Sentences with phrase «mere error of judgment»

However, the Court of Appeal held that the failure of Ridley to take effective action to protect Van Colle was «not a mere error of judgment, but a failure on the part of DC Ridley as a professional police officer to carry out his duties properly in circumstances in which there was evidence of intimidation of a witness».

Delivering judgment in Southall v General Medical Council [2009] EWHC 1155 (Admin), Mr Justice Blake said: «Dr Southall's conduct was not a mere error of judgment in a challenging environment where there may have been few established principles for guidance.

Not exact matches

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

Here the Ontario Court of Appeal held that because the employee's actions were not mere errors in judgment, but intentional, numerous, dishonest acts that occurred over a period of time, and that were neither insignificant nor trivial, and given his role in the company, the employee was in breach of the employer's policies and therefore he was properly dismissed for cause.