Sentences with phrase «of a legal duty of»

Negligence refers to the breach of a legal duty of care owed to another.

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«There is a widespread and completely erroneous belief out there that there is some sort of legal duty that corporate managers have to «maximize profits» or «maximize shareholder value,»» said Cornell law professor Lynn Stout, author of «The Shareholder Value Myth.»

When you evaluate or re-evaluate some positions in terms of their duties, some will fall into the legal gray.

«There is no legal document anywhere that the duty of the corporation is to maximize shareholder wealth.

The duty to consult with First Nations resides with the Federal government — as Chief Justice McLachlin wrote in the 2004 Haida Nation v. British Columbia [2004] decision of the Supreme Court, «the ultimate legal responsibility for consultation and accommodation rests with the Crown.»

Now, by branching out well beyond her legal duties, Johnson's new role will no doubt offer her another taste of that freedom.

That interplay between freedom of businesses to operate as they please, and their legal duties as public accommodations, is at the heart of today's controversy.

Related: Flint and Tinder: A Case Study in American - Made Underwear «Legal issues such as tariffs and import duties have been problematic,» says Motlagh, whose company uses fabric sourced everywhere from North Carolina to Turkey but operates mainly out of a factory in China.

Lynn A. Stout, professor of corporate and business law at the Cornell Law School, notes that there is no legal duty to maximize profits.

Gumala Aboriginal Corporation is taking legal action against its former chief executive, Steve Mav, for allegedly breaching his duties while he was at the helm of the indigenous group.

Rigrodsky & Long, P.A. announces that it is investigating potential legal claims against the board of directors of Analogic Corporation («Analogic» or the «Company»)(NASDAQ GS: ALOG) regarding possible breaches of fiduciary duties and other violations of law related to the Company's entry into an agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Altaris Capital Partners, LLC («Altaris») in a transaction valued at approximately $ 1.1 billion.

During my work terms, I shall give priority to my employment responsibilities and perform duties reasonably requested of me as long as they are legal and safe

Further, if the payment were a loan from Cohen, Trump may have had a duty to report it in his June 2017 financial disclosure form to the Office of Government Ethics, said Trevor Potter, a former Republican FEC commissioner and founder of campaign finance advocacy group Campaign Legal Center, in a statement.

Thus, Cyprus actually holds a higher standard in fiduciary duties in terms of legal protection from rogue investment companies than the U.K., which is still not in full compliance of the MiFID.

The Committee shall have the authority, in its sole discretion, to retain and obtain the advice and assistance of outside legal counsel and such other advisors as it deems necessary to fulfill its duties and responsibilities under this Charter.

The turnkey operator also is your business partner and will handle all the financials, any legal matters, all of the leasing duties, maintenance, repairs, evictions, and other daily tasks that must be done when managing a rental property.

However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions can not disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.

Investment Manager essential duties are: 1) Leadership of transaction execution — oversight of all advisors (financial, legal, market and technical), oversight of all financial modelling, pro-active management of timeline and primary point of contact for investment team; 2) Strong input on transactions sourcing; 3) Managing multiple transactions; 4) Negotiate and create optimal commercial, financial and legal structures; 5) Creation of materials for the Investment Committee («IC») sufficient to allow the IC to approve or reject activities, commitments, investments, and exits in accordance with company risk preferences, appetite, processes, etc.; 6) Creation and management of transaction closing processes; 7) Developing, instructing, training, mentoring, and coaching junior personnel;

Their legal relationship to you involves a «duty of support».

Directors may find that they face a tension between the desire to consider additional stakeholder interests beyond traditional shareholders as per B Corporation requirements and their legal duty to act honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of a «corporation» under both the Canada Business Corporations Act (the «CBCA») and Business Corporations Act (Ontario)(the «OBCA»).

This paper seeks to highlight how these two standards differ in terms of the legal requirements and duties imposed on advisers and brokers.

The Risk Alert Notice further stated that «[i] n the case of Lianke issued by Xunlei... the issuing company in effect substitutes Lianke for the duty to pay back project contributors with legal tender, making it essentially a financing activity and a form of disguised ICO.»

It is the moral and legal duty of those with power to provide opportunity to those without.

The judges stopped short of ruling drivers have a legal duty to force non-disabled people off buses if they refuse to move for disabled people, but they said drivers could urge them to move in other ways, for example by refusing to drive the bus.

The Abortion Act has a clear provision to respect the conscience of staff: «No person shall be under any duty, whether by contract or by any statutory or other legal requirement, to participate in any treatment authorised by this Act to which he has a conscientious objection.»

We can not of course go more closely here into the question why the Church has the right and duty, not only to promulgate and inculcate the precepts of immutable divine law and to supervise its observance, but on its own initiative to go beyond this and lay down positive legal prescriptions, and impose obedience to them as a Christian's duty, although they are enacted with full consciousness that they are not necessarily eternally valid but can be changed and even abolished.

In short, anyone who appreciates the rapid change in historical circumstances and does not flee from this into a ghetto; anyone who knows that there is and always has been a mutable, human law of the Church, and that this kind of change has always been practised; anyone, moreover, who reflects that the Church not only has the right but the duty of shaping its canon law in accordance with changes in the times, will not be surprised at the change in many legal regulations which he is living through at the present time, but will recognize and accept this as a sign of the vitality of the Church and its pastoral care.

Duty is something the individual is expected to do out of legal or moral obligation.

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The idea that the First Amendment could be the basis of a constitutionally required exemption from otherwise universal legal duties did not arrive in American law until 1963, in Sherbert v. Verner.

5 Cause for automatic excommunication also exists in regard to priests who culpably fail to teach the Word of God in its fullness, especially when having been advised of the deficiency and continues to refuse to correct the fault — a clear grave sin of omission the other sacraments a legal priest fulfills legal requirements and has the moral duty to appropriately council, admonish, instruct and approve or disapprove.

Each of these categories has its own potential legal order; e.g., the 1948 Declaration and subsequent Covenants; the New International Economic Order (NIEO) and various General Assembly resolutions on the rights and duties of states; and the Law of the Sea Convention, covering, among other things, «the right of peaceful passage through international straits.»

People have a duty to refuse to use such material: it may be necessary «to remove oneself, within the area of one's own research, from a gravely unjust legal situation and to affirm with clarity the value of human life» (DP 35).

In short, animal welfare does not ascribe «rights» to animals, but instead places on us — as an aspect of human exceptionalism — moral and legal duties to engage in proper husbandry practices.

Is the «priest - penitent privilege» properly invoked when there is no pastor - parish setting in which confession is a religious duty incumbent upon priest and penitent, when the «penitents» are not necessarily members of the priest's denomination, when there is no «confession» as such, and when the clergyman is asked to divulge not the content of a confession, but, as the legal briefs say, observations made by him «incident thereto»?

On the contrary, the strength of the enforcement devices, the clerical and moralistic character of the legal approach at large, the duty of disclosure, the close control exercised by the community upon the individual and upon the law, if compared with the analogous legal institutions of the Latin countries, seem to disclose rather a more collectivistic than a more individualistic character of the common - law system....

I support taking legal action against companies who demonstrate negligence in thier duties towards the health and safety of the public.

If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Meat Free Monday Limited, our customers, or others.

Acknowledging that, Motro would like to see some sort of relational default or what she calls preglimony, a «legal framework defining a man's duty to help support his pregnant lover,» to address a growing issue — some 41 percent of babies are born to unmarried women even though 40 percent of them are cohabiting.

We commissioned a legal analysis of the Gender Equality Duty and family services.

Generally, the law requires a person paying child support to make those payments until (1) your child is no longer a minor, unless the child has special needs; (2) the child becomes active - duty military; (3) your parental rights are terminated through adoption or another legal process, or (4) your minor child is declared «emancipated» by a court — that is, declared an adult earlier than normal because of the ability to be self - supporting.

James C. Koslowski of the National Recreation and Parks Association believes that participants in youth programs are owed the following legal duties...

Since there is no legal duty for parents to notify the authorities of their intention to home educate if the child has never been to school, there will also be a number of home educated children who are not officially known to the authority.

The Guidelines also remind LAs of their legal duty towards children who appear not to be receiving suitable education.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the University or others.

Proposals being discussed by officials and lobbyists in Westminster right now that would see wholesale recording of all our email and web activity, a government blacklist of legal websites and a legal duty for internet providers to monitor our online activity down to the last keystroke.

The Code provides in the same Rule that «A judge is permitted to make public statements (my emphasis) in the course of his or her official duties or to explain for public information the procedure of the court, general legal principles, or what may be learned from the public record in a case.

So I can announce this morning that Labour will be seeking to amend the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill so that courts have an explicit duty to consider making an order to participate in a restorative justice course.

The Code of Conduct further provides in Rule 5 (B) that a judge may engage in «avocational activities», that is «activities to improve the law, the legal system, and the administration of justice if such avocational activities do not detract from the dignity of his office or interfere with the performance of his judicial duties».

Also at 10 a.m., NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill and Deputy Commissioner Legal Matters Lawrence Byrne will attend the 30th Anniversary Memorial Mass in honor of Police Officer Edward R. Byrne who was killed in the Line of Duty on Feb. 26, 1988, St. Patrick's Cathedral, 5th Avenue, Manhattan.