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ARGUMENT - Remarks addressed by attorney to judge or jury on the merits of case or on points of law. ARRAIGN - The procedure where the accused is brought before the court to hear the criminal charge(s) against him or her and to enter a plea of either guilty, not guilty or no contest.
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What does the noun Marge mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun Marge . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
- Defining What We Mean by Policy
- Picturing The Policy Process
- The Complexity of Policy-Making
There is no shortage of definitions of what is meant by policy, of varying degrees of usefulness. However, a good starting-point for present purposes is Thomas Dye’s assertion (from as long ago as 1976) that “Public policy is whatever governments choose to do or not to do.”This simple statement introduces three key components: 1. Public policy (as ...
It is tempting to see policy-making less as a process, and more as a politically-charged domain of perceived problems, interests and competing proposed solutions in which decisions somehow emerge from complexity. Yet if the aim of public policy is to translate the political intention to make improvements in the world or to respond to challenges int...
Such cyclical or sequential representations of policy-making have been unfashionable in the UK for some years, and indeed all are vulnerable to the criticism that they may imply an overly rational, intentional and orderly process. For example, a Cabinet Office report said that “a model... showing sequential activities organised in a cycle . . . [do...
The margin of appreciation (or margin of state discretion) is a legal doctrine with a wide scope in international human rights law. It was developed by the European Court of Human Rights to judge whether a state party to the European Convention on Human Rights should be sanctioned for limiting the enjoyment of rights.
There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun marge, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Force majeure events are usually defined as certain acts, events or circumstances beyond the control of the parties, for example, natural disasters or the outbreak of hostilities.
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Intergovernmental relations (IGR) are, at their most basic level, the relationships between different governments within a single country, for example, when ministers or officials from the Scottish Government meet their counterparts in the UK Government.
