One bank had already received legal opinion that the bonus measures contravened European law, the FT said.
It was surely, therefore, in the prime minister's interests to publish that legal opinion.
There is a substantial consensus of international legal opinion which recognises the illegality of the invasion.
He said the weight of "informed legal opinion" was against the propsed legislation.
He also published legal opinion suggesting an independent Scotland would be regarded as a separate state under international law.
And the agency inspector general met with Goldsmith to ask for the legal opinion on which the program was based.
Legal opinion sought by the Information Commissioner said the data retention powers could contravene European laws on human rights and privacy.
JCOPE's legal opinion dated March 28 and posted to the commission's website on Thursday was made public Friday by The Associated Press.
At one point, he says, almost the entire hierarchy of the department was prepared to resign if Goldsmith's legal opinion was ignored.
The president, the official said, was turning over the legal opinion related to the policy because he believes the scrutiny and debate is healthy.
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Lady Royall said that she respected the clerks, but said that Labour had got its own legal opinion and believed the amendment could stand.
This suspicion was increased by the leaked White House legal opinion.
More detail of those concerns emerged in a legal opinion on the policy prepared for the EC and submitted to the Scottish government earlier this year.
The commission, headed by Cuomo appointees and former staffers, expanded the perks of office for the state's "first family" in a legal opinion made public late last week.
The Cuomo administration requested a legal opinion on Jan. 31.
The charities say their legal opinion suggests that even if the bill is enacted, it could face a string of human rights challenges because its powers are so sweeping.
According to an official who spoke on condition of not being identified, Obama decided to turn over the legal opinion because he believes the scrutiny and debate is healthy.
That's the same Fiqh Council that on February 9, 2010 issued a legal opinion-- a fatwa - against the use of full body scanners in airports for Muslims.
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Legal opinion is divided over the extent to which the 1961 Wire Act, a statute designed to stop gambling over the phone, can be applied to betting over the internet.
"I cannot think of a more egregious and specious legal opinion - admitting that the torture occurred but ruling the confession admissible and allowing the conviction to stand, " Mr Bassiouni said.
The Scottish government said the legal opinion was "helpful".
The legal opinion says England, Wales and Northern Ireland would be most likely to inherit the UK's existing treaty obligations and membership of international bodies - while Scotland would have to begin anew.
And court cases and legal opinion, including in the Clinton administration have said, that a president in those circumstances has at least the right, if not the duty, to decline to execute that statute.
Last week, the Department of Justice (DoJ) issued a legal opinion in response to a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Defence of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman.
There has also been a legal opinion by the Foreign Office in London that captured pirates cannot necessarily be sent back to whatever authorities can be found in Somalia, in case they are subject to harsh treatment.
It only released its new legal opinion on the Wire Act on the Friday afternoon before the Christmas weekend, announcing that it had essentially flip-flopped on one of its most important and long-held positions on Internet gambling.
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On November 28, Mr. Perez asked John Buchko a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division who is the division's designated ethics officer and a Perez subordinate for a legal opinion about whether the quid pro quo was ethically permissible.
The Association of Community Health Councils of England and Wales (ACHCEW) has only six months of funding left, but has taken legal opinion which suggests that there are grounds for taking the government to court over the change.
Independent legal opinion by two of the world's leading experts in international law and the law of state formation concludes that, in the event of independence, the UK would continue and Scotland would form a new, separate state.
Meanwhile, the Canvassing Board of Palm Beach County, where Al Gore won 64% of the vote, suspended its hand recount in deference to a legal opinion by the secretary of state that the procedure was unlawful under Florida law.
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