Sentences with phrase «of public interest test»

The Supreme Court of Canada was asked to clarify which test was the controlling one with the court unanimously approving of the public interest test.

Public authorities should reject such clauses wherever possible and explain the relevance of the public interest test.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

That said, there are a couple of public interest tests that the TUC could define objectively that would eradicate some of the problems I have outlined.

Not exact matches

He reportedly qualified this expression of interest in the technology by cautioning parties that are developing blockchain solutions to thoroughly test their products, services, and platforms before releasing them to the public, and by denigrating the trend of cryptocurrency speculation.

«In the best interest of the people of my state, I have directed the Arizona Department of Transportation to suspend Uber's ability to test and operate autonomous vehicles on Arizona's public roadways,» Ducey wrote in his letter.

This book explores the political economy of transition cost mitigation strategies in a wide variety of policy contexts including public pensions, U.S. home mortgage interest deductions, immigration, trade liberalization, agricultural supply management, and climate change, providing tested examples and realistic strategies for genuine policy reform.

The tribunal has also asked for more information from a range of government departments and milk processors to test Murray Goulburn's argument that its proposed merger with WCB would be in the public interest.

The Ministerial veto, however, only applies to «public interest» notices - it does not apply in cases where the Information Commissioner has ordered disclosure on the grounds of misapplication of the exemptions or the prejudice test.

He told MPs on the Business Select Committee: «The framework which we have under the act, as you know, confines the public interest test quite narrowly and, of course, all of that takes place within the framework of European merger law.»

«One of our options as the Government would be to consider using our public interest test powers,» Dr Cable said.

I then considered the second stage of the test, applying the DPP's interim guidelines on assessing the public interest in cases involving the media, and I have concluded that a prosecution is required in the public interest in relation to each of these eight suspects.

Sunder, The problem with the TUC's public interest test is that, unless it is composed of a set of objective tests, it would be unworkable.

Oldham East and Saddleworth is a three way marginal, between Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives, which makes for an even more interesting test of where the parties stand with the public.

«In New York's Watergate moment, the governor fittingly proposes a post - Watergate reform that has stood the test of time in Congress,» said the New York Public Interest Research Group of the income limit.

«To remind you once again: you said that the test of the future system of press regulation is not whether it suits the politicians or their friends in the press, but rather the public interest — including the need of members of society to be free from illegal and unethical press practices,» the letter states.

«He should have a proper test of the public interest and if the deal doesn't pass he should block it.»

The Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps has said tests are in place to make sure that any takeover of AstraZeneca by Pfizer is in the public interest.

Do you think that, in the interest of fairness, investigative bodies should be allowed to conduct integrity tests in order to undercover wrongdoing by public officials?

Although academics don't warrant a «class privilege,» she said, academic - participant confidentiality can be awarded on a case - by - case basis, provided it meets the criteria of an existing four - step legal principle, known as the Wigmore test, which balances public interest in maintaining confidentiality against the court's interest in getting at the truth.

Engel declined to say how many pre-orders the company has received in China for the i3 since the model was unveiled at the Beijing auto show last month, but said more than 28,000 people have requested a test drive in a sign of public interest.

A bill requiring all National Science Foundation grants to pass a «national interest» test could hamper the sort of curiosity - driven research that «at first might have seemed esoteric and hardly in the public interest, but ultimately advanced human quality of life,» AAAS CEO Rush Holt writes in a...

And this public health perspective spurred renewed interest in studies that test to what degree the presence of guns increases the likelihood of death to their owners.

U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter of Philadelphia said March 16 that granting such a stay would not «further the public interest» because the NCAA's minimum college - admissions - test scores were found to discriminate against African - American student athletes.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

While policymakers and pundits hotly debate the merits of vouchers, national tests, and limiting class sizes, the American public is more interested in the qualifications of the people who work most closely with students, a survey shows.

One of the more interesting questions the CCSR asked was, Did high - stakes accountability cause the teachers, parents, and students of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to change their behavior in ways that would lead to higher achievement, or does the evidence suggest that the CPS's initiatives resulted in simply more focus on testing?

«Our collective goal should be to develop effective public policy that will stand the test of time, not pass flawed legislation for the interest of what would be a short - term political win,» he wrote.

Comment from Morna McDermott: How can we escape the trap that high stakes testing both serves corporate interest like Pearson at the expense of children's real learning while acknowledging that tests are being used to shut down public community schools for corporate model charter schools that have proven to be no better than the schools they replaced?

When our state education officials impose an educational program that does nothing to develop our children's intellectual abilities, intentionally mislead parents about what the law on testing permits, then waste scarce taxpayer dollars, not on educational services, but rather on a media blitz to further snow the public, we know that they do not have the best educational interests of our children in mind.

So long as education policy continues to be shaped by the interests of corporate profiteering and not the interests of our public school children, we will resist these unjust testing laws.

Union members mingled with the occasional communist pamphleteer, and, on a temporary stage, a series of activists, students, scholars, and teachers put forward variations on a theme: Standardized tests and corporate interests are ruining public education.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

One test result that should be of special interest to African Americans is that more black Brooke students topped the math test than the total number achieving that result in grades 3 through 8 in all Boston Public Schools.

Some see the refusal to participate in SBAC testing as an act of courage and conviction; they see it as willful push - back against flawed education reform policies that since the passage of NCLB have failed to improve education in America's public schools and yet continue to be promoted by special interests who seek to profit at student, parent, and taxpayer expense.

Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted by politicians and corporate education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to privatize education and undermine the public trust.

As more and more sources claim that «teaching candidates had not been adequately prepared for» state - mandated tests, the growing sense of dissatisfaction with traditional teacher certification programs grows, thus resulting in a diminished interest in teaching from the general public (Harris).

In her role as the Department's decision - maker, she issued the first Public Interest Exclusion against a noncompliant service agent issued in the history of the DOT's drug and alcohol testing regulations.

I was shocked to read about the recent news, but we need to ban them from all forms of testing if the public has a genuine interest to stop it happening in the future!

BLIND TEST In one of the unexpected segues that makes life so interesting, and GAMEHOTEL so unique, the REPLAY segment was followed by the first public performance of the infamous Tanguy Ukulele Orchestra.

In regards the public interest test that we have to address, once again, I would think that whilst there is a good argument for protecting the ability of academics to communicate freely and openly, the underlying data that may comprise part of that communication might well fall into another category.

We would have to demonstrate an adverse effect on the interests of the party providing the information / data, and then pass the public interest test, overcoming the presumption of public interest in disclosure.

She had the space to do so, but instead hypothesized that science (and presumably climate science) bases its approach to statistical testing in the long shadow of its ancient historical ties to religion, which is something she may well be able to offer an opinion about, as an historian, but which has minimal relevance to policy makers or the interested public in interpreting scientific claims as found, say, in the IPCC reports.

Interesting article too, but I am a bit sceptical to broadly applicable economic tests such as the MEIP, especially in a field such as State aid where the State often pursues other objectives (equity, solidarity, public access to common goods, etc) which are not prohibited under the Treaty but subject to the appraisal of the Commission.

In respect of (2), the Court of Appeal reiterated the test to establish the defence of fair comment, being: (a) the comment must be on a matter of public interest; (b) the comment must be based on fact; (c) the comment, though it can include inferences of fact, must be recognisable as comment; (d) whether the person honestly express that opinion on the proved facts; and (e) whether the defendant was actuated by express malice.

Nonetheless, it held that the Immigration Rules are compatible with ECHR, art 8 in this respect, as this provision requires there to be a fair balance struck between competing public and individual interests involved, applying a proportionality test, and the policies adopted by the Secretary of State are within the margin of appreciation.

In so doing, the welfare of the child concerned seems to have been connoted entirely with justice («the interests of that little girl... in having an allegation properly investigated and tested» (para [1]-RRB--RRB- rather than in the abstract: the public interest in ensuring that those with information about abuse of children come forward (per D v National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children [1978] AC 171).

Nonetheless part of that review does involve identifying an objective public interest «recognised by Union law», identifying such an interest would not only appear to be an essential part of the test outlined in the Charter but would have been welcome in articulating the approach adopted by Union law towards the interaction of criminal activity and the exercise of the rights of Union citizenship, including the newly found political rights.

As noted by the Ontario Court of Appeal in M.E.H. v. Williams (2012 ONCA 35), purely personal interests can not justify non-publication or sealing orders: ``... the personal concerns of a litigant, including concerns about the very real emotional distress and embarrassment that can be occasioned to litigants when justice is done in public, will not, standing alone, satisfy the necessity branch of the test».