Sentences with phrase «substantial harm»

When involved in traffic accidents, these vehicles can cause substantial harm to people and property.

Emergency orders are issued to protect the public and environment from the likelihood of substantial harm created by an imminent hazard.

While not technical in nature these attacks can effect substantial harm on an organization and need to be taken as seriously as the technical attacks.

The bill would also require claimants to show substantial harm, corporate bodies to show financial loss and encourage the speedy settlement of disputes without recourse to costly litigation.

He adds that although caffeine has been widely considered to be harmless, «awareness is increasing that its consumption is associated with substantial harm, including fatalities and near - fatalities».

The charges were resolved by a deferred prosecution agreement that allowed the firm to continue in business without substantial harm to its innocent partners and employees.

Protect against unauthorized access to or use of customer data that could cause substantial harm or inconvenience to any customer.

Security Five Acres has adopted policies and practices designed to protect the security and confidentiality of donors and consumer information to protect against anticipated threats and hazards to security and integrity of the information and to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information that could result in substantial harm or inconvenience.

This term was originally targeted toward animals that can do substantial harm when released into environments in which they do not naturally appear — for example, Burmese pythons in the Everglades or snakehead fish in the rivers of Maryland and Virginia.

Under the new proposals it seems unlikely that NMT would pass the test of suffering substantial harm in the UK, or that the English courts would be deemed the appropriate jurisdiction.

Though the judge considered numerous factors under this analysis, she was particularly of the view that the appropriate law for multi-jurisdictional online defamation actions should be the law where the most substantial harm to reputation was incurred, not necessarily the law of each jurisdiction where it is alleged that reputation in that jurisdiction was damaged.

Saira Kabir Sheikh QC, prosecuting, was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying: «These works caused substantial harm which can not be rectified.»

«On the other hand, e-cigarettes may facilitate cigarette smoking initiation and confer substantial harm to adolescents and young adults once they are introduced to nicotine.»

The findings «highlight the urgency of educating the public, policymakers and health care professionals about high - risk drinking and alcohol use disorder, destigmatizing these conditions, and encouraging those who can not reduce their alcohol consumption on their own — despite substantial harm to themselves and others — to seek treatment,» Grant and her colleagues concluded.

I've been reading his blog — very interesting stuff — and he seems to at least acknowledge the possibility of very substantial harms:

Toronto privacy lawyer Gil Zvulony says McIntosh is a reflection of the limited damages courts are likely to award unless the plaintiff can prove substantial harm from the breach.

In order to upset an earlier judgment, the fraud must be material, and the plaintiff (victim) must prove that 1) she suffered substantial harm as a result, and 2) she could not have detected the fraud at the time it occurred by using reasonable care.

All types of libraries incur substantial harm — individually and together — from non-disclosure clauses in the provisions of their licenses.

And while being hit in the head by a can could indeed cause substantial harm, and while the statement posted is vague about the policy changes being considered, no plausible alcohol policy is going to be 100 % effective in preventing yahoos from occasionally throwing things onto the field in malicious ways.

According to the Court, the laws in question — laws that govern teacher tenure, dismissal, and layoffs — impose substantial harm on California's students by forcing administrators to push passionate, inspiring teachers out of the school system and keep grossly ineffective teachers in front of students year after year.

But occasionally, you get individuals with defects (such as sociopaths), who act completely for their own good, do substantial harm to the community, and are eventually neutralized by the rest of the population.

[3] The exception in paragraph (d) recognizes that a prosecutor may seek an appropriate protective order from the tribunal if disclosure of information to the defense could result in substantial harm to an individual or to the public interest.

It would introduce a statutory defence of responsible publication on a matter of public interest, protect those reporting on proceedings in Parliament and other issues of public concern, and require claimants to show substantial harm and corporate bodies to show financial loss.

As the most substantial harm to Mr. Goldhar was believed to be in Israel, the dissenting judge would have stayed the action in Ontario in favour of litigation in Israel.

The FDA notes that a medical device safety alert should be issued if a device may present an unreasonable risk of substantial harm.

The group of businesses — which also includes Twitter, Uber, and SpaceX — said the new order would inflict «substantial harm on U.S. companies, their employees, and the entire country,» in a brief filed in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

In this context, a risk is not anything bad that you can imagine, but rather, it is an uncertain or infrequent event that could cause substantial harm.

... Without a clear showing of substantial harm to the tangible interests of others, speculation or mere moral objections alone should not override the moral right of infertile couples to use those techniques to form families.

Most significantly, the notion that most forms of information could only be withheld on the grounds that «substantial harm» would be caused was removed.

Because the FDA does not have the resources to oversee all the LDTs that have come to market in recent years, the agency plans to divide them into three categories, based on the likelihood that a misleading or incorrect result from a particular test could cause substantial harm.

The new bill proposes that claimants will have to prove that the statement has caused or is likely to cause them substantial harm before an action can brought.

Given the lack of mortality benefit of screening, and the moderate to substantial harms that could result from false - positive screeningtest results and subsequent surgery, the USPSTF concludes with moderate certainty that the harms of screening for ovarian cancer outweigh the benefit, and the net balance of the benefit and harms of screening is negative.

When damaged, they leak destructive molecules that can cause substantial harm and eventually kill brain cells.

The proposals, unveiled yesterday by U.K. Justice Secretary Ken Clarke, include conferring more protection on statements dealing with matters of «public interest» and requiring that a statement must cause «substantial harm» before it becomes defamatory.

He says that diagnosis can bring «great harm if incorrect» but the setting of target rates for diagnoses has gone «largely unchallenged despite its potential to lead to substantial harm,» adding that clinical commissioning groups will be «desperate» to remove themselves from the list of worst performing CCGs for dementia diagnosis.

During the trial, Plaintiffs have presented evidence of the substantial harms imposed on students by California's permanent employment, dismissal, and seniority - based layoff laws.

I thought that the major firms were not only unethical, but I also thought that they overcharged for wealth - destroying products, had immense conflicts of interests, and their methods would (and could) eventually cause substantial harm to the overall economy.

In this context, a risk is not anything bad that you can imagine, but rather, it is an uncertain or infrequent event that could cause substantial harm.

«Wildlife biologists have clearly documented the impact of feral cats on the environment, and feral cat run - ins with wildlife include competition, predation, and disease transmission... feral cats have caused substantial harm to species as diverse as sea otters and marsh rabbits... nothing short of removal from the ecosystem will stop the harm to native wildlife.

Consequently, feral cats have caused substantial harm to species as diverse as sea otters and marsh rabbits.

The lawsuit also states that» [CIG] utterly failed to follow through on those promises, and thier actions and omissions constitute breaches of contract and copyright infringement and have caused substantial harm to Crytek.»

Defendants utterly failed to follow through on those promises, and their actions and omissions constitute breaches of contract and copyright infringement and have caused substantial harm to Crytek.

In this case, by the time the company learned of the unauthorized access of its computers and servers, substantial harm had already occurred.

Notification to residents within 45 days after a breach has been discovered if it is reasonably likely to cause substantial harm.