Sentences with phrase «by biased parties»

It is an independent review and while some poor appraisers (of which there are many) may use them to speed up their work, they are obviously paid for each appraisal, it is very foolish of them to use any information provided by biased parties.

and only idle speculation by biased parties about harm.

Not exact matches

Employers are also attacking bias by making people disappear — hiding applicants» identities with résumé screens, or using anonymized third - party assessment platforms to eliminate the chance that interviewers will show unintentional favoritism while, say, reviewing an applicant's sample code.

During the voir dire process the potential jurors come in and they're asked a series of questions by the parties and by the judge to determine whether each potential juror can be completely unbiased and impartial and objective, to make sure they're not biased towards one party or the other.

You should only trust «poll's when done by an objective, non bias 3rd party with no previous agenda.

The major news bulletin «Midday Chronicle» on Hungarian Radio, produced by this same news agency, also displayed a marked pro-government bias: 74 percent of news items covered either the government or Fidesz and the Christian Democrats, further marginalising the voice of the opposition parties.

But owners of the two media houses blacklisted by the NPP have denied accusations of bias against the opposition Party.

Our children are going to have to pay higher taxes for years as a result of irresponsible spending by the last government - and in case you think I'm biased - I was a card carrying Labour party member until I found out how much we are in debt due to overspending on such things as CTF.

This party bias in the voting system should be balanced by allowing voters the choice of a short vote - «Independent» - a vote for a raft of «official» (quality assured) independent candidates sponsored by an independent peers appointments commission.

It is clear that the maps drawn by both the pols and the judge reflect a strong bias towards getting rid of conservative Republicans and protecting liberal Democrats, especially downstate reps, many of whom are in the Socialist Caucus of the House or the Democrat Party leadership.

What amazes some learned Lawyers is the emergence of questionable letters of appointments with no date during the trial, the admission of bias and breach of natural justice by Chairman of the party's Disciplinary committee Most Reverend Asante - Antwi and the admission of same in yesterday's ruling by the learned justice among others lends credence to the fact that, Justice Anthony Yeboah feared to uphold Justice.

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

«INEC has also shown bias towards political parties by recognising the so - called Inter-party Advisory Council (IPAC) and not the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties parties by recognising the so - called Inter-party Advisory Council (IPAC) and not the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties Parties (CNPP).

However, the bias is reduced by the 19 compensation seats, which are given to parties that are underrepresented.

The Minority's Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, is unconvinced by the apology from Ghana's High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, for publicly declaring a bias towards New Patriotic Party (NPP) members in his dealings.

Its online poll randomised the order in which the top four parties appeared, reducing a suspected bias in favour of the largest parties caused by them appearing at the top of the list.

The officials at the Labour Party Conference, pursuing again as usual the hard - right bias instilled by the culture still remaining from the tenure of a previous General Secretary, Margaret McDonagh, stitched up the economic debate today.

As long as you «label» people, and worse, categorise them with lame 20th Century, dubiuos, eponymous epithets, we will not truly rise as a Party - inclusive, dignified, judgemental only on merit with compassion for those who falter, nonetheless encouraging but challenging, a traditional values bias with an enforceable law and above all, opportunity for every man, woman and child backed by an efficient but inclusive state - especially for the sick, infirm and old - and your like will see us falter as a nation, only to facilitate prejudice, inequality (and worse, masqueraded as EQUALITY..)

This, he said, is as a result of concerns by some party supporters that the leadership of the NDC is biased towards certain candidates who are believed to be the party's favourite.

The chairman said the primary would be conducted by the leadership of the party at the national level without bias.

The entire premise is that it eliminates bias by having independent, uninvested third parties look over the data and / or replicate the experiment to determine it's level of credibility.

I am not suggesting bias, but in a perfect world, studies would be funded by disinterested parties, not by parties with a financial interest in decisions.

Often the identify of the founders of these front groups are hidden because if the public understood who the real party in interest was behind claims made by the front group they would be suspicious that the claims are biased.

I wrote back in January about DTE's analysis and the multitude of errors, inconsistencies, and biases that were discovered by parties (including UCS) that intervened before the MPSC to review DTE's proposal.

Repeated interventions by the trial judge, particularly if done in a sarcastic or denigrating manner, can lead a reasonable party to perceive that judge to be biased against him.

For example, a United States court held that the mere fact that the tribunal President and the counsel of one of the parties both served on the same board of directors and were members of the same organization was insufficient to justify a refusal, where the party bringing the challenge had provided no evidence that they had otherwise communicated with each other.889 A Hong Kong court has equally affirmed this high burden of proof, finding that the party opposing enforcement had failed to prove its allegation that the tribunal's deliberations had been affected by the alleged bias of one member.890

We talked about these problems, and also about one of the proposed solutions: virtual trials, which could eliminate the effect of bias by presenting a jury with neutral avatars in place of the judge, parties, and lawyers.

There are no rules about in - house research, and Larsen is troubled by the risks: «the possibility of mistake, unfairness to the parties, and judicial enshrinement of biased data which can now be quickly posted to the world by anyone without cost.»

In relation to apparent bias, the Judge found that «a relevant third party might consider that there was a real possibility that the [solicitor's] Report itself could be affected by bias.»

The decision in 1250 was driven by its own unique facts: an acrimonious certification process resulting in a court - imposed Plan that limited communication, an aggressive telephone and internet campaign by a third party group, and the dissemination of misleading and biased information.

Of course, where the outcome is not favourable to the party, the same expression of humour could have a significantly different meaning, as it could suggest the decision may have been affected by bias against the party.

Failure to raise an allegation of bias at the first opportunity will be regarded as a waiver of bias by the party that fails to raise it.

Israel's response the the U.N. inquiry was that it was biased, which is the same charge leveled against the Turkel Commission by other parties and some international observers.

The U-turn was sold to the party membership at the ard fheis by the Sinn Fein leadership, on the basis that the police force in particular had undergone a complete transformation at its behest: an allegedly biased police force, perceived as being drawn mainly from one section of the divided society in Northern Ireland — the Protestant / unionist majority tradition — would now be more representative and include a higher proportion of members of the minority community — the Catholic / nationalist / republican tradition — and be regarded by that community as more inclusive, fairer and unbiased, to command loyalty and support.

A more accurate model is: politics is a system that 1) selects against skills needed for rigorous thinking and for qualities such as groupthink and confirmation bias, 2) incentivises a badly selected set of people to consider their career not the public interest, 3) drops them into dysfunctional institutions with no relevant training and poor tools, 4) centralises vast amounts of power in the hands of these people and institutions in ways we know are bound to cause huge errors, and 5) provides very weak (and often damaging) feedback so facing reality is rare, learning is practically impossible, and system reform is seen as a hostile act by political parties and civil services worldwide.

Some believe that caucusing with one party can cause bias (or the perception of bias by the other party) in a situation when it is vital that the mediator is neutral.

A marriage counselor who is bias or deemed to be bias by one party will never be in a position to effectively help the couple.

If binding, parties are usually bound by the decision until you can prove the arbitrator was really biased, made a gross error of law or exceeded the arbitrator's authority.

Depending on the vagaries of the practice from time to time in this or that jurisdiction, parenting coordinators effectively have license to wield heavy authority and extremely biased power, opining back to and influencing judges, bringing issues into the public domain that do not belong there and which were not brought into the case by either party, siding with one party unfairly (even developing personal relationships with one of the parties), and recommending or just ordering the parents to hire the parenting coordinator's own cronies for therapies and guardianships and evaluations.