Sentences with phrase «on protecting the public interest»

Fourthly, the emphasis of regulatory bodies must on protecting the public interest, and the degree of risk in permitting persons to hold themselves out as authorized to practice his profession.

Not exact matches

But when that agenda means reneging on the EPA's core mission of protecting public health to serve corporate interests, it falls way outside any electoral mandate.

As reported in the Globe and Mail on Oct. 31, the judge ruled that the Law Society had put the commercial interests of its members ahead of its statutory duty to protect the public interest.

«CHX justifies the proposal by stating» [T] he Exchange submits that the proposed rules for LTAD are designed to operate in a manner that is consistent with the Act in that they are designed to protect investors and the public interest, are not designed to permit unfair discrimination, and would not impose any unnecessary or inappropriate burden on competition.»

Shoving people into positions of power at Federal agencies that were created to protect the public interest based on little more than Trump's gut instinct that his picks will show him the requisite personal loyalty that he demands is undermining the Federal government's ability to do its job.

Giving three extra seats on the board to the CEO was certainly founder friendly; that the expansion happened at the same time Uber accepted a $ 3.5 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which came with a board seat, suggests Benchmark viewed the board expansion as a way to protect its own interests and influence as well.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

As a public - interest representative involved in the creation of the Public Broadcasting Act, I remember the anguish we felt at failing to get through Congress a 5 percent tax on TV and radio sets — something like the gasoline tax for roads which was protected from congressional rapublic - interest representative involved in the creation of the Public Broadcasting Act, I remember the anguish we felt at failing to get through Congress a 5 percent tax on TV and radio sets — something like the gasoline tax for roads which was protected from congressional raPublic Broadcasting Act, I remember the anguish we felt at failing to get through Congress a 5 percent tax on TV and radio sets — something like the gasoline tax for roads which was protected from congressional raiding.

LCGB in collaboration with Safely Fed Canada, are pleased to announce a training day on 4th December in Islington, North London, for commissioners and frontline workers from Public Health, Local Resilience Forums, emergency planners, infant feeding leads, health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Protecting Infants in Emergencies in the Developed World.

LCGB in collaboration with Safely Fed Canada, are pleased to announce a training day on 4th December in Islington, North London, for commissioners and frontline workers from Public Health, Local Resilience Forums, emergency planners, infant feeding leads, health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Protecting Infants in Emergencies in the... Read More

«Drawing on powers vested by Section 45 (1) of the Constitution, and Section 97a of the Penal Code, the governor signed an order declaring the IMN as an unlawful society in the interest of public order and to protect the rights and freedoms of all persons in Kaduna State, he said.

The letter indicated, «Where the Board of Trustees of SSNIT agrees with the directive to take up the stake, it would be advisable to conduct legal and financial due diligence on the proponent company in order to ensure that the public interest in the investment by SSNIT is protected.»

ALBANY, NY (03/05/2018)(readMedia)-- The New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) has scheduled Donald Cohen, founder and executive director of In The Public Interest, to speak about the trends and developments in the delivery of public services, with an emphasis on current privatization efforts and strategies on how to protect public serPublic Employees Federation (PEF) has scheduled Donald Cohen, founder and executive director of In The Public Interest, to speak about the trends and developments in the delivery of public services, with an emphasis on current privatization efforts and strategies on how to protect public serPublic Interest, to speak about the trends and developments in the delivery of public services, with an emphasis on current privatization efforts and strategies on how to protect public serpublic services, with an emphasis on current privatization efforts and strategies on how to protect public serpublic services.

The Public Relations Director of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), Nana Yaa Jantuah who said this on Accra - based Asempa FM Monday said the Commission would continue to work to protect the interest of the consumer and therefore urged consumers to bring their complaints to the Commission.

«On the part of the public, they need to be prepared for the long as well as the short campaign, to see our participation alongside allies in such conflict not as an atavistic, misguided attempt to recapture past glories, but as a necessary engagement in order for us to protect our security and advance our interests and values in the modern world,» he stated.

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

Voters in New York City put much more faith in the UFT than in Mayor Michael Bloomberg when it comes to protecting public school students» interests, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Feb. 8.

«We look forward to working with officials in Albany and New York City to minimize the effects of these proposed cuts on our classrooms, and to protect the interests of the city's public school children,» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew.

In 2007, then Prime Minister Gordon Brown stated, during a House of Commons debate on constitutional reform, that he believed that the House of Commons should have more authority over the selection of «public officials whose role it is to protect the public's rights and interests, and for whom there is not currently independent scrutiny.

That response drew yet another from the university and its public record custodian urging the state appellate court to either protect the competitive interests of Arizona's higher educational institutions by defending «the freedom, vigor, candor and integrity of the researchers who work there» or rule on its own that «the need to protect the confidentiality and privacy of the work done at Arizona's universities» outweighs the public's right to know.

Despite the frequency with which public programs rely on beneficiaries to hold the quality of services accountable, Sara Mead asserts in an Education Sector report that, «accountability to parents alone is insufficient to protect the public interest or ensure taxpayer money is used well.»

It seems odd to me the way Rhee seemed to imply turing her time in office that the DC public school system was full of lazy, incompetent teachers who fail to educate students and are interested only in protecting their own careers, but then, when she drills down on an evaluation system, doesn't suspect that those terrible teachers will try to cheat the system.

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«By camouflaging their true agenda and encouraging the public to confuse animals rights philosophy with the public's own belief in principles of animal welfare, they have organized a powerful, highly sophisticated, media - savvy international movement designed to cash in on the fear, concern and ignorance people have regarding animals and animal issues,» says Patti Strand, AKC Board Member and executive director of the National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA), an animal welfare organization that supports responsible use of animals and works to protect our rights to own and breed dogs.

Ours on the other hand seeks the most efficient means to protect the public interest in the biosphere by making these values transparent in the market, discouraging wasteful resort to this most valuable resource, ensuring that the funds for remedies are raised from those who imposed costs and so forth.

It is used often as an excuse for the enclosure and privatization of public resources, on the specious basis that private owners have a vested interest in protecting the environment whereas the rest of us who have to share the resource do not.

From what we know about these trade deals — which isn't much, since we're relying on leaked texts and are otherwise locked out of negotiations — they will feed to the whims of the deals» corporate advisers and will do little to protect the interest and safety of the public.

The oil and gas industry has lavished more than $ 440 million over the past six years on politicians, political parties and lobbyists in order to protect its interests in Washington, according to a new report by the Center for Public Integrity.

It looks as if the Coast Guard has been given direct orders to protect BP's PR interests above safety concerns, over air and water quality, above the outcries of local governments in need of aid, and (worst of all) above the need for the American public to be informed about what is really going on in the Gulf.

He further submits that his statements are protected by the defences of responsible communication on a matter of public interest; fair comment; justification; and qualified privilege.

On June 11, the Manitoba government introduced proposed amendments to the Public Interest Disclosure Act to protect whistleblowers from reprisal, prevent disclosure of identities and give designated officers greater powers to investigate wrongdoing.

The Court found that such measures serve «the ultimate aim -LSB-...] to protect consumers» as well as (in the case of the adequate investments in the distribution system) «security of energy supply» (already recognized in Campus Oil), and are therefore justifiable on overriding grounds in the public interest (para 66).

A libel trial involves findings of defamation as well as consideration of the defenses potentially applicable to each of the publications, including justification, fair comment, and whether the publications are protected by the defence communication on a matter of public interest.

The Appellant's former activities had interfered with court staff performing their functions, and the chambers judge granted the application for a permanent injunction on the basis that it was necessary to protect the public interest.

While the SLBA meets monthly, it also performs community outreach and runs free legal seminars on topics of interest to the virtual world community (like protecting intellectual property) that are open to the public.

At civil law, the website might sue you for making a defamatory statement, but as long as the statement is true, then you are still permitted to make the statement, and even if the statement turns out to be false (that the website turned out to be legal), then the defence of reportage (now known as the defence of Publication on a Matter of Public Interest, Defamation Act 2013 s. 4) would protect you, since you are arguably spreading information which is in the public intPublic Interest, Defamation Act 2013 s. 4) would protect you, since you are arguably spreading information which is in the public iInterest, Defamation Act 2013 s. 4) would protect you, since you are arguably spreading information which is in the public intpublic interestinterest.

In the latter regard, the Press Complaints Commission code of practice committee (of which interestingly and perhaps worryingly, depending on your viewpoint, Mr Dacre is chairman) defines the public interest very clearly as: (i) Detecting or exposing crime or serious impropriety; (ii) Protecting public health and safety; (iii) Preventing the public from being misled by an action or statement of an individual or organisation.

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Ontario Superior Court applies anti-SLAPP law to protect free expression on public interest environmental issues: United Soils Management Ltd. v. Mohammed, 2017 ONSC 4450

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Qualcomm makes some public interest arguments about the importance of protecting intellectual property, but it probably knows that it's preaching to the converted when telling the Federal Circuit about the importance of IP to innovation, and focuses on making an argument that characterizes Judge Posner's decision to deny injunctive relief as inconsistent with Supreme Court and Federal Circuit precedent.

That is a violation of the duties imposed on the law society by s. 4.2 of Ontario's Law Society Act, to: (1) maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law; (2) to facilitate access to justice for the people of Ontario; (3) protect the public interest; and, (4) to act in a timely, open an efficient manner.

In other words, if ABS + is the only approach which justifies the law society's mandate to serve the public interest, then all of the profession's concerns can theoretically be protected through proper regulation and an explicit focus on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

Afraid of competition from new forms of legal solutions enabled by the Internet and more powerful software, the unauthorized practice of law committees of state bar associations target non-law firm Internet legal form web sites, non-lawyer legal document preparers, and other innovative means of enabling access on the theory they are protecting the public interest from harm.

Something I've spoken out a little bit about was I think that there's a place for a regulator, even relating that activity to the public interest and protecting of the public interest to say provide more proactive of a device on Cloud services and maybe even approved configurations of equipment and encryption tools that lawyers could practically take off the shelf and use.

«With Palkowski's resignation on these terms, the public interest is well protected because he will no longer ever be entitled to practise law in B.C.»

It is useful to quote key observations by Stadlen J [at paras 126 - 129]: «In my view, notwithstanding the absence in the FTPP proceedings of some of the statutory and non-statutory safeguards which apply to criminal proceedings... [I] n deciding whether it would be fair to admit the hearsay evidence, the requirements both of Article 6 and of the common law obliged the FTPP to take into account the absence of all those [safeguards]... [I] n my judgment, no reasonable panel in the position of the FTPP could have reasonably concluded that there were factors outweighing the powerful factors pointing against the admission of the hearsay evidence... The means by which the claimant can challenge the hearsay evidence are... not in my judgment capable of outweighing those factors... The reality would appear to be that the factor which the FTPP considered decisive in favour of admitting the hearsay evidence was the serious nature of the allegations against the claimant coupled with the public interest in investigating such allegations and the FTPP's duty to protect the public interest in protecting patients, maintaining public confidence in the profession and declaring and upholding proper standards of behaviour... However, that factor on its own does not in my view diminish the weight which must be attached to the procedural safeguards to which a person accused of such allegations is entitled both at common law and under Article 6... The more serious the allegation, the greater the importance of ensuring that the accused doctor is afforded fair and proper procedural safeguards.

On June 11, the Manitoba government introduced proposed amendments to the Public Interest Disclosure Act to protect whistleblowers from reprisal, prevent disclosure of identities and give designated officers greater powers to investigate wrongdoing... [more]

In the public law field, Amy's practice is broad, with a particular focus on the use of public law litigation to protect commercial interests.

We included an extensive discussion on how whistleblower actions can further the public interest, including reference to the need in some circumstances to utilize protected health information for this purpose as well as reference to the qui tam provisions of the Federal False Claims Act.