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Nov 17, 2022 · Who benefits? and How is it possible for law to rule? This chapter answers these questions. It articulates and defends three principles that immediately follow from the core idea of the rule of law: sovereignty of law, equality in the eyes of law, and fidelity.
This chapter defends the centrality to the rule of law of the task of protecting individuals from power wielded by non-governmental entities and individuals. It also argues that the rule of law takes hold in a polity only when law is planted firmly in a commonwealth of mutual faithfulness to the differentiated and interconnected ...
The starting point is that there is no general doctrine of good faith in English contract law. Instead, duties of good faith can affect a commercial contract in three distinct ways: The parties can expressly agree that they will act in good faith.
- Civic Values
- Naming Our Values
- What Do We Value?
- Valuing Cross-Government Co-Ordination
- Shared British Values and Counter-Extremism
- The Role of Faith Schools
32.Diversity can be a strength, but only so long as people feel they are all part of one and the same society, rather than many different societies in one country. For this to be the case there needs to be some baseline understanding and acceptance of what being a British citizen actually means in terms of how we behave and treat each other. To mak...
39.One criticism of the Government’s attempts to promote Fundamental British Values is that they are not exclusively British. Many witnesses stressed that Fundamental British Values were not unique to Britain and were shared across societies. For example, the Conservative Muslim Forum told the Committee: “Most fundamentally, there is nothing exclus...
47.The use of the term “Shared Values of British Citizenship” does not imply that no other country can share them in whole or in part, but that they are civic values which should be adhered to by all people in Britain. Values that stand in opposition to these Shared British Values (SBV) cannot and should not be described as British. All social and ...
59.Currently the only area of Government policy with an explicit duty to promote FBV is education. Schools are required to “actively promote” FBV and are inspected on this by Ofsted.45There is no such obligation in respect of the vast majority of citizens, including those who are new to this country, and it is unclear whether the Government is doin...
62.The positioning of Shared British Values was also called into question. Whilst the Home Office, like every other department, should be clear how it is promoting the Shared British Values, there are questions of whether Shared British Values are too close to the counter extremism agenda. The Department for Education is consulting to create new cu...
71.In the evidence we received there have been some concerns about the promotion of FBV in faith schools. Approximately 1.9 million pupils are taught in 6,813 state funded primary and secondary designated faith schools in England. This represents 28% of all primary and 18% of all secondary pupils.53 72.The term ‘faith school’ can be confusing. A sc...
Jun 17, 2015 · The ‘good faith’ duties promote loyalty or fidelity to the contractual relationship, primarily by requiring honesty and cooperation in contract performance and by precluding the exercise of discretionary contractual powers in a manner that is unreasonable or outside the proper purposes of the power.
- Jeannie Marie Paterson
- 2014
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It also argues that the rule of law is realized when law is planted firmly in a commonwealth of mutual faithfulness to the differentiated and interconnected responsibilities of fidelity to...
