Sentence examples for broad duty from inspiring English sources

A lawyer's broad duty to keep clients' confidences is the bedrock on which the justice system is built, they argue.

Section 12 of the 1968 Act introduced a broad duty to promote social welfare, which remains in force today.

It is not the broad duty of fairness that typically is associated with rights to complete disclosure and to a full hearing.

Though the court lambasted the News of the World for its use of covert recording and "titillation", it said a broad duty of prenotification would have a chilling effect on free speech (protected by the convention's Article 10).

Formulation of such a broad duty, which departs radically from the established doctrine that duty arises from a specific relationship between two parties, see n. 9, supra, should not be undertaken absent some explicit evidence of congressional intent.

After three months of investigation into Farooq's case, Staffordshire University admitted fault and apologised to the 33-year-old, saying it was responding to a "very broad duty … to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism".

The White House and the 10-member commission have endorsed provisions of a bipartisan Senate bill that would give the intelligence director far more sweeping budget powers over the three intelligence agencies that are within the Pentagon but that have broad duties not directly related to combat.

However, it is worth noting that in an April 2001 Detroit News article, spokespeople cited "his job as head of a restructured global company with a wide area of control and broad duties" to explain his total compensation of $22 million in 2000.

After 1820, the Remembrancer's broad duties were split up by the Court of Exchequer (England) etc. Act 1820.

After Giglio, prosecutors thus had a broader duty to learn of impeachment material in other cases than they did when Brady was confined to exculpatory material.

Labour leaders do plan to send in government "hit squads" to take over councils which repeatedly fail to shape up.Labour says that the current compulsory-tendering regime is too rigid and bureaucratic; replacing it with a broader duty to seek best value should allow councils to create flexible new partnerships with the private sector.