Sentences with phrase «res ipsa»

«It's not, «The child doesn't talk to me, res ipsa it's your fault.»
The obvious practical implication of this for practitioners is that in every case involving an aircraft crash, the claimant would be best advised to raise res ipsa at the outset and leave all the running to the defendant.
The old saying that hard cases make bad law is one is not always true is a recent case in the Privy Council demonstrates in a laudable effort to do justice to a litigant in person the Privy Council (Lords Mance and Neuberger and Sir Jonathan Parker) appear to have extended the application of res ipsa loquitor.
The appeal succeeded on the basis of res ipsa.
The board had a hard task as the defence tactic does seem to have been to sit back and make Mrs George prove negligence while attempting to frustrate this at every turn but the board seized on res ipsa rather than leaving Mrs George without a remedy.
This then leaves the only issue outstanding being that of res ipsa.
Our Baltimore personal injury lawyers break down the real meaning of such legal terms as contributory negligence, res ipsa loquitur, respondeat superior and scores of other tort law jargon in easy - to - understand language.
He regularly wrote columns for the law student newspaper, Res Ipsa Loquitur, where he was also a copy editor.
In situations where this is the case, and the injury is something that would not have occurred unless a medical professional was negligent, you may be able to use the legal doctrine Res Ipsa Loquitur.
Florida has codified the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur when a foreign item inadvertently remains in a body following surgery, or a medical or diagnostic procedure.
Res ipsa loquitor implies that the plaintiff need only show that a particular result occurred, and it would not have happened but for the defendant's negligence.
This post is found on Res Ipsa Loquitur («The Thing Itself Speaks») by Jonathan Turley.
145 Jonathan Turley, «Monkeys Don't Own Copyrights»: Wikimedia Denies Claim of British Photographer to Monkey Selfie, Res Ipsa Loquitur («The Thing Itself Speaks»)(Aug. 8, 2014), http://jonathanturley.org/2014/08/08/monkeys-dont-own-copyrights-wikimedia-denies-claim-of-british-photographer-to-monkey-selfie/.
Examples of void - fillers are alibi, amicus curiae, de minimis, ex parte, habeas corpus, prima facie, res ipsa loquitur, stare decisis, and voir dire.
227 Jonathan Turley, «Monkeys Don't Own Copyrights»: Wikimedia Denies Claim of Photographer to Monkey Selfie, Res Ipsa Loquitur («The Thing Itself Speaks»)(Aug. 8, 2014), http://jonathanturley.org/2014/08/08/monkeys-dont-own-copyrights-wikimedia-denies-claim-of-british-photographer-to-monkey-selfie/.
Richard J. Bortnick is a partner at Cozen O'Connor in West Conshohocken, Pa.; Pamela Pengelley is an associate at Cozen O'Connor in Toronto who also authors Res Ipsa Loquitur.
Under Connecticut law, there are two requirements for the application of res ipsa loquitur.
However, a federal court of appeals reversed, finding the woman made a sufficient showing of «res ipsa loquitur.»
The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur means «the thing speaks for itself.»
The court explained that the mere possibility that «some external force» could have made him lose control of the line was not a sufficient reason to reject res ipsa loquitur in this case, since there was no evidence of an unusual external force.
Res ipsa loquitur is not an independent claim but instead a way of proving a plaintiff's case.
(Res Ipsa Loquiter????)
In fact, it almost reads like a restatement of the concept of res ipsa loquitur, which had been done away with in Fontaine v. British Columbia (Official Administrator), 1998 CanLII 814 (SCC).
In Cassidy, primary liability allowed the negligence of the professional to not even be examined: res ipsa loquitur was accepted.
Search for res ipsa loquitur and there will be a set of results that define and link to further information.
This week, however, Res Ipsa Blog speaks not just for itself, but for the universe of other legal bloggers, as it hosts Blawg Review # 186.
As any 1L can tell you, «res ipsa loquitur» means the thing speaks for itself.
Earlier this week, The Volokh Conspiracy observed here that it is quite «common for legal blogs to use some legal phrase as their title, such as Concurring Opinions, Res Ipsa Loquitur,» and posed an amusing question to its readers:
Here's a list of the latest additions: Magali Lepage, LL.B James Hatton on Licensing Nimonik — Environmental Regulations Simplified Res Ipsa Loquitur (Pamela Pengelley) Environmental, Energy, and Resources Law (Davis LLP) Family Law (Davis LLP) Democracy Law Blog (Clayton Whitman) The Litigator Live (Affleck Greene McMurtry) Legal Nurses of Canada... more»
As they would say over in Legal, «res ipsa loquitur».
Counsel for the appellant agreed that he could not rely on res ipsa loquitur on the facts of this case and he limited himself to the two submissions to which we have referred.
In the aptly named essay «Res ipsa loquitur, sed quid in infernos dicet?»
In his upcoming show at Oakland's Res Ipsa Gallery: «Are You Going With Me?»
Johnson said: «It is perfectly true that I had thought «res ipsa loquitur» [the matter speaks for itself], just get on and do the job, but I was conscious that people wanted me to contribute to the public debate.

Not exact matches

People have been dropped in it and IPSA is not helping them.
Personal problems I was sitting at my computer with my MP, going through the weekly batch of invoices (of which there are lots) and looking at whether IPSA had bothered to repay my MP (no, they hadn't).
It frustrates me when IPSA is demonised — if MPs forget why it's there, that's quite dangerous.
«Fundamentally we believe the current system whereby [expenses watchdog] Ipsa pays MPs» rent is deeply flawed, both because it is open to abuse and because it does not represent good value for the taxpayer,» Unlock Democracy's director Peter Facey said.
We were never in danger of getting hit by the new 50p top rate of income tax, and I don't remember MPs» staff getting their moats cleaned on expenses, yet IPSA has nonetheless inflicted an effective pay cut on people who were already on relatively low pay.
Mullin was the first MP to have an exit interview with IPSA, who he describes as «completely and utterly incompetent».
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) intends to stick to its plan of increasing MPs» pay from # 66,396 to # 74,000, it was reported this weekend.
Downing Street said the prime minister would not have to decide on whether or not to accept the pay rise until a final proposal is put forward by Ipsa in mid-2015.
Following the UK expenses scandal in 2009, a new claims system was introduced by IPSA, which is responsible for setting the yearly allowances as well as individual budget increases.
[1] IPSA was created in 2009 in the wake of the expenses scandal to provide independent regulations and ensure greater transparency.
Karl McCartney, 42, MP for Lincoln, said the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) was «incompetent» and accused it of trying to bully him into silence.
IPSA is independent of Parliament and the Government.
Panic bells were clamouring in Downing Street tonight and Conservative Campaign Headquarters was thrown into turmoil at claims that glamour - denuded, «post-political» and IPSA - impoverished backbencher J.Alfred Prufrock is poised to issue a historic challenge today to David Cameron for the Tory leadership.
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