legal safeguard
Law-based defense measure
A legal safeguard is a law, rule, or procedure designed to protect rights or prevent abuse.
Contracts include safeguards against breach; constitutions establish safeguards for civil liberties.
The new regulations include safeguards to protect consumer data.
The term implies built-in protection rather than after-the-fact remedy.
- courtsJudicial bodies or playing areas
- freedom of speechProtected right to speak
- fair trialImpartial judicial proceeding
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
- habeas corpusWrit challenging lawful custody
bail hearing · right to counsel · warranties · presumption of innocence · equal protection · privacy rights · restraining order · judicial review · checks and balances · human dignity · search warrant · anti-discrimination laws · class action · workplace standards · property rights · whistleblower protections · public defenders · gag order
- detention rightshabeas corpus, pretrial detention, pre-trial detention, remand, detention hearing
legal safeguardlegal liability
Responsibility under the law
legal jeopardy · defenselessness · rights violation · legal abuse · infringement
legal safeguardloophole
Exploitable gap in rules
legal loophole · exploit · technicality · legal workaround · workaround
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