"Forensic laboratories must adhere to the highest standards of competence, independence and integrity.
We would search from a diverse array of candidates and nominate those who met the highest standards of competence.
Psychiatric training is designed to educate psychiatrists to the highest standards of competence in prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of persons with mental disorders.
In the selection of its staff, UNICEF is committed to securing the highest standard of competence, by means of a competitive selection process and to achieving gender and geographic balance.
"High standards of competence are necessary not only because of the importance and complexity of housing, but also because of the money involved," the report states.
The contract that the profession has with society and its patients is such that, in exchange for a significant degree of autonomy over education, licensing and credentialing, members of the profession are expected to maintain high standards of competence and moral responsibility and to subordinate financial gain to the higher values of responsibility to clients and the public interest [ 74, 75].
"Well qualified," the highest rating, "is reserved for those who meet the highest standards of professional competence, judicial temperament and integrity" and who are "among the best available for appointment to the Supreme Court," the pamphlet states.
As such, in appointing and promoting staff members, GSSC will seek to secure the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity.
A defendant who is competent to stand trial is therefore also competent to plead guilty, waiving the full panoply of trial rights, but not necessarily competent enough to represent herself at trial in the face of a state procedural rule requiring a higher standard of competence for pro se representation.
