Sentences with phrase «extent of public interest»

Its purpose: to ascertain the extent of public interest in an issue while it is being reviewed by a securities commission.

10 - Health chief steps down with blistering broadside against Lansley This short article concerning the retirement of Sir Roger Boyle was a minor event in the ongoing row over NHS reform, but its presence in the list shows the extent of public interest in the coalition's health care project.

Not exact matches

Today marks the opening of the inquiry's examination of the potentially «cosy relationship» between the police and the press - «and the extent to which that has operated in the public interest».

«One of the reasons I think the public is so unhappy with Albany is to some extent a reflection of policies that have emerged that are also not in the public's interest,» said Horner.

Among the CSFR / OSFR early professional ethics initiatives, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asked the committee to review proposed regulations regarding issues of technical dissent with the agency, OSFR staff surveyed 241 professional societies asking them about the extent of their organization's professional ethics issues and efforts, and the CSFR, the President's Commission on Ethical Problems in Medicine and Research and the group Medicine in the Public Interest cosponsored a workshop on whistle blowing on fraud in biomedical research.

The question concerning whether and to what extent public perception deviates from scientific estimations of health risks is of particular interest for the work of the BfR, as the Institute can then counteract false estimations or misunderstandings with communicative measures.

To the extent that it is a public ruling, if you rely on this Ruling in good faith, you will not have to pay any underpaid tax, penalties or interest in respect of matters covered by the Ruling if it does not correctly state how a relevant provision applies to you.

The list of «Projects of Common Interest» (PCI) eligible for EU public subsidies shows the extent of Europe's addiction to fossil fuels.

The extent of the scrutiny of appointments to public roles is to ask candidates if there is a conflict of interest.

He continued: «Our Director also set out the criteria he would take into account when deciding which cases we should accept for investigation: the impact of the case on UK financial plc in general and the City of London in particular; the scale of losses, actual or potential; the extent of the gain, actual or potential; whether we were dealing with a new kind of fraud or whether there was some other public interest reason for taking the case on.

Section 12 (4) provides that the court must have particular regard to the importance of the Convention right to freedom of expression and where the proceedings relate to journalistic, literary or artistic material or to conduct connected with such material, the court has to have regard to the extent to which the material has, or is about to become available to the public, if it is or would be in the public interest for the material to be published, and any relevant privacy code.

In all other cases (and even to some extent the case of the cost of litigation), the benchers have been laudable in perpetually putting the public interest first and foremost.

An interesting ruling in the Administrative Court this week touches on some issues fundamental to public law — the extent to which «macro» policy (such as EC law) should trump principles of good administration; the role of factual evidence in judicial review proceedings, and the connection between public law wrongs and liability in tort.

Thus, supply of drinking water is a consideration relating to human health is an imperative reason of overriding public interest, but, on the other hand, irrigation is only so to the extent that it may have beneficial consequences of primary importance for the environment.

To which extent do you think the analysis of the ECJ in Case C - 43 / 10 Nomarchiaki on irrigation (environment) and supply of drinking water (human health) as imperative reasons of overriding public interest is transposalbe as a rule - of - reason - justification to the free movement provisions?

The goal of Richmond family law lawyer James H. Wilson, Jr., is to help you make informed decisions, serve your best interests in resolving your family law issues, and represent you to the fullest extent of the laws and ethics, while avoiding the unnecessary public exposure of private issues.

[18] Forcing the Board to consider the extent to which it must balance the interests of specific individuals while attempting to regulate in the overall public interest would be unworkable in fact and bad policy in law.

To determine if a safety search is reasonably necessary, and therefore justifiable, the court must weigh a number of factors to balance the police duty against the liberty interest in question, including: the importance of the performance of the duty to the public good; the necessity of the interference with individual liberty for the performance of the duty; the extent of the interference with individual liberty.

In light of the extent of foreign ownership and control, combined with outsourcing and offshoring, the question should be asked whether the current approach of the National Library and Archives in granting exemptions to databases of legal information is in the public interest.

The Court concluded that public interest in confidentiality was based on the extent that the questions would reveal the identity of LeBlanc's confidential source.

In short, the public interest mandate under the Teaching Profession Act was limited to regulating the conduct (or likely conduct) of teachers, it did not extent to remedying the perceived wrongs inflicted by TWU's code of conduct.

Moreover, addressing that question skips the principal question, what is the extent of the BCLS's public interest mandate.

They also added a «Principles» clause to the Ontario Drug Benefit Act, [5] which stated that the public drug system «aims to operate transparently to the extent possible for all persons with an interest in the system, including... consumers, manufacturers, wholesalers and pharmacies» and «aims to consistently achieve value - for - money and ensure the best use of resources at every level of the system».

In this connection, it has been noted above that group care challenges some typical American ideological notions, but success is also an American value; to the extent that we can demonstrate effective work, the pragmatism that seems to be part of our national character can prevail to rekindle public interest and support.

Instead, section 25 (3) lists the criteria for compensation: «The amount of the compensation... must be just and equitable, reflecting an equitable balance between the public interest and the interest of those affected, having regard to all relevant circumstances, including --(a) the current use of the property; (b) the history of acquisition and use of the property; (c) the market value of the property; (d) the extent of direct state investment and subsidy in the acquisition and beneficial capital improvement of the property; and (e) the purpose of the expropriation.»