Sentences with phrase «serious harm to others»

The Law Society has issued guidance to assist solicitors with the conflict that can occur between a client's right to consult a solicitor in confidence and the public interest in preventing future acts that could result in serious harm to others.

Sometimes the failure to meet that duty of care results in serious harm to others.

Dogs that cause serious harm to others will be immediately expelled.

For a dog with a bite history, they'll think about the severity and circumstances of past bites, the predictability of his triggers and his potential for causing serious harm to others.

Climate change denialism is somewhat understandable in this regard — accepting climate science means coming face - to - face with the realization that one is contributing to serious harms to others, including one's own progeny.

I believe that when adults commit acts of violence or serious harm to other people, that is what we need to be spending our resources on.

Through the provisions of § 164.512 (c), we recognize the unique circumstances surrounding abuse and domestic violence, and we seek to provide an appropriate balance between individual privacy interests and important societal interests such as preventing serious harm to other individuals.

Not exact matches

Were the United States to impose significant trade restrictions and were other countries to respond in kind, as they surely would, the domestic economy's competitive edge would not be sufficient to prevent serious harm to the country's exports.

The announcement comes on the heels of a statement by Vladimir Putin on October 10, who told reporters that the «use of cryptocurrencies also carries serious risks» and that the Russian state has a responsibility to protect its people from fraud and other forms of harm.

«Daesh fighters have been systematically perpetrating mass atrocities, including killing members of religious groups such as Yazidis, Christians, Shia Muslims and others, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of these groups, deliberately imposing conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part.»

If your tween seems highly distressed, begins to cut off all social contact, and / or makes comments about wanting to harm herself or others, he or she may be dealing with something even more serious, like a mood disorder.

Many dangers around the house may cause harm to your baby, and they range from small things such as a sharp corner on your coffee table or other dangerous things like a staircase which can cause serious harm.

The right to protest peacefully is an individual right not something defined out, and so lost, simply because others are violent or intend serious harm.

The bill (A. 6994, Kavanagh) would enact a court process to allow a judge to issue an order to prevent individuals found likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to themselves or others from having access to guns.

She is also currently co-chair of a Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine working party to set quality standards for healthcare of vulnerable victims of torture and other serious harm in detention.

«New York, the financial capital of the world, is leading the nation in taking decisive action to protect consumers and our financial system from serious economic harm that is often perpetrated by state - sponsored organizations, global terrorist networks and other criminal enterprises,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday.

Adopted after the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, the SAFE Act, among other things, required mental health professionals to report any patients likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to self or others.»

The range and depth of the cuts without serious pursuit of better alternatives put forward by CSEA and other groups amount to a misguided slash and burn approach that will harm New Yorkers in every part of the state.

Councils shouldn't be interfering in an honest activity that causes no harm to others, unless there are serious concerns.

That is a threshhold beyond which serious harm is likely to occur to human civilization as well as the natural world, by the IPCC and other's scientific judgment.

«The fact that people who can not reduce dissonance usually suffer mightily (whether over a small but dumb decision or because of serious harm inflicted on others) is itself evidence of how important the ability to reduce it is.»

Boxers, however, are more likely to experience serious harm from concussions and other head trauma, loss of consciousness, eye injuries, smashed noses and broken bones.

Unlike some other social media experiments, a flawed public health monitoring program can cause serious physical and economic harm to large numbers of people.

While I understand you are trying to «educate» yourself and others, there are some serious misconceptions in what you have posted, and I am concerned that your advice could actually cause harm to some people with underlying health problems.

Since there seems to be very little risk of serious side effects of opting for oil pulling methods over other self - care methods, there is no harm in experimenting with the practice to see if you experience positive results.

In fact, there is an argument in favour of keeping some of these minor risks, as managed opportunities for children to learn to look after themselves and others, without coming to serious harm in the process.

Donald Williams, CEA director of Policy, Research, and Reform and a member of the Mastery Examination Committee, highlighted a survey of Connecticut teachers, as well as a survey of teachers from other states, outlining serious concerns and issues with the validity, reliability, and fairness of the SBAC test and the harm it is doing to children.

Former vice chair of the State Board of Education Buddy Collins is encouraged by the legislature's actions around principal pay, but he is concerned about the potential harm to veteran principals along with a few other philosophical approaches to compensation that necessitate a serious course correction.

In fact, aspirin may actually cause serious harm to your animal, as will many other methods used for treating fevers in humans.

Despite the wind industry being well aware for years that their product has the potential to cause serious harm to human health they invited Professor Simon Chapman, the Climate and Health Alliance, and others to help Vestas launch their «fact - based» campaign last year.

But by the start of the 21st century, it was clear that climate change would bring serious harm to many regions — some more than others.

For instance, a recent paper by Jim Hansen and seven other authors concluded that additional warming should be limited to 1 °C warming to prevent serious harms.

There are numerous twists and exceptions to the castle rule depending on the state (e.g., in some states the intruder must intend to inflict serious bodily harm while in others it is enough that the intruder intends to commit some felony such as arson or burglary; in other states the occupant of the home must not have provoked the intrusion, etc.).

Accused went to cottage of JC with whom she previously cohabited — Accused found JC with victim, another lady, in sauna — Angry words were exchanged between accused and JC — Victim testified that accused pushed her following verbal exchange, as a result victim lost balance and ended up against stove, thereby sustaining serious burns to body — Trial judge accepted victim's evidence that there was some kind of pushing — Accused convicted on one count of assault causing bodily harm, and sentenced to two - year term of probation and $ 1,000.00 fine, and accused was also ordered to provide DNA sample pursuant to s. 487.04 of Criminal Code — Accused appealed — Appeal against conviction dismissed — Although trial judge did not address analytical steps in order, he properly analyzed evidence and concluded that injuries sustained by victim were not accidental and could not have occurred in any other fashion than as stated by victim — Having provided reasons for accepting victim's evidence, trial judge was entitled to reject accused's evidence — Trial judge's reasoning, though skeletal, permitted accused and appellate court to determine how and why finding resulted.

Aggravated battery comes into play when a person intends to cause serious bodily harm, as would be the case if they used a weapon, or if the battery is directed toward a minor, a police officer, or other legally protected person;

Mr. Monture's other submissions regarding cumulative effects, bird mortality, and plants with medicinal value were too general to establish that this particular project would cause serious harm to animal life, plant life or the natural environment.

«Virtually all restrictive speech policies... are justified by the prevention of serious mental or physical harm to young people and by reference to other laws and regulations.

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.

A police officer can use deadly force to effectuate an arrest based on a reasonable belief that a suspect has committed a felony involving the risk of physical harm or death to others (murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, rape or burglary) or if there is substantial risk that the suspect was dangerous to the point that he may cause serious physical harm or death to someone if the arrest were delayed.

There have been other cases where lower courts have found that bodily harm in the sexual assault context vitiates consent (see e.g. R v Welch, 1995 CanLII 282 (ONCA)-RRB-, and the Supreme Court itself has held that consent to sexual activity may be vitiated in cases involving significant risk of serious bodily harm (R v Cuerrier, [1998] 2 SCR 371, 1998 CanLII 796; R v Mabior, [2012] 2 SCR 584, 2012 SCC 47, both dealing with non-disclosure of HIV).

Many recent drugs have been found to be defective and dangerous, causing more harm and actually bringing on other more serious conditions.

We have helped numerous people harmed by the actions of others — innocent people who are forced to deal with such serious conditions as painful burns and traumatic brain injuries.

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.

Our clients seek our legal help for the most serious injuries imaginable: harms to babies and children, brain injury, paralysis, medical malpractice, wrongful death and other events that have changed their lives forever.

Generally these matters involve conduct that causes harm to others and that are considered to be serious enough to warrant the stigma of a criminal record and punishments, such as confinement and removal from society.

A Parenting Coordinator shall inform the parties that the Parenting Coordinator will report any suspected child abuse or neglect and any apparent serious risk of harm to a family member or a third party to child protective services, law enforcement, or other appropriate authority.

However, that repute also depends on the confidence citizens have that persons charged with serious crimes will not be able to evade justice, harm others or interfere with the administration of justice while awaiting trial.

In the first case, a covered entity, in the exercise of professional judgment, must believe that the disclosure is necessary to prevent serious harm to the individual or to other potential victims.

(A) The covered entity, in the exercise of professional judgment, believes the disclosure is necessary to prevent serious harm to the individual or other potential victims; or

Third, this paragraph allows covered entities to disclose protected health information about an individual without the individual's agreement if the disclosure is expressly authorized by statute or regulation and either: (1) The covered entity, in the exercise of its professional judgment, believes that the disclosure is necessary to prevent serious harm to the individual or to other potential victims; or (2) if the individual is unable to agree due to incapacity, a law enforcement or other public official authorized to received the report represents that the protected health information for which disclosure is sought is not intended to be used against the individual, and that an immediate enforcement activity that depends on the disclosure would be materially and adversely affected by waiting until the individual is able to agree to the disclosure.