Lawyers for the warden argued that he and his officers should be given the discretion to judge when inmates had earned the right to be reclassified.
The commission also proposed that the state education commissioner be given the discretion to order consolidation of districts with fewer than 2,000 pupils.
Both TA providers and donor agencies must be given the discretion to determine when and how to engage, and how to judge performance.
First, some background: In Massachusetts, a police officer is given the discretion to decide whether to issue a warning, which carries no fine, or a citation, which does.
The minister finessed the demands for a new riot act but conceded that the police should be given the discretion to use rubber bullets and baton rounds for the first time in mainland Britain.
"While we have no choice but to charge council tax, I believe Brighton and Hove should be given the discretion to stop offering discounts to second home owners," he said.
However, the governor was given the discretion to take over integrated school(s) and reopen the school(s) on a segregated basis rather than close the entire district.
After the erroneous Voice of America broadcast on August 26, which announced an aid suspension, Lodge was given the discretion on August 29 to suspend aid if it would facilitate a coup.
However, not much can be read into the magnitude of the additional allocation to cancer research owing to the hypothetical nature of the exercise and the likelihood that the magnitude will be strongly affected by the size of the amount that the individual is given the discretion to allocate.
"It's given the government far more discretion, not reviewable by courts, to do as they like on the high seas," says Dr. Maria O'Sullivan, a lecturer in law at Monash University, who has written extensively on the case.
