Sentences with phrase «for ipsa»

Officials for Ipsa say the incidents relate back to the early days of the new regime and that it now functions effectively.

«It is an all - consuming way of life that is way beyond the concept of life as a modern professional...» Looks like it's back to school for IPSA.

Not exact matches

«Fundamentally we believe the current system whereby [expenses watchdog] Ipsa pays MPs» rent is deeply flawed, both because it is open to abuse and because it does not represent good value for the taxpayer,» Unlock Democracy's director Peter Facey said.

Following the UK expenses scandal in 2009, a new claims system was introduced by IPSA, which is responsible for setting the yearly allowances as well as individual budget increases.

Every autumn, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority [1](IPSA) publishes a detailed breakdown of the House of Commons MPs» expenses for the year, and news outlets rush to publish their analyses of this data.

Karl McCartney, 42, MP for Lincoln, said the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) was «incompetent» and accused it of trying to bully him into silence.

The total bill for MPs» expenses rose from # 98 million to # 103 million last year, according to figures released by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa.)

Panic bells were clamouring in Downing Street tonight and Conservative Campaign Headquarters was thrown into turmoil at claims that glamour - denuded, «post-political» and IPSA - impoverished backbencher J.Alfred Prufrock is poised to issue a historic challenge today to David Cameron for the Tory leadership.

It means the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) watchdog, set up in the aftermath of the original expenses scandal, faces criticism for failing to stop the overall cost to the taxpayer rising.

In 2015, the Compliance Officer for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) made a judgement that Blackman had submitted 732 inaccurate mileage claims.

And the Ipsa chairman has said the new system should be ready to be put in place «early next spring», ie in time for the new parliament.

[26] According to IPSA he claimed up to 10 miles for a 2 - mile journey, making him the highest mileage MP, claiming almost twice the mileage as the 10 next highest MPs.

The report will now go to Ipsa for consideration without MPs themselves being able to vote on the matter.

It will create a new watchdog, the commissioner for parliamentary investigations, which will have the power to conduct probes and report to the IPSA.

I was not convinced that a member of the public had taken the time to search the Ipsa website for my expenses and then authored an inaccurate attack which matched the attack by the newspaper journalist.

Annual reporting is a proposal made by IPSA in favour of MPs individually accounting for what they have achieved and worked on each year, as the general public doesn't «have a clue» what MPs do, and simultaneously there is just «manufactured froth» in the press about MPs» pay.

Johnson said: «It is perfectly true that I had thought «res ipsa loquitur» [the matter speaks for itself], just get on and do the job, but I was conscious that people wanted me to contribute to the public debate.

Will Ed Balls, David Cameron and every other politician who has been hectoring Ipsa now apologise for trying to politicise the independent review?

This attitude won't sit well with most, but I'd bet my # 20 gift voucher from IPSA that each and every parliamentary staffer would sign an e-petition for it, were I bored enough to create one.

She claims IPSA, parliamentary expenses watchdog, targetted her to justify the money they received for their work.

Stretching back to the Neil Hamilton cash for questions saga, the committee on standards in public life was established in 1994 and then in the wake of the expenses scandal, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) was painfully born.

Ironically, that day I noticed that the IPSA had failed to process a claim I had put in for a # 6.99 USB cable... Lost in the post Quite often, we get mail for an MP whose surname bears a striking resemblance to mine.

The watchdog has advertised for an # 80,000 - a-year replacement, the BBC reported, seeking a person who would help keep Ipsa «cost - effective».

Responsibility for setting MPs» pay was handed to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) in an effort to defuse controversy.

Ipsa report says # 925,000 was paid between 125 people before general election, but each had a job for a different MP within 10 weeks

The IPSA proposals published during the summer seemed to be keen to let MPs who are over 55 to stay in the current scheme with the new one being operative for the others (a transitional period is suggested for MPs between 51 and 55 IIRC).

GTEx samples were processed through the Integrative Pipeline for Splicing Analyses (IPSA) pipeline with default settings52.

With no formal strategy in place for English schools, Stuart Naisbett of IPSA discusses the difficulties security poses and how best to initiate security policy.

Counsel for the appellant agreed that he could not rely on res ipsa loquitur on the facts of this case and he limited himself to the two submissions to which we have referred.

Earlier this week, The Volokh Conspiracy observed here that it is quite «common for legal blogs to use some legal phrase as their title, such as Concurring Opinions, Res Ipsa Loquitur,» and posed an amusing question to its readers:

As any 1L can tell you, «res ipsa loquitur» means the thing speaks for itself.

This week, however, Res Ipsa Blog speaks not just for itself, but for the universe of other legal bloggers, as it hosts Blawg Review # 186.

Search for res ipsa loquitur and there will be a set of results that define and link to further information.

The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur means «the thing speaks for itself.»

Under Connecticut law, there are two requirements for the application of res ipsa loquitur.

Res ipsa loquitor implies that the plaintiff need only show that a particular result occurred, and it would not have happened but for the defendant's negligence.

He regularly wrote columns for the law student newspaper, Res Ipsa Loquitur, where he was also a copy editor.

The obvious practical implication of this for practitioners is that in every case involving an aircraft crash, the claimant would be best advised to raise res ipsa at the outset and leave all the running to the defendant.

And the odd «balductum,» hailing from 1593, is Latin for pressed milk: res, as they say, ipsa loquitur.