reasonable person

reasonable person

In law, a hypothetical person against which the defendant's actions in a case are judged. The goal is to determine whether or not a "reasonable person" would act as the defendant did. Any reasonable person would have done the same thing my client did in that situation, and you know it!
See also: person, reasonable
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • hanger-on
  • frog in a small pond
  • pond
  • a big fish in a small pond
  • a big frog in a small pond
  • big fish in a small pond
  • big frog in a small pond
  • change off
  • a whole team and the dog under the wagon
  • on (one's) person
References in periodicals archive
"a reasonable person would understand that he or she is free to
IHC Phoenix psychologist Charlene Denousse defined stalking as repeated and unwanted attention, contact or any other behaviour directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel uncomfortable.
He pleaded guilty to the single charge against him behaving in a threatening or abusive way which was likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm.
'Any reasonable person should know that Gov Wike is the last person to be harassed knowing what he has put in just in four years in the delivery of democracy dividend,' he added.
'Let's give a chance to peace,' said Imran, something that any reasonable person would say.
It might be a state of shock for any reasonable person.
While the judge's instruction conflating the reasonable person and reasonable doctor standards might have been unclear, it neither misled the jurors nor denied the doctor, neurosurgeon Reginald Davis, a fair trial, the Court of Appeals unanimously held Friday.
Schultz argues that we should look to a reasonable person's understanding of the scope of jeopardy at the time jeopardy attached in the first prosecution, and disregard all proceedings after that time.
Commenting on the former prime minister's remarks from an interview with Sinar Harian today, the Iskandar Puteri MP mocked the attempted denial as a failure and insisted that no reasonable person would fall for it.
Vulnerable patients attending A&E in North Wales are not receiving that degree of care which a reasonable person should expect, leading to harm and appalling suffering due to unacceptable and repeated 'institutional' failure of BCUHB to provide fundamental standards of care.
Journalist Pande Kolemisevski in Nova Makedonija writes that no reasonable person thinks that what the government (or party) is doing has no legal basis and that the whole affair with the name negotiations with Greece is a personal adventure of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and his closest associates.
The Reasonable Person Standard is the Majority and Likely to
The common law presumes, and Australian civil liability statutes dictate, that the reasonable person test is applied consistently, or equivalently, irrespective of whether the question is posed with respect to plaintiffs (for the purposes of determining contributory negligence) or defendants (for the purposes of determining liability in negligence).
Coleraine Youth Court heard the accused "intentionally and without lawful authority or reasonable cause caused a kiwi and a banana to be on or over a road in such circumstances it was obvious to a reasonable person that to do so was dangerous".
In her ruling, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rita Miller found that Jeff Gottlieb failed to prove he was subject to working conditions "so intolerable or aggravated" that "a reasonable person in the employee's position would be compelled to resign." Gottlieb alleged age discrimination, harassment and intentional infliction of emotional distress in his lawsuit filed last August.