Sentence examples for proportionate interference from inspiring English sources

By a majority of four to one, the supreme court justices ruled that storing his DNA profile – the information extracted from his DNA sample and held on a computer database – is a proportionate interference with his right to privacy under article 8 of the European convention on human rights.

The absolute right not to be tortured, the right to a fair trial, freedoms of speech and religion (subject only to proportionate interference in the societal interest) from Basra and Belmarsh, all the way to Behzti, such "motherhood and apple pie" is dismissed as liberal delicacy today.

Nicklinson and Lamb are appealing against a ruling by the court of appeal earlier this year that a blanket ban on assisted suicide or euthanasia is a "proportionate interference" with their rights under article 8 of the European convention on human rights, which guarantees respect for private and family life.

This is because the proposed VSS-GAL algorithm produces accurate notches with narrow bandwidths which are independent of the amplitudes of sinusoidal interferences and proportionate only to the step-size parameter.

The analysis enables the judiciary to assess if an interference with rights is proportionate to a legitimate and important aim of the legislation in question.

"In Europe there is a general expectation that employers will carry out a risk assessment before they introduce biometrics, so that they can be confident that the inevitable interference with privacy will be proportionate," says Stewart Room, partner at law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse.

For situations between these two extremes, which may well include the situation that Worktimesurfer describes, it will depend whether the interference with employees' privacy is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.

Was the intervention justified or proportionate?

Prevention orders in the UK have to be read down so that any interference with human rights has to be necessary and proportionate to a legitimate purpose.

It's not an absolute right: the state can justify interferences if they serve a legitimate purpose and are proportionate.

Essex Police had to demonstrate that the "degree of interference" and the wide scope of the production order was "necessary and proportionate", he said.