Sentences with phrase «gross breach»

It appears that Party staff and their agents are still able to intervene in this electoral process in gross breach of party rules.

To be guilty of the common law offence of gross negligence manslaughter, a company had to be in gross breach of a duty of care owed to the victim.

Is there a non Bolam alternative to criminal prosecution of corporate liability in the civil law, especially for less gross breaches, and on what could it be based?

«The prosecution says what the defendant did was a gross breach of trust.

Reid called Conner's antics «a gross breach of manners and sportsmanship.»

«Prior to Mr. Simon's motion to recuse, there was no basis for this court to recuse itself by reason of a conflict or appearance of a conflict,» Stone said, calling it a defense attempt to create a «counter story» in media coverage by diverting attention from the «real story» — Hevesi's gross breach of the public's trust and the impending punishment for it.

Absenting oneself from the scheduled program without prior permission of the teacher or manager concerned would be construed as a gross breach of discipline.

On a personal note, I think that using excess funds to apply to other projects would be a gross breach of trust with backers unless that plan was clearly stated at the project's beginning.

Unfortunately for Sony, US District Judge Susan Illston believes that their request represents a gross breach of online privacy and legally denied access to their accounts.

Robbed of allowances to produce the considerable remaining gigawatt - hours awarded by the Schröder government, RWE head Jürgen Grossmann called the phase - out decision a gross breach of property rights.

Further, it is for the court to decide if there has been a gross breach of duty on its objective assessment of the facts and technical and professional advice.

The duty of care owed in negligence is breached if the death is caused by the way in which activities are managed and organised or amount to a gross breach of a relevant duty of care (s 1 (1)-RRB-.

To secure payment in the instant case case by tampering with a cheque previously signed by or on behalf of the trustees was a gross breach of professional conduct.

The law creates a tort by which an organization can be held liable for a death «if the way in which its activities are managed or organized» is a «gross breach of a relevant duty of care owed by the organization to the deceased.»

This difficulty, coupled with the requirement for a gross breach, might explain the lack of corporate convictions under the CMCHA since its introduction in April 2008, in comparison to the number of investigations opened.

Under the CMCHA, a corporate offence is committed if the way an organisation manages or organises its activities (i) causes a death; and (ii) amounts to a gross breach of a relevant duty of care owed by the company to the deceased.

Similarly a corporate can be guilty of corporate manslaughter if the management or organisation of its activities causes a person's death, and amounts to a gross breach of a duty of care owed by the organisation to the deceased.

As the guidance states: «Given the seriousness of a corporate manslaughter conviction (which does, after all, require a «gross breach» at a senior management level) the guidance states that an appropriate fine will seldom be less than # 500,000 and may be measured in millions of pounds.»