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.
Public authorities should reject such clauses wherever possible and explain the relevance
of the 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.
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.
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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».