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WRONG JUDGMENT [3 records]

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Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Labour Disputes
CONT

The standard for establishing that a harassment complaint was made in bad faith is high. It entails more than just poor judgment or negligence. It implies the conscious doing of a wrong for a dishonest purpose or due to moral underhandedness on the part of the complainant. It is characterized by an intention to mislead.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Conflits du travail
CONT

Il existe une norme stricte pour déterminer qu’une allégation est faite de mauvaise foi. Il ne s’agit pas simplement d’un cas où une personne a fait preuve de mauvais jugement ou de négligence. Cela sous-entend la perpétration consciente d’un tort à des fins malhonnêtes ou en raison d’une supercherie morale de la part de la partie plaignante. Elle suppose une intention d’induire en erreur.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Reglamento procesal
  • Conflictos del trabajo
CONT

[...] la Ley Nº18.834 sobre el Estatuto Administrativo. Dicha ley regula el alcance del deber de denuncia de los funcionarios por delitos y hechos irregulares, el procedimiento para hacerlo, las garantías que se otorgan al denunciante y las sanciones al funcionario que utilice de mala fe esos mecanismos.

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Record 2 2012-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Rules of Court
  • Property Law (common law)
OBS

The term "bad faith" is not simply bad judgment or negligence, but rather it implies the conscious doing of a wrong because of dishonest purpose or moral obliquity; it is different from the negative idea of negligence in that it contemplates a state of mind affirmatively operating with furtive design or ill will.(Black's, 6th ed., 1990, p. 139).

OBS

"Mala fide" (= in bad faith) is the adverb or adjective. "Mala fides" = (bad faith) the noun. (Garner, 1987, p. 349)

Key term(s)
  • mala fide

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Règles de procédure
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

mauvaise foi : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2009-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

A certain latitude is allowed when "in the agony of the moment"(a person) seeks to extricate himself from an emergency not created from his own antecedent negligence. The degree of judgment and presence of mind expected of the plaintiff is what would have been reasonable conduct in such a situation, and he will not be adjudged guilty of negligence merely because, as it turns out, he unwittingly took the wrong course.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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