Sentences with phrase «of substantive error»

Not exact matches

In addition to marking it up, a good substantive or developmental editor will make lots of queries (questions for the author) on the manuscript, where a copy editor will mostly clean up the language as - is, and a proofreader is usually purely focused on correcting any errors of usage or formatting.

Even worse, that review contains numerous substantive errors, some of which appear to have been introduced by a failure to consult cited sources directly, notably in a discussion of a key quote from Edward Wegman himself.

To do this effectively, the researcher must have the substantive, foundational knowledge discussed in the preceding sections.111 And, admittedly, if a student has had less instruction on where to click, then the task of locating information may take a bit of trial and error.

The classic case is that of Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission in which the House of Lords made it plain that errors of process and substantive errors that failed to match administrative law standards were reviewable notwithstanding a privative clause in the statute that conferred the decision - making power under challenge.

At the Court of Appeal, UBC alleged that the Tribunal had made several errors of fact and law, including in refusing to consider modifications of the residency program as relevant to finding that disability was a factor in Dr. Kelly's adverse treatment and in considering both the procedural and substantive elements of the duty to accommodate.

From the claims LAWPRO has seen, it is clear «dabblers» (lawyers acting outside of their usual practice area) are more likely to commit malpractice errors, and in particular a failure to know or apply substantive law.

Green J. reviewed the caselaw on the issue, and concluded that in that case, where the intention of the judge was to impose two years (24 months) and not twenty - five months incarceration, and where the error, although not clerical or administrative in nature was «an error, a slip of the tongue or clerical change rather than a substantive change,» he concluded he still had jurisdiction to make the necessary amendment to the sentence.

The prevalence of shorter, simpler emails is also consistent with my recent legal experience as a litigation associate in a large law firm before starting to teach legal writing full - time — an experience I have drawn on in trying to design realistic assignments.59 The emails I wrote often dealt with relatively straightforward substantive matters, procedural questions surrounding litigation, or some combination of the two, such as the steps for having an appellate court relinquish jurisdiction to correct a scrivener's error in a lower - court judgment or the timeline for responding to an in rem civil forfeiture action.

Most recently, in R v Oakes, 2016 ABCA 90, the case that is my topic here, the majority ruling of Justices Myra Bielby and Frederica Schutz, at para. 11, adopted the opinion in R v Truscott (2007), 225 CCC (3d) 321 (Ont CA) where a unanimous five member panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal stated, at para. 110, that the power to overturn a conviction founded in a miscarriage of justice, ``... can reach virtually any kind of error that renders the trial unfair in a procedural or substantive way.»

Students in the midst of law school, with its mountain of reading on cases and substantive law, might be surprised to learn that «errors of law» are not the biggest pitfall to watch out for in the world of private practice.