Sentences with phrase «went against public policy»

Through the eyes of the law, the policy will be regarded as «null and void» if no insurable interest existed because it went against public policy.

The purpose of a life insurance contract must also be legal — and it should not go against public policy.

Not exact matches

Private enterprises, i.e. businesses and Church are not public and should not be mandated by public policy that goes against conscience.

In Clegg's characterisation of not making public disagreements as the pukka thing to do, for example, he seems oblivious to how Lib Dems are going to campaign against those policies that they do disagree with when they have been silent on them for five years.

Corbin and his army do not wish to engage with these and moderates who remain (i.e. most of them) in the Labour Party will be stymied from engaging with these voters because a) to set out policies that attract them will go against Corbyn and his new «democracy», b) this will look divided and c) the public is highly sceptical about 21st century socialism.

But this apparently goes against current national policy since there is no policy to provide this type of environment in Title 1 poverty public schools.

Ravitch not only provides the evidence of the falsity of these claims and reforms, she also discusses how current education rhetoric and policy are damaging our public schools, our communities, our democracy and most importantly, our children; how these policies go against everything our founders intended public education to be and everything science knows about child development.

When Prudential (US) went public, they securitized the business associated with their oldest policies, and issued debt against it.

For instance, campaigns directed against companies or farms known for their «humane» production policies may encounter public resistance because they seem to be going after wrong or innocent targets, especially to people who (like most consumers) are not aware of the actual regulations behind labels such as «humanely raised» or «natural».

Has become a story of citizen journalism gone awry, for the blogosphere is littered with amateur writers who have been duped into fighting against global warming by slick websites with official - sounding names like the Science and Public Policy Institute and the Friends of Science.

The ability to waive an implied reasonableness term usually goes hand in hand with the contract doctrine that holds «penalties» in contracts to be void as against public policy, but upholds «liquidated damages» clauses.

The plaintiff, however, argued that several aspects of the arbitration agreement were invalid because enforcing the terms went against good public policy.

Freedom of contract was primarily the order of the day, except where the court thought the agreed contract went against broad concepts of morality and public policy.

They did not go on to consider whether a more carefully drafted clause would have been unconscionable or against public policy.

The human rights group says a structured sentencing framework would produce injustice, prevent optimum sentencing outcomes and could even result in an increase in rates of imprisonment: «These proposals go entirely against the prevailing trend of government criminal justice policy in recent years in relation to violent and sexual offences: that is, an emphasis on the individualised risk posed by the individual offender towards a member or members of the public.»

According to the full faith and credit clause of the U.S. Constitution, states must recognize the same - sex marriages performed in other states, even when this goes against the state's own public policy.