Sentence examples for basic legal standards from inspiring English sources

Despite living in homes that failed to reach basic legal standards, these private tenants paid an average of £157 a week in rent.

Though legal aid movements have successfully pressured some offices to improve, still not one UNHCR field office meets basic legal standards for fairness and due process.

As for the proposal to take jurors to the spot where Wallen's body was found, the judge noted basic legal standards that would forbid anyone from talking to the jurors once they arrived there, which, he said, could create a situation where the jurors wouldn't get much out of going to the scene.

First, all three domains of health should have a basic legal standard of functioning and adaptation.

"The government has repeatedly failed to show that these detention centres are meeting basic legal and human rights standards, so they must be shut down".

Residents of Russia's far east fear that China is planning to plunder their oil and timber and perhaps even to colonise their empty spaces.Some non-governmental organisations worry that Chinese firms will ignore basic legal, environmental and labour standards in their rush to secure resources, leaving a trail of corruption, pollution and exploitation in their wake.

Whether through the murder of peaceful protesters, the shelling of residential quarters with chemical weapons, or the execution of soldiers who refuse to open fire on their countrymen, the Syrian regime has systematically defied even the most basic international moral and legal standards.

They are now saying enough is enough, staging strikes and protests across the country to demand not just their basic legal rights but a better standard of living, better working conditions and a better future.

Using basic economic analysis, this iBrief refines the legal standards applicable at this point of intersection between antitrust and patent law.

Mr. Robertson, the British human rights lawyer, said the proposed American tribunals fell "far short of the fair trial standards" required by a key passage in the continent's basic legal affairs treaty, Article 6 of the Convention on Human Rights.

By legal standards, Mr. Gillers said, the state constitutional guarantee of a "sound basic education" is a vague one, making this a difficult case to win.