The aspects of an official decision or an administrative act that may be scrutinized by the judicial process are the competence of the public authority, the extent of a public authority's legal powers, the adequacy and fairness of the procedure, the evidence considered in arriving at the administrative decision and the motives underlying it, and the nature and scope of the discretionary power.
This is but one application of the more general issue of first-person authority: the extent to which people have special or privileged knowledge of their own mental states and experiences [see SEP entry on "Self-Knowledge"].
"Wegelin & Company remains committed to assisting in the clarification of matters regarding former U.S. clients and has authorized its lawyers in the United States to negotiate with the U.S. justice authorities to the extent possible under Swiss law," its statement said.
Asked why the firm did not drop NI as a client or tell the authorities about the extent of the criminal activity at the group, Pike said.
His 27-year-old wife, also not named, was also detained by police but authorities said the extent of her involvement in the scheme remains unclear.
In particular, the idea of turning Hong Kong into the fine wine hub for the Asian market sharply attracted government authorities to the extent that policies for tax reduction and elimination could be executed over such a short period of time.
For this study, designed to inform without delay public health authorities on the extent of the outbreak, a selection bias related to the absence of randomisation of labs was tolerated.
Differences across Europe in legal systems, in the breadth in which public health law is framed, in the level of discretion given to ministries and public health authorities and the extent to which emergency powers are to be used in a pandemic, mean that comparison and evaluation of efficacy of laws across European states is a difficult task.
For such firms, which include essentially every major bank, the bureau would lose its authority "to the extent such [company] is engaged in the business of insurance".
"an employee of a contractor (or subcontractor at any tier) of... any other Federal agency, or any provisional authority, to the extent such employment relates to supporting the mission of the Department of Defense overseas".
In confidential reports and his immigration entry interview, Abdellatif detailed to Australian authorities the full extent of his experience under Mubarak's dictatorship.
