It is a legal locution, which is much more used as a journalist. This ended with several nuances, since it is interpreted as the description of a possible but undesired case, or that can be desired, but it is clarified that "no" by education or to prevent an interlocutor from taking it as a threat or bad omen; or also as something that we can expect to happen, but for some reason outside of us may not happen. See course, denied.
