Sentences with phrase «protect the public interest against»

What role does the court have in exercising their «fact - finding powers» to sufficiently protect the public interest against bias?

Not exact matches

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.

The public at large needs to understand that MORE than just animal welfare is at stake here, and animal lovers need to understand that the AVMA and all its state affiliates are concerned ONLY with the financial interests of its members, NOT with animal welfare, since they lobby against humane legislation to protect companion animals at every chance they get.

Helping Ferrets The goals of the AFA are many: To promote the domestic ferret as a companion animal through public education via shows, newsletters, legislative education, and other venues; to protect the domestic ferret against anti-ferret legislation, mistreatment, unsound breeding practices and overpopulation, needless scientific research, and any practice deemed to lower the health standards or survivability of the animal; and to provide constant and up - to - date information about veterinarians, legislative activities, medical developments, research data, rescue shelters and other information of interest to ferret fanciers everywhere.

In this sense, then, environmentalists campaign for climate policy precisely in spite of the public's interest, against it, to protect all three parties from their existential crisis — the yawning chasm between the political establishment and an indifferent public.

The company sets the standards for qualifying and practising as a solicitor, and regulates against these standards to protect the interests of the public using legal services.

Regulating legal services in the public interest means protecting the public and protecting consumers; it does not mean protecting the profession against competition or protecting it against reputational harm.

The primary rationale behind lawyer self - regulation is to protect the «public interest» and to provide consumers with protection against untrained and perhaps nefarious poseurs.

The other problem, as some commentators have noted, is that the «protecting legitimate interests» might only be meaningful if the allegations against Mr. Ghomeshi were public — they weren't when the CBC dismissed him (and there is no suggestion that their publication was imminent).

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.

Refusing to issue a certificate of registration to the applicant or imposing terms, conditions or limitations on the applicant's certificate of registration if, in the opinion of the Registration Committee, such action is necessary to protect the public interest as a result of complaints, or criminal, disciplinary or other proceedings, against the applicant in any jurisdiction whether in or outside Canada, relating to the applicant's competency, conduct or character.

So long as the TWU's discriminatory behaviour is protected under the BC human rights code (and it is), it simply isn't open to the BC Law Society to conclude that accrediting TWU students is against the public interest (see TWU v BCCT).

As the court noted in TWU, it's absurd to suggest that conduct that is constitutionally protected and protected under the BC human rights regime is against the public interest.

The Competition Act has an extensive section on Price Maintenance which, in part, protects against the discrimination of suppliers due to any ``,,, low price policy...», As we get deeper and deeper into the realm of discount real estate services, it becomes all the more in the public interest, that we're absolutely clear regarding what we can say and can't say to defend our respective value arguments.