Oxfam also charged several European governments of "wilful neglect" over the crisis.

Oxfam has accused some rich governments of wilful neglect.

The term "wilful neglect" will be replaced with "negligent".

His wife Evelyn, 59, of the same address, denies wilful neglect by allegedly failing to provide the boy with sufficient nourishment.

The allegation was not one of mere non-feasance, but of deliberate failure and wilful neglect.

Crimes of neglect are rarely prosecuted because of the term "wilful neglect", which is difficult to prove.

The Court of Appeal held that a manslaughter verdict would not necessarily follow from a conviction for wilful neglect:

At any rate, the Cullom bill died of wilful neglect, and the kingdom was free from this direct and dangerous menace to its independence."

Wilful neglect of safety provisions became punishable in the case of employers as well as miners by imprisonment with hard labour.

The main exception to this concerns the status of the victim, with separate offences for assaults on police-officers and wilful neglect of children, for example.

His wife Evelyn, 59, denies wilful neglect and their son Ian, 34, accused of helping administer the beatings denies common assault.

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In connection with young maternal ages, one report concluded that wilful neglect and inexperience among teenagers contributed to adverse health conditions among their infants and very young children.

At the time, he still had not been charged with a specific crime, just "fraud upon the United States" and "wilful neglect of duty as a contractor" with the Navy.

'Public attention was directed by the decision in the City Equitable Case to the common article which exempts directors from liability for loss except when it is due to their wilful neglect or default.

The announcement came as Oxfam accused "several" European governments of "wilful neglect" in failing to fund the estimated £650m needed to save more than 11 million Somalis, Kenyans and Ethiopians from starvation.

A manager's persistent failure to pay over money to the artist would constitute such a breach, as would constant failure to make him or herself available to the artist, or the wilful neglect of the artist's career.

I have been in this House since 1984, and rarely have I seen such neglect - such wilful neglect - by the European Union in dealing with a famine of this kind that we knew was on our doorstep.

Article Eight states that all state elected offices, including Supreme Court Justices, are subject to impeachment for wilful neglect of duty, corruption in office, habitual drunkenness, incompetency, or any offense involving moral turpitude committed while in office.

In the event of the Board terminating your appointment other than in circumstances of gross misconduct on your part or wilful neglect by you of your duties then the Board may in its discretion determine to pay you compensation in respect of that termination.

Pakistan's Hamoodur Rahman Commission recommended that the Commander 1 Corps, who "surrendered to the enemy without a fight" should "be tried for criminal and wilful neglect of duty" and poor conduct of operations, that "seriously jeopardized the Army offensive in the south.

This was not always so: in Senior (1899) a man who belonged to a religious sect called the Peculiar People refused to call a doctor to his child, who subsequently died; he was held guilty of manslaughter on the ground that he had committed an unlawful act (wilful neglect of the child) which caused death.

Oxfam, which is assisting new arrivals in Dadaab, says that of the $1bn (£619m) needed to avert a humanitarian disaster only $200m had been pledged, and accused several European governments, including France, Italy and Denmark of "wilful neglect" of a crisis that has been known about for many months.