disqualification

(Rejection), noun banishment, deprivation, dethronement, disapprobation, discharge, disentitlement, disfavor, disfranchisement, dislodgment, dismissal, displacement, dispossession, elimination, eviction, exclusion, expulsion, forfeiture, inadmissibility, ineligibility, invalidation, loss of right, noninclusion, ouster, preclusion, rejecting, repudiation, throwing out
Associated concepts: disqualification to hold office, legal dissualification

disqualification

1 the Company Directors'Disqualification Act 1986 contains provisions whereby directors maybe disqualified for fraudulent or wrongful trading or for conduct that makes them unfit to be concerned in the management of companies.

2 road traffic offenders may be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence. See, for example, TOTTING UP.

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4 [Nawaz Sharif] as party head after his disqualification on 28.

Excerpts from judgement

Faisal in his statement referred the criteria of qualification and disqualification of different countries.

Court rules: SC slaps Rs20,000 fine on AGP

Article 62(1)(f), which sets the precondition for a member of parliament to be 'sadiq and ameen' (honest and righteous), had provided the grounds for the disqualification of the former premier from holding public office in the July 28, 2017, judgement on the Panama Papers case handed down by the apex court.

Difficult task to explain Articles 62, 63: CJP

Apex court hears arguments on disqualification period for lawmakers

SC urged to advance fundamental rights, not curb them

Pakistan Justice Democratic Party of former chief justice Supreme Court Iftikhar Chaudhry sent the reference to the Speaker via courier on August 6 for disqualification of the Prime Minister under Article 62 and 63 of the constitution.

Speaker likely to reject all disqualification references

Mark Andrew Ayres, previously known as Mark Eyres and Mark Heaver, acted as a director of Global Eco Projects Ltd (GEP), in breach of a prior director disqualification.

United Kingdom : Mastermind of unscrupulous African stove investment gets 14 year ban

Early this year, the SC voted 13-0 to dismiss the disqualification cases with a ruling that the pardon given to former President Estrada by former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on his plunder conviction in 2007 was "absolute.

High Court affirms dismissal of disqualification bid vs Erap

THE Supreme Court verdict seeking immediate disqualification of lawmakers who have been convicted with a jail term of two years or more in a criminal case is unlikely to change anytime soon.

Future of Bill to protect convicted lawmakers bleak

The Warwick team also recommended that arrangements should be put in place to supervise and monitor all health and safety prosecution files, with a view to identifying cases where it would be appropriate to make application for a disqualification order.

Bosses 'getting away lightly' HEALTH AND SAFETY

Mr Hawes, 'Since the introduction of the Insolvency Act 2000 (on April 1, 2001), the disqualification of company directors by undertaking, rather than by court order, is continuing to grow in popularity, delivering a massive boost to making the disqualification of directors a more straightforward, quicker and cost-effective process.

Number of banned directors takesa tumble

The new regulations do, however, provide relief from disqualification if a timely corrective distribution is made to the participant.

Avoiding 401(k) traps

Though there is no clear determination about Article 62(1)(f), former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had held in the 2013 Abdul Ghafoor Lehri case that under Article 63, there were certain disqualifications which were of temporary nature and a person disqualified under the provision could become qualified after the lapse of a certain period.