Sentences with phrase «representatives of free speech»

It was drafted for Lord Lester by former parliamentary counsel Stephanie Grundy with the assistance of an advisory group consisting of media law experts and representatives of free speech and scientific organisations.

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Bork surveys a long and depressing series of decisions - on free speech, pornography, contraception, abortion, sexual equality, etc. - in which the Supreme Court, claiming the authority of the Constitution, has taken public policy out of the hands of the people and their elected representatives.

In addition, informed discussions and semi-structured interviews were conducted in Canada, France, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States with key policy makers, parliamentarians and public officials, security and police officials, legal scholars and justices, media and Internet experts, and representatives of human rights and free speech NGOs.

Students working at Level 3 can, for example: justify reasons for restrictions to free speech; identify benefits of volunteering to the individual and the community; identify that sites of historic significance belong to the whole community; recognise some key functions and features of the parliament such as defining the role of the speaker of the House of Representatives; and recognise the key feature of the separation of powers in Australia.

The group of representatives was reacting to a story which appeared in The Australian on Tuesday speculating that the Federal government proposes to remove the words «offend, insult, humiliate» from section 18C, as well as removing the requirement that a defendant must have acted «reasonably and in good faith» in order to be covered by the free speech defences available under section 18D.