Sentence examples for mistake laws from inspiring English sources

Clegg advised Susman to persuade Obama to tell Cameron directly he was making a mistake, Laws claims.

Sometimes bullying is defended as free speech or by saying that it is just insults and therefore not harmful by the perpetrators, but make no mistake: Laws protect against bullying, harassment and discrimination in these types of settings.

He likes to trace each problem he identifies to a mistaken law or principle: judges' deference to juries inspires irresponsible lawsuits, civil service regulations lock up bureaucrats, antidiscrimination laws encourage employees to sue their managers.

But make no mistake, these laws are not about catching illegal aliens for deportation or making elections fairer.

In November 2014, an appellate court in San Diego County ruled that police made a mistake of law, so the evidence gathered during the stop should be tossed.

If the agreements entered into by Kerala are, as suggested by the Supreme Court in oral hearings presently under way, a product of a mistake of law or fact and are therefore invalid, can't Kerala's legislature pass laws to govern its own water resources as permitted under the Constitution?

The case of Jaggard v. Dickinson (1980) held that even a drunken belief will support the defence even though this allows drunkenness to negate basic intent; and Lloyd v. DPP (1992) ruled that a motorist who damages a wheel clamp to free his car, having parked on another's property knowing of the risk of being clamped, does not have a lawful excuse under the Act even if he makes a mistake of law.

In the U.S. the Model Penal Code would allow a defense of mistake of law, but this would rarely include a mistake such as the existence or meaning of the law defining the crime itself.

In Austria mistake of law is a legal defense.

In such cases mistake of law is increasingly being allowed as a defense, especially under statutes that impose harsh penalties.

But while concerns have grown over poor legal representation and mistaken convictions, laws in recent years have nonetheless cut legal aid for defendants who cannot afford their own lawyers.