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.
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.
Lady Royall said that she respected the clerks, but said that Labour had got its own legal opinion and believed the amendment could stand.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
On Monday, Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Moore, published legal opinion from Prof James Crawford of Cambridge University and Prof Alan Boyle of Edinburgh University saying that an independent Scotland would be seen as a separate state under international law.
The findings of the legal opinion show that as the continuing state, the United Kingdom's (UK) membership of international organisations (including the European Union (EU), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the G8 and G20) and treaties would be largely unaffected by Scottish independence.
Ms. DAHLIA LITHWICK (Legal analyst, Slate Magazine): In 2003, June, Phil Kline, the attorney general, who is a vocal abortion opponent, issued a legal opinion, in which he said that all state health care professionals had to report any sexual activity by anyone under the age of 16 to state social services.
In order to render a legal opinion that will satisfy the parties and necessary third-parties such as a rating agency for a bond securitization, a whole host of issues arise that cannot be rationally addressed for at least two reasons: One, certain transaction restrictions applicable to SCF are considered divine and unalterable.
The fact that the police did not make use of this information might be more a reflection of a legal opinion that, since the information was arguably controlled by the state, the information was provided pursuant to state authority and, if privacy issues were raised before the Courts, it could potentially be excluded as having been wrongfully obtained by the government.
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"We only take his opinion and legal advice to make sure our actions do not harm Mubarak's case, " Saleh said.
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This post is in no way meant to offer legal guidance, but merely my own personal opinion (which has the benefit of a legal education) with regards to how contracts can be challenged after being registered.
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