Sentence examples for legally meaningless from inspiring English sources

But consent to treatment must be free from undue influence, otherwise it is legally meaningless.

As a statement taken out of context, it is legally meaningless until it is translated into policy changes by the Home Office.

EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard, backed by UK energy secretary Chris Huhne, said it would have made the EU plan legally meaningless and would have forced the EU to walk away, effectively collapsing the negotiations.

After more than two decades as a couple, Hall and Jagger went their separate ways after a judge ruled earlier this year that their Hindu wedding ceremony in Bali nine years ago was legally meaningless.

The current price is around €5 ($6.7), and in January it fell by 40% in a few minutes after a negative, but legally meaningless, parliamentary vote (see chart).The low prices reflect a chronic oversupply of carbon allowances, which the commission puts at 1.5 billion-2 billion tonnes, roughly a year's emissions.

After more than two decades as a couple, the end took 30 minutes as Mr Justice Connell ruled that for all its rituals and slaughtered chickens, their Hindu wedding ceremony on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali nine years ago was legally meaningless.

On one level – in terms of the legally binding agreement which is needed – it is meaningless.

The Mail states that, under the changes, doctors will be "legally obliged to seek patients' consent before placing them on the LCP", but this is meaningless: they are already obliged to seek consent for every treatment they instigate.

Meaningless twaddle?

"Not legally.

And meaningless.