| The ombudsman is already at daggers drawn with the former chief constable over the handling of the bomb inquiry. |
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| Daniel Okrent, the NYT's ombudsman through its crisis months departs this week, loosing a Parthian shot or two at his erstwhile employer. |
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| Two of the reports arose from investigations conducted by the Commonwealth ombudsman. |
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| This culminated at the early part of this year with a complaint to the ombudsman over the Council's inaction. |
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| Last year, the number of complaints to the pensions ombudsman increased by a third. |
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| The support group eventually forces an official review by the police ombudsman. |
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| But then the government refused to answer, leading to a complaint to the parliamentary ombudsman. |
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| The ombudsman helps settle individual disputes between consumers and financial services companies. |
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| The customer complained to the ombudsman last year after sending a cheque, which named him as the payee but was uncrossed, to his bank. |
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| The ombudsman does take a tough investigative approach to claims that people did not understand what they were buying. |
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| Employees may be able to complain to the pensions ombudsman that the scheme was maladministered, but this may be difficult to prove. |
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| The decisions of the ombudsman will be binding, subject to a right of appeal to the High Court with a retrospective time limit of six years. |
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| An ombudsman will be appointed as a final level of review to help resolve disputes between authors and letter writers in a fair manner. |
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| Two of the 15 constitutional drafts envisaged the establishment of a national ombudsman as a constitutional institution. |
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| The ombudsman must maintain tight contacts with the public administration as well. |
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| Dvorkin is a highly experienced journalist and former ombudsman who will bring much-needed evangelistic zeal to the post. |
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| The ombudsman commission was established under a presidential decree in 2000 in a bid to help promote good governance. |
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| The ombudsman said the GP failed in his duty of care and must now receive extra training. |
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| It further said the code of conduct ensured that an aggrieved party could go to the ombudsman who would arbitrate. |
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| The ombudsman criticised the school for breaking strict admissions rules set out in the code of practice on comprehensive admissions. |
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| We don't have a financial services authority or ombudsman in many of the countries where expats are. |
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| The rate of complaints is escalating and the ombudsman expects numbers to continue rising sharply. |
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| He not only favors New Jersey's civil-unions law, but argued that it should be backed with an ombudsman to enforce it. |
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| I took up the Privacy Commissioner's suggestion that we have a person to audit electronic interceptions, as they do in Australia in the person of the federal ombudsman. |
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| That independent team investigatory team is reporting to the Commonwealth ombudsman in relation to that to ensure that any corruption has not spread further. |
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| An ombudsman or a 1-800 help line for assistance with individual rights and the development of a manual specific for Inuit should be set up. |
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| Many parents wished the OPC could intervene or that there would be an education ombudsman to enforce laws or regulations. |
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| Before he became an ombudsman, Baydar worked as a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor for different media. |
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| This fear is assuaged by the presence of an ombudsman who reports directly to Parliament. |
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| Can you say in all honesty that you're certain that some of them did complain to the ombudsman? |
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| How about their recommendation on a student loan ombudsman so that students could actually navigate the system better? |
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| If a complaint is inadmissible, the ombudsman informs the complainant rapidly, explaining clearly the reason or reasons. |
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| This week Tigerair was declared – for a third year in a row – Australia's worst-performing airline by a government-appointed ombudsman. |
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| According to the Ukrainian ombudsman, more than a third of the 3,000 prisoners in Crimea have been released. |
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| One institution that has recently gained in importance in some countries is that of the office of the ombudsman or public advocate. |
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| The NCC has also opened board meetings to the public, and created an ombudsman position to deal with public complaints. |
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| If, however, the user is of the opinion that the answer given by the bank is insufficient, he can go to a banking ombudsman. |
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| In some countries, the ombudsman has issued reports that appear to have been instrumental in the struggle against impunity. |
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| Readers who detected it got a chilling confirmation of their suspicions in the December 13 column by ombudsman Clark Hoyt. |
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| The appointment of an ombudsman or inspectorate does not go far enough. |
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| As the IGG he was charged with spearheading the fight against corruption, protection of human rights, the rule of law in Uganda and successfully acted as ombudsman during his tenure in office. |
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| In seeking a philosophy and a structure that would give expression to this model, the Commission selected the ombudsman idea as its guiding image. |
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| Long before I arrived at the Office of the Veterans Ombudsman, Veterans Affairs Canada created a project team charged with laying the groundwork for an ombudsman. |
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| Committee members were quite receptive to the comments of the veterans' ombudsman, who felt that this option would be tantamount to doing nothing since the vast majority of military members would take the lump sum amount. |
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| This differentiated him from most other Canadian ombudsman officeholders who were lawyers, judges, academics, and activists who assumed office with good intentions but little or no practical experience. |
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| It is highly desirable to have an informal justice system that combines in an office of the ombudsman both the monitoring of maladministration and the mediation of disputes. |
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| The committee recommends that the government establish an independent office of the bank ombudsman to investigate complaints of breach of duty or maladministration by the banks. |
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| A day after his testimony, Mr. Filmon went on Manitoba's most-listened to talk show, and named me personally, suggesting my ethics should be investigated by the CBC ombudsman. |
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| A recent proliferation of ombudsman offices has produced variations in standards and procedures. |
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| We still have an EU in which neither the ombudsman, the Court of Auditors nor the Committee on Budgetary Control can obtain all documents for perusal. |
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| I am willing to bet that there are a good number of Canadians who do not even know that there is an ombudsman for banking services should they exhaust all venues available to them. |
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| The ombudsman idea travelled as far afield as New Zealand, Australia and Canada before making its way back to the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. |
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| The delegation had indicated that the victims could sue for payment of damages and that the ombudsman had recommended the establishment of a compensation mechanism. |
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| It is also arguable that the absence of an order-making power allows the conventional ombudsman to adopt a stronger posture in relation to government than a quasi-judicial decision-maker. |
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| The case has already been referred to the police ombudsman but, as the first minister has said, we should have a full, independent examination of the whole operation of this scheme. |
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| Complaints that relate to concerns that fall outside the PCC code but within the broader GNM editorial guidelines may be referred outside the panel process to the existing GNM ombudsman for his consideration. |
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| As is the case with any death in the immigration detention estate, the police have been informed and a full independent investigation will be conducted by the prisons and probation ombudsman. |
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| Several officials close to the Kremlin attended Friday's 5pm meeting at Sheremetyevo, including Vyacheslav Nikonov, an MP with Putin's United Russia party, and Vladimir Lukin, Putin's human rights ombudsman. |
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| However, the ombudsman for banking services and his office do fine work and I would like to have seen a requirement for information about his service be made readily available. |
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| The Post's ombudsman rightly defended his paper's judgement. |
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| It stops short of appointing an ombudsman or ultimate watchdog entity. |
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| The powers and sanctions of the ombudsmen allow, in extreme and very rare cases, an ombudsman to act as a special prosecutor and bring charges against an official for malfeasance. |
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| Contract awarded for The ombudsman requires hiring teaching a language course for mid-level mapudungun according to what is stated in the attached tender. |
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| The availability of an appeal of an NCUA examination to an administrative law judge and then to the FFIEC's ombudsman may not be the panacea that credit unions seem to assume. |
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| The town's ombudsman said he would look into charges of corruption. |
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| The insurance company's ombudsman was able to resolve the problem. |
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| He wrote to the Yacht Club, the Nelson City Council, the Ombudsman, the Minister for Local Government, the Prime Minister. |
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| To be fair, the Ombudsman has also directed his attention to two individuals, in particular. |
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| Rather, the Ombudsman now seeks to take each case as far as is necessary for a just resolution to be reached. |
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| Since then thousands of unresolved disputes between the insured and their insurers have been referred to the Insurance Ombudsman and settled. |
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| The Ombudsman is the sole judge of fact and he can only be corrected on errors of law. |
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| An Attorney-General representative denied this, pointing to safeguards in the legislation such as reporting to Parliament and oversight by an Ombudsman, The Age reports. |
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| The clearing house in ECC Dublin could forward your case to the Financial Ombudsman in Britain to look for a satisfactory solution. |
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| A forum such as the State Ombudsman, can act as the arbitrator in the event of future disputes. |
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| It will also be a criminal offence to give false or misleading information to the Ombudsman Commission. |
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| The spokesman for the Ombudsman said that each case was examined individually. |
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| They feel the plans were railroaded through the district council and they have addressed their concerns to the Local Government Ombudsman. |
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| Complaints have also been made to the Ombudsman alleging flaws in planning procedures, but these have been rejected. |
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| All money paid into the credit union is insured and covered by the Financial Ombudsman. |
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| The Ombudsman can look into all aspects of administration, and has extensive powers in law. |
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| Thirty-two government officials allegedly using government vehicles for private purposes were charged with malversation yesterday in the Office of the Ombudsman. |
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| In general, it will be only through the Ombudsman that members of Parliament on the Opposition benches will be able to figure out what the commission is doing. |
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| The Prison Ombudsman is carrying out an inquiry into the case and recommendations have already been made, including assessing inmates who pose a risk to cellmates. |
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| Longphort House is currently the headquarters for the Ombudsman, which occupies the entire second floor, with Allergan Pharmaceuticals occupying the ground and first floors. |
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| But we would also urge whistle-blowers, and those with knowledge of corrupt practices, to forward their complaints to the Office of the Ombudsman. |
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| Standard Life has been rapped over the knuckles by the Financial Ombudsman for turning down claims by policyholders who got their weight wrong on application forms. |
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| An inquiry headed by the Police Ombudsman, a sort of referee figure, came down against the informer allegation. |
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| The conference organized by the Federal Ombudsman Secretariat is aimed at sharing the experiences of fellow Ombudsmen to enhance working of regional ombudsmen offices. |
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| In March 2011, the House of Representatives impeached Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, becoming the second person to be impeached. |
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| The force is subject to the oversight of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. |
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| The Financial Ombudsman Service upheld fewer complaints against Lloyds TSB than it did against Barclays. |
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| The European Ombudsman is elected by the Parliament, who deals with public complaints against all institutions. |
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| Carpio-Morales said that to standardise usage, the Office of the Ombudsman will be coming out with its own stylebook based on British English. |
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| Meanwhile, the government's own Human Services department is under fire from the Ombudsman for its failure to protect children in its care. |
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| Ombudsman said that this visit comes as part of a series of working trips and visits aimed to benefit from international expertise and experiences in the work of Ombudsmen. |
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| Tobagonians will get access to the services of the Financial Services Ombudsman on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month. |
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| The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman represents the interest of Scottish Water's customers and has powers to investigate complaints. |
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| Biaudet currently serves as Finnish Ombudsman for Minorities. |
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| He said the institution of Ombudsman was facing various challenges and stressed a need to retool and redesign the Ombudsman's forum for a quantum jump in its performance. |
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