Sentences with phrase «matter of public importance»

The court recognized the new defence, of responsible communication on matters of public importance.

Given that elected representatives are expected to have expressed strong views about matters of public importance, a relaxed standard must generally be applied.

We welcome the vital role attorneys play in the community, including the representation of pro bono clients, assisting in matters of public importance, and supporting non-profit organizations.

He held that she had been substantially successful in the result, that the proceedings were complex and raised matters of public importance, and that the terms of the offers to settle that had been made by both sides favoured the granting of costs.

For Auld LJ, there were two «knock - out» arguments against a narrowing of the prohibition: - the impossibility of identifying a boundary between party political matters and other matters of public importance and controversy; and - he contended, it would not have been «a principled or logical distinction to limit the prohibition to... election periods,» if airtime could be bought outside them (para 80).

2007 James Hansen is honored for his courageous and steadfast advocacy in support of scientists» responsibilities to communicate their scientific opinions and findings openly and honestly on matters of public importance.

These were lies as told in his role as President about matters of public importance.

For example, as the result of law suits instituted by public - interest groups, the courts held that whenever broadcasters present a particular point of view on a matter of public importance, they also must provide opportunities for opposing viewpoints to be presented.

But when those sports intersect with a matter of public importance like arguably the most controversial presidential campaign since George Wallace, we're going to discuss it.

Matters of public importance and individual rights to expression can not, de facto, be made secondary to keeping the production of this product going without public scrutiny — especially when this food stuff, directly contributes to people's health at large.

In an earlier remarks, the Chairman of the House Committee on Health in the Plateau State House of Assembly, Hon. Simon Kudu, assured the Nigeria Medical Association that their agitations will be attended to as a matter of public importance.

«They are matters of public importance, they ought not to be left in the hands of a private litigant.»

Whether unintended or intended, the effect of the lawsuit against all five protestors was to intimidate, silence, disrupt further protests and to breakup groups through threat of lawsuit and privatizing a matter of public importance within the judicial system.

In 2016, British Columbia Superior Court Justice Gordon Funt threw out the litigation as a SLAPP suit, saying the lawsuit was launched «to silence critics on a matter of public importance.

If the criticism of an article published in a newspaper on a subject matter of public importance is to be confined to passages actually set out in the criticism, then the freedom to comment on a matter of public importance becomes, from a practical point of view, illusory or non-existent.»

Some states, however, impose a higher standard on private figures, especially if the statement concerns a matter of public importance.