The extended family, and the obligation placed on family members to provide mutual support, is of the utmost importance.
This could have been an obligation placed on Cuthred by Mercia; earlier kings had similarly assisted Penda and Wulfhere, two strong seventh-century Mercian rulers.
The question is whether any given obligation placed on professionals is justifiable.
There is no legal obligation or duty placed on national newspapers to publish employment data.
Even for the promo obligations placed on a blockbuster's actor, his answer seems like a cop-out.
Academy funding agreements have developed in a similarly haphazard way, depending on who was in power at the time, with variation between the obligations placed on different schools, making it hard to apply government policy consistently.
The BBC should have a unitary board charged with responsibility for meeting the obligations placed on it under the royal charter and agreement, and responsibility for the interests of licence fee payers.
The recent new obligations placed on the BBC – to fund World Service, S4C and other activities from the licence fee – will in short order take a further 15% out of the pot used for funding television, radio and online services.
Calling the BBC Trust model flawed, Clementi said it conflated governance and regulatory functions and called for a "unitary board charged with responsibility for meeting the obligations placed on it under the royal charter and agreement, and responsibility for the interests of licence fee payers".
The case, Locke v. Karass, No. 07-610, is the latest in a long series of cases brought by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, an antiunion organization, disputing various financial obligations placed on employees who are covered by a collective bargaining agreement but who object to union activities.
The Clementi report also found: that the primary responsibility for the interests of licence fee payers should lie with the BBC board that Ofcom should issue the BBC an "operating framework", which would set out the obligations placed on the BBC and should include "operating licences".
