Sentences with phrase «risk of serious harm»

When an unsafe or defective product is put onto the market you may be at risk of serious harm.

A «direct threat» is one that creates substantial risk of serious harm and that can not be eliminated or reduced to an acceptable level by making reasonable modifications.

That is an inadequate basis on which to impose an indeterminate sentence on a necessary hypothesis that there is a significant risk of serious harm from future offending.

The prevailing legislative standard in Canada for a duty to report a breach of data security (loss of data, compromise, etc) seems to be that there is a real risk of serious harm as a result of the breach.

Repetitive sexual offending with relatively low or without serious harm does not of itself give a significant risk of serious harm in the future.

This merger will saddle Maryland ratepayers with risk of serious harm, including the billions of dollars in added debt that Exelon will take on to buyout PHI stockholders.

If you are a parent of a child and you believe the other parent is abusing or neglecting the children to the extent that such abuse or neglect places a child in imminent risk of serious harm, you may file an Emergency Petition to modify or suspend the other parent's parenting time with the child.

This appeal was brought by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs («the Foreign Secretary») against a decision of the Divisional Court to include seven short paragraphs in the open version of a judgment, notwithstanding the fact that the Foreign Secretary had started in a number of Public Interest Immunity Certificates that such publication would lead to a real risk of serious harm to the national security of the UK.

(«It is, indeed, fair to say that acting or failing to act with deliberate indifference to a substantial risk of serious harm to a prisoner is the equivalent of recklessly disregarding that risk.»)

The imposition of a sentence of imprisonment for public protection was held to be wrong in principle, as the pre-sentence report did not identify factors which led to a conclusion that there was a significant risk of serious harm posed by the defendant.

«Too often, we are able to see the warning signs that an individual close to us poses a risk of serious harm, but lack a mechanism to prevent unthinkable tragedies such as interpersonal gun violence or suicide,» said Brooklyn Assembly member Jo Anne Simon who sponsored the bill.

The key to success is knowing how to create the right playtime environment, whilst also ensuring the balance is right between offering positive, challenging play experiences and keeping children safe from the risk of serious harm.

«Education is the key to teaching children how to use the internet safely so they don't find themselves at risk of serious harm.

The long - term objective of climate change policy should be to reduce the risks of serious harm to humanity and ecosystems at minimum societal cost, while recognizing additional shared humanitarian necessities, including providing reliable and affordable energy to improve global living standards.

«The long - term objective of climate - change policy should be to reduce the risks of serious harm to humanity and ecosystems at minimum societal cost, while recognizing shared humanitarian necessities,» Exxon Mobil General Counsel Ken Cohen wrote in the post.

It imposes a duty on organizations that have custody of personal information to disclose to the Privacy Commissioner and to affected individuals the fact of any breach of security affecting that personal information, if the breach creates a «significant risk of serious harm» to the individual.

This provision allows for, and creates a presumption in favour of, releasing information to members of the public, in relation to sex offenders where there is reasonable cause to believe that that offender poses a risk of serious harm to children or a particular child and that such disclosure is necessary to protect children or a particular child from that harm.

As recognised in the recent Nuffield Foundation / Universities of Warwick and Reading report How do County Courts share the care of children between parents (June 2015) there is a role for the courts, as a last resort, and there should be if the risk of serious harm is to be minimised by scrutiny of courts and other professionals.

It was not reasonably foreseeable that boisterous play on a bouncy castle would involve a significant risk of serious harm and so the parents who hired it did not have a duty of care to keep the children playing on it under constant supervision.

In this case the expected risk of injury associated with bouncy castles was not a risk of serious harm, as in fact, tragically, arose.»

The risk of serious harm was foreseeable, he had adverted to that risk, and he failed to act.

It does not refer to section 27 and 62 of the Substitute Decisions Act which provides for reports to be made to the Public Guardian and Trustee if it is believed that an adult is not mentally capable and is at risk of serious harm to their property and / or person.