Territory of Orleans.

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 federal district court in Tyler, Texas, did not commit reversible error in entering judgment against ALE USA (formerly known as Alcatel - Lucent Enterprise USA) for infringement of networking patents asserted by Chrimar Systems, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Ci

The plaintiff in error was undoubtedly prejudiced by this error in the charge, and the judgment of the court below must therefore be

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.

The plaintiff thereupon brought his writ of error, and this court reversed the judgment given in favor of the defendant and remanded the case with directions to dismiss it because it did not appear by the transcript that the Circuit Court had jurisdiction.

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.

It is suggested, however, that this plea is not before us, and that, as the judgment in the court below on this plea was in favor of the plaintiff, he does not seek to reverse it, or bring it before the court for revision by his writ of error, and also that the defendant waived this defence by pleading over, and thereby admitted the jurisdiction of the court.

It must, in each of them, exercise jurisdiction over the judgment, and reverse it for the errors committed by the court below; and issue a mandate to the Circuit Court to conform its judgment to the opinion pronounced by this court, by dismissing the case for want of jurisdiction in the Circuit Court.

The balance of the decision thus focused not on errors of law made by the SCJ appeal judge but rather focused on the trial judgment itself.

The Supreme Court overturned Roy's conviction, stating that «the trial judge erred in law erred by equating fault with the failure to explain the conduct,» and concluded that the accident was a result of «a single and momentary error in judgment with tragic consequences.»

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Among other things, he argues Mew committed several errors of law by failing to correctly apply the Copyright Act and case law as well as the appropriate test for summary judgment.

The website of LawPRO, the errors and omissions insurer owned by LSO, lists these services as examples of tasks requiring legal skills and judgment.

In the alternative, the respondent submits that s. 5 of the MCIA does not apply because the amount involved is so insignificant that it can not be regarded as likely to influence his actions (MCIA, s. 4 (k)-RRB- and, in the further alternative, his contravention of the MCIA was committed through inadvertence or by reason of an error in judgment so that his seat on Council should not be declared vacant (MCIA, s. 10 (2)-RRB-.

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