Sentences with phrase «public inquiries took»

One in seven public inquiries took at least five years before a final report was released.

Not exact matches

On Saturday, untold numbers of citizens who support the idea of free scientific inquiry, and enough public funding to pursue it, took to the streets to tell everyone else on the planet they did.

Any material issues raised by the most recent Public Company Accounting Oversight Board inspection, peer review, or independent registered public accounting firm internal quality control review or by any inquiry or investigations by governmental or professional authorities within the preceding five years respecting one or more independent audits carried out by the audit firm, and any steps taken to deal with such iPublic Company Accounting Oversight Board inspection, peer review, or independent registered public accounting firm internal quality control review or by any inquiry or investigations by governmental or professional authorities within the preceding five years respecting one or more independent audits carried out by the audit firm, and any steps taken to deal with such ipublic accounting firm internal quality control review or by any inquiry or investigations by governmental or professional authorities within the preceding five years respecting one or more independent audits carried out by the audit firm, and any steps taken to deal with such issues.

While respecting the universal principles of the Church, the Christian by his own conscience and his own inquiry, which is a duty incumbent on him as an individual, has to seek for the concrete prescription by which he will shape his own life and endeavour to contribute to determining the actual form taken by public life.

The current inquiry is investigating whether public bodies and other non-state institutions have taken seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse in England and Wales.

This act is not an instant accomplishment, taking place in the secret chambers of the heart, but, as the inquiry suggests, a lifelong public commitment.

Despite the restriction, the inquiry heard Cotton took five public services between 2001 and 2003, four of which were in one week for Pritchard - who was handed his second jail sentence last month.

As well as the usual evidence - taking sessions, the committee will also hold a series of public meetings as part of its inquiry and is likely to publish a series of reports to help inform the government of the public's views.

«People will take a very dim of an opposition party which stands in the way of an inquiry because they don't want their dirty washing done in public,» the PM shouts.

In a submission to the House of Lords Constitution Committee's inquiry into the passage of legislation through Parliament, the CIOT proposes: · The Finance Bill Public Bill Committee takes oral evidence from tax experts and others; · More effective liaison between select committees and the Finance Bill committee; · Increasing the resources available to Parliament for scrutinising tax matters; · Using technology to make it easier for those outside Parliament to comment on Bills, e.g. an online facility to input comments by clause numbers, so MPs can see who says what against each clause; · Asking the Office of Tax Simplification to publish simplification assessments of new tax proposals.

Perhaps unsurprisingly it has been decided that a public inquiry will take place for Grenfell Tower along with various other investigations, including those by the police.

That this House notes that the report of the inquiry conducted by Chief Constable Ian Johnston of the British Transport Police, and which was commissioned by the Metropolitan Police in December to review the arrest and investigation of the hon. Member for Ashford, has been withheld from public scrutiny and from Parliament despite the fact that parts of the report were released by the Metropolitan Police on 16 December 2008 and used in comments by Assistant Police Commissioner Bob Quick; and therefore calls on the Home Secretary to take appropriate measures to ensure that a copy of the report be placed in the Library without further delay.»

He therefore sought the help of Parliament to demand from the police a public findings of their inquiry into the matter, take up the medical bills and provide adequate compensation to the victim.

The Liberal Democrats» Sue Miller warned peers: «Once the concept that the government can order an inquiry instead of an inquest has been established and has gained a statutory footing, we will have taken a big step down a road where the public will lose all trust that we have maintained adequate defences against state impunity.»

Aonghus Kelly of Public Interest Lawyers, the firm representing Mr Mousa's family, told politics.co.uk the independent inquiry was a chance to find out «how someone who was taken away and had done nothing wrong ended up dead».

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed a recommendation in a report by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee that the «self - employed» should be given at least «worker» employment status unless the engager of their labour can prove otherwise.1 This is a recommendation that LITRG made in written evidence to a separate inquiry.2 LITRG believes that the denial of employment rights to people working in the «gig economy» and the exploitation of other flexible workers regarding their taxes share a common cause: the workers» own lack of knowledge, their reluctance to challenge their treatment because they lack confidence or just need the work and the businesses involved apparently having little fear of action being taken against them by public bodies.

The fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq takes place this Thursday and Mr Katwala had used the impending milestone to call for an «independent public inquiry» into its intelligence failures, the war itself and the ensuing struggle for security.

Is the inquiry to be held in public, what evidence will be published, what witnesses will be called, will the civil court cases being taken against the government be stopped, how will compensation, if any, be distributed to victims of torture?

The second part of the Leveson inquiry, looking into the relationship between journalists and the police, was supposed to take place at the conclusion of court cases involving alleged phone hacking and inappropriate payments to public officials.

THE PROPOSED take over of ANSTO by the CSIRO has raised questions about the current public inquiry into a proposed new research reactor.

Gillian Pain, a Scottish lawyer who is highly experienced in public inquiries, is conducting the Stornoway inquiry, which is busily taking evidence.

Juan Gabriel previously taught at a project - and inquiry - based public high school in Philadelphia, where he learned the affordances of encouraging teachers to take both leadership and inquiry stances.

Almost daily, I receive private (and sometimes public) inquiries about the status of my current work in progress, WINNER TAKES ALL.

His nearly forty year inquiry into the relation of art and language has taken the form of installations, museum exhibitions, public commissions and publications throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia, including Documenta V, VI, VII and IX (1972, 1978, 1982, 1992) and four Venice Biennials (1976, 1993, 1999 and 2007).

The question of what it takes to be handed the keys to a nationally visible exhibition — what sort of «certified» curriculum vitae, what sorts of relationships — has long been a source of inquiry (and friction) for aspiring professional artists and their publics.

The Alberta Government has expressed serious concerns about what Baytex is doing and has taken the unprecedented step of not only not allowing Baytex any new well licences in the area and but has also convened a public inquiry.

Perhaps more importantly, such inquiries appear to only take the regulator away from its core goal of governing the legal profession in the public interest, and more towards resolving philosophical and mundane disputes between the bar.

In taking that action, it seems to me that you not only took the prerogative to act out of the hands of the judges, but also that you took the prerogative to complain out of the hands of the public; specifically, perhaps, in this case, the rape accuser (who, as I said in my blog post on the Robin Camp inquiry, might not have chosen to make a complaint).

This question arises under BC's Health Professions Act, when any inquiry committee may take action «necessary to protect the public» (section 35), but registrants may demand that the committee weigh evidence of their «innocence» as part of their decision - making.

It is sufficient for the inquiry committee to act, if it takes the view that there is a prima facie case and that the prima facie case, having regard to such material as is put before it by the registrant, requires that the public be protected by an interim order.

The Honourable Chief Justice Bauman decided that s. 35 can be used where an inquiry committee takes the (two - step) view «that there is a prima facie case and that the prima facie case, having regard to such material as is put before it by the registrant, requires that the public be protected by an interim order» [55 (iv)-RSB-.

On Saturday July 10, a Day of Action for Civil Liberties will take place in towns and cities across Canada to demand an independent public inquiry into police conduct during the G20 Summit.

The former Democratic presidential nominee spoke last year with the British public - broadcasting outlet Channel 4, and her inquiry has taken on new significance in light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that's unfolding this week.

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