Sentences with phrase «in public inquiry»

As a result, we undertake research, provide advice, review laws, engage in public inquiry processes and work with groups from across the community to pursue reform.
In particular, as regards the impact on related criminal proceedings, the protections afforded to criminal defendants are not available to witnesses in a public inquiry, who may be compelled to give evidence or disclose documents that may breach the privilege against self - incrimination that would be available to them in the criminal proceedings themselves.
Any evidence that is not disclosable in a civil trial would not be compellable in a public inquiry either (s 22 of IA 2005) and there is no privilege against self - incrimination in relation to civil claims.
And, of course, even with his latest loss, Mr. Schreiber has guaranteed that he will be around for at least several more months, since the current Minister announced back in March that he would not be extradited until he has participated in the public inquiry on his business dealings with Brian Mulroney.
In the public inquiry that followed, survivors argued that a slow response from emergency services, the inadequacy of UK fire regulations, and the general negligence of...
In the public inquiry that followed, survivors argued that a slow response from emergency services, the inadequacy of UK fire regulations, and the general negligence of the British government were to blame for the extent of the tragedy.
These activities include speaking, writing, lecturing, appearing before a public inquiry, sitting as a commissioner in a public inquiry, etc..
We need to be supporting the police and the first responders who have been utterly heroic and we need to be supporting the Government in this public inquiry.
Gillian Pain, a Scottish lawyer who is highly experienced in public inquiries, is conducting the Stornoway inquiry, which is busily taking evidence.
David Evans QC has very considerable experience in Public Inquiries and has worked on some of the highest profile Inquiries in recent years.
We are typically entrusted with the management of documents for planning appeals to be heard in public inquiries.
Marlys Edwardh discusses how Justice Peter Cory attempted to balance the public interest with the rights of the accused in public inquiries.
An efficiently managed and transparent process can restore taxpayer confidence in Public Inquiries.
There are protections afforded in US DPAs and in the course of FCA investigations by the third - party rights provisions, and by the «Maxwellisation» process in public inquiries.
[105] I stress that even in public inquiries where the purpose of the proceedings is to educate and inform the public, it is not the role of decision - makers to become active participants in the media.
Nova Scotia proposes legislation to protect witnesses testifying in public inquiries, Canadian Press

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Hawley's inquiry comes amid withering public and political backlash against Facebook for its role in allowing Cambridge Analytica to access information about its users and to possibly influence the 2016 presidential election campaign.
With approval rating in the low teens just five months into her second term, Rousseff's also struggling to win back the public trust amid Brazil's biggest corruption investigation, an inquiry into a massive kickback scheme at state - run oil company Petrobras.
A public inquiry into Litvinenko's death found in 2016 that Russian intelligence officials were responsible for the assassination, and that Putin was «probably» behind it.
THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will next week hold public hearings in Perth and Albany as part of its national inquiry to determine whether there is a need for retail price control arrangements to continue to apply to Telstra after Ju
As part of his inquiry, Paulsen helped create a public event, bringing together a container company manager, architects, art students, city planners and regulatory officials to brainstorm solutions in a design charette that drew wider media coverage.
Credit Karma pulls in a large amount of information from traditional credit reports — account overviews, payment history, credit inquiries and public records — and builds a level of personalization on top of this to guide users and highlight items that require their attention.
Trump is being tried now in the court of public opinion, and he is likely to be tried later by Congress during an impeachment inquiry.
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) today requested in a letter to the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission that the CRTC hold a public inquiry into the sales practices of major telecommunications and broadcasting service providers, given recent media reports into potentially misleading and aggressive sales taPublic Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) today requested in a letter to the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission that the CRTC hold a public inquiry into the sales practices of major telecommunications and broadcasting service providers, given recent media reports into potentially misleading and aggressive sales tapublic inquiry into the sales practices of major telecommunications and broadcasting service providers, given recent media reports into potentially misleading and aggressive sales tactics.
Uber, which under new global chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi is eyeing a public listing in 2019, faced scrutiny from a Senate inquiry into tax avoidance in 2016 about how much of its earnings remained in Australia.
The original decree was made as a settlement to an inquiry at the time into how Facebook — then just a startup but growing wildly fast — «deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public,» and it arose specifically in relation to how third - party apps were able to use and access this data.
Meanwhile, the opposition held up a letter from Alberta Medical Association President Patrick White in Question Period today claiming that even the doctors» union wanted a public inquiry.
Calling for a public health care inquiry in March 2011, folk - hero Independent MLA Raj Sherman stood united with NDP leader Brian Mason, Alberta Party leader Sue Huff, Wildrose leader Danielle Smith and Liberal leader David Swann.
But, as a 2015 investigation by Pro Publica and National Public Radio and subsequent Congressional inquiries have confirmed, the Red Cross has screwed up billions of dollars in major disaster situations of recent vintage.
Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey resigned as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford after the public inquiry into child sex abuse last year heard he delayed a «proper investigation» into Ball's crimes for two decades by failing to pass information to police.
The most recent instance of an overt propaganda campaign has been the CIA's public - relations effort to discredit its critics in the congressional inquiries.
The botched case led to a major public inquiry and eventually a change in the law to allow Dobson to be tried twice for murder.
The Home Secretary has just announced its creation in the House of Commons and says it can be upgraded to a full public inquiry if needed.
Serious inquiry supports civility in public life, inquisition damages it, and whatever reservations some might have about his positions on particular issues, these essays show Michnik to be very much a mainstay of that civility.
In response to the Rhetoric Society of America's inquiry — what are Pope Benedict's reasons for positioning the Catholic Church as an essential link between enterprise and justice, and as a significant voice in the public discussion of globalization — I suggest a «spiritual..In response to the Rhetoric Society of America's inquiry — what are Pope Benedict's reasons for positioning the Catholic Church as an essential link between enterprise and justice, and as a significant voice in the public discussion of globalization — I suggest a «spiritual..in the public discussion of globalization — I suggest a «spiritual....
That a congregation is constituted by publicly enacting a more universally practiced worship that generates a distinctive social form implies study of that public form: What are the social, cultural, and political locations of congregations of Christians and how do those locations shape congregations» social form today (synchronic inquiry); what have been the characteristic social, cultural, and political locations of congregations historically and how have those locations shaped congregations» social forms (diachronic study); in what ways do congregations engage in the public arena as one type of institutionalized center of power among others?
In a confidential document now made public under court order, Medeiros responded to the Vatican inquiry: «The danger in the seminaries, your Eminence, is obvious..In a confidential document now made public under court order, Medeiros responded to the Vatican inquiry: «The danger in the seminaries, your Eminence, is obvious..in the seminaries, your Eminence, is obvious....
Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?
We will devote our attention to these teachings, in private study and inquiry as well as public instruction.
The current inquiry is investigating whether public bodies and other non-state institutions have taken seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse in England and Wales.
There was no climactic change of direction such as Karl Barth's, but he moved in response to intellectual inquiries and public events.
Yes, in the sense that there could now be some basic agreement upon just what criteria, what methods of inquiry, what modes of argumentation, what evidence would count for that public community of inquirers called theologians.
Much as the Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formulation.
«Amnesty has written to the Secretary of State to ask her establish a public inquiry into the state and church response to clerical child abuse in Northern Ireland.
This act is not an instant accomplishment, taking place in the secret chambers of the heart, but, as the inquiry suggests, a lifelong public commitment.
Despite the restriction, the inquiry heard Cotton took five public services between 2001 and 2003, four of which were in one week for Pritchard - who was handed his second jail sentence last month.
The Home Office has announced an inquiry into allegations of historical child abuse in public institutions in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
In the long struggle in the history of ideas, established insti - tutions, both public and private, have attempted to censor inquiry, to impose orthodoxy on beliefs and values, and to excommunicate heretics and extirpate unbelieverIn the long struggle in the history of ideas, established insti - tutions, both public and private, have attempted to censor inquiry, to impose orthodoxy on beliefs and values, and to excommunicate heretics and extirpate unbelieverin the history of ideas, established insti - tutions, both public and private, have attempted to censor inquiry, to impose orthodoxy on beliefs and values, and to excommunicate heretics and extirpate unbelievers.
In 2016, the Productivity Commission undertook an inquiry into the benefits and costs of options for increasing availability of and improving the use of public and private sector data by individuals and organisations.
Public hearings continue today in the Senate's inquiry into the impact of supermarket price decisions on the dairy industry.
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