Our exam results culture is defined by the vague discussion every year of "raising standards" – a phrase which appears impossible to oppose on reasonable grounds, until one realises that, depending on who is saying it, we could roughly translate it into either "making exam percentages improve" or "making exams tougher, and still expecting the percentages to improve".
But under the current bill, an "enforcement body" could be exempt from notifying people affected by data breaches or publishing any details of the breach generally if the body "believes on reasonable grounds that compliance... would be likely to prejudice one or more enforcement-related activities conducted by, or on behalf of, the enforcement body".
If alternative types of detention had been at least considered by the minister and then rejected on reasonable grounds, it might have met the test of proportionality.
She said: "I have been clear that stop and search is an important police power, but, as with all sensitive powers, it must be properly targeted, based on reasonable grounds and accountable to citizens and communities.
It aims to properly regulate stop and search under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, which does not have to be based on reasonable grounds for suspicion and which mushroomed in recent years.
At issue was section 53 of the 2000 act, which allows a minister to certify that he has formed the opinion, "on reasonable grounds", that a government department is entitled to refuse a request for disclosure.
The review will stress that individuals need to be free to take creative risks without fear as long as the decisions were based on reasonable grounds and gone through the right processes.
But Kristol in that passage lays out, with a peremptory air, an orthodoxy, sometimes on reasonable grounds (not even Karl Marx would dispute that Aristotle outranks Marx), sometimes on questionable grounds (suppose you wanted to read about the events of Marx's lifetime — what good would Aristotle do you, then?), but always emphatically.
Lord Dyson, the leading civil judge in England and Wales, and two senior judges decided that Grieve had "no good reason for overriding the meticulous decision" of the tribunal. On Monday, Eadie told the supreme court it was plain that parliament had given ministers the power to veto rulings from the tribunal on reasonable grounds when the freedom of information act was passed.
Falconer said: "For terrorists, the threshold test allows charging where the evidence to show 50%-plus prospects is not yet available but the authorities believe on reasonable grounds it will become available and if the detainee were released he could become a danger..
