Sentences with phrase «public interest test on»

Speaking to Andrew Marr on BBC One, Mr Miliband criticised David Cameron's stance, and promised a stronger public interest test on takeovers.

Not exact matches

«In the best interest of the people of my state, I have directed the Arizona Department of Transportation to suspend Uber's ability to test and operate autonomous vehicles on Arizona's public roadways,» Ducey wrote in his letter.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

The Ministerial veto, however, only applies to «public interest» notices - it does not apply in cases where the Information Commissioner has ordered disclosure on the grounds of misapplication of the exemptions or the prejudice test.

In a first step toward possibly allowing driverless cars in New York, the state is seeking applications from companies interested in testing the vehicles on public roads.

He told MPs on the Business Select Committee: «The framework which we have under the act, as you know, confines the public interest test quite narrowly and, of course, all of that takes place within the framework of European merger law.»

What this could eventually mean is that the subsidiarity opt - out, long supported by the UK, which permits Member States to apply lowered thresholds and public - interest tests in national competition decisions on media mergers and acquisitions could be lost.

I then considered the second stage of the test, applying the DPP's interim guidelines on assessing the public interest in cases involving the media, and I have concluded that a prosecution is required in the public interest in relation to each of these eight suspects.

Although academics don't warrant a «class privilege,» she said, academic - participant confidentiality can be awarded on a case - by - case basis, provided it meets the criteria of an existing four - step legal principle, known as the Wigmore test, which balances public interest in maintaining confidentiality against the court's interest in getting at the truth.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

One of the more interesting questions the CCSR asked was, Did high - stakes accountability cause the teachers, parents, and students of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to change their behavior in ways that would lead to higher achievement, or does the evidence suggest that the CPS's initiatives resulted in simply more focus on testing?

When our state education officials impose an educational program that does nothing to develop our children's intellectual abilities, intentionally mislead parents about what the law on testing permits, then waste scarce taxpayer dollars, not on educational services, but rather on a media blitz to further snow the public, we know that they do not have the best educational interests of our children in mind.

Union members mingled with the occasional communist pamphleteer, and, on a temporary stage, a series of activists, students, scholars, and teachers put forward variations on a theme: Standardized tests and corporate interests are ruining public education.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) will hold a public listening session on Jan. 13, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn., to solicit ideas and information from interested parties on possible knowledge testing requirements for New Entrant passenger and property carriers, freight forwarders, and brokers.

We would have to demonstrate an adverse effect on the interests of the party providing the information / data, and then pass the public interest test, overcoming the presumption of public interest in disclosure.

In respect of (2), the Court of Appeal reiterated the test to establish the defence of fair comment, being: (a) the comment must be on a matter of public interest; (b) the comment must be based on fact; (c) the comment, though it can include inferences of fact, must be recognisable as comment; (d) whether the person honestly express that opinion on the proved facts; and (e) whether the defendant was actuated by express malice.

The DPP's policy on private prosecutions states that she will intervene, take over and discontinue a private prosecution if the public interest test from the CPS Code is not satisfied.

The recent SABMiller / ABI case (which followed on the Walmart / Massmart case) shows that the public interest test for mergers remains an important consideration especially as the South African Commission has now published guidelines on its approach to public interest in its merger investigations.

This month's bulletin contains five short articles on (i) whistleblowing and the public interest criteria; (ii) upcoming employment law training in Cambridge; (iii) analysis of the «principal purpose» test in relation to staff transferring under TUPE; (iv) discussion of how many witnesses to call at Tribunal; and (v) the vexed question of entitlement to legal representation at internal disciplinary hearings.

(1) the comment must be on a matter of public interest; (2) the comment must be based on fact; (3) the comment, though it can include inferences of fact, must be recognizable as comment; and, (4) the comment must satisfy the following objective test: could any person honestly express that opinion on the proved facts?

ERT Rule 110 requires the party seeking a stay to satisfy the common law test set out in RJR - MacDonald Ltd. v. Canada (Attorney General), [1994] 1 S.C.R. 331, namely: whether there is a serious issue to be tried; whether irreparable harm will result if the stay is denied; and whether the balance of convenience, including effects on the public interest, favours the granting of a stay.

The fundamental consideration is whether or not the Issuer has satisfied the «Public Offer Test» under the Australian tax legislation which, if not satisfied, results in an Australian Issuer withholding 10 % on payments of interest under bonds to overseas investors.

Canadian refugee law has gone through radical changes recently, and the new public interest standing test will better allow CARL to challenge the constitutionality of the new laws on behalf of refugee claimants.

approach the joint submission on an «as - is» basis, i.e. the public interest test applies whether the judge is considering varying the proposed sentence or adding something the parties have not mentioned, for example, a probation order

Here, I think, Sales is on strong ground, his point being that the proportionality test — which is obviously suited to situations in which, for instance, rights and competing public interests fall to be weighed against one another — may not be universally applicable:

Noting that the exceptional circumstances test placed a considerable burden on prisoners seeking to use artificial insemination facilities, the Grand Chamber considered current government policy excluded any real weighing of the competing individual and public interests.

Second, in Prince of Wales v Associated Newspapers, the Court of Appeal reiterated that under HRA 1998 the public interest test has changed from the need to show exceptional circumstances which require disclosure of the information to a test of whether a fetter on the right of freedom of expression is «necessary in a democratic society» (para 67).

On Jan. 19, 2012, Ecojustice appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in an important case dealing with Canada's «public interest standing» test.

Indeed, while Spotify continues to test out the waters for what kinds of ventures may do best on its music distribution platform — there is also the matter of Spotify for Business, another B2B - style effort for offering Spotify streaming in public venues, where Spotify also doesn't get a cut of anything — it will be interesting to see whether it eventually decides to take some of this kind of activity, and the money to be made from it, into its own hands down the line.

He added: «In the best interests of the people of my state I have directed the Arizona Department of Transportation to suspend Uber's ability to test and operate autonomous vehicles on Arizona's public roadways.