Sentences with phrase «presumed competent»

Gyi quotes a comment by Andy Mergendahl that cuts to the heart of the matter: A lawyer is presumed competent if she has a law license.

Yeah I mean if you get to walk out of law school and be presumed competent, than you ought to be presumed competent for just about anything else if you've already got a law license it feels like.

Mr. Nice was exactly that, a good and I presume competent school teacher of physiology.

Not exact matches

The most that can be said is that the Court's decision presumed for the sake of discussion a competent patient's right to decline food and water, but did so without examining the implications of such a right or its constitutional status.

To enlist a physician to achieve release from suffering presumes that the physician is competent to judge what kinds of life are worth living.

The request reads in part: «While we believe that suspects generally are entitled to be presumed innocent until proven guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction, SERAP opposes blanket non-disclosure of names of high - ranking public officials from whom some of the funds were recovered.»

Indeed, the Nigerian court system presumes they are, until duly convicted by a competent court.

The researchers theorize that some of this effect could be due to a «double standard of competence,» meaning some people presume that women leaders have to be extra competent to get into top positions.

If so, that's a leg up, because it presumes the trad pub did some diligence and the person's at least marginally competent.

The clause you have quoted would likely be enforceable in a US court, presuming that the judge or jury had determined the party against whom the clause should be enforced was competent to freely enter into an agreement with the other party (the one seeking enforcement).

Where the will is rational on its face (and duly executed) the court will presume that the testator was mentally competent, and so the burden rests on those alleging it to adduce evidence of the testator's unsoundness of mind.

«a determination after a hearing on the merits of a factual issue, made by a State court of competent jurisdiction... [and] evidenced by a written finding, written opinion, or other reliable and adequate written indicia, shall be presumed to be correct»