It`s great to see that the Government has stepped in to show how valuable life is versus a strange religious belief!
Beans
16 yr old Canadian forced transfusions
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< http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/Pubs_pol/opepubs/TB_O/10QG7-7E.html
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APPENDIX D
BENCHMARKING AND BEST PRACTICES SHARING TEAM
Ivan Blake Environment CanadaRoman Borowyk Citizenship and
ImmigrationAnn Ferguson Public Service
CommissionDavid Flavell Treasury Board
SecretariatDavid Gnam Solicitor General
Sylvia Gold Canadian Centre For
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DevelopmentWhat EXCATLY is "benchmarking"?
sKally, hugging hawkaw
If man was supposedly created in gods image, then.....holy krap...we're all doomed.-sKallyWagger
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Law Society of B.C.:Bulletin:
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"Having looked at our accountability as a public value, let's look also at our professional independence.
As lawyers, we know we must be free of government control to represent clients fully. Our clients may be pitted against the state on a criminal charge, fighting an expropriation or taking some other position that opposes a branch of government. If government had any sort of disciplinary authority over you, would your client want you to take the case? Would you want to take it?
The United Nations in 1990 passed Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers in recognition of the pivotal role of lawyers, including the fact that "adequate protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms to which all persons are entitled, be they economic, social and cultural, or civil and political, requires that all persons have effective access to legal services provided by an independent legal profession."
But as some new Canadians can tell you, the independence of lawyers and judges isn't a given in many other countries. If you want dramatic examples, page through Attacks on Justice: the harassment and persecution of judges and lawyers, a publication from the International Commission of Jurists, for case stories of lawyers who try to fight for clients' rights in face of government opposition, sometimes with tragic results.
In a very practical way, people in B.C. take for granted that their lawyers will be independent from government, that client confidences will be respected, that the lawyer will be in their corner.
Because we have an independent profession, that confidence is justified. But government initiatives sometimes hold surprises. For example, the B.C. government recently extended freedom of information legislation to the Law Society, and the Society had to work hard to make sure that privileged information of lawyers' clients held in Law Society records was not compromised, among other things. Our extensive consultations with government on the impact of freedom of information legislation proved positive and the Society is satisfied that our main concerns have been addressed.
The public interest demands both accountability and independence from lawyers. My view is that the Law Society should never accept, without question, changes under the cloak of public accountability that lead to government control of the legal profession, which is not in the interests of our clients."
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Scully
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What EXCATLY is "benchmarking"?
In mapping terms, a benchmark is an established point of reference where a surveyor places the transit when measuring other landmarks. It's usually a permanent fixture in the ground, made of brass; usually it's a disk about 2½ - 3" in diameter with a criss-cross mark on it, over which the transit is placed.
In terms of the context you're describing, it would appear that the term refers to the setting of precedents in legal terms, or the setting of outstanding standards of excellence that others would hope to achieve.
Love, Scully