Sentences with phrase «expected of a reasonable person»

In the case of R. v. Roy, the Supreme Court of Canada found that the trial judge erred in law by inferring from the fact that Roy had committed a dangerous act while driving that his conduct displayed a marked departure from the standard of care expected of a reasonable person in the circumstances.

In determining whether a driver was sufficiently careful, the law compares the driver's conduct with the behavior expected of a reasonable person.

To decide whether a driver was careful enough, their conduct will be compared to what kind of conduct would be expected of a reasonable person.

Not exact matches

«The potential here would be that over the period of time that this feature has been around, people have been able to scrape public information,» Zuckerberg said, adding it's «reasonable to expect» that people's public information was accessed in this way if they had the search setting turned on.

Ms Scobie agreed that the 1 per cent increase in the group's interim and full - year COR «could» be information that a reasonable person would expect to have a material effect on the price or value of its shares, but maintained that it did not have the relevant information at the time of its upbeat AGM.

People are expecting the love child of Inspector Clouseau and Buck Turgidson, so if he comes across as reasonable and well informed, it is a draw.

The linchpin of Professor Rawls» criticism of the «rationalist believers» was his claim that they deny what he called «the fact of reasonable pluralism,» namely, in circumstances of political and religious freedom it is to be expected that there will emerge serious differences of opinion among reasonable people on important moral and theological questions.

4 / According to Mr. Edwin Newman of the National Broadcasting Company, on a nation - wide TV broadcast in the United States,»... the general level of TV behavior In news reflected the American society, and it was not reasonable to expect an organization that Is financed by advertisers to pioneer In fields that may offend people.

If God performed miracles witnessed by many that could not be confused with natural phenomena and, these miracles were recorded first hand, and God left a perfect bible that could not be interpreted multiple ways, then it would be reasonable to expect people to believe for thousands of years.

In a culture where what constitutes a reasonable religion is shifting, it does no good to expect people to ratify traditional understandings of religious liberty.

If the people are asked by the government to express their opinion on a single issue in a referendum, they are entitled to expect a reasonable amount of truthful information not only about the issue, but also about the consequences of their decision.

Kresser says that it's more than reasonable to expect the same relationship to exist in humans, and to remember that for thousands of years of human evolution, people ate animals in their entirety.

«In the age of hookups, friends with benefits and online dating, and as human life expectancy grows, is it still reasonable to expect people to pair up and stay monogamous until death do them part?»

In the course of international dating it would be reasonable to expect that users would exchange more messages than in a case where they are starting a connection locally, since it takes longer to organize a personal meeting when people live in different countries.

In the course of international dating it would be reasonable to expect that users would exchange more messages than in a case where they are starting a connection locally, since it takes longer to organize a personal meeting when people live in...

Killer Joe throws down a dare by expecting its audience to be the cool connoisseurs of the story's «comic» outrageousness, then rubbing viewers» faces in close - up scenes of brutality that reasonable people ought not to be able to watch.

Within this document, section 17 maintenance states that where equipment is «provided and installed to a British Standard; it is reasonable to expect that the standard be met by the responsible person in terms of maintenance and recording systems».

The people I see doing well with their writing are working incredible hours, often on top of their day jobs at first, and it isn't reasonable to expect everyone to have the fortitude to do this for year after year until they develop a following.

Once a pre-order is launched, people will expect the finished book to be available within a reasonable amount of time.

You went to the casino and a reasonable person would have expected or intended to give money to a casino with full knowledge that there was no guarantee they'd get any of it back, much less that they would make money.

Today, more and more, we find that people expect unbelievable feats of accomplishment from all aspects of life than were previously though reasonable.

Given Nestle Purina's total reliance on their «independent testing» as support for both their lawsuit and smear campaign, a reasonable person would have expected them to make a complete disclosure to the public of their testing procedure and protocols at the time they accused us of lying about our ingredients.

The most reasonable approach is not to expect perfection, but to expect and work toward a better quality of life for pets and the people who care for them.

The low prices of food, transportation and accommodation all add up to a reasonable daily cost: Marek of IndieTraveller estimates that tourists in Southeast Asia can expect to spend about US$ 35 a day per person — climbing up to only US$ 50 a day for two people.

The only potential pitfall I can see is the 64 - bit operating system, a leap that a substantially large amount of people haven't chosen to make yet, but otherwise the specs seem reasonable and in keeping with what I expected.

Natural processes of weathering, transport and sedimentation can still allow the feather imprints of archaeopteryx to be preserved, or the delicate structures of certain leaves or invertebrates, so I think it is reasonable to expect the «people» of these civilisations would have left something behind, including occasionally fossils of themselves and what they wore, or the things they carried.

If only that much people (one out of ten) could manage to have a really decent life, yet, with (and historically only once was) «easy» fossil fuel energy source available, is it reasonable to expect that 10 times more people will manage to do so in future without that exceptional source of energy and much less «easy» renewable energy sources?

It is not reasonable for those constructing the BEST dataset to expect people such as me to have to plunge ou hands into the can of worms in the hope of plucking out the live ones used in the study.

Although reasonable people may disagree what equity framework is just, nations should be expected to expressly specify the equity framework or principles of distributive justice they used in determining their INDC so that citizens around the world can evaluate claims about fairness made by a nation in setting its INDC.

However, the economics of a practice focusing on the pursuit of reasonable settlements are not as grim as I think most people expect, and in my experience a settlement - oriented practice yields pleasant collateral benefits from a quality of life perspective.

The unanimous decision held that this type of communication was comparable to consulting your lawyer in your «employer's conference room, in a loud voice, with the door open» where any reasonable person would expect the employer to overhear it.

The commentary goes on to require a lawyer to take «reasonable steps to prevent or stop discrimination» (Commentary 13) and also «acknowledges the diversity of the community in Ontario in which lawyers serve and expects them to respect the dignity and worth of all persons and to treat all persons equally without discrimination» (Commentary 1)[emphasis added].

In reaching this conclusion, the Committee looks to two factors: (1) whether the law firm, by merely publishing contact information on its website that includes an e-mail address, creates a reasonable belief that the law firm is specifically inviting or soliciting the communication of confidential information; and (2) whether it is reasonable for the person providing the information to expect that it will be maintained as confidential.

Improper braking technique that rises to the level of negligence happens when a driver breaches his duty to operate the tractor - trailer with the reasonable care expected of a skilled commercial truck operator and causes an accident that leads to harm to another person.

The Supreme Court of Canada («SCC») ruled last week that Canadians can expect the text messages that they send to remain private even after they reach their destination (i.e. depending on the circumstances, there may be a reasonable expectation of privacy in text messages even after they have been sent to another person).

The employment or self - employment is of a type in which it would be reasonable to expect the insured person to engage, having regard to the possibility of deterioration in the insured person's impairment and to the insured person's personal and vocational characteristics.

It is not reasonable to expect people to have a computer that is connected to the internet at all times, but it is reasonable (and often done, by universities) to expect people to be able to so connect some of the time.

So likewise, it is not reasonable to expect that people will have their authentication gadget available at all times, but it will be available some of the time, and thus there is no insurmountable impediment to paying the bill (or accessing the library, or reading email...).

(3) For the purposes of this section a person's knowledge includes knowledge which he might reasonably have been expected to acquire --(a) from facts observable or ascertainable by him; or (b) from facts ascertainable by him with the help of medical or other appropriate expert advice which it is reasonable for him to seek...»

A dangerous condition has to present an unreasonable risk of harm to those on the property and must be a condition a reasonable person would not have expected — in other words, not an obvious, avoidable hazard.

The employee will be expected to continue working for his employee unless the employee will suffer a loss of dignity, be forced to work in an acrimonious environment or face other circumstances that a reasonable person would not accept.

If you were injured by a person providing medical care due to a lack of reasonable and expected care, a Campbellsville medical malpractice lawyer can help you obtain compensation for the damages caused by their negligence.

-- see: Foley, [2000] O.J. No 5204 (S.C.J.): a belief in the need for retaliation may be mistaken but reasonable, and, «a person defending against an attack reasonably apprehended can not be expected to weigh to a nicety the exact measure of defensive action required.»

If this is just an ordinary - person on ordinary - person interaction, then the parties (both parties) are expected to exhibit the degree of caution that a «reasonable person» would exhibit (attempts to pin down what a «reasonable person» would do have proven impossible, though juries always know subjectively what a reasonable person would do).

In 1989, the Ontario Court of Appeal held that a reasonable person should be expected to do so «[w] here the salary offered is the same, where the working conditions are not substantially different or the work demeaning, and where the personal relationships involved are not acrimonious» (Mifsud v. MacMillan Bathurst Inc. (1989), 70 O.R. (2d) 701, at p. 710).

The test, I believe, is objective: it is whether the conduct of the manager was such that a reasonable person in the circumstances should not be expected to persevere in the employment.

For it to be an offense, the observation has to be done surreptitiously (secretly), in a place where a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy and either: (a) the person being observed is in a place in which a person can reasonably be expected to be nude; (b) the person being observed is nude, engaged in explicit sexual activity, etc; or (c) the observation is done for a sexual purpose.

It applies where the observation or recording is not of a nude person and not of a person in a place where they can be expected to be nude, as long as it is done surreptitiously, in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy, and for a sexual purpose.

«It also is well settled in our jurisprudence that there is an affirmative duty on owners and possessors of property: «to exercise reasonable care for the safety of persons reasonably expected to be on the premises * * * includ [ing] an obligation to protect against the risks of a dangerous condition existing on the premises, provided the landowner knows of, or by the exercise of reasonable care would have discovered, the dangerous condition.»

A fine balance is to be drawn by judges who are expected both to conduct the process effectively and avoid creating in the mind of a reasonable, fair minded and informed person any impression of a lack of impartiality.