Rule of Law
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Open and Accountable principles on roles and responsibilities of Ministers in Canada’s Parliamentary Government (2015)
Open and Accountable Government sets out core principles regarding the roles and responsibilities of Ministers in Canada’s system of responsible parliamentary government. This includes the central tenet of ministerial responsibility, both individual and collective, as well as Ministers’ relations with the Prime Minister and Cabinet, their portfolios and Parliament. It outlines standards of conduct expected of Ministers as well as addressing a range of administrative, procedural and institutional matters. It also provides guidance to ministerial exempt staff and useful information for public servants and Canadians on Canada’s system of government. Finally, on the critical issue of ethical conduct, Ministers are expected to be thoroughly familiar with the Conflict of Interest Act.
Speeches
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We possess weapons of tremendous power, but they are least effective in infiltration, guerrilla warfare, or civil disorder-JKF at Washington University (16/11/1961)
We possess weapons of tremendous power–but they are least effective in combating the weapons most often used by freedom’s foes: subversion, infiltration, guerrilla warfare, civil disorder.
UKSC
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DCM (Optical Holdings) Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (Scotland)-[2022]UKSC 26
Value Added Tax Act 1994-Whether HMRC have power to refuse to accept a taxable person’s self-assessment claim for payment of a VAT credit while they verify the claim and to decide at a later date that they are only prepared to pay a lower amount than it claimed in the self-assessment.
