As of January 2022, the federal government, excluding the Postal Service, employed about 2.1 million civilian workers, making it the nation's single largest employer. Civil servants work to benefit the general public. Professionals in civil service positions protect, educate, provide for, and assist...
Making Effective Decisions Managing a Quality Service Seeing the Big Picture Working Together Read more about these 9 Civil Service behaviours in this post about competency based interviews. The Civil Service Success Profiles behaviours are similar to the previous competencies with some changes for examp...
The starting point is a typology of judicial decision making in one-party states based on two dimensions of decisions: the degree of legal formality (e.g., how closely judges adhere to the letter of the law) and individual autonomy (e.g., judges' power to make decisions in individual ...
The initial answer to the first question is pretty straightforward: decisions are legitimate because they are made by ministers and ministers have democratic legitimacy as members of a government which enjoys the confidence of the House of Commons. For a very long time that has seemed to be a s...
an opportunity to strengthen standards in public life. After more than 10 weeks in office, there have been little more than vague statements about future good intentions, and self-inflicted and unnecessary problems such as over aseries of appointments of political allies to the civil service. ...
Understanding Common Law A precedent, known asstare decisis, is a history of judicial decisions which form the basis of evaluation for future cases. Common law, also known as case law, relies on detailed records of similar situations and statutes because there is no official legal code that can...
Today I wish to concentrate on how the civil service can respond to public needs and Ministerial decisions. I will do another piece on how Ministers can give good leadership. The recent covid crisis showed the best and the worst of what is on offer. The existing NHS medic...
Access to compensation Recognition as next of kin Who can enter into a civil partnership? Just as with formal agreement, certain conditions must be met to be allowed to enter into such a contract. These conditions ensure that all parties involved are making informed and willing decisions. ...
Architects are more involved or responsible for aesthetics or material decisions while designing homes, buildings, cities, and anything else that humans occupy or utilize. If you dream of being on HGTV one day, then becoming an architect is probably your best bet. ...