Sentences with phrase «prime facie»

As to whether a prime facie case had been made in this case, Member Richardson considered the four - part test set out by the Federal Court of Appeal in Johnstone and noted the following with respect to the criterion that, «the childcare obligation at issue engages the individual's legal responsibility for that child, as opposed to a personal choice»:

A post at the Virginia Lawyers Weekly blog noted that both State Bar President Sharon Nelson and Bar Counsel James McCauley agreed that ghostblogging — a lawyer retaining a third party to write blog content and publishing it under the lawyer's name — was prime facie unethical.

Although the emails referred to above indicated prime facie evidence of an offence, the Commissioner was unable to investigate because six months had passed since the potential offence was committed, a constraint placed on the legislation by the Magistrates Court Act 1980.