Sentences with phrase «protect vulnerable»

Now more than ever, local leaders have a special responsibility to protect vulnerable residents from suspicionless monitoring and the creation of databases exploitable for discriminatory ends.

Among other things, it's alleged Camp made comments that «reflected an antipathy» toward laws meant to protect vulnerable witnesses, engaged in «stereotypical or biased thinking» and asked the complainant questions that relied on «discredited, stereotypical assumptions» of how one should behave following a sexual assault.

There is increasing awareness that the High Court can be used to authorise / validate actions taken by local authorities to protect vulnerable adults.

Jurisdictions that want to be exempt from the ban have to pass a stringent assessment of their regulatory standards to show they are designed to stop children gambling, protect vulnerable people, keep games fair and keep out crime.

It is in everyone's benefit to ensure that we maintain access to justice, protect vulnerable claimants, maintain high standards within the profession and keep costs at a reasonable, affordable level.

Comment: Commenters asserted that the NPRM did not adequately protect vulnerable individuals who depend on others to exercise their rights under the rule.

In July, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) plead guilty and was fined $ 80,000 for «failing to develop, establish and put into effect measures and procedures including safe work practices» to protect a vulnerable sector of their work force.

On the other stands the sanctity of life and the need to protect the vulnerable.

Even if a rational link between the objective and the offense is found, the offense is not minimally impairing, given fraud offenses already exist to better protect the vulnerable from being misled.

«In an age when the Internet is increasingly being used for criminal and exploitive purposes, it is the responsibility of parents and all Canadians to protect our vulnerable citizens», says MP Smith.

Large increases to application fees could discourage some local authorities making applications to court in child protection cases, hindering attempts to protect vulnerable children like Baby P, lawyers claim.

Impose a duty on service providers or substitute decision - makers to take all reasonable steps to protect a vulnerable individual

In so doing, the court will balance the affected party's fundamental rights against the court's obligation to protect vulnerable people.

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-LSB-...] Justice Camp made comments or asked questions evidencing an antipathy towards laws designed to protect vulnerable witnesses, promote equality, and bring integrity to sexual assault trials.

If the safeguards to protect vulnerable persons are inadequate to prevent abuse or error, it could potentially impact an individual's right to life, liberty and security in Section 7;

[12] The law is clear that anonymizing a judgment by substituting initials for a litigant's name should only occur in rare circumstances, such as where it is necessary to protect a vulnerable litigant or a vulnerable person who can be identified through the litigant.

A dissenting report, written by four Conservative MPs on the committees, stated that the recommendations did not include sufficient safeguards for mature minors, as it does not follow the evidence on what is necessary to protect vulnerable persons.

PAIR received a 3 - year Special Initiatives Grant (totaling 100K) by the Barr Foundation for its work to protect vulnerable communities, promote human rights, and protect civil liberties in Massachusetts through legal services and community education.

This is due to the fact that the law is intended to protect a vulnerable group (minors) and assumes that an individual under the age of 18 is unable to consent to sexual touching when the individual doing the touching occupies a position of authority or power, is in a relationship of dependency with the victim or is in an exploitative relationship with the victim.

Orders of protection / injunctions against harassment / restraining orders are provided for in Arizona state law to protect vulnerable family members.

These laws are put in place to protect vulnerable populations and ensure that those in vulnerable positions are protected even when they are unable to protect themselves.

Before the Supreme Court, however, the intervener, Animal Justice, argued that the meaning of bestiality must be based upon «contemporary Canadian values» which take into account 1) the need to protect vulnerable animals, and 2) the wrongfulness of sexual conduct involving the exploitation of non-consenting participants.

Laws prohibiting elder abuse help to protect the vulnerable and punish those who take advantage of them.

The Hounslow case concerned proactive obligations to protect vulnerable adults.

People wouldn't do it for many of the same reasons that they don't marry and it would do nothing to protect vulnerable cohabitants from unscrupulous partners who deliberately choose not to opt in precisely because they don't want to take on responsibility for their partner and children.

Despite the blatant obviousness that being fired for being too attractive clearly disproportionately affects women rather than men, the Court seemed unmoved by arguments that equality does not necessarily mean identical treatment of men and women but may also necessitate proactive steps to protect vulnerable minorities.

It believes that the law of wills can do more to protect the vulnerable... [more]

The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) forcefully called on member states to respect prisoners» inherent dignity, allow access to medical care, protect vulnerable inmates and ensure access to legal representation.

The Intervenor's primary submission is that it is essential that this Honourable Court fashion a sentence that provides a strong general deterrent in order to fulfill the purpose of the assisted suicide provisions in Section 241 (b) of the Criminal Code: to preserve life and protect vulnerable persons.

A sentence which fails to reflect those fundamental principles would, in effect, fail to protect the vulnerable.

In an effort to protect vulnerable pedestrians attempting to cross the street in crosswalks, Maine enacted several vital safety laws.

MacPherson J.A. in Ceccol v. Ontario Gymnastic Federation 2001 CanLII 8589 (ON CA), (2001), 55 O.R. (3d) 614 (C.A.) recapitulated that the common law should be interpreted to protect vulnerable employees.

The prohibition against assisted suicide reflects this consensus and is designed to protect the vulnerable who might be persuaded to commit suicide.

It believes that the law of wills can do more to protect the vulnerable and to give expression to people's testamentary wishes.

The report notes that throughout the original trial, «Justice Camp made comments or asked questions evidencing an antipathy towards laws designed to protect vulnerable witnesses, promote equality, and bring integrity to sexual assault trials.

«Making a will is a serious matter and certain safeguards need to be built in to protect the vulnerable from the unscrupulous.

Although the use of safe spaces were initially created to help protect vulnerable LGBTQ students from vitriol from other students, and provide them with a supportive environment to help assist broader hostility, its use has expanded beyond that to others as well.

Mr Conway advanced an alternative statutory structure that it was submitted would safeguard competing legitimate interest and would protect the vulnerable.

«There's more freedom for Parliament to balance interests when what it is trying to do is protect the vulnerable, and I think we can agree that in trying to protect reputation, we are talking about people who are vulnerable, at least some of the time,» he said, noting there «are also vulnerable people on the other side of the equation.»

But what it does say is that, where a local authority (or possibly another public authority) could act to protect a vulnerable adult and it is aware of a real, specific and serious risk of abuse, its failure to act is likely to render it liable to pay damages in negligence.

These cases have also revealed what many consider to be a defect with our current legal system in that it places no express obligation upon local authorities, or other public bodies, to protect vulnerable adults from abuse.

Our national law provision should protect the vulnerable by guaranteeing that victims will receive the full amount of damages they are entitled to.»

This case does not say that all local authorities must protect all vulnerable adults from abuse.

This description of the average consumer is consistent with the legislature's intention to protect vulnerable persons from the dangers of certain advertising techniques,» they added.

Birmingham U.K. social services have successfully sought a civil injunction (balance of probabilities), to protect vulnerable teenagers in their care from sexual exploitation, where the evidence is unlikely to secure convictions on the criminal standard (beyond a reasonable doubt).

Not to be confused with the Long Gun Registry, Minister Bains has been directed to create a Temporary Foreign Worker Registry to ``... help protect vulnerable workers from exploitation and to track the use of temporary workers in our economy.»

Justice La Forest observed in the Hodgkinson case that, «From a conceptual standpoint, the fiduciary duty may properly be understood as but one of a species of a more generalized duty by which the law seeks to protect vulnerable people in transactions with others».

Based on these discussions, our focus is on a proposal that encourages the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee to provide $ 5 million annually in state funding over the next biennium for legal aid services to the indigent where legal assistance would: (1) help remove barriers to employment; or (2) protect vulnerable residents from abuse.

Bill C - 75 was unveiled March 29 and the Department of Justice says the legislation will «protect the vulnerable, serve victims, keep communities safe and decrease court delays by making the system more efficient.»