Sentences with phrase «protect the public interest by»

The institute is a self - regulating body whose mission is to protect the public interest by ensuring highest standards, practices and professional conduct in real estate appraisals.

The mandate of the NCA is to help Canada's law societies protect the public interest by assessing the legal education and professional experience of individuals who obtained their credentials outside of Canada or in a Canadian civil law program.

More to the point, in the 2001 TWU decision, the Court Found that the BC College of Teachers couldn't claim to protect the public interest by refusing to recognize teachers who graduated from TWU on the basis that they might be homophobes, it held that the public interest would only be advanced if it refused to allow individuals to be come teachers on the basis that they WERE homophobes.

The Human Resources Professional Association (HRPA) «protects the public interest by regulating the professional practice of its more than 22,000 member registrants.»

A Message from Council Chair Marylou Leslie As the regulator of licensed real estate professionals, the Real Estate Council of BC's highest priority is to protect the public interest by enforcing licensee standards of conduct.

Its mandate is to protect the public interest by enforcing the licensing and licensee conduct requirements of the Real Estate Services Act (RESA), Regulation and Council Rules.

As the regulator of licensed real estate professionals, the Real Estate Council of BC's highest priority is to protect the public interest by enforcing licensee standards of conduct.

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The core of any argument about stories of this kind is that they are protected by the First Amendment because there is a clear public interest in having the information released that outweighs the fact that it was classified, or may have been obtained by illegal means.

«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.»

The Department concludes that it can best protect the interests of retirement investors in receiving sound advice, provide greater certainty to the public and regulated parties, and minimize the risk of unnecessary disruption by taking a more balanced approach than simply granting a flat delay of fiduciary status and all associated obligations for a protracted period.

The PCAOB oversees the audits of public companies and broker - dealers in order to protect investors and the public interest by promoting informative, accurate, and independent audit reports.

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.

The TPP's controversial ISDS rules will limit government powers to regulate in the public interest, including by supporting industries that create good local jobs, and protecting the environment.

Food Standards Agency The Food Standards Agency is an independent Government department set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public's health and consumer interests in relation to food.

The mission of the ATAF is to offer a diverse range of services to its members, while protecting the public's interest by seeing that certified, licensed athletic trainer's are available to provide proper medical care to our state's athletes and the physically active.

One measure that would move significantly towards achieving this would be to protect the public from harmful commercial interests by adopting, in full, the WHO / UNICEF International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent resolutions («the Code»).

According to the Wikipedia: Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public - policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an asset of interest.

«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.

It is this level of transparency and accountability which currently applies to protect the interests of the UK public when trade agreements are negotiated by the EU which bind the UK.

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.»

Salmond's manifesto pledges to protect Scottish public services from cuts by what he calls «London - based parties», while Robinson promised to use any influence gained from a hung parliament to further Northern Ireland's interests.

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.

He told the court that parliament had taken «a carefully considered, deliberate decision» to give ministers such as the attorney general power to override rulings by the freedom of information tribunal «to protect the public interest where real and significant issues arise».

In his opening remarks, Paladino's lawyer Dennis Vacco said Paladino was protecting the public's interest by publicly disclosing secret information from the School Board's closed - door meeting about contract talks with the teacher's union.

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.

It also serves and protects the public interest, because standards developers accredited by ANSI must meet the institute's requirements for openness, balance, consensus, and other due - process safeguards.

Unionized collective bargaining might also have addressed those issues, but it would have been done mostly behind closed doors and would have been accompanied by provisions to protect the narrow interests of the unions at the expense of the public interest.

The purpose of school personnel certification is to protect the educational interests of students, parents, and the public at large by assuring that teachers in this state are professionally qualified.

«AB 913 would also protect funding for public education by applying to charter schools the requirements that have proven effective in minimizing conflict of interest in traditional public schools,» Rivas said.

Your function is to protect the public interest in safety by professionally evaluating the employee and recommending appropriate education / treatment, follow - up tests, and aftercare.

The final rule includes a public interest exclusion (PIE) mechanism designed to protect the public from the affects of serious noncompliance by service agents.

Rep. Steve King, R Iowa, has once again shown his true colors — and his servitude to corporate agriculture interests — by introducing the Protect Interstate Commerce Act, H.R. 4879, which is set to dismantle state and local agricultural laws and will threaten public health and safety, as well as weakening states» abilities to govern.

«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.

Often these front groups are created by industry or public relations firms with the goal of influencing public opinion in a way that protects the interests of those who created them.

I believe that the leaking of this draft is entirely legal, that the taxpayer funded report report is properly in the public domain under the Freedom of Information Act, and that making it available to the public is in any case protected by established legal and ethical standards, but web hosting companies are not in the business of making such determinations so interested readers are encouraged to please download copies of the report for further dissemination in case this content is removed as a possible terms - of - service violation.

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.

To guard «the most glorious heritage a people ever received,» he protected 230 million acres of land and created 23 new national parks, and passed the Antiquities Act that let presidents «declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic and scientific interest... to be National Monuments.»

And the entity charged with protecting ratepayer interests — Michigan's Public Service Commission (MPSC)-- has the proof it needs to stand up for ratepayers and the environment by rejecting DTE's proposed $ 1 billion natural gas gamble.

But persistent interference by special interests continues to hinder the agency's ability to use the best available science to protect the public health.

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.

[14] J. Kalajdzic, «Public Goals by Private Means, & Public Actors Protecting Private Interests: A Response to Professor Jones» (2013) 53 Can.

129 In the third place, as regards the argument that the disclosure of documents relating to the ACTA could only have reinforced the public interest with regard to international relations and avoid controversy arising from the leaked publication of certain proposals, it should be noted that, while it is true that the purpose of Regulation No 1049/2001 is to ensure maximum transparency by giving the fullest possible effect to the right of public access to documents of the European Union (recital 4 of the regulation), it nevertheless provides exceptions to the right of access to protect certain public or private interests, and in the present case, the public interest as regards international relations.

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.

Should the courts and colleges, charged with protecting the public, be used in this manner by competing commercial interests?

«OTLA believes that the profession's core values, and the public interest, can only be protected by ensuring that lawyers maintain control over the delivery of legal services.

But, as Lord Goff also noted: «Conversely, an authority acting in the public interest can not normally be protected by a remedy in damages because it will itself have suffered none.»

Would the public interest and the proper administration of justice outweigh in importance any public interest that may be protected by upholding the claim for privilege?

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.

In determining whether or not any particular restriction was necessary, anxious scrutiny should be given to the question whether the interests of the public could be protected by a less onerous obligation.