Sentences with phrase «taken by a public authority»

Spain's air quality improved for the second year running in 2009, thanks more to the economic crisis rather than to action taken by public authorities, environmental group Ecologistas..

However, that does not mean that «acts» can be limited to measures of individual scope, as there will be measures of a general scope that are not taken by a public authority in a judicial or legislative capacity.

It is worthwhile to note that the Court made a clear reference to the child's fundamental right under Article 24 (2) of the Charter which states that «in all action relating to children, whether taken by public authorities or private institutions, the child's best interests must be a primary consideration».

The national legislature may thus possess discretion to determine criteria to be satisfied by organisations to be able to challenge an infringement of environmental law; however, the very obligation to guarantee access to justice was, for the Advocate General, sufficiently clear to preclude a rule with the effect of excluding certain categories of non-legislative decisions taken by public authorities from the possible scope of review (para 94).

Described by Chambers & Partners as «A high - profile team deserving of all its praise», our Actions Against the Police, Civil Liberties and Human Rights team specialises in claims for false imprisonment, assault, malicious prosecution, discrimination, deaths in custody, and the judicial review of decisions taken by public authorities.

The firm is involved in an appeal proceeding before the Supreme Court of Canada on the fundamental issue regarding the possibility for a Quebec court to order the expropriation of a land being taken by public authority in virtue of its urban planning and environmental statutory powers.

Not exact matches

A 2010 Senate report by Senator Lieberman affirmed the President's authority during war, threat of war, or «a state of public peril» to «take over wire communications in the United States» and «shut a network down» under Section 606 of the Communications Act of 1934.

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.

These routes are taken by commercial planes flying from Southeast Asia to the Middle East or Europe and can be found in public documents issued by regional aviation authorities.

A brief report issued by Tianshan Net, an official news Web site for Xinjiang, said that in Hanairike Township in Hotan, a crowd wielding weapons «assembled in a disturbance, and the public security authorities took emergency action and detained people taking part, rapidly quelling them.»

It requires considerable time, money and expertise, but a station takes nothing more seriously than a carefully crafted petition to the FCC, and sometimes the mere threat by those in positions of moral authority are sufficient to get stations to meet their public service obligation more effectively.

Hiram Monserrate turned himself in to federal authorities in connection with the NYC Council slush fund scandal, a commission of his former legislative colleagues, which rarely takes action against one of its own, found reasonable cause to believe that he violated the Public Officers Law by setting up a legal defense fund and soliciting contributions from from individuals and entities that had business interests in his work as a senator.

Speaking at a conference hosted by the Local Government Network, Mr Denham said: «Local taxpayers should be vigilant if they are asked to accept reduced services because their council won't take tough decisions to introduce shared services, sharing senior staff with other local authorities, PCTs [primary care trusts] or other bidders, or through making the best use of public buildings.

Watchdog groups sent a letter to JCOPE calling on the commission to revise its rules so authority heads (like MTA Chairman Joe Lhota) must get the approval of their boards by a public vote before they serve on private sector boards or take an outside job, in addition to getting approval from JCOPE.

The fine print also says the governor will not take money from a state agency officer, an employee who serves at the pleasure of the governor or other members of public authorities or other boards appointed by the governor.

Three weeks after the Moreland Commission — which Governor Cuomo founded in 2013 — was due to release its report on public corruption in New York State, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested by federal authorities on charges of taking millions in bribes and kickbacks.

The debt is being taken on by public authorities, quasi-public entities that can borrow outside of the normal bonding process.

A report on the approved 2015 - 16 state budget issue on Tuesday by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli raise concerns with the amount of new debt being taken on by public authorities and the use of «lump - sum appropriations.»

His bill would restore audit powers that Cuomo took away from his office in 2011 and restrict the ability of public authorities to sign contracts through not - for - profits, like those used by former SUNY Polytechnic Institute Alain Kaloyeros before his arrest in the alleged bid - rigging scheme.

A statement by Lt. Col OM Daudu, Acting Deputy Director, 81 Division Army Public Relations said, «The authorities of 81 Division Nigerian Army also wish to bring to the awareness of the general public the obnoxious activities of some so - called land grabbers who deliberately contract the services of impostors across the state to forcefully take over plots of land that do not belong toPublic Relations said, «The authorities of 81 Division Nigerian Army also wish to bring to the awareness of the general public the obnoxious activities of some so - called land grabbers who deliberately contract the services of impostors across the state to forcefully take over plots of land that do not belong topublic the obnoxious activities of some so - called land grabbers who deliberately contract the services of impostors across the state to forcefully take over plots of land that do not belong to them.

ALBANY — Taking a scythe to one of the weedier corners of the state's administrative garden, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed,» according to the governor's release.

The foregoing statements are representations of your firm that will be relied upon by the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority (the «Authority») for the purpose of determining whether you may use the Peace Bridge and whether special precautions must be taken in order to allow you to use the Peace Bridge.

In an attempt to empower victims of antisocial behaviour, the prime minister says they will be entitled to take out civil injunctions, funded by the local public authority, if the police are not taking action within a set time.

«We recommend that these bills remain consistent with recent approaches taken by the City Council and this administration, which has been to work with federal immigration authorities in limited circumstances where there are risks to public safety, while otherwise prioritizing remaining an accessible city,» she said.

As those most responsible for the integrity of the election process in Rockland County and as public officials it is your duty to act on these allegations of fraud and forgery by forwarding along all corresponding information to the proper authorities to investigate and take appropriate action as deemed necessary.

The lowest performing schools in Detroit will be taken over by a new authority created in partnership with the state, Detroit Public Schools and Eastern Michigan University, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) and DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts announced at a news conference to much fanfare and some protests.

16.25.1.6 OBJECTIVE: To promote, preserve and protect the public health, safety and welfare by regulating the practice of veterinarians, veterinary technicians, bovine artificial insemination technicians, and bovine pregnancy diagnosis technicians; to establish the authority to take action against any licensee or permittee for failure to meet set minimum standards for licensure or permit certification as promulgated by the board; and to inspect and regulate veterinary facilities to further protect the public.

«However, some months before you first wrote to me, and as soon as I discovered — regrettably by way of a newspaper reporter — that your enquiry clerks had been instructed to say that I was not a member of the House, I took the earliest convenient opportunity to place on the public record the fact that the House «authorities» disagree with my interpretation of the Act, so that no one was in any way misled.

I've had enough of you corpse - eaters, always ready to try to push your agendas by taking advantage of people killed by weather and carelessness on the part of public authorities.

However, if the Member State has been able to provide the Commission with the requisite evidence, «it is for the Commission to carry out a global assessment, taking into account — in addition to the evidence provided by that Member State — all other relevant evidence enabling it to determine whether the Member State took the measure in question in its capacity as shareholder or as a public authority.

The Court indeed starts by recalling its case - law according to which «in order to assess whether the same measure would have been adopted in normal market conditions by a private investor in a situation as close as possible to that of the State, only the benefits and obligations linked to the situation of the State as shareholder — to the exclusion of those linked to its situation as a public authority — are to be taken into account.»

In this respect, the AG rightly recalls that, if this were true, the imputability to the State would not inevitably follow as Stardust Marine teaches us that, in case of decisions taken by public undertakings, the imputability to the State must be demonstrated by establishing «the actual exercise by the State of the supervisory powers which its status as majority shareholder confers upon it» or «the actual involvement of the public authorities» (para 99) in the adoption of the decision.

«Any nationalization, expropriation or any other measure having similar consequences taken by the authorities -LSB-...] shall be taken only on the grounds of public use and in accordance with the legislation in force in the territory.

Every day, Mothers Against Drunk Driving estimates that 300,000 impaired motorists take to public roadways but that fewer than 4,000 of them are stopped and apprehended by authorities.

In his decision to grant summary judgment in favour of the Claimants, in the above named conjoined matters, Mr Justice Eder leaves no room for doubt that judges in England take pre trial conduct very seriously indeed and will regard a «snub» by foreign parties, even public authorities, as a direct offence to the authority of the English court.

But even if the information was about event taking place in public the release of that information from records systematically stored by a public authority would engage Art 8.

(a) A state or local governmental entity may not suspend or terminate the employment of, or take other adverse personnel action against, a public employee who in good faith reports a violation of law by the employing governmental entity or another public employee to an appropriate law enforcement authority.

Adoption orders can be made in a variety of different circumstances: adoption by a stepparent, private adoption (directly with the birth mother), or public adoption (fostering to adopt, i.e. adopting through the local authority) but in each case the Court is concerned with whether making the order is in the child's best interests taking account of the rest of his or her whole life.

The public prosecutor, authority or court in charge of the proceedings will decide on a case by case basis, taking into account the need for protection of the witness in a given case.

A lawyer should take care not to weaken or destroy public confidence in legal institutions or authorities by irresponsible allegations.

(d) To refrain from engaging in any act or practice of discrimination against women and to ensure that public authorities and institutions shall act in conformity with this obligation; (e) To take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women by any person, organization or enterprise

In its decision the IT took the bold view that information contained in a concluded contract with a public authority can fall outside the scope of the s 41 exemption since it is information that is not «obtained» by the public authority from any other person.

Since the public authority is normally the primary decision maker «with a duty to apprehend the facts underlying the decision by a fair procedure which takes properly into account all relevant facts and circumstances», if it does this «the court will not normally examine the merits of the factual determination».

The fact that a function could be, and often is, carried out by a core authority should not be taken to mean that that function is necessarily public in nature.

In fact, the Bitcoin blockchain represents the first solid, working implementation of distributed consensus — for the first time, everyone can agree on what transactions took place, and who owns what, because everything is recorded on a tamper - proof public ledger that doesn't need a central server and can't be controlled by any central authority.

While it's not unusual for governments or agencies to issue warnings or try to educate the public on what regulators may consider risky investments, Polish financial authorities have taken it a step further, spending taxpayers» money on a smear campaign — trying to sway public opinion against crypto assets by paying social media influencers to attack them.

Very simply, it is the taking of privately owned property by government (the expropriating authority) for the public good in return for «just and equitable» compensation.

It is a threat because the number of historic buildings which are being declared redundant by public sector owners — and this is not just local authorities, but also includes the Ministry of Defence, fire services, health trusts and so on — exceeds the number of community groups and commercial developers able to take them on.»