| NOUN | recklessness | - |
| SYNO | foolhardiness | rashness | recklessness |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- This form of recklessness is also called "objective recklessness".
- Recklessness will sometimes suffice for 'circumstances' of the crime.
- There is credible subjective evidence that the particular accused neither foresaw nor desired the particular outcome, thus potentially excluding both intention and recklessness.
- In 2010, in "Couch v Attorney-General" the New Zealand Supreme Court barred exemplary damages for cases of negligence unless the defendant acts intentionally or with subjective recklessness.
- Somerville's leadership was characterized by a willingness to take risks, bordering on recklessness.
- Wicked recklessness is determined objectively and is "recklessness so gross that it indicates a state of mind which falls to be treated as wicked and depraved as the state of mind of a deliberate killer."
- In the last decade of his life, as Hacker notes, White worked on jurisprudential problems pertaining to action, intention, voluntariness, negligence and recklessness.
- By the latter test mere "foreseeability" or "likelihood" will not suffice (see "Nedrick" and "Woollin") as this encroaches on the notion of recklessness.
- In "S v Beukes", Van Heerden JA acknowledged that no decision has in fact turned on the question of recklessness, and that normally recklessness would only be satisfied where the accused foresaw a consequence as a "reasonable" possibility.
- The "mens rea" element is that of "malice", which means either intention or recklessness.
- Negligence is not sufficient for a claim under 10b-5; plaintiffs or prosecutors must show at least recklessness, purpose, or knowledge.
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