infraction insuffisamment caractérisée - What is the English translation? English translators help legal English translators with the translation of infraction insuffisamment caractérisée

Conges terminology question

166 months ago

Kate (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Law / Certificates
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	infraction insuffisamment caractérisée
Context:	l'affaire a été classée sans suite pour infraction insuffisamment caractérisée.
Keywords:	Le [date] les services du Parquet du Tribunal de Grande Instance de [ville] informaient [compagnie] que la plainte déposée par [compagnie] était classée sans suite, l'infraction étant insuffisamment caractérisée. - is this something like "insufficiently grounded"? also not sure if "infraction" is "offense", or...? They're talking about a civil case, not a criminal case, though. I think I need a better way to word this. thx in advance

The answer of MACVieira was rated best

insufficiently demonstrated

My comment:

The Tribunal informed Company A that "la plainte déposée par Company B était classé sans suite", which did not constituted an infraction to the regulations/law. In other words, the conduct/facts perpetrated by the company B did not fit the description set out in the allegedly infringed regulations. "Caracterisée" here means to fit a description of a conduct or situation set out in the law.
Infraction comes from infringing the law, it does mean to offend the law, but the word "offense" is more suited to criminal law, as you well pointed out (so you understood it correctly).

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An LL.M. and 10 years of common law practice.