«To meet a contractual obligation» is
a sufficient legal reason.
The judge in the case ruled that misconduct unrelated to the degree is not
sufficient legal reason to rescind a degree.
Not exact matches
The
legal murder and
legal perversion in the West alone will be
sufficient reasons for continuous unhappiness for mankind.
Not only do I not know what the
reason is, I don't even know whether the
reason is political, a negotiating tactic by one or more party to the talks, technical (for some
legal or bureaucratic
reason), or logistical (such as appointing a
sufficient number of officials to conduct multiple parallel negotiations.)
It seems to me that if
legal advice obtained by one person is passed on to another person for the sake of informing that other person in confidence of
legal advice which that person needs to know by
reason of a
sufficient common interest between them, then it would be contrary to the principle upon which all
legal professional privilege is granted to say that the
legal advice which was privileged in the hands of the first party should be lost when passed over in confidence to the second party, merely because it was not done in the context of pending or contemplated litigation.
The fundamental principles are famously (although not for the first time — see R v Brent London BC ex parte Gunning [1985] 84 LGR 168) set out by Lord Woolf MR (as he then was) in R v North and East Devon Health Authority, ex parte Coughlan [2001] QB 213, [2000] 3 All ER 850, at [108] as follows: whether or not consultation is a
legal requirement, if it is embarked upon it must be carried out properly; to be proper, consultation must be undertaken at a time when proposals are still at a formative stage; it must include
sufficient reasons for particular proposals to allow those consulted to give intelligent consideration and an intelligent response; adequate time must be given for this purpose; and the product of consultation must be conscientiously taken into account when the ultimate decision is taken.