The proposal – made despite the fierce opposition of Fleet Street to the introduction of statute – is designed to reassure the public that newspapers are subject to an effective and independent regulator to prevent a repetition of phone hacking or other scandals.
Well, this is part of a statute.
If two readings of a statute are possible, and one raises doubt about the statute's constitutionality, the other should be preferred.
Each such installation originally required the enactment of a statute; however, a 1954 statute authorises the regular admission of Stranger Knights or Ladies without further special enactments.
Specifically, the Court held that a floor speech by a Congressperson could not be admitted as evidence in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 281 (the federal conflict-of-interest statute) or § 371 (conspiracy to defraud the United States) to show the motivation for the introduction of a private bill.
Dušan, moreover, considered the introduction of a law code part of his imperial duties, and in the Diets of 1349 and 1354 he promulgated a code containing more than 200 statutes.
MPs and peers called for the introduction of a new "general offence" banning the purchase of sex while calling for soliciting offences used to prosecute prostitutes to be removed from the statute book.
Some of his efforts took the form of laws (like the country's statute of limitations) that helped him to avoid conviction, some to attacks on the judiciary, some to the introduction of a voting system partly designed to keep him in power.
The introduction of a disruptive new technology?
They write: "We should keep some perspective - the introduction of the Legal Services Board in statute has not compromised the independence of the legal profession.
