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I decline my nomination.

Would you intend to seek selection as the Bar Commissioner chosen from the Justices? If so: what do you think would be an appropriate way for the Bar Commission to establish the acceptability and competence of counsel; what provision would you make for managing the membership of the bar, such...

Would you intend to seek selection as the Bar Commissioner chosen from the Justices? If so: what do you think would be an appropriate way for the Bar Commission to establish the acceptability and competence of counsel; what provision would you make for managing the membership of the bar, such...

Would you intend to seek selection as the Bar Commissioner chosen from the Justices? If so: what do you think would be an appropriate way for the Bar Commission to establish the acceptability and competence of counsel; what provision would you make for managing the membership of the bar, such...

Would you intend to seek selection as the Bar Commissioner chosen from the Justices? If so: what do you think would be an appropriate way for the Bar Commission to establish the acceptability and competence of counsel; what provision would you make for managing the membership of the bar, such...

Grateful though I am for the nominations, I must decline.

I am somewhat late to expressing a view on this but I have voted in favour of a recall and thought I would explain why. Recall is a significant step and rightly has a high bar. Officials will make mistakes, even serious ones, and it would be unworkable for there to be a recall for every one...

I agree that “renounce“ would be preferable wording. However, I will oppose the bill so long as the administrative ban issue is bundled into it, particularly in its current format. If a nation is banned by the Administration but the Delegate does not find that sufficient grounds to eject and ban...

Against.

Present.

Abstain

My thanks to those who voted, congratulations to Lord Dominator, and commiserations to Gorundu.

As a drafting point, it seems to me that this should be one or the other of “have been banned by forum administration” or “have been ejected and banned following banning by forum administration”. At the moment, the second condition (being ejected and banned) doesn’t add anything to the first...

Have they, Mr Speaker?

I do not expect there would be many recalls, but the same is true for generally for our officials. My view is that there is a regional interest in universal standing and how it is used which suggests they should be a governmental official. They are like a government official (in having a power...

Clause 3 and clause 4 concern different material, hence why clause 4 is framed as an additional requirement on member states. While there will presumably be some overlap, as state funded research or data could also be published in journals, it is not necessarily the same and clause 4 requires...

Strictly, this doesn’t require an examination, so long as the Court is satisfied that an applicant has demonstrated “adequate and reasonable knowledge of [the law]”. The Court could make an interim rule that was not based on an examination to cover that period, such as a less formal Q&A session...

I am glad to see this proposal brought forward and intend to support it. I would agree with Gorundu that, at the moment, clauses 11 and 17 would conflict with each other. I think that clause 11 would also conflict with clause 23. It would seem to me that clause 17 should be amended to be “any...

For. As the proposal says, section 4 of GA #604 is overbroad in requiring all data to be turned over, which would include private information of the kind identified. While that could perhaps be overlooked if the data was to be left in the hands of the CSD to aid its objects, it is obliged to be...

Brief If it pleases the Court, I submit the following brief to assist the Court. This brief will address the solution adopted by the Speaker with an alternative argument to that adopted in Pallaith's brief. It will also cover the question of remedy. A Strict Approach It is submitted that...

For.

Mr Speaker, as I have suggested elsewhere, it seems to me that there may be some people currently not masked as citizens or reflected on the rolls but who are citizens. This is due to there not having been rejections of a number of applications on failing admin checks for some months. The law...

In relation to the standard, the issue (to my mind) is more around the Court's approach than it is the approach of the Delegate. Presumably, the Delegate will form a view on whether or not something actually is contrary to the rules. If a request for review is then brought, there is a question...

* Voting in voting threads and voting on the proposal when it reaches the voting floor. [WA - Voting] * IFV Drafting [WA - IFVs] * Assisting the Ministry in commending heroes and notables in the history of our region and providing feedback to authors. [WA - Authors]

For. This version resolves what was my main issue with the prior one. While the scope is now pretty narrow, I think it is justified for the WA to prohibit guilt by association, subject to the exceptions prescribed. The proscription exception here would fit with the exception in GA #550’s 1b...

It is correct that the first r4r did not receive a substantive ruling. The second r4r was to the initial decision of Justice Scorch to accept the request (though myself and Bootsie would have accepted it also); the request was withdrawn before the second ruling in the second r4r. EDIT: “the...

Given the present state of Concord, will a proposal to authorise participation in the destruction of that region shortly be put to the Assembly?

One would assume so, but then why have the proposal?

Against. This would prevent states from regarding secondary participants in a crime as being guilty as principals. For example, a getaway driver who does not enter a burgled property could not be charged a burglar or a person who stood by and encouraged another to stab someone could not be...

But 2c and d are obligations of the NESC, the provisions of section 2 are all the NESC’s duties. It does not, however, tell us how should go about meeting them or what powers it has in relation to member states so as to “ensure” the relevant things are done.