The judge stated: «The Crown submits that as a professional driver, Mr. Fitt ought to be held to a higher
standard of behaviour so that his failure to drive safely, given his training and experience, ought to attract a more punitive sentence.»
Not exact matches
So tempting you here is easier than elsewhere but we have the power to turn away, to resist the temptation to lower ourselves to less than the Highest
standards of behaviour.
«Inspectors should not grade an aspect such as teaching, unless circumstances are exceptional, without considering the broad range
of evidence that they can gather during a visit to a lesson — for example, the
behaviour of the students and how well they are managed, subject knowledge, the
standard of work completed in books, the quality
of marking and
so on — and use this to come to a view about what teaching is like for those students and its impact on their learning over time.
We have seen the Court
of Appeal's rejection
of the appeal in the case
of British Airways and the employee wanting to wear a cross necklace in defiance
of the company's dress code (Eweida v BA plc [2010] EWCA Civ 80, [2010] All ER (D) 144 (Feb)-RRB- and also that court's decision in the Buckland case which was widely reported in the press in terms
of «Professor wins case about dumbing down university degrees» but which was
of much greater legal significance for ridding the law on constructive dismissal
of the heresy that the range
of reasonable responses test applies to such dismissals, under which the ex-employee could only succeed in showing constructive dismissal if he could prove that the employer's
behaviour was
so bad that no reasonable employer could possibly have behaved in that way, ie that the employer had not just behaved as too much
of an Alan (B'Stard) but as a grade one Olympic
standard Alan (Buckland v Bournemouth University [2010] EWCA Civ 121, [2010] All ER (D) 299 (Feb)-RRB-.
motivation, intention, morality, etc.) is next to impossible and
so we need
standards of behaviour to shape the ethical prescription for everyone, including judges.
That following biblical
standards of behaviour can feel empowering rather than restrictive may be difficult for non-Christians to understand, but it is nevertheless
so.
We must demonstrate by high
standards of ethical
behaviour, service and conduct that we live up to the tenets
of professionalism and the Codes
of Ethics we
so often hear preached.