Sentences with phrase «at constitutional affairs»

And despite disappointments, its defenders can justly claim that cooperation has achieved real results, even if (apart from PR for Europe and London), it is more through long - term cooperation on the ground rather than top - down deals between Paddy and Tony for a joint cabinet committee to look at constitutional affairs.

Not exact matches

«Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion,» said Harper, who was at the time constitutional affairs critic for Reform.

In 1787, at the age of eighty - one, Benjamin Franklin addressed the Constitutional Convention: «I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men.

In normal times the people may be content with representation and constitutional judicial review, while they largely focus on private affairs; while at times of what Bruce Ackerman calls constitutional politics the level of civic action may become extraordinary (Ackerman, 1991).

In July 2004, the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) of the House of Commons and, concurrently, Sir Hayden Phillips, Permanent Secretary at the Department of Constitutional Affairs, both concluded reviews of the system.

The whole affair has raised major concerns about the way political parties are funded, and the constitutional affairs committee is one of a number of bodies looking at the issue.

«I think it would be possible to look at Mr Gove's relationship with Mr Murdoch,» he told the Commons public administration and constitutional affairs committee.

Lake is currently the Plaid Cymru spokesperson at Westminster for the Environment, Food, Rural Affairs, Education, Skills, Health, Communities, Local Government, Culture, Media, Sport and Constitutional Affairs.

91 Per David Lammy MP (Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs): «The protection has been given to the Church in Wales, at its request, but the Church of England has said clearly that it does not want it.»

Cathy Ashton, a minister at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, said the government will not tolerate forced marriage.

«While the Lord Chancellor is regularly wheeled out to defend the prime minister or the flawed Human Rights Act, shouldn't he be concentrating on getting his own house in order at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, so that it delivers access to justice for all?»

When the previous government announced it was appealing against the European Court's original ruling in 2005, the Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, Lord Firkin, said: «It has been the view of successive governments, including this government, that persons who have committed crimes serious enough to warrant a custodial sentence should forfeit the right to have a say in how the country is governed while they are detained.»

Observers have criticized successive governments of lacking the political will to pass the Bill, and these concerns were highlighted by a former Vice Chairperson on Parliament's Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, George Loh, who suggested that Mr. Mensah - Bonsu obstructed the passage of the Bill at the tail end of the Mahama administration.

At a 2 - day workshop in Cambridge in 2011, held at the request of the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO), Grimmett, Pukelsheim, and other experts devised a formula to do just thaAt a 2 - day workshop in Cambridge in 2011, held at the request of the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO), Grimmett, Pukelsheim, and other experts devised a formula to do just thaat the request of the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO), Grimmett, Pukelsheim, and other experts devised a formula to do just that.

John is the founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, former law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, and has served as the director of congressional and public affairs at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights during the Reagan administration.

Several of the independent experts appearing before either the Commons Committee on Justice and Human Rights or the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in the last session (3rd session, 40th Parliament) on criminal law amendments were concerned about the failure to provide additional funding concurrent with proposals that would increase the number of persons incarcerated at any one time.

Earlier this week, I posted on Ontario Provincial Police comments at the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs hearing on Bill C - 13 that were sharply critical of online anonymity.

With the firm since joining from Nsubuga & Company Advocates in 2012, Kalule works on banking, insurance and competition disputes, and has acted as a deputy judge at the Commercial Court of Uganda, while Gantungo, a former state attorney in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and the chambers of the attorney general, handles corporate matters and some disputes in the energy, oil and gas, mining, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and taxation sectors.

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In the course of my Legal Affairs debate last week (available here), I lamented that the Blakely line of cases has a troublesome «binary» quality because some matters of relevance at sentencing are getting labeled «elements» (or the functional equivalent), in which case the full panoply of constitutional procedural rights are deemed fully applicable.

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Greens / EFA MEPs have requested that the Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) extends the invitation «at the earliest opportunity.»

Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Teoh (1995) 183 CLR 273 at 287 per Mason C.J. and Deane J.; also Kartinyeri v Commonwealth (1998) 195 CLR 337 at 384 per Gummow and Hayne J.J. Generally A. Simpson and G. Williams, «International Law and Constitutional Interpretation» (2000) 11 Public Law Review 205 at 208; J. Spigelman, «Access to Justice and Human Rights Treaties» (2000) 22 Sydney Law Review 141 at 149.

In a review of the machinery of referendums, the Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs noted that the 1999 «Yes / No» booklet provided voters with only the minimum information needed to make an informed decision at a referendum.