Sentences with phrase «of ethics breaches»

Fifa's Belgian executive committee member, Michel D'Hooghe, has been cleared of ethics breaches over the gift of a painting from Russia's 2018 World Cup bid and accusations he tried to secure a job in Qatar for the son of a friend --(Guardian)

That creates a powerful incentive for firms to come forward with evidence of ethics breaches that might otherwise go unnoticed and unpunished.

Not exact matches

If you find yourself persuading an individual to behave in a manner that is less than mutually beneficial, you are in breach of ethics and leaving yourself open to a surprisingly negative outcome.

The House of Commons ethics committee held hearings this week to take a closer look at the breach that involves Facebook and, allegedly, the political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica.

Whatever your views of Ford, and whatever your views about the severity of his breach of the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act, you pretty much have to agree that Ford demonstrated a disappointing lack of leadership ethics, here.

Richard Leblanc, an expert on corporate governance and accountability, believes that the risk posed by ethics and trust has increased because of the ease and speed with which ethical breaches can be captured (eg on smartphones) and shared (via social media).

Many companies can deny severance payments to any executive fired «for cause,» which generally means breaching a company's code of ethics or a criminal conviction.

On the other hand, if the ultimate criterion in scholarly disputation is reason, then publicly claiming prior authority for revelation is a breach of ethics and is rightly reprehended by secular scholars.

To help work such things out while at the same time avoiding a breach of ethics, it is a good idea to agree that you will always play the higher card when holding exactly two, with only the doubleton queen as an exception.

«The slightest breach of ethics will be punished.»

The piece was full of misleading and biased information, and represents a serious breach of journalistic ethics on the part of the Leader - Post.

It was feared the package, which included free flights, would constitute a breach of bidding regulations and the bid team decided to withdraw the offers before an investigation by the IOC's ethics committee reported back.

Maybe it was one of the hired guns who were recently retained to defend the apparent alleged breach of ethics by Senator Libous.

But critics have said testimony has shown ethics breaches the governor or his top staff should have known about — especially Percoco's use of his government office from May 1, 2014, to Dec. 7, 2014.

Although the inquiry by Sue Gray, the director general of the propriety and ethics team, found Maltby to be «plausible», Gray found one breach of the ministerial code — his outright denials when a Sunday newspaper reported that pornography had been found on his computer.

Frenchman Platini, 61, was head of Uefa until his ban for breaching ethics rules over a # 1.3 m «disloyal payment».

New York City is flouting a state law that requires unpaid members of policymaking boards and commissions to file financial - disclosure statements — an ethics breach that allows officials on some powerful panels to make decisions without any sunlight on potential conflicts of interest.

He told BBC Radio Four's PM: «Any breach of protocol that General Dannatt has committed is as of nothing to the breach of ethics, morality and the truth that the prime minister has committed.»

The race has heated up in recent days, as Grayson, one of the wealthiest members of Congress, has attempted to fend off questions about whether he breached House ethics rules while operating a hedge fund.

The state Republican Party put out a statement saying that Lacewell testified that Percoco «was in and out of the Executive Chamber, still retained his government office there and still worked on some official matters after departing state service raised a shocking breach of ethics and protocol that potentially violates the State Ethics and Codes of Conduct for employees.

«The selfishness and arrogance of Charlie Rangel has no end with regard to the fact that he has clearly breached ethics rules in one way or another,» said one senior House Democratic strategists granted anonymity to speak candidly about the New York Congressman's speech.

Nick Steneck, director of research ethics and integrity at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, says authorities worldwide should adopt a uniform misconduct policy that provides clear guidance not only on data falsification and fabrication but also on lesser ethical breaches — such as self - plagiarism.

How is that a breach of privacy, security or ethics?

Godfrey was charged with breach of several sections of the RECO code of ethics.

Is there a mutiny in the works between the IUCN Red List and the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) over polar bear population estimates or has there simply been a breach of ethics?

If humanity allows this breach of ethics, where does it leave our moral compass when faced with geoengineering?

There is every indication globally, with respect to acousticians working for the wind industry, and some other noise polluters, that some are regularly breaching their professional codes of ethics by ignoring or dismissing the reported noise impacts of the wind turbine neighbours.

Gleick has been widely condemned for his serious breach of ethics.

The Heartland documents reveal no breach of professional ethics or law, which is why somebody (Gleick?)

The e-mail asserts that Corcoran's behaviour «is a clear breach of journalistic ethics and damages the credibility of the National Post» and exhorts Kelly to publish a full correction and to consider appropriate sanctions against Corcoran including suspension or dismissal.

Elsewhere, the other side of the debate is getting ticked off about this breach of ethics and protocol too.

I asserted that Corcoran's behaviour «is a clear breach of journalistic ethics and damages the credibility of the National Post» and exhorted Kelly to publish a full correction, including the true provenance of the letter, and to consider appropriate sanctions against Corcoran including suspension or dismissal.

Instead Syngenta, Gates and the Golden Rice project went straight to human feeding trials on Vit A deficient children in China, justifying this breach of ethics on «humanitarian» grounds.

If this is correct (again, I don't think it plausible), then Mann08's authors have engaged in a substantial breach of scientific ethics (viz: «Cargo Cult Science») by citing and quoting Tiljander03 as an authority on the Lake Korttajarvi data series, while failing to note that their paper was departing completely from the cited interpretations.

As serious as her factual errors are, Carducci's breach of journalistic ethics was much more serious.

But nearly as bad as her breach of ethics was the fact that she reported on topics that she clearly knew little or nothing about, such as speaking fees, research grants, and Climategate.

It was a totally dishonest thing to do and as a conservation group, the order is a total breach of ethics.

People in the real world have died from such breaches of scientific ethics.

Needless to say, from a public - interest standpoint, the data breach and its fallout has been particularly «sexy» fodder for discussion (pun intended); it has raised sort of legal issues and water - cooler chat relating data integrity, privacy, and criminality, not to mention the more obvious social issues relating to infidelity, ethics and morality.

[The] e-brief summarises the approach taken in federal, state and territory and some overseas parliaments to codes of conduct for ministers and members of parliament, registers of interests, the post-separation employment of ministers and the use of ethics commissioners in providing advice on and / or conducting investigations into breaches of codes.

In response to this news, an Ontario law professor colleague mused whether Edney's agreement to house the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner was a breach of lawyers» ethics.

Among others, Mr. Ferdinand's experience includes, appellate litigation; bankruptcy adversary proceedings; bid protests, debarments, and appeals; breach of contract and Uniform Commercial Code claims; broker disputes; commercial landlord - tenant actions, including commercial evictions; condominium association litigation; consumer fraud and deceptive trade practices act claims; corporate governance; directors» and officers» claims; ethics and professional liability; health law; injunctions; insurance issues; lien claims, including commercial and residential construction liens; planning board actions; post-judgment collection; restrictive covenants; shareholder and partnership disputes; and shareholder derivative claims.

There must be some action by your attorney that shows negligence or a breach of ethics or professional conduct.

When an attorney breaches any of these fiduciary duties by acting negligently / incompetently or failing to uphold standards under lawyer ethics or the professional code of conduct, a client may have an action for legal malpractice.

«In a multicultural society,» the decision states, «it is not a breach of anyone's freedom of religion to be required to learn (or teach) about the doctrines and ethics of other world religions in a neutral and respectful way...»

Though ABA President William C. Hubbard does not mention ethics rule changes in the commission's primary task of identifying the most innovative practices being used in the U.S. to deliver legal services, some of those practices have been questioned as possible ethical breaches.

For instance there must be an indication of a breach of the insolvency legislation, Statements of Insolvency Practice, Recognised Professional Body's regulations and guidance or code of ethics.

Formal Opinion 477, issued in May, requires lawyers to make a reasonable effort to secure client communication — or be in breach of legal ethics.

Concerns over client confidentiality have made it more important than ever for lawyers to think twice before sending unsecured emails, as they may find themselves in breach of ethics rules.

They will respect you when you state your business ethics — there is nothing like a breach of ethics to turn off a potential employer.