Example sentences of "a legitimate interest " in BNC.

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1 The pharmaceutical industry had a legitimate interest in seeing that their own branded drugs were prescribed .
2 We accept that both the Unionist and Nationalist traditions are valid and legitimate ; that Northern Ireland should remain a part of the UK until the free consent of the majority of its people is given to change ; that the Republic of Ireland has a legitimate interest in the future of Northern Ireland ; and that a partnership in government which allows both communities to participate is the only practical way in which to make progress .
3 In determining what is a legitimate interest the librarian can safely rely upon one guide only — the law of the land .
4 Since the Community institutions make law , and since industry has a legitimate interest in the content of that law , UK lobbying is no longer confined to Westminster and Whitehall .
5 ‘ Disclosure ensures that all those with a legitimate interest in a company have the information which they need in order to exercise their rights and responsibilities towards it .
6 Disclosure ensures that all those with a legitimate interest in a company have the information which they need to exercise their rights and responsibilities towards it .
7 These impressions he/she could perhaps spell out , verbalizing them for the benefit of the student and anyone else who has a legitimate interest in knowing how the student is seen by people close to him/her .
8 Article 4 requires that persons or organisations with a legitimate interest must have the opportunity to take legal action against breaches of the ban .
9 However , it would seem fair to say that in a western liberal democracy with a market based economy , society has a legitimate interest in protecting the market from conduct which is perceived to be an abuse of normal practice in that market .
10 The health authority would have a legitimate interest in the decision in the light of its current responsibility towards J. and towards other patients for whose care its necessarily limited resources have to be used .
11 The student has a legitimate interest in pursuing his or her own cognitive or practical interests , and in getting to grips with the internal demands of the core discipline .
12 This classification emphasizes a legitimate interest of a bipolar geobotanist — the existence of a southern polar desert directly comparable to the better-known northern one .
13 In affording to them immunity from suit if they have acted in good faith in compliance with a legal or moral duty or in protection of a legitimate interest the law must take them as it finds them .
14 2 An interest meriting protection In order to succeed the party arguing for the validity of the restraint of trade must first persuade the tribunal that the facts demonstrate the existence of a legitimate interest meriting protection .
15 3.1 Scope : activities restrained In order to demonstrate that a particular provision is reasonable between the parties it is necessary to demonstrate that the scope of those activities is reasonably referable to a legitimate interest , although it is not necessary to have absolute consistency between the restraint and the relevant interest .
16 The court found that as practice by the defendant as a consultant could not injure the plaintiffs ' professional business , the clause was too wide in that it sought to encompass activities in which the plaintiffs did not have a legitimate interest .
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