Sentences with phrase «on egregious cases»

The party had sharper political instincts in opposition, for all of its caution, eg was using popular language about «fat cats» (targetted on egregious cases) which it shied away from in power.

Not exact matches

«We haven't funded a shareholder case for a couple of years now, so we are very strict on the view that we are only going to fund shareholder claims where we believe the conduct has been egregious.

IMF does not take on borderline cases and internally, the litigation funder is referring to the claims of deceptive and misleading conduct against Treasury Wine Estates as «egregious».

The lawsuit comes in the wake of the Wainstein report, which showed egregious cases of academic fraud at the university on a massive scale.

You're only supposed to overturn your call on the ice if there's conclusive evidence and an egregious error in the case of goalie interference.»

This was based in part on a view that this case was bigger than the individuals involved and in part on the understanding of the law, when this case began, that even such egregious deception as that carried out by the police officers concerned was not sufficient to allow such a claim.

One of the most egregious cases was when a reporter in a wheelchair in the front row of a news conference inadvertently, or it was thought, had inadvertently played back a little piece of his tape recorder and it sounded like — it was a noise that interrupted the on - going press conference.

The PAC should be empowered in at least the cases of the most egregious misfeasance to table a resolution for debate and voting on the floor of the House of Commons which, if passed, would then be sent to the Lords, and if agreed there too, would command the force of law for being implemented.

Whether we're talking about free speech on Usenet, the policy questions of legitimate marketing and com - mercial activity conducted over email, or the desirable but spam - ish mes - sages that trip the filters and disappear, there is always friction not around the most egregious case (no one argues for Leo Kuvayev's «\ / 1@gR / - \» messages) but at the blurry places where spam threatens to blend into acceptable use, and fighting one might have a deleterious effect on the other.

Incidents of rabid machismo accumulate at the mine (as to be expected, though, the offenses detailed in the actual case are considerably more egregious), with the initial salvos against the women taken in stride until the writing - with - excrement on the wall and the tipping of portable toilets becomes epidemic, pushing noble Josie to the stand.

If anything, The Crucifixion is an even more egregious misfire than other head - spinning stabs at the genre because this movie is actually based on an intriguing, horific real - life case.

I have worked and consulted on several egregious cases in local school districts.

Canada has no regulations stipulating how animals should be treated on farms outside of federal and provincial animal cruelty laws, and these are only used to prosecute livestock farmers in cases of egregious abuse, such as when animals are neglected to the point of starvation or farm workers are caught torturing animals.

On the other hand he is using «subsample» results, which in some cases are even more meaningless (the most egregious example of which is the subsample of outspoken contrarians in Verheggen et al).

There is no way to keep up with all the bad reporting on science these days, but I can not resist certain egregious cases.

In this installment, we describe a particularly egregious fault that exists in at least one of the prominent models used by the federal government to determine the SCC: The projections of future sea - level rise (a leading driver of future climate change - related damages) from the model are much higher than even the worst - case mainstream scientific thinking on the matter.

On appeal the Cains argued that the trial court erred by giving Instruction 10 which included language that noted «punitive damages are generally not favored and should be awarded only in cases involving egregious conduct.»

In this video, he explains one case involving a person who was seriously injured while diving into a pool on a cruise ship, and the egregious lack of warnings and safety measures taken by the cruise ship company that led to the young man's paralysis.

A couple of weeks ago we highlighted some particularly egregious examples of inappropriate social media use in the courtroom, such as a judge sending a Facebook «like» request to one of the parties in a case she was ruling on, jurors polling their friends on Twitter regarding the guilt or innocence of the defendant in the case they were hearing, and the like.

Nursing home abuse and neglect is unfortunately on the increase; you've probably seen headlines about some of the most egregious cases.

Now, in its 2007 Report on Compliance with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the Department of State has listed Germany as one of seven countries that are «Demonstrating Patterns of Noncompliance,» citing the New Mexico case as a «particularly egregious example» of the problems.

There is reluctance on behalf of judges to wait for referrals to the law society, except in cases of particularly egregious conduct, he says.

Based on the egregious facts in this case, it comes as no surprise that the court ultimately concluded Experian made fraudulent misrepresentations regarding its software and capabilities to BDC in order to induce BDC to choose Experian as its winning vendor.

In the most egregious cases, punitive damages may also be imposed, as both a deterrent measure and a fine on the wrongdoer.

Any lawyer can win damages in egregious cases such as operating on the wrong body part.

In more than 100 cases since 1980, Massachusetts courts of appeal have thrown out criminal convictions based on prosecutorial improprieties, and in 20 of those cases they have used the words «egregious» or «misconduct» or both to describe impropriety.

It will be for the courts below to work out just where less clearly egregious cases than those of DSD and NVB fall on that scale, but reading the judgment as a whole, the scope for doubt should not be overestimated.