Sentences with phrase «so prejudicial»

Certainly there is a point where the housing rights of tenants in a calibrated system can become so prejudicial to the economic interests of landlords that the economic incentive is lost and the supply of housing suffers.

Despite this finding by the Court of Appeal, only Justice Green found that the evidence admitted — of prior sexual history — was so prejudicial that it warranted a new trial on the charges.

Were its mediocrity not so prejudicial to its creator's health, it would have been laughable.

But, as it turned out, the national opinion wasn't so prejudicial.

Not exact matches

Douglas Hogg, another Tory, has tabled a series of amendments with the Liberal Democrat David Heath also calling for the inquiry to wind up by the end of next month, but his proposal would make allowance for the report to be redacted so as to leave out any material prejudicial to the Green investigation.

When prosecutors said in court that they wanted to introduce evidence of the convictions of other New York politicians, one of Mr. Silver's lawyers, Steven F. Molo, objected, arguing that doing so would be «highly prejudicial.»

Rather than asking what we are doing (or not doing) in schools that so alienates some students that they eventually leave (or are pushed out), schools are often content with implementing «bullying prevention» programs or «positive discipline» initiatives that treat selected symptoms but never get at the root causes connected to problematic, unequal, unproductive, prejudicial conditions and relationships.

On appeal, the hospital argued that the trial court abused its discretion, since it called for the jurors to make a medical diagnosis, and given that the jurors can not do so, the prejudicial effect outweighed any probative value.

Similar to the «flagpole» approach, with one difference: the lawyer hopes that if he / she makes enough arguments, whatever their merits, perhaps the judge will «give him one» so as not to appear prejudicial against him.

But where there is a reasonable likelihood that prejudicial news prior to trial will prevent a fair trial, the judge should continue the case until the threat abates, or transfer it to another county not so permeated with publicity.

This testimony could be prejudicial to your client, especially in front of a jury, so it is imperative that you know how to properly object during a trial.

The court also held that, although the convictions were quite old, they still provided some value to the jury, and while the evidence was prejudicial, it was not unfairly so.

So you lose an evidentiary argument and the court allows some potentially prejudicial evidence to be presented for some narrow purpose such as bias, impeachment or to show intent, similar plan, motive or scheme.

Juries are currently required under the Coroners Act 1988, s 8 (3) where it appears to the coroner that there is reason to suspect a death in prison; in police custody; or as a result of police causing injury (reportable under separate legislation to a government department or officer or to the Health & Safety Executive); occurring in circumstances prejudicial to public health or safety; and in any other case where it appears to him that there is reason to do so.

When balanced against the prejudicial effect of allowing evidence of professional liability insurance, the potential for bias in this case is so remote as to warrant exclusion.

So if someone wanted to place a discriminatory ad, they could presumably count on Facebook showing the user a generic category (lives in New York), rather than the prejudicial one (is not African - American) in the ad explanation.

Understand this, it stands to reason that TREB has to be extremely careful to not say or do anything during this hearing that may be construed as prejudicial or as a lobbying effort of any sort so do not take their silence as disengagement.

Madame Justice Simpson's statement «While I have no doubt that CREA will behave responsibly and abide by the terms on which its intervention has been allowed...» suggests that Madame Justice Simpson holds an already prejudicial mindset against CREA as an entity that typically does «not» behave responsibly unless bribed to do so.