Lidl argues that it is aware of its responsibilities and is working to improve the living and working conditions of garment workers.
In the end, the FSA's recommendations did not receive government backing, and within six months of the coalition coming to power, it was stripped of its responsibilities for nutrition labelling in England.
Japan has declared it is "painfully aware of its responsibilities" and its prime minister Shinzō Abe expressed his "most sincere apologies and remorse to all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful experiences".
Heedless of its responsibilities as an emergency lender, it had allowed the banking system to collapse.
My experience is that the company seems capable of worming out of its responsibilities whichever way I do it.
As anyone who's taken a fleeting glance at the NHS recently will tell you, the idea of private individuals (read: companies) "chipping in" to relieve the state of its responsibilities has not gone away, it's simply been rebranded a bit.
The discussion was brought to a swift conclusion when Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general, pointed out that Britain would be in breach of its EU membership terms if it sought to wriggle out of its responsibilities under the separate ECHR.
A shake-up by the new government led to the FSA handing over some of its responsibilities to government departments so it could focus solely on food safety policy and enforcement.
But he said it had been 18 years since the Government had reviewed its central bank and said it was time to launch another rethink of its responsibilities.
"I think it's a court that sees one of its responsibilities as regulating how agencies discharge their duties," said Eugene Scalia, a prominent corporate lawyer who has defeated the S.E.C. four times before the Washington court.
That agency has been defunct since 1999, but it was a subdivision of the State Department, and some of its responsibilities have since been transferred to other parts of the State Department.
