Example sentences of "inconsistent with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sex discrimination in employment is a matter dealt with by European law , and the tribunal referred a number of questions to the European Court of Justice which held , inter alia , that the Order in Council under which the certificate was issued was inconsistent with a requirement of EC law that the right of men and women to equal treatment recognized by EC law should be effectively protected by national legal systems . |
| 2 | It is also arguable that non-disclosure is inconsistent with a policy of greater openness . |
| 3 | No statement which you make during the interview may be given in evidence against you unless : ( a ) you are prosecuted for making a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular ; or ( b ) you are prosecuted for some other offence and when giving evidence , you make a statement which is inconsistent with a statement made during the interview . |
| 4 | Thus in Reg. v. Pestano [ 1981 ] Crim.L.R. 397 it was held by the Court of Appeal that the credibility of evidence given by a witness inconsistent with a statement previously made by him was a matter for the jury to consider , subject to a proper warning by the judge as to the weight to be attached to the evidence . |
| 5 | ‘ In the judgment of this court , when a witness is shown to have made previous statements inconsistent with the evidence given by that witness at the trial , the jury should not merely be directed that the evidence given at the trial should be regarded as unreliable ; they should also be directed that the previous statements , whether sworn or unsworn , do not constitute evidence upon which they can act . |
| 6 | The Law Society argues that the cuts are unlawful because they are inconsistent with the purpose of legal aid — ‘ ensuring that people of small and moderate means receive access to proper legal advice , and to justice ’ — and because there was no proper consultation before the decision to make the cuts were taken . |
| 7 | Again , some wrongs , such as fraud , in their essence involve a guilty state of mind , and in such cases the extreme youth of the wrongdoer may be inconsistent with the existence of such a state of mind . |
| 8 | On the face of it , the absence of joint obligations of payment was inconsistent with the existence of a joint tenancy . |
| 9 | ‘ It seems to me to be inconsistent with the spirit of liberalisation to have a mandatory code that necessitates a cumbersome and bureaucratic certification process . ’ |
| 10 | At first sight , the dictum — though not the decision — the NIRC in Hudson ( Birmingham ) Ltd v Winsper appears to be inconsistent with the spirit of Schedule 1 Para 32 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act , 1974 , which provides , ‘ … any provision in any agreement ( whether a contract of employment or not ) shall be void insofar as it purports to exclude or limit the operation of any provision of this Act … . ’ |
| 11 | In fact , ‘ there is a great deal of observable bureaucratic behaviour which is inconsistent with the hypothesis of budget maximization ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe 1975 , p. 205 ) . |
| 12 | Mental imbalance should also be excluded , since that seems inconsistent with the idea of an ‘ ordinary person ’ , and the defence should be one of diminished responsibility . |
| 13 | That is totally inconsistent with the idea that they should charge some nationally calculated prices . |
| 14 | The pattern of velocity of eye movements of REM sleep is quite unlike that of waking eye movements , and seems inconsistent with the idea that they reflect scanning responses . |
| 15 | Finally , Purkinje cell responses inconsistent with the flocculus hypothesis in monkeys and goldfish have been observed under visual cancellation of the VOR . |
| 16 | [ Where a person , not appointed as a trustee , ] has received trust property with actual or constructive notice that it is trust property transferred in breach of trust , or because , not being a bona fide purchaser for value without notice , he acquires notice subsequent to such receipt and then deals with the property in a manner inconsistent with the trust , [ he is deemed a constructive trustee . ] |
| 17 | Previous attempts to explain the emergence of peaceful industrial relations in cotton based on concepts such as paternalism and gender are inadequate to explain developments in Scotland as they are inconsistent with the country 's experience . |
| 18 | Quite apart from the importance of the outcome of the case to B himself , if it is even arguably inconsistent with the Convention , then there is the prospect of yet another case from this country going to Strasbourg . |
| 19 | Claims in a leaked report circulated by French officials at the meeting , purporting to show that MacSharry had offered concessions at the Chicago talks inconsistent with the CAP , were dismissed on Nov. 16 as " fantastic " by the UK Agriculture Minister John Gummer . |
| 20 | Such alienation would , it seems , be inconsistent with the intendment of the Act of Settlement . |
| 21 | This seems to be inconsistent with the proposition that a higher standard applies where the director possesses relevant skills , but is presumably explicable on the basis that the higher standard relates only to distinct forms of professional expertise , such as that of the actuary or the physician referred to by Romer J , and not where the experience or expertise that the director has acquired is that of a business manager . |
| 22 | The order of Waite J. was wholly inconsistent with the law as so stated and can not be justified upon the basis of any authority known to me . |
| 23 | The submission was however inconsistent with the law as stated by this House in Reg. v. Governor of Pentonville Prison , Ex parte Sinclair [ 1991 ] 2 A.C. 64 , 81–92 , in which it was made clear in the speech of Lord Ackner ( with which the remainder of the Appellate Committee agreed ) that , under the provisions of the Extradition Act 1870 , the powers of the magistrate are specifically laid down in sections 3(1) , 8 , 9 and 10 of the Act ; and that in consequence , apart from consideration where appropriate whether the offence in question was an offence of a political character , the magistrate is not concerned with questions of foreign law at all , being concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to an English crime or crimes specified in the Secretary of State 's order to proceed . |
| 24 | It is submitted with respect that Widgery J. 's view is inconsistent with the trend of modern authorities and should not be followed . |
| 25 | A power for nobody to determine or for one party only to be able to determine is inconsistent with the concept of a term from year to year : see Warner v. Browne , 8 East 165 and Cheshire Lines Committee v. Lewis & Co . , |
| 26 | Some modern firms of accountants number hundreds of partners , and their appointment as arbitrators would be inconsistent with the concept of all the members of a tribunal playing a full role by , for instance , attending the hearing . |
| 27 | … It has been held that even if a court , having full discretion in the matter of the costs of any proceeding , deals in its order with such costs , a party can still enforce an antecedent agreement in relation thereto inconsistent with the court 's order : Mansfield v. Robinson . |
| 28 | The Companies Act 1985 , as amended ( ‘ the Act' ) provides , both for individual company accounts and for group accounts , that if in special circumstances compliance with any of the provisions of the Act as to the matters to be included in a company 's accounts ( or notes thereto ) is inconsistent with the requirement to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs and profit or loss , the directors shall depart from that provision to the extent necessary to give a true and fair view . |
| 29 | And if , in special circumstances , compliance with a provision of the Schedules would be inconsistent with the requirement to give a true and fair view the directors must depart from that provision to the extent necessary , giving , in a note to the accounts , particulars of the departure and the reasons for , and effect of , it . |
| 30 | In the absence of express provisions in the contract , s 35 of the SGA makes this difficult for him , since it provides that he is deemed to have accepted goods either when he tells the seller that he has done so , or when he does an act in relation to them which is inconsistent with the ownership of the seller . |