How To Use Negligence In A Sentence
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This is criminal negligence at best or treason at worst.
The Sun
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The claim was for breach of statutory duty and negligence.
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In the second week of August the government was obliged to answer accusations of negligence and indifference.
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The author thought that the joint negligence principal offender theory can be established, and the negligence abettor or the negligence assist offender is untenable.
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The meeting resolved that teachers had no choice but to resign in protest over the government's ‘negligence’.
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The costs of such negligence are low in Japan where compensation for product liability claims is mostly derisory or non-existent.
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If he fails to do so, he is held liable, whereas in an action for negligence the legal burden in most cases remains throughout on the plaintiff.
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Still, though, the head of the investigation said there was no evidence of deliberate distortion or what Lord Butler called culpable negligence.
CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2004
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Here we discuss an accident that occurred in a warehouse due to the negligence of a forklift truck driver.
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The claimant did not need to establish either gross negligence or something more serious.
Times, Sunday Times
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Contributory negligence could reduce the monetary quantification of the defendant's liability, but it cannot legally or logically nullify it.
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He was found guilty of contributory negligence .
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Catholic Church over which Cæcilianus presides, who give their services to this holy religion, and who are commonly called clergymen, be entirely exempted from all public duties, that by any error or sacrilegious negligence they may not be drawn away from the service due to the Deity, but may devote themselves without any hindrance to their own law.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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The scarcity of modern director's negligence cases suggests that the likelihood of liability actually being imposed is currently minimal.
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If that doesn't quite amount to an intention to offend, it does amount to culpable negligence in avoiding pointless offence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The employers were not vicariously liable for his negligence.
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When illness had the audacity to attack a Drumtochty man, it was described as a "whup," and was treated by the men with a fine negligence.
A Doctor of the Old School — Complete
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Yes then there is no negligence, and if there's no negligence it doesn't matter how injured those people are, they will not recover compensation.
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The claimant, who had been involved in bitter and protracted partnership disputes relating to the firm of solicitors of which he had formally been a partner, sued the defendant barrister for alleged negligence.
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In tort, one is not liable for every injury caused by one's negligence.
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It was your evil negligence that led to this avoidable tragedy, and… aargh, you can write the rest as well as I can.
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Sometimes an accident may occur in circumstances in which accidents do not normally happen unless there has been negligence by someone.
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The claimants had commenced proceedings for psychiatric injury caused by the negligence of the chief constable as their employer.
Times, Sunday Times
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In particular it is not likely that the Legislature intended by these means to impose on the owners of vehicles an absolute obligation to have them roadworthy in all events even in the absence of negligence.
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Add to these charges the negligence and incompetence shown throughout this sorry affair.
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Mere negligence on the part of the recipient with respect to the safe custody of the thing will not make him liable.
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An employer is answerable for the negligence of his employees.
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A private individual is not normally liable in negligence for a mere omission in the absence of some special feature, such as a particular relationship with the claimant or an undertaking of responsibility (see paras 2.2.1 to 2.2.1.4).
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However, the Court considers it rather artificial to attempt to divide the ‘wider issues’ and the negligence issue.
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The issue of negligence is complex and you know, has been pleaded significantly within the documents that have been filed in court.
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The owner was held vicariously liable for the negligence of the driver.
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Furthermore, the firm would have been liable if the embryos had been destroyed due to their negligence, he said.
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The law that had to be applied is the law of negligence, in essence, perhaps the laws of evidence.
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The accident was caused by the negligence of employees of the defendants.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would be perfectly possible for a criminal code to provide separate crimes of negligence, with lower maximum sentences, at appropriate points in the hierarchy of offences.
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We do not want to minimise the importance of clinical negligence as a matter of concern to the health service.
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Negligence depends on a breach of duty, whereas contributory negligence does not.
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In the late nineteenth century negligence did not recognise injury caused by psychiatric means as compensable.
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Until two years ago, we had resources so paltry that it amounted to criminal negligence.
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Reasonable foreseeability is always a necessary ingredient of a negligence action as it is required to establish duty of care.
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Their potential negligence may have put you in breach of your legal obligations as a landlord, and your tenant could seek recourse through a claim for damages.
Times, Sunday Times
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Negligence by the initial obligation to accommodate the decision may lead to the cancellation of foreclosure.
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The difference between gross negligence and recklessness is a legal grey area.
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On the question of contributory negligence each party had caused the injury in that, if either had taken proper care, the accident would probably have been avoided.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bus fell into the river due to negligence of the driver.
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The negligence may not be related to the actual driving of the motor vehicle.
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The company were guilty of gross negligence.
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The claimant did not need to establish either gross negligence or something more serious.
Times, Sunday Times
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These people can't be allowed to get away with what are shocking acts of negligence.
The Sun
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A finding of contributory negligence on the other hand has a direct financial effect on the plaintiff.
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Anything else is culpable negligence.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have heard many statesmen say that his private business is his private business and that Sanford should only resign because of his negligence in disappearing from the state for 5 days.
More GOP leaders demand Sanford's resignation
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The second approach is that breach of the statute provides only primafacie evidence of negligence.
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Failure to do this could result in a claim for personal injury or negligence.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had learned the hard way a long time ago that forgetfulness was considered negligence.
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If injury is negligently caused to a newly born babe, liability in negligence arises.
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The person using an expert system to advise a client will be potentially liable under the laws of contract and negligence.
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You hear judges write that the employee is guilty of contributory negligence.
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Anything else is culpable negligence.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the entire burden of my learned friend's song was to the effect that what happened in this case was a more or less clear case of negligence, because of foreseeability.
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Solemnity and lightheartedness, an important dimension of Chinese literature, has been subjected to an undeserved negligence.
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That's the definition of a lot of these accidents and negligence.
Christianity Today
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She reckons she was rushed through the surgery process and wants compensation for clinical negligence and emotional distress.
The Sun
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Another provision relating to 'wilful default' or 'negligence' on a supplier's part is also being incorp-orated.
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The ruling of gross negligence is the most serious possible outcome.
Times, Sunday Times
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The precautions taken publicly are rendered null and void by the amount of negligence which goes on in private.
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The present ministerial team at the Ministry of Defence has clung stoically to the traditional line that the negligence verdict was correct.
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For the patient's sake as well as his own, he must endeavour to strike the medium between negligence and ridicule on the one hand, and too much solicitude about every trifling symptom on the other.
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Much as he had blamed Mr. Duncan for negligence in not manumitting her mother, he had fallen into the same snare.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
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The right we say to be informed of distressing news, news of the death of a loved one, for example, does not exculpate the negligent driver in relation to the secondary consequences of his or her negligence.
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CASARES: However, Alex Sanchez, there is something in civil law called contributory negligence.
CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2007
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They lodged a complaint against the doctor for negligence.
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Negligence and duty are respectively relative, not absolute, terms.
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Then he became an exciseman -- what was sometimes called "gauger" -- and was speedily cashiered for negligence.
Greenwich Village
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_ Chambers, [385] the Supreme Court held specifically applicable in admiralty proceedings the law of Florida whereby a cause of action for personal injury due to another's negligence survives the death of the tort-feasor against his estate and against the vessel.
The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
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It might now be proper, had not the favour with which it was at first received filled the kingdom with copies, to reprint it with notes partly supplemental and partly emendatory, to subjoin those discoveries which the industry of the last age has made, and correct those mistakes which the author has committed not by idleness or negligence, but for want of Boyle's and Newton's philosophy.
Christian Morals
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Even a brief lapse of alertness constitutes gross negligence.
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The company were guilty of gross negligence.
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The coroner all but accused the Government of sending a man to his death by culpable negligence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Landlords indeed are responsible for losses arising out of their negligence.
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People hesitate to approach consumer courts either because of negligence or due to some inherent fear about the very idea of filing a case.
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The ruling of gross negligence is the most serious possible outcome.
Times, Sunday Times
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The burden of proof lay on the plaintiff to prove negligence.
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Ontario's attorney general is conceding his conviction for criminal negligence in connection with Gaurov's death should be quashed, which is expected to happen Jan. 17 when the case comes before the Ontario Court of Appeal.
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If the owner of the carriage is therefore responsible for the sufficiency of his carriage to his servant, he is responsible for the negligence of his coach-maker, or his harness-maker, or his coachman.
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It there is a suspicion that the death or injury was caused by MoD negligence, legal cases can be launched to fight for additional money.
Times, Sunday Times
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I made a few gaffs due to my negligence, so hopefully you'll learn from my mistakes.
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At least one family has already begun suing mine bosses and government inspectors for criminal negligence.
The Sun
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It is usually said that there is no age below which, as a matter of law, a child cannot be guilty of contributory negligence.
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Many diseases proceed from negligence of hygiene.
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He methodised and regulated versification, insisting on rich and exact rhymes, condemning all licence and infirmity of structure, condemning harshness of sound, inversion, hiatus, negligence in accommodating the cesura to the sense, the free gliding of couplet into couplet.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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These are essentially lists of solicitors experienced in negligence claims, who will offer an initial one hour consultation free of charge.
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In contrast the claim against PW is for unliquidated damages for professional negligence.
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Special ameliorative doctrines for defining plaintiff, s negligence are abolished.
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Fining Allwn a paltry £2,000 instead of gaoling him, Judge Bertrand Richards observed: ‘The victim was guilty of a great deal of contributory negligence.’
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It seems we may be able to pursue a negligence claim in respect of the fire.
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One reason doctors take temperatures is to cover themselves against negligence claims.
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We do not need the New Zealand taxpayer paying for the negligence of overseas corporates.
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Their negligence and arrogant disregard for facts will put lives at risk.
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Jaric had brailed the mainsail neatly to the yardarm, but jib and spanker lay heaped in the bow, a negligence he never would have tolerated by choice.
Shadowfane
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gross negligence
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Citing a pattern of negligence and drug abuse that has left a couple unable to care for their children, a judge in upstate New York last week barred the couple from procreating until they prove they can take care of their offspring.
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The plaintiff was therefore guilty of contributory negligence and could recover nothing.
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It was not the role of the coroner's court to decide on matters of alleged medical negligence.
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In the ordinary way the purchaser in this example will not know of the negligence of his valuer or solicitor when completing the purchase.
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We should record in particular that we have found no evidence of deliberate distortion or of culpable negligence.
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Not to have taken action would have laid the department open to charges of negligence.
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To implant eight is an act of medical negligence that could properly be considered grievous bodily harm.
Times, Sunday Times
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He subsequently died and his mother continued his proceedings for medical negligence as administratrix of his estate.
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How much sloth and negligence, heat and passion, the prevalency of fashion or acquired indispositions do severally contribute, on occasion, to these wrong judgments, I shall not here further inquire.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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As a general rule, however, there is no liability in tortious negligence for an omission, unless the defendant is under some pre-existing duty.
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So, its causal relationship with the primary negligence is very proximate and most immediate, in our submission.
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I was open to persuasion that the actual facts before the court did not disclose a case of negligence that had any reasonable prospect of success.
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The claimant did not need to establish either gross negligence or something more serious.
Times, Sunday Times
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To avoid administrative punishment, some medical institutions give up technical appraisal of medical negligence, and enter instead medicolegal expertise of medical treatment mistakes.
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Rational Review
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The best it seems to me that you can put against Andar is that there was a casual act of negligence on the part of its employee in not inspecting this particular trolley.
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The plaintiff suffered a burn on his lip as a result of the defendant's negligence.
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There is no exclusion of gross negligence, serious fault, or anything of a like nature.
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He said prosecutors were opening a criminal investigation into possible negligence.
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Counsel for the appellants argues that those words are not sufficiently precise to exclude liability for negligence.
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They are the result of negligence and for that we ought to have the right to sue for damages.
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We must remember that in a fair society, an individual who has genuinely incurred loss due to the negligence of another, should have some recompense for that loss.
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The local health authority denied negligence.
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The availability of an action by a client for breach of contract or negligence against his lawyer for the lawyer's conduct in defending or prosecuting a civil or criminal case is limited.
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As to negligence it was true that Moorgate Mercantile had been careless in failing to register their hire purchase agreement.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers is accused of negligence in managing his affairs.
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The person using an expert system to advise a client will be potentially liable under the laws of contract and negligence.
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Was human error or criminal negligence to blame?
Times, Sunday Times
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The municipality is pursued for its vicarious liability for the negligence of its employee.
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There the widow was recovering damages for the death of the original victim of the defendant's negligence.
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The person using an expert system to advise a client will be potentially liable under the laws of contract and negligence.
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The provision of reasons for decisions has become unpopular because reasons give more ammunition for challenge and negligence claims: see 14.7.7.
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culpable negligence
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They charged him with negligence of duty.
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The doctor was sued for medical negligence.
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A suit of this kind, considered a case of ‘wrongful birth,’ assumes that the obstetrician's negligence denied the parents the option of aborting a defective fetus.
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One is the personal injury or negligence claim that comes before a court.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mourning residents are indignant over what they call negligence on the part of the club's management, which President Dmitry Medvedev also criticized in a nationally televised videoconference on Saturday.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
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A claim is defined as a claim for damages for negligence arising out of a motor vehicle accident.
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The plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence for failing to wear a crash helmet.
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The other sailors face up to life in prison for the crime of abandoning ship and the lesser charge of negligence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Quite often, the exchangers add as if by negligence one more digit in the ‘buy’ rate for the euro and instead of 1.954 they put it as 1.195.
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The naivety and negligence of the negotiator necessitates an aide with neat handwriting.
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If that doesn't quite amount to an intention to offend, it does amount to culpable negligence in avoiding pointless offence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rent reviewer sought to defend an action for negligence on the basis that he was an arbitrator or quasi-arbitrator.
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In many cases the application of the rule raises the question whether the licensee has been guilty of contributory negligence.
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There is no reason to fear a flood of negligence suits against barristers.
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The label nuisance or negligence is treated as being of no real significance.
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A motion by the Plaintiffs for a summary judgment as to the Defendants' liability and negligence was dismissed.
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There is contributory negligence in this disturbing prospect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lawyers who act solely for defendants in medical negligence will have no need to be on the panel.
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These public law remedies are additional to any private law remedies which would be available to him such as damages for misfeasance in public office, assault or negligence.
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in common law any degree of contributory negligence would bar the plaintiff from collecting damages
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In that case a vessel sank through the negligence of her owners in the River Dee obstructing navigation.
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The ruling of gross negligence is the most serious possible outcome.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Mother Jones environmental reporter Kate Sheppard recently noted: “The base fine for a spill is $1,100 a barrel, but it can go as high as $4,300 a barrel if a federal court determines that the spill was the result of gross negligence by the responsible party.”
Crime Against Nature «
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‘That is carelessness and negligence and all three of you need to look at your own systems,’ he said.
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The almost wilful negligence of that era is a thing of the past.
Times, Sunday Times
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The judge said it was negligence on the part of the Karnataka state government not to take steps to arrest the forest dacoit and his colleagues.
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There may be no negligence in the driving of the motor vehicle but there still be cover provided by the policy.
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An ambulance chaser contacted her the day she was injured and persuaded her to sue the city council for negligence.
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She had learned the hard way a long time ago that forgetfulness was considered negligence.
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As a general rule, however, there is no liability in tortious negligence for an omission, unless the defendant is under some pre-existing duty.
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The restaurant, "Kibunya," was unlicensed to prepare and serve puffer, a delicacy in Japan known as fugu, and owner Iwao Aizawa, was being questioned by police on the suspicion of professional negligence resulting in injuries.
Practical Fishkeeping news (RSS)
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The Bamforth's filed suit for what they call negligence on the zoo's part.
Undefined
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No one suggests the jurors could be sued for negligence because they made a wrong decision.
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The claimants had commenced proceedings for psychiatric injury caused by the negligence of the chief constable as their employer.
Times, Sunday Times
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While pacifying those who worry about liberty with a footling commission, composed largely of lawyers from left and right, who cancel each other out, Clarke proposes a vast extension of secrecy in the civil courts and inquests, which will suppress evidence of corruption and negligence in high places, as well as reduce access to justice and the public's right to know.
Ken Clarke is ready to betray 800 years of British justice | Henry Porter
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Reasonable foreseeability was a well-known test in some parts of the law of tort, notably negligence and remoteness of damage.
Times, Sunday Times
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His negligence was nothing less than criminal.
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The plaintiff was therefore guilty of contributory negligence and could recover nothing.
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A certain duskishness caused by negligence and time had darkened their colour, as it is wont to happen when pictures stand in a smoky room.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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It is true that in general legal process partitions its material so as to segregate past events and apply the civil standard of proof to them: so that liability for negligence will depend on a probabilistic conclusion as to what happened.
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Yes, this is due to my own negligence, but a helpful reminder from a travel agent would make all the difference.
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Workers in these companies have complained of negligence by new owners and the failure to invest in safety.
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It was held that the plaintiff was not guilty of contributory negligence.
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Employers must be held responsible for negligence over worker safety and be punished accordingly.
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His Lordship added that it may be that these considerations would also justify a finding of negligence.
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The loss of the Kursk was a direct consequence of the fleet command's negligence, "said Boris Kuznetsov, a lawyer who represented some of the sailors 'relatives.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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The plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence for failing to wear a crash helmet.
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The bridge's architect was sued for criminal negligence.
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Ill, §-265. — for gross negligence in manjige incut of trains.
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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One of our reviewers suggested that the patient had grounds to sue for negligence.
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To implant eight is an act of medical negligence that could properly be considered grievous bodily harm.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the purposes of the criminal law there are degrees of negligence: and a very high degree of negligence is required to be proved before the felony is established.
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Why should I suffer because of somebody's negligence, carelessness, stupidity or even a deliberate act on his or her part?
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The plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence for failing to wear a crash helmet.
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Failure to do this could result in a claim for personal injury or negligence.
Times, Sunday Times
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If injury is negligently caused to a newly born babe, liability in negligence arises.
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As an "almost native" long term Arizonan who is now in political exile in large part due to the illegal immigration situation and border wars going on now in my former home state, I cannot begin to express the outrage and betrayal I felt on behalf of myself and my fellow Arizonans who have thus far been victimized by this situation and governmental negligence after the news conference held by Mr. Obama this evening.
The Border War: An Arizonan's Perspective
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In Texas, these are ‘buzz words’ for the tort of negligence simpliciter, as they are here in Ontario.
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His would not be the first case of a player suing his club for clinical negligence.
Times, Sunday Times
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In such instances, finite and infinitive clauses are commonly postposed and anticipatory it takes their place in subject position: ‘It is obvious that nobody understands me’; ‘It was a serious mistake to accuse them of negligence.’
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Before the Act, of course, a finding of contributory negligence defeated the claim altogether.
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He threatened to sue the company for negligence.
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Absorbed in thought, she stood there, heedless alike of the tea and John (although he called to her, and rapped the table with his knife to startle her), until he rose and touched her on the arm; when she looked at him for a moment, and hurried to her place behind the teaboard, laughing at her negligence.
The Cricket on the Hearth
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Death due to negligence occurred in one per cent of this group.
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He contended that, in the first assault Mr. Desailly was the aggressor, having exhibited an unpardonable degree of negligence and carelessness, which not only extenuated the conduct of the defendant, but amounted to a positive excuse and justification.
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The action arises out of a claim by the Plaintiffs against their former solicitors for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty.
