Sentences with phrase «public interest tests which»

«We should be looking at ways to encourage and invite investors to back British enterprise and infrastructure projects, not reverting to government - run public interest tests which make it more difficult for them to do so.»

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

Not exact matches

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.

Oldham East and Saddleworth is a three way marginal, between Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives, which makes for an even more interesting test of where the parties stand with the public.

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.

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.

She had the space to do so, but instead hypothesized that science (and presumably climate science) bases its approach to statistical testing in the long shadow of its ancient historical ties to religion, which is something she may well be able to offer an opinion about, as an historian, but which has minimal relevance to policy makers or the interested public in interpreting scientific claims as found, say, in the IPCC reports.

Interesting article too, but I am a bit sceptical to broadly applicable economic tests such as the MEIP, especially in a field such as State aid where the State often pursues other objectives (equity, solidarity, public access to common goods, etc) which are not prohibited under the Treaty but subject to the appraisal of the Commission.

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.

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.

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:

The duty of care was not defeated under the second branch of the Anns test, which deals with public policy considerations that would weigh against a duty of care, because it was in the public interest that professional accountants who undertake to create wills do so with care not only for the best interests of their clients but also for the intended beneficiaries under those wills.

The Supreme Court of Canada was asked to clarify which test was the controlling one with the court unanimously approving of the public interest test.

The determination of public interest standing relates directly to the effectiveness of process, and is therefore particularly appropriate for judicial discretion, which therefore should not render the test for public interest standing a strict technical requirement.

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).

'' [Potential child advocates] could perform a public function by lobbying for the replacement of the best interest of the child test with a more determinative substantive rule... as the substituted rule, I suggest the primary caretaker rule, which rewards past care and concern for children and minimizes the role and power of the helping professionals in custody decision making.