Sentences with phrase «lawful course of their duties»

Even without permission, they would probably fall into the second category and certainly the third if they were engaged in the lawful course of their duties.

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In the course of committing the crime, the defendant caused physical injury to two residents of the home and police officer who was in the course of performing a lawful duty.

The wall of honour is dedicated to officers who perished through adversarial or combative action, while the roll of honour is a book in which names of officers who died in the course of performing their lawful duties are recorded.

While Stanley Burnton J did — but «not without considerable hesitation» — accept as lawful the additional reasons, in the course of his judgment he extracted the following useful propositions from R v Westminster City Council, ex p Ermakov [1996] 2 All ER 302 and other authorities: - Where there is a statutory duty to give reasons as part of the notification of the decision, so that (per Mr Justice Laws in R v Northamptonshire County Council, ex p D [1998] ED CR 14) «the adequacy of the reasons is itself made a condition of the legality of the decision», only in exceptional circumstances, if at all, will the court accept subsequent evidence of the reasons.