.So, to go back to AS having to take the sole blame, in your mind, for losing in 2014…….Perhaps it was actually the Better Together lies in the last week, against purdah rules, that turned the 51% YES to 55% NO? Or are you adament that the entire blame is to be cast at ...
The material they produce is a combination of guidance to members – as office holders who employ their staff, there is a balance to be struck between setting rules for best practice and encroaching on the autonomy of the member as the employer – and mandatory policies, such as the rules ...
(dissenting) Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe and Lord Mance (dissenting) the House of Lords in a Scottish civil appeal held that prison governors exercising their powers under the Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 1994 to order...
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“Dismantling the administrative state” means civil employees who thwarted Trump’s agenda 2016-2020 should be fired and replaced with loyalists who will carry out a right-wing president’s demands. “Defending our nation’s sovereignty” means ending the rules-based international order hammered out...
equally removed from such external influences as could distract or disturb contemplative repose. He practised what he taught and learned of the Stoic rules, and was concerned only to obtain such external fortune as would place him above the necessity of wasting his powers on temporary and transient...
at the end of 1990. Hydro-Electric and ScottishPower were offered for sale in the summer of the following year. Some investors argued that in the interim the government changed the rules so that the munificent premiums enjoyed by investors in the RECs were not available to those who invested...
He added that, while the accusatory proce- dure had favoured the accused, the rules of the inquisitorial procedure 2 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE SCOTTISH CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM 53 favoured those prosecuting them. In addition, the latter procedure meant that, in more serious crimes, the ...