Sentences with phrase «facie wrong»

One believing that evolution science is not absolute doesn't mean, logically, that his (same guy) scepticism toward (some of) AGW is prima facie wrong.

Childress argued that war is fundamentally morally problematic, as the killing in war goes against the prima facie duty of benevolence, which rules out killing or inflicting harm on other persons: «[B] ecause it is prima facie wrong to injure or kill others, such acts demand justification.»

Not exact matches

While a retributive theorist such as Kant might hold that there is not only «a prima facie obligation on society to punish one who has infringed the rights of others; it is an absolute over-all obligation — punishment must absolutely be meted out or society itself is guilty of wrong» (ET 498), a utilitarian theorist would see things quite differently.

There is evidence of wrong - doing without a doubt, and enough prima facie evidence to call into question some scientific issues, such as Briffa saying he thought temperatures were warmer than today 1,000 years ago, Wrigley criticizing Mann's work and also Jones» co-author on the 1990 UHI paper.

The Jiminez panel indicates, inter alia, that defendants have a burden to dispute the government's prima facie showing on loss, that the potential use of the wrong guideline manual was harmless, and that acquitted conduct can readily be treated exactly the same as uncharged conduct.

The Trustees argued there was no prima facie discrimination; the Board applied the wrong test for discrimination; and that there was no connection between the denial of medical marijuana coverage for Mr. Skinner and his disability.

Citing Robles v. Kuhn, 2009 BCSC 1163 for the principle that interim support should only be ordered where a prima facie case for entitlement exists, the Court denied the appeal on the basis that the applicant failed to establish anything clearly wrong with the master's decision.

The starting point when considering a derivative action is the first limb of the well cited rule in Foss v Harbottle (1843) 67 ER 189, namely that the proper plaintiff in an action in respect of a wrong alleged to be done to the company is prima facie the company itself.

Treating the latter nonetheless as something which the claimant need not know for time to start to run under LA 1980, s 14A — in cases where the claim is that legal advice is wrong — is to defeat the whole object of its enactment viz to prevent claims becoming statute - barred before the claimant knew the facts «necessary to make the act something of which [she] would prima facie seem entitled to complain» (see Lord Justice Hoffmann in Hallam - Eames v Merrett Syndicates Ltd [2001] Lloyd's Rep PN 178, [1996] 7 Med LR 122.)