Yet while baseball's unwritten code of conduct might need an update to cover the modern crime of computer hacking, the Astros appear to have found themselves on the wrong end, in effect, of one of the oldest tricks in the baseball book: they forgot to switch up their signs, and someone stole them.
His comments follow similar criticism from the Financial Ombudsman Service, which warned this month that a tougher code of conduct was needed to prevent mis-selling of credit cards and loans, especially to people on low incomes.
Earlier this month Denham told MPs on the DCMS committee that's investigating fake news that her office would be pushing for increased transparency around data flows and disclosure rules for digital political advertising — suggesting a code of conduct is needed to regulate the use of social media in political campaigns, referendums and elections.
Might it be that - despite what it says in the British Psychological Society's code of conduct - the need to satisfy the programme makers outweighs the service they should be offering to their clients?
Editorial codes of conduct would need to be transparent, enforceable and supervised by people independent of the newsroom.
A better answer is surely to cut government spending and hence the overall tax burden.In practice, agreement on a voluntary code of conduct, which would probably need unanimous approval, may prove no easier to reach than agreement on the energy-tax directive.
In what some said amounted to a code of conduct, he added that cardinals needed to embody holiness "with greater zeal and ardour".
Part I deals with the planning required for fishing ports and includes the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, International Conventions, needs assessment and environmental auditing, all of which impact the decision-making process during the planning stage.
Does a so-called educator at a state institution need a code of conduct to distinguish between a chair he can throw and a person he might slug?
