Sentences with phrase «prevent bodily harm»

Notwithstanding that, it is common ground that a term of imprisonment is necessary to adequately denounce Mr. Kazenelson «s conduct and to deter other persons with authority over workers in potentially dangerous workplaces from breaching the legal duty set forth in s. 217.1 of the Code to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm from befalling those workers.

In addition to the offence of sexual assault, however, Criminal Code section 217.1 imposes a legal duty on anyone and everyone who directs the work of others, «to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to that person, or any other person, arising from that work or task» — and imposes personal criminal liability on people who fail to meet that duty.

The Court found that Kazenelson had the authority to direct the workers employed by Metron Construction and that he failed to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to the workers because he failed to ensure that the workers were using the appropriate safety equipment.

In so doing, Kazenelson failed to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to the workers.

It follows, therefore, that the failure to meet the requirements of OHS legislation, which can represent reasonable steps to be taken to prevent bodily harm, is unlikely to amount to criminal negligence unless there is proof of a marked departure establishing disregard for the consequences that could follow.

First, it explains how the obligations contained within health and safety legislation may be used in assessing an allegation of criminal negligence based on the failure to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to a person performing work.

However, the court indicated that, because the OHSA and its regulations are designed to ensure workplace health and safety, they can «assist in identifying what steps it is reasonable to expect a person -LSB-...] to take to prevent bodily harm in the workplace».

However, in Kazenelson, the court confirmed that non-compliance with the OHSA or its regulations is not, in and of itself, proof that a person has contravened section 217.1 of the Criminal Code by failing to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm.

However, the court indicated that, because the OHSA and its Regulations are designed to ensure workplace health and safety, they can «assist in identifying what steps it is reasonable to expect a person subject to a duty under s. 217.1 to take to prevent bodily harm in the workplace».

Not exact matches

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The most hotly debated issue in connection with the 1983 Rules, in fact, was whether a lawyer should be required, rather than merely permitted, to disclose information he has reason to believe necessary to prevent a client from causing death or serious bodily harm to another person.

According to the 1951 convention, genocide involves an intention to wipe out a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group by killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children to another people group.

It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as «any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the groups conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.»

Prison design and architecture repre - sent to the artists a zero state of design, where all traditional design considerations are jettisoned in favor of a design that exclusively seeks to prevent certain behaviors, generally focusing on not lending itself to the infliction of bodily harm.

The Criminal Law Group secured a withdrawal in R. v. A.Y. [2014] for Assault Causing Bodily Harm, because we secured an evidentiary ruling that prevented the Crown from proving the offence.

He was preventing a felony in his place of abode, and perhaps reasonably believed he was exposed to great bodily harm or death, when he shot them.

It is always legal to use force, including against police (see also here), if one reasonably believes it is necessary to prevent imminent (and unjustified) death or great bodily harm to oneself or another.

However, Illinois state law permits the use of deadly force, or force likely to cause great bodily harm, when it is necessary to prevent someone from committing a forcible felony.

where a lawyer believes upon reasonable grounds that there is an imminent risk to an identifiable person or group of death or serious bodily harm, including serious psychological harm that substantially interferes with health or well - being... where it is necessary to do so in order to prevent the death or harm.

A good lawyer who abides by the Rules of Professional Conduct can not disclose any information about the business or affairs of his or her client except in very limited and specified circumstances, such as where there is an imminent risk of death or serious bodily harm, and disclosure is necessary to prevent the death or harm.

(1) make a good faith effort to persuade the client: (i) not to commit or to continue the criminal act or (ii) to pursue a course of conduct that will prevent the threatened death or substantial bodily harm; or do both (i) and (2) Inform the client, at an appropriate time, of the member's ability or decision to reveal information.

In contrast, the Law Society of Upper Canada Rules of Professional Conduct only permit a lawyer to disclose confidential information in order to prevent death or serious bodily harm (see Rule 3.3 - 3).

3.3 - 3 A lawyer may disclose confidential information, but must not disclose more information than is required, when the lawyer believes on reasonable grounds that there is an imminent risk of death or serious bodily harm, and disclosure is necessary to prevent the death or harm.

(US Answer) Under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, «A lawyer may reveal information relating to the representation of a client to the extent the lawyer reasonably believes necessary... to prevent reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm...» Most states have incorporated the MRPC into their own state legal ethics codes.

776.013 (3) A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.