facially
English
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]facially (not comparable)
- Using or involving the face.
- 2012, Janet Shibley Hyde, Nicole Else-Quest, Half the Human Experience[1]:
- "The results showed that women were significantly more facially expressive than men for all emotion clips."
- (law) In a facial manner; on its face; as something appears to an initial impression, prior to a deeper analysis.
- If a judicial authorization is facially valid, the party challenging it will have the burden of proving that it was invalid.
- 2023 July 7, Justice Anne MacTavish, “Haynes v. Canada (Attorney General), 2023 FCA 158”, in CanLII[2], retrieved 27 October 2024:
- [I]t is no answer to a claim of discrimination from a litigant in a wheelchair to say that everyone is expected to climb the stairs in front of a courthouse to have their day in Court, and that the wheelchair-bound litigant was treated no differently than anyone else. Facially neutral legislation can be discriminatory [...]