| 词汇 | legal-action |
| 释义 | legal action noun[ U ] uk /ˌliː.ɡəl ˈæk.ʃən/ us /ˌliː.ɡəl ˈæk.ʃən/ the act of using a lawyer or a court to help settle a disagreement, etc. that you have with a person or an organization: 法律行动 He threatened to take legal action against me over a comment I had made about him on my blog. 他威胁说因为我在博客上的评论，他会对我采取法律行动。 Taking legal action abatement order ambulance-chasing appear for someone bring bring an action complainant indict indictment lawyer lawyer up litigant litigate litigation petitioner prosecution prosecutorial reindict reindictment retry summons legal action | Business Englishlegal action noun[ C or U ] ukus(alsolegal proceedings[ plural ]) LAW the process of using lawyers, courts of law, etc. to solve disagreements, or an occasion when this happens: legal action against sbThere will be no legal action against the healthcare trust. threaten (sb with) legal actionEmployers who hire illegal immigrants are being threatened with legal action. take legal action (against sb/sth)Lenders do not generally take legal action until the borrower is three months in arrears. begin/launch/bring legal action (against sb/sth)The European Commission launched legal action against two member states. face legal actionSeveral leading national newspapers now face legal actions for libel. the threat/prospect of legal actionThe threat of legal action is the latest twist in an increasingly bitter dispute between management and unions. have grounds for legal actionLawyers say the company probably has grounds for legal action under the Trades Description Act. costly/further/possible legal actionHe declined to comment on the situation further because of possible legal actions. Examples of legal actionlegal action Before that, tort law only allowed direct victims to initiate legalaction against a polluter. The chief of them is an expectation of epistemic rationality that limits occasions of harm requiring legalaction. These measures were carried out independently of legalaction in some cases, and as a way of affecting the implementation of legal decision in others. They may, however, lead to legalaction being taken by those affected. Yet those affected failed to take any legalaction against the government. Note that this makes the cost of legalaction very low. A study of patients and relatives taking legalaction. If people had observed the intent of the clan regulations, no such additional recommendations as official notices, discouraging legalaction, would have been necessary. Patient expectations, the compulsion to act, and the threat of legalaction motivate clinicians at a professional and at a personal level. They also may lead to legalaction being taken by those affected and may reduce public confidence in screening. Men, women, and couples were equally likely to have been accused of such things and to have responded by raising a legalaction for defamation. What form that legalaction would have taken was not entirely clear, but "wrongful life" appeared the most likely. One aspect of this responsibility is to take a stand in the refusal to employ medically inappropriate interventions, even under the threat of legalaction. Despite donor promptings that those alleged to have behaved corruptly be prosecuted and punished, little legalaction was undertaken. Most difficult of all was the situation in which an attorney was called upon to take legalaction adverse to the wishes of the government. See all examples of legal action These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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