The scale of penalties is greater than the scale of penalties that are available to the magistrates courts..
Players would face a graduated scale of penalties if mandatory random testing went into effect, with first-time offenders being placed in a treatment program.
However, the legal issue is more complex than the limit, as a sliding scale of penalties could reduce the deterrent effect.
These examples illustrate the difficulty of creating a workable scale of penalties when death is commonly ordered for many varieties of offenders.
The report from the inquiry is due in September, amid speculation that it will recommend tightening the existing press code, and a higher scale of penalties, including heavy fines, for offending papers.
While it is right to deter frivolous contests, settlements are important, as Mr Orton points out, both because they establish a scale of penalties for future application and because they send a message about what is considered good practice.
It is also crucial that the scale of penalties and the modalities of the sanctions are taken into account, as they affect the functioning of the whole system (fines and/or demerit point system3...).
Gernet writes: "The family relationships supposed to exist in the ideal family were the foundation of the entire moral outlook, and even the law, in its total structure and its scale of penalties, was nothing but a codified expression of them".
Regulators can enhance the costs of non-compliance through their enforcement actions (for example increasing the frequency of inspection) and the scale of penalties imposed when infractions are identified.
The scale of the penalty is not yet known.
There was unease in some legal circles about the scale of the penalty.
