"adverse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He is thundering now: "I felt absurd telling a jury they couldn't draw an adverse inference from his silence!"
- More likely, the police will seek adverse inferences from silence rather than responses to lengthy questioning.
- "If you don't want to talk, fine, then we're entitled to make adverse inferences," he said, referring to the committee.
- The defendant will be under pressure to give evidence about what occurred - not to do so would result in the adverse inference being drawn.
- However adverse inferences can be drawn from this.
- But the Court split 5 to 4 on whether the judge was justified in drawing adverse inferences from her refusal to testify.
- If the adverse inference should not have been made in this case, then the error was harmless.
- In legal terms, a judge or a jury is allowed to draw what is known as an adverse inference from such an assertion.
- As part of his decision the judge drew adverse inferences against the defendant under Articles 4 and 6 of the 1988 Order.
- According to Lawvibe, "the 'adverse inference' can be quite damning at trial.
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