Neglect. The phrase is used often in medical malpractice.
Also known as: "the four D's of medical negligence"
Concerning medical negligence, the 'four D's of negligence' is: "Dereliction of a Duty Directly causing Damages."(Dereliction means deliberate or conscious neglect)
Dereliction of duty means failing to do the task you were charged with. Eg. Falling asleep whilst guarding something.
The escaped convict was found by the police in the nearbyderelict house.
The opposite of duty is liberty or freedom.
Dereliction of duty, going awol, shirks responsibility, etc.
"Patent" in this case means obvious or apparent. If you show patent dereliction of duty, you are obviously not doing your job.
They should be sacked ! They are there to do a job - and sleeping is dereliction of duty !
Dereliction of duty, malpractice.
The four D's of negligence - Duty, Dereliction, Direct Cause, and Damages - are interrelated in the context of a negligence claim. Duty refers to the legal responsibility owed by one party to another; Dereliction is the failure to meet that duty; Direct Cause establishes the causal link between the dereliction and the damages suffered; and Damages are the actual harm or losses suffered as a result of the breach of duty. In a negligence case, all four elements must be proven to establish liability and seek compensation.
Dereliction of a Duty Directly causing Damages. The 4 D's are: (1)Duty=responsibility established by physician-patient relationship. (2)Dereliction or Neglect of Duty=physician's failure to act as any ordinary and prudent physician (a peer) would act in a similar circumstance (standard of care). (3)Direct or Proximate Cause= the continuous sequence of events, unbroken by any intervening cause, that produces an injury and without which the injury would not have occurred. (4)Damages=refer to any injuries caused by the defendant (physician).
He's in prison for dereliction of duty. http://gearsofwar.wikia.com/wiki/Marcus
I suppose that would be dereliction of duty and malfeasance in office.