Sentences with phrase «on conflict of interest issues»

He was the first non-American to chair ABA TechShow and has advised both the International Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association on conflict of interest issues.

There is a suit before the High Court requesting for certain details of the transaction; a Petition before CHRAJ on conflict of interest issues; a suit before the Supreme Court requesting clarification on whether the Attorney - General can defend the Minister for Finance in a conflict of interest matter; a Petition before the United States Security & Exchange Commission; and a Whistleblower Complaint lodged with the Regulator in Luxemburg (Commission de Surveillance de Secteur Financier).

Not exact matches

«I see the memo as the CFTC cautioning its employees on the ethical issues that could be raised by their trading in cryptocurrencies, encouraging them to consider and seek advice from the CFTC ethics team before trading in cryptocurrencies, noting that employees may not transact in cryptocurrencies if they have nonpublic information about them from their work at the CFTC, and advising that those who participate in CFTC dealings related to cryptocurrencies may not trade in them for conflict of interest reasons.»

Duggan, at the same news conference, took issue with Rhodes» concern that it is a possible conflict of interest for the mayor and a member of the city council to have a seat on a nine - member, state - created oversight board for a post-bankruptcy Detroit.

On Tuesday the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent letters to 13 cryptocurrency exchanges requesting information on «their operations, use of bots, conflicts of interest, outages, and other key issues.&raquOn Tuesday the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent letters to 13 cryptocurrency exchanges requesting information on «their operations, use of bots, conflicts of interest, outages, and other key issues.&raquon «their operations, use of bots, conflicts of interest, outages, and other key issues.»

The Sandhu clause — changing the Conflicts of Interest Act to ensure that no member uses their position to lobby on an issue that directly impacts their financial interests

The certified statement would avoid the conflict of interest issues that mortgage brokers and banks currently face, and would have them competing more keenly on the cost of a loan.

Whatever agencies oversee non-profits, or other kinds of corporations and companies, and can respond to complaints when non-profits especially are allegedly not functioning within the public interest, or there are other issues with governance, conflicts of interest, inurement (use of a tax - exempt non-profit for the private benefit or excessive benefit of someone with insider relationships), misuse of funds that were solicited to be spent on a specific designation project, etc..

The work stream established by NHD on conflicts of interest focuses on the potential issues that may arise for the implementation of the CIP, particularly when engagement with non-State actors is called for.

«New Yorkers are barely hanging on after years of economic turmoil,» Mermel said, «We need a new team to tackle economic issues head on without conflicts of interest or ethical baggage that would hinder or prevent real reform.»

Any members participating in the Board's consideration of a matter involving self - serving or conflicting interest shall state the nature of the conflict in speaking to the issue, recuse from voting on such matters and such recusal shall be so recorded.

(i) The Committee on Ethics may, in its discretion, issue public or private advisory opinions with respect to questions of ethical conduct, conflicts of interest and other matters arising under this Article.

The commission was very clear on the issue with regards to the Finance Minister as been a former shareholder, beneficiary of several companies in the securities market and more importantly a former director to some of these companies and his interest to see these institutions attain a certain growth within that sector has the Potential to Conflict with the interest of the State.This revelations by the commission is very serious with its potential risk alerted is enormous to affect the securities sector of the country.

What voters care about are the real issues Breslin keeps dodging: his stance on Tier VI, his close ties to the Republican - backed insurance industry, and the conflicts of interest between his government office and his law firm's business clients.»

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori - Atta, will be dragging the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to court, over its handling of the conflict of interest petition in relation to the $ 2.25 billion bond issue.

I pushed Donovan on this issue last night, and he noted that the DAs association reprimanded Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice for endorsing Schneiderman, her erstwhile Democratic AG primary opponent, saying it's a potential conflict of interest.

She issued a statement on Thursday calling on Romeo to resign her party chair post, saying that it's a conflict of interest to be both chair and a candidate.

The Conflicts of Interest Board also issued a general advisory in 2012 after receiving numerous questions from elected officials on how they and their subordinates may engage in political activity.

Wayne Hawley of the Conflicts of Interest Board said the board has not issued a public opinion on the Palma case.

A study published in the January issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings shows that most clinical practice guidelines for interventional procedures (e.g., bronchoscopy, angioplasty) are based on lower - quality medical evidence and fail to disclose authors» conflicts of interest.

In the past decade, ethical questions in science have made headlines on issues such as the patenting of human genes, financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research and risk assessments related to environmental exposure to chemicals.

The agency is expected to issue a notice soon seeking comments on ways to strengthen conflicts - of - interest regulations that apply to NIH grantees.

NIH asked for input on how to handle this situation in a revision of its conflict of interest rules, but in final rules issued last summer it did not specifically address it.

Bolden may also face tough questions on conflict - of - interest issues, given the time he has spent as a consultant.

A review of a controversial University of Texas report on the gas drilling technique known as fracking found inadequate oversight of conflict of interest issues.

Here's a roundup of recent criticism and commentary on Climategate and the IPCC, organized by five issues: 1) «glaciergate,» 2) African crops, 3) disaster losses, 4) whether panel head Rajendra Pachauri has too many conflicts of interest to run the IPCC, and 5) the future of the panel.

An investigation into such activities was conducted in 2015 with a focus on financial conflicts of interest, but it is remarkable that ethical issues and the possible damage to KI's reputation were overlooked.

The study authors say that their findings raise the important issue of whether, and how, a doctor's conflict of interest should be disclosed on social media like Twitter.

She said that while there might not be an actual conflict of interest, «perception becomes reality and you don't want those types of issues early on as you get this school off the ground.»

Should it not be a rule that people writing on policy issues should disclose all potential conflicts - of - interest?

The conflict - of - interest issues related to the central - office employees don't apply to principals because they wouldn't be involved in the district's recommendation on whether to award a charter.

One of his most important commissioners had stepped up and set a new standard for transparency and ethics and that eliminating even the appearance of a conflict of interest required him to recuse himself on any issue related to an environmental group whose board he has served on.

The green light came despite the Education and Skills Funding Agency issuing the trust with a financial notice to improve in February 2015, on the grounds family members had been employed improperly and conflicts of interest weren't declared.

Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is deeply concerned about the troubling conflict - of - interest issues created by these ventures, particularly the potentially misleading way they are marketed to aspiring writers on the Harlequin website.

In her response Appelt was cryptic, at best, saying that as committee deliberations are private, «I or any other judge might well have excused ourselves from voting on any particular book, if conflict of interest were an issue.»

If this trend continues where agents become publishers, I see much harder issues ahead on contract terms, sub-rights negotiations, fiduciary obligations, and better conflict of interest policies where ebooks are concerned — and AAR must weigh in with specifics since it's obviously not clear.

Upon adoption of a regulation, the administrator, if conflicting views are submitted on the proposed regulation and if requested in writing to do so by an interested person prior to adoption, shall issue a concise statement of the principal reasons for and against its adoption, incorporating therein its reasons for overruling any considerations urged against its adoption.

The conflict here may be mostly the result of some very wealthy business interests who have a hidden agenda on this issue, and they are known to be spending a lot of money to confuse this issue in any way they can, often by involving a small number of otherwise fine scientists and others to spread doubt on their behalf.

The researchers declared no conflict of interest on their report and would like to stay away from political issues.

By the way, the purported Attorney General of the US Virgin Islands issued his infamous subpoena through a private law firm, which is hired on a contingency basis, is being paid by USVI in another matter, and has a conflict of interest.

Now it's not only conservative blogs and talk radio that are questioning huge conflict - of - interest issues involved in Gore's business and political dealings; the British dailies have now picked up on the matter.

I don't really see any meta issues on this one (O'Donnell got a tough review, AMS journals are known for that, the editor was somewhat lax in making the authors jump through hoops based on comments by a reviewer with a conflict of interest, but the paper got published).

«Perhaps the extent of the revolving door phenomenon across Europe is one of the reasons why the European Union and its Member States have been siding with other large polluting economies such as the USA and Canada in their attempts to block discussions on conflicts of interest, despite the fact that governments from across the globe have raised this as an issue at the UN level,» the report's introduction said.

But other groups advocate for nuclear and they have interest on the ideological level and the financial level on these issues and you can't make generalizations and they are complicated and there are situations where there might be a clear conflict of interest.

He is a charlatan amassing a fortune while downplaying his massive conflicts of interest on the issue.

«The issue is whether or not that rule is a presumptive,» says Mercer, a partner in McCarthy Tétrault LLP's Toronto office, and a former member of the CBA's task force on conflicts of interest.

The central issue is whether it's a conflict of interest for a law firm to accept a retainer to sue a current client on an unrelated matter without first obtaining their consent.

The point that you miss is that having an assembly overwhelmingly made up of and elected by the practising bar inevitably means that there is a conflicting self - interest on issues such as described in my column.

Consultation with attorneys and law firms throughout the state on issues of legal ethics such as conflicts of interest or law firm dissolution

But what if every time a colleague outside your firm asked for your opinion on a legal issue, you became conflicted out of representing any party whose interests were opposed to those of... [more]