Sentence examples for breach of common from inspiring English sources

He even ordered that Rumsfeld be sworn in, a breach of common practice that infuriated the defense secretary.

The HSBC case seeks $10 billion based on the bank's alleged breach of common law duties for failing to monitor Mr. Madoff or make any effort to protect investors.

He adds: "If employers permit an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment to persist in their workplace, they could be in breach of common law duties of care to their employees, or of their responsibilities under the health and safety legislation to provide a safe environment and other express or implied contractual duties".

In a brief statement, the supreme court said: "The issues in this appeal were whether the proposed civil legal aid residence test in the draft Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2014 is ultra vires [beyond the powers of the legislation] and unjustifiably discriminatory and so in breach of common law and the Human Rights Act 1998.

"(Her) failure to perform properly the duties of the kye (master) constitutes both a breach of contract and a breach of common law duty of care," the judge wrote.

What they were moaning about was Mr Skinner's breach of Commons practice.

David Morris, the Tory MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, has written to the parliamentary standards commissioner Kathryn Hudson to ask whether 23 Labour MPs are in breach of Commons rules.

While Mr Bercow stressed he was not seeking to pre-judge the commissioner's inquiry into Mr Yeo - who strongly denies any breach of Commons rules - he said he believed the case had created a "reputational issue" for the House.

But he said for there to be a breach of Commons privilege it would have to be demonstrated that Malhotra "had been improperly obstructed in the undertaking of [her] duties as a member of parliament, or that an attempt or threat had been made of such an obstruction".

Mr Straw met the undercover reporters at his office in the Commons – a potential breach of Commons rules – where he is said to have explained how he helped ED&F Man – a commodities company with a sugar refinery in Ukraine – change an EU regulation by meeting officials in Brussels for "under-the-radar" talks.

The legislation establishes several "grave breaches" of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention that are felonies under the War Crimes Act, including torture, rape, murder and any act intended to cause "serious" physical or mental pain or suffering.