Sentences with phrase «purpose of harassment»

William R. Edwards Sr., a past president of the Texas Trial Lawyers, has been leading the charge for a tougher penalty on lawyers who violate barratry laws (e.g. overly persistent acts of litigation or encouraging groundless litigation for the purpose of harassment or profit).

Only make objections during a trial or hearing for legitimate and good faith reasons, and not solely for the purpose of harassment or delay.

A lawyer should avoid repetitive or argumentative questions or those asked solely for purposes of harassment.

Not exact matches

SPRINGFIELD - A new bill from State Senator Tom Cullerton (D - Villa Park) would make taxpayer dollars off limits for the purpose of purchasing silence regarding allegations and investigations of sexual harassment.

Westboro Baptist is not a real church, they are hiding behind the appearance of an organized church, but there are no members besides Fred Phelps family, they do not have a place of worship, their sole purpose is to protest at funerals, of gay people and members of the military, which is not protected by the first amendment, it is harassment of people on the worst day of their lives, when they have to bury a loved one.

We've also had an assemblywoman convicted of entering into a sham marriage for immigration purposes, two or three sexual harassment scandals, extortion, lying to the FBI and, oh yeah, a governor who had to quit because he was caught soliciting prostitutes.

This is just more harassment of legal gun owners with no practical crime - solving purpose.

Researchers at the University of Missouri are evaluating how employees» interpretations of sexual harassment policies can invalidate the purpose of the policies.

Amazon's trolls love to write hateful reviews of books they haven't read for the purpose of bullying, harassment and general malevolence.

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This reflects the definition of harassment in Section 26 Equality Act, being conduct which has the purpose or effect of causing that unhappiness.

First, the Bill provides that the results of an employer investigation into an incident and complaint of workplace harassment, and any report created, are not reports respecting health and safety for the purposes of the section 25 (2)(l) and 25 (2)(m) OHSA provisions requiring production to the JHSC, safety representative or workers.

Harassment is unwanted conduct related to one of the nine protected characteristics, which has the purpose or the effect of violating the victim's dignity or of creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for the victim.

Employers will have an obligation to keep resulting workplace harassment investigation reports confidential, unless the disclosure is necessary for the purposes of investigating or taking corrective action with respect to the incident or complaint, or is otherwise required by law.

The question of how serious must the conduct be to constitute harassment for the purpose of a claim under PHA 1997 has been considered by the higher courts.

More to the point, it's hard to claim that the CBC has a compelling interest in removing Mr Ghomeshi from his post for the purposes of protecting his fellow employees — he's not accused of assaulting his co-workers (there is an allegation of sexual harassment, although it's not clear what role that played in the CBC's decision — the CBC referred to «recent» information, the allegation of harassment appears to be older — and in any event doesn't appear to rise to the level of a criminal act).

However, harassment can also include a course of conduct that involves unfair performance reviews and criticism if the criticism lacks a legitimate business purpose and, instead, is designed to personally attack and demean another employee.

In attempting to decipher the purpose of the changes to that Act made by Bill 168, Vice-Chair Nyman made the following, important finding: the Act does not provide workers with a right to a harassment free workplace.

Typical criminal charges that we defend are impaired driving, dangerous driving, hit and run, theft under $ 5000, assault, uttering threats, criminal harassment, possession for the purposes of trafficking narcotics, trafficking of a controlled substance, obtaining sexual services for consideration, mischief to property.

He pointed out that in all of those contexts harassment is now specifically defined, in a way which focuses on three elements: unwanted conduct; having the purpose or effect of either violating the claimant's dignity or creating an adverse environment for her; and on the grounds of (here) race or ethnic or national origins.

(d) set out how information obtained about an incident or complaint of workplace harassment, including identifying information about any individuals involved, will not be disclosed unless the disclosure is necessary for the purposes of investigating or taking corrective action with respect to the incident or complaint, or is otherwise required by law;

With the events of the last few years — from a president's tweets moving markets, to discourse around online harassment — we're recognizing, slowly, that what happens online is, for all intents and purposes, real.