These allow some fees to be paid before the court has even seen the request, for instance, and exempt some professionals from statutory disclosures.The way to bring discipline to fees is to curb forum-shopping by insisting that firms only file in places where they have their headquarters or principal assets, argues Mr LoPucki.
Civil infrastructure managers have a profound interest in knowing the costs of infrastructure degradation caused by user operations that exceed statutory limits; that way, they are better informed to establish or revise policies related to permit fee structures for such extra-legal operations.
Liberal Democrat Baroness Thomas of Winchester said: "If these words were not made statutory in some way or another, the number of appeals would rocket so much and there would be such a period of uncertainty in so many ways for so many people that it is not worth not putting them in".
Despite improvements to enforcing the statutory rate, new ways of cheating have emerged, said the union organisation.
If the snowmobile approached them from behind and the trail was narrow, the Andersons would decline to let it pass, asserting their statutory right-of-way.
The accountability of RECs may be clarified in a number of ways: statutory codification of detailed standards; an enhanced model of self-regulation; accreditation of RECs; and certification of REC members.
Non-statutory rules or policies are "often drafted in a more flexible and less formalistic and precise way than statutory rules, thus leaving more leeway in their application".
Mr. Boies urged the court to "reconcile the entire statutory scheme," a legalistic way of saying "please fix this mess".
Early in the 21st century, this focus on "recordness" began finding its way into statutory definitions of records and into national and international standards.
