Sentences with phrase «protect the public interest from»

The balance of convenience must favour AHS to protect the public interest from the risk of the respondent surgeon's premature return to the operating room.

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.

It is also clear from the Rules that in - house lawyers are expected to consider and protect the public interest from organizational misconduct.

The Tribunal, if its members are any where near being open - minded, and if TREB's lawyers are as able as they must be, can / should rule in favour of protecting the public interest from the perspective, on the surface of it, of a legal perspective only, all morality - driven driven arguments officially aside.

The Advisory Group is examining the current real estate regulatory regime to determine whether it adequately protects the public interest from real estate licensee conduct that is inconsistent with the duties and standards required of licensees.

Not exact matches

These are the practices that Eliot Spitzer's office took the lead in investigating when Pres. Bush's deregulatory appointees blocked the SEC and other government agencies from protecting the public interest.

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.

«No matter the fate of Bill 214, I expect swift and meaningful action from the government and all Members of the Assembly to protect our democracy from those who are more concerned with winning than ensuring the voice of the people is heard and the public interest is served.»

William J. Brennan wrote passionately for a unanimous Court of the clear public interest they saw in protecting news reporters from libel lawsuits, even when journalists report falsehoods as facts.

They turned their eyes from injustices, committing them through robberies, extortions, loving bribes and honor in public places, yet making up for themselves laws that protect their interests, disregarding the poor, and needy who struggle to survive.

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.

Specifically, the Senate Committee recommended: (1) that the ACCC re-open its informal review of ADM's proposed acquisition of GrainCorp and obtain independent expert advice when conducting that review; (2) that the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) consider evidence from the committee's hearings, potential loss of taxpayer revenie, the potential for the takover to «distort the capital market to the detriment of Australian farmers and Australia's economy due to food security concerns» and the need to «protect the public interest and the interests of grain growers» when making its recommendation to the Treasurer.

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»).

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

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.

Committee of Public Accounts chair Meg Hillier MP said: «The programme is at a critical juncture and the Department has some major decisions to make if it is going to protect taxpayers» interests and deliver all that the Government has promised from HS2.»

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.

«Privacy interests should be trumped when evoked to protect public officials from criticism.»

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

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.

That Cabinet Office report, which is protected from freedom of information requestions for two years, should be released to the public, according to David Lidington, the Europe Minister (and the MP for the HS2 target of Aylesbury), who wrote a letter to Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office Minister, saying: «My constituents have expressed their concern that this does not allow those with an interest in the proposals to review the MPA's findings and contradicts the Government's commitment to be transparent».

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.

The action effectively creates hundreds of new pre-K seats with STEM curriculum, and it was critical to follow the proper procedures of the public trust doctrine in the interest of protecting public parkland from unfettered development.

The PCC code carries a public interest test which includes exposing crime, protecting health and safety and to prevent the public from being mislead.

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.

«Ethics rules are not so much aimed at protecting us from ExxonMobil, but in ensuring that government officials are acting in the public interest rather than their own private interests,» said Kathleen Clark, a professor at Washington University Law specializing in ethics.

In response to the Fourteenth Amendment claim, the court said that at some point, removing M.C. from the classroom and putting him in timeout might have gone so far as to deprive him of a protected interest in a public education, but the circuit judges, unlike the district court, concluded that 21 timeouts totaling approximately 12 hours over two and a half months did not go that far.

A nearly $ 6 billion infusion from Proposition 30 and a Democratic supermajority in the Legislature are a welcome pre-holiday gift to public education from voters, but it also could set the stage for battles between those laboring for education reform and suddenly fortified unions protecting teacher interests.

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

The Act has several provisions to protect the public from unreasonable interest rate increases.

● Opportunities to work with staff and volunteers from diverse backgrounds that share a common interest in preserving and protecting our natural lands ● If eligible, opportunity to receive the Public Lands Corps Award upon completion of internship

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.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest's daylong Integrity in Science Conference in Washington, DC, July 11, will forge an agenda for independent regulatory science and protecting public sector scientists from political meddling and corporate inflPublic Interest's daylong Integrity in Science Conference in Washington, DC, July 11, will forge an agenda for independent regulatory science and protecting public sector scientists from political meddling and corporate inflpublic sector scientists from political meddling and corporate influence.

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.

Such partnerships too often create a financial incentive for governments or the United Nations — which should be protecting the public interest — to shy away from policies that could harm companies» bottom lines.

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.

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.

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.

Consumers are certainly protected, but are they effectively protected from supracompetitive market prices or should we rather say that effective protection from these umbrella effects is a matter of public interest, and therefore within the realm of the competition authorities?

That would further weaken the law societies» position as a prosecutor of the commercial producers for UPL — a very biased, self - interested prosecutor fighting off a commercial threat, rather than prosecuting unlicensed individuals for that offence's intended purpose of protecting the public from incompetently provided legal services.

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.

But Congress weighed the interests in controlling the border, protecting the public from criminal aliens, affording individual aliens adequate protections and opportunities for relief and review, and minimizing the adverse foreign - relations impact of U.S. immigration law.

Unlike other pre-emptive costs orders (such as costs capping orders), their aim is not solely to control extravagant expenditure; instead, their aim is to protect litigants who reasonably bring public law proceedings in the public interest from the liability of an adverse costs order in the event that they lose.

«First of all, the Supreme Court of Canada and other courts have repeatedly emphasized the crucial role the professional regulators like the law society play in protecting the public interest, and in that connection, they've also emphasized the need of those professional regulators to be able to compel documents and information relevant to investigations from anyone possessed of them,» says Feder.

There is a public interest in ensuring that theme parks are safe; whilst their officers should be protected from real harassment, this did not mean they were immune from criticism, even if that was misguided and intemperate.

First, certain uses of protected material, such as copying from CDs to MP3, are considered legitimate by a large proportion of the general public and do not clearly damage rights holders» interests.

Protecting lives The objection to the principle formulated by the Divisional Court was that it distracted attention from what, applying well - settled principles of public law, was the right question: whether or not, in deciding that the public interest in pursuing an important investigation into alleged bribery was outweighed by the public interest in protecting the lives of British citizens, the director had made a decision outside the lawful bounds of the discretion entrusted to him by PProtecting lives The objection to the principle formulated by the Divisional Court was that it distracted attention from what, applying well - settled principles of public law, was the right question: whether or not, in deciding that the public interest in pursuing an important investigation into alleged bribery was outweighed by the public interest in protecting the lives of British citizens, the director had made a decision outside the lawful bounds of the discretion entrusted to him by Pprotecting the lives of British citizens, the director had made a decision outside the lawful bounds of the discretion entrusted to him by Parliament.

Documents and information that the Competition Bureau collects from third parties during its investigations are protected by public interest privilege from disclosure to plaintiffs in private actions, the BC Supreme... [more] Full article

In Hunter, the panel fails to sufficiently respond to the conflict of interest stemming from Hunter's romantic relationship with a client because its decision does not protect the profession's public integrity.