Example sentences of "a local government " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same went for the man who complained in the following terms to a local government committee for ‘ Better Football ’ : ‘ I visited the New Stand lavatories . |
| 2 | Mr Wickens would not dream of handing selection or filtering to anyone else , whether the union or a local government . |
| 3 | The situation was more complicated , due to the fact that certain city officials with vested interests in the tannery operation had given the tannery written permission to send their chemical waste to the city sewage treatment plant , and were openly hostile to attempts by the YCCC or anybody else to raise the subject as a local government issue . |
| 4 | On deciding to become a candidate for election to a local government body an individual must ensure that he is qualified to be a candidate . |
| 5 | He stresses the complexity of interrelations and points to an increase in the importance of territorial politics ( i.e. based on a local government area ) at just the time when — in the face of severe economic problems — local ( welfare ) expenditure has become an increasingly important element in central ( economic ) planning . |
| 6 | In Scotland the most obvious example of this — the Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) — is not strictly a local government but a regional organization , yet in many ways it has provided a model for initiatives which have since been developed elsewhere at local level . |
| 7 | POLL tax and road safety matters were among questions put to a local government any questions session at last week 's annual general meeting of the East Hampshire Independent Progressive Association . |
| 8 | What the people who work in a local government planning office do is constrained by a further dominant ideology at some higher level of centrality . |
| 9 | He spent a career as a local government officer and was active in the affairs of the Methodist Church . |
| 10 | In one such instance , when the party prospectively disadvantaged happened to be in government , the Home Secretary took the extraordinary step of introducing the order and advising his party colleagues in the House to reject it , which they duly did , the stated reasons being the desirability of awaiting the outcome of a local government review then pending . |
| 11 | It kicked off in October of 1990 and got $200,000 in venture money from a local government agency called Connecticut Innovations . |
| 12 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 13 | Many of the speakers came from a local government background , having spent years in social services or as councillors . |
| 14 | This Act ‘ created a local government system that persisted for 45 years , until reorganisation in 1975 ’ ( Page 1983:43 ) . |
| 15 | The ebbs and flows of population movement could not be matched by changes in a local government structure which had become fixed in the pattern established in the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | In Northern Ireland , as we have seen , the matter was solved by allocating ill the services of major significance to the provincial level , but in London , England and Wales , and Scotland a local government solution had to be found . |
| 17 | Second , there is the issue of the propriety of a local government officer being politically active . |
| 18 | Whereas the old system had taken a percentage of the harvest , the new one levied tax on registered landowners as a percentage of the assessed monetary value of the land , 3 per cent in the first instance , plus a local government levy . |
| 19 | He taught himself to become a local government accountant through night schools and correspondence courses . |
| 20 | It had no business goodwill and was not permitted to trade ; nor did it have shareholders ; ( 5 ) in failing to take proper account of the fact that it logically followed that if a local government corporation could sue for libel in respect of its governing reputation then so too could any institution of central government ( including , for example , a government department which was a statutory corporation such as the Department of the Environment ) ; ( 6 ) in the premises in considering that there was no uncertainty or ambiguity in English law in relation to the extent to which local authorities might sue for libel . |
| 21 | ‘ Just as a trading company has a trading reputation which it is entitled to protect by bringing an action for defamation , so in my view the plaintiffs as a local government corporation have a ‘ governing ’ reputation which they are equally entitled to protect in the same way — of course , bearing in mind the vital distinction between defamation of the corporation as such and defamation of its individual officers or members . |
| 22 | If the defendants should succeed in such an application , upon the ground that a verdict and judgment for libel in favour of the council , as a local government authority , would constitute a breach of article 10 , it would be for this country to decide whether to leave the law as it would , on that hypothesis , have been declared to be , or to change it to avoid the risk of repetition . |
| 23 | If , on the other hand , it is not clear by established principles of our law that the council has the right to sue in libel for alleged injury to its reputation , so that this court must decide whether under the common law that right is properly available to the council as a local government authority , then , as is not in dispute , this court must , in so deciding , have regard to the principles stated in the Convention and in particular to article 10 : see Reg. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department , Ex parte Brind [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 696 . |
| 24 | In my judgment , however , the law is not certain and it is necessary for this court to consider whether , having regard to the right to free expression , the law of libel can be held to extend to a local government authority . |
| 25 | There is , I think , no material distinction between interpreting the law for the purposes of applying it , having due regard to article 10 , and interpreting the law for the purposes of deciding , when the point has not been finally decided by the courts , whether the law does or does not provide to a local government authority the right to sue for libel . |
| 26 | The question for this court , therefore , is whether , by holding that a local government authority , such as the council , may sue in libel in respect of these publications , the law would impose greater restrictions upon freedom of expression than are necessary in a democratic society to meet any pressing social need for the protection of the reputation and rights of such a council . |
| 27 | ( ii ) Next it was submitted that it is an excessive restriction upon free expression to extend the ordinary law of libel , which is necessary for the protection of the reputation of private individuals , to a local government authority . |
| 28 | The mere fact that the comment was directed to the actions of a local government authority would not enable the defendant to rely upon qualified privilege ; and the fact that he had published without malice in good faith and in the belief that the facts stated were true would afford no defence if the facts were not true . |
| 29 | Such protection should be seen as all that is necessary in a democratic society for the protection of the reputation and rights of a local government authority . |
| 30 | ( iv ) If the right to sue in libel should be extended to a local government authority it could not logically be withheld from any government authority having separate legal personality . |