The most common malpractice claims don't involve a failure to know or apply the law —
errors of law lead to only about 13 per cent of the claims LawPRO sees.
Not exact matches
City lawyers last week asked Judge Shira Scheindlin to hold off on implementing the reforms she ordered to the NYPD's stop - and - frisk policy, warning that that the restrictions could
lead to a huge spike in crime and saying her ruling against stop - and - frisk was «rife with
errors of law.»
According now to two separate modeling analyses published in Science, this
error would
lead to the loss
of most
of the world's natural forest because clearing those forests for bioenergy becomes one
of the cost - effective means
of complying with
laws to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
However, according to David Steinberg, a
Law and Religion instructor at the Thomas Jefferson School
of Law in San Diego, Attorney, barring a procedural
error, the appeal is unlikely to
lead to a reversal.
Correction, Feb. 15, 2017: A transcription
error led to Faraday's
law mistakenly being called Flaherty's
law in an earlier version
of this article.
This month, Mark Zuckerberg admits that his social network made mistakes that
led to the exploitation
of data by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica; China passes a
law to allow current president Xi Jinping to rule for life; damning book by «secret barrister» tells
of courts plagued by daily
errors leaving them unfit for purpose; and a court has ruled parents do not need to lie about the Easter bunny.
This line
of argument, then, seems to
lead to a duty — under EU
law — to interpret treaties in accordance with international
law: after all, the GC's legal interpretation
of the Agreement in which it failed to take international
law into account
led to an
error in
law.
And would there be likely to be instances where a mistaken text
led to such an accepted «wrong» understanding
of the
law that lawmakers have been compelled to go along with it once the
error was discovered?
If preventable
errors lead to $ 200,000 worth
of technology equipment disappearing from a
law firm, dire consequences would ensue.