Sentence examples for legally binding duties from inspiring English sources

In explaining his sentence, the judge was at pains to emphasize that he had not convicted the experts for having failed to predict the earthquake something, he said, that is beyond the powers of current science but rather for having failed to carry out their legally binding duties as "public officials".

26 A possible reinforcer of this effect is the publication of the Health Act 2006, which imposed legally binding duties on trusts, including provision of "adequate hand washing facilities and hand rubs," and mandated a rolling audit programme on hand hygiene that was embedded in local clinical governance frameworks.

Ministers, NHS regulators and the new NHS Commissioning Board are already debating the merits of changes that have been proposed from various quarters such as regulation of healthcare assistants, legal minimum staffing levels on NHS wards, a legally-binding "duty of candour" on all NHS staff to admit to mistakes, a blacklist of failed NHS managers and many others.

The Government will replace the existing legally binding measure of child poverty with a duty to report on the number of children in households achieving GCSEs and the level of worklessness.

For the (legal) record: This marriage is not legally binding.

Endowment sufficient to finance annual tooth collection duties out of interest alone; Claus insisted on legally binding covenant forbidding spendthrift "Toothie" from touching principal, noting she blew through $145 million last year, mostly in very small cash gifts.

Conversely, while many aspects of international human rights law are legally binding, some are more controversial and less susceptible to legal enforcement: this is true, for example, of the duty of states to provide international assistance and cooperation.

Legally binding agreements?

"It's not legally binding.

A legally binding "noise envelope".

That ceremony is not legally binding.