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Making public comments online is not the same as having a chat at the pub and your comments may well get broadcast to a much wider audience that you initially expected.
Not exact matches
On its
Make IT Better website, the party has brought in ideas and
comments from the
public, to produce an
online document on how to improve government IT services.
In a submission to the House of Lords Constitution Committee's inquiry into the passage of legislation through Parliament, the CIOT proposes: · The Finance Bill
Public Bill Committee takes oral evidence from tax experts and others; · More effective liaison between select committees and the Finance Bill committee; · Increasing the resources available to Parliament for scrutinising tax matters; · Using technology to
make it easier for those outside Parliament to
comment on Bills, e.g. an
online facility to input
comments by clause numbers, so MPs can see who says what against each clause; · Asking the Office of Tax Simplification to publish simplification assessments of new tax proposals.
But even a more innocuous mistake, when
made public, can be embarrassing and cause problems: Imagine leaving a critical
comment about a colleague, or a reviewer, in a document posted
online — and then, as in this case, being unable to remove it.
The plan includes thousands of suggestions from the American
public made via
online comments and Twitter posts.
For petitions and surveys you've signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and
comments as
public information — for example, we may provide compilations of petitions, with your
comments, to the intended recipient of the petition or survey and / or
make them available to the press and
public online.
Bottom line - don't refer to a judge as an «Evil, Unfair Witch»... Or to state it more simply, if a lawyer ought not to
make a specific
comment in a
public speech or debate, he or she ought not to say it
online, either.
Recently, two
online communities have attempted to
make the law more user - friendly by letting lawyers and members of the
public add
comments, explanations, and cross-references.