Sentences with phrase «wilful neglect»
"Wilful neglect" refers to a deliberate and intentional failure to take care of something or someone, usually resulting in harm or negative consequences. It means intentionally neglecting one's responsibilities, disregarding the importance of maintaining or protecting something, or purposely neglecting the needs or well-being of someone or something. Full definition
Jeremy Hunt has NHS staff could face a new criminal offence of wilful neglect of patients as one of a series of measures adopted by the Health Secretary from the Francis report into the deaths at Stafford Hospital.
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I don't mind at all castigating wilful neglect by the Admin.
And doing so in the face of super-squeezed budgets, when it could have a detrimental impact on local schools in terms of funding and the loss of a genuinely comprehensive intake, feels like wilful neglect.
Nevertheless, the employer was ordered to pay the employee his statutory notice and severance pay pursuant to the ESA because his misconduct did not rise to the level «of wilful misconduct, disobedience or wilful neglect of duty that is not trivial» required by the ESA to terminate his employment for cause.
In this respect, there was an underlying cruelty behind the whole process, a wilful neglect for the rest of calcio.
In some sharp exchanges over social media on Thursday, Lord Hain accused Prime Minister Theresa May and her predecessor David Cameron of wilful neglect and failing to act as honest brokers.
«Whosoever, having the charge of any carriage or vehicle, shall by wanton or furious driving or racing, or other wilful misconduct, or by wilful neglect, do or cause to be done any bodily harm to any person whatsoever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.»
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told ITV News he will consider Professor Don Berwick's proposal that a new criminal offence for «wilful neglect» should be made law.
Management's obvious inability to stabilise & increase AUM, plus its wilful neglect of shareholder value, are clearly to blame here for the 50 % collapse in Argo's share price just in the last 3 years.
«Malfeasance in public office» has two related cousins — «nonfeasance in public office» (eg a wilful neglect of duty) and «misfeasance in public office» (eg malicious exercise of official duty).»
The provisions activated on 1 April 2007 by the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Commencement No 1)(England and Wales) Order 2007 (SI 2007/563), create the new criminal offence of ill - treatment or wilful neglect (England and Wales) and deal with principles, assessing capacity and determining best interests (ss 1 to 4 — just England) but only in relation to the operation of the independent mental capacity advocate service.