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absolute right
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absolute right A right set out in the European Convention on Human Rights that cannot be interfered with lawfully, no matter how important the public interest in doing so might be. Absolute rights include
freedom of thought, conscience, and religionan...
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Executive opposes giving tenant farmers absolute right to buy
The Scotsman
; THE Scottish Executive confirmed yesterday that it is against giving some tenant farmers the right to buy their land whether or not the landowner wants to sell. During a debate on the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Bill it also became clear that the SNP may be easing away from plans to propose
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Call for right-to-buy time limit
The Scotsman
; A PROMINENT tenant farmer has suggested that absolute right to buy for tenants could be introduced for three years then dropped. Most of the secure tenants to which right to buy of any kind would apply have already made up their minds about what they would do, Stewart Jamieson told a recent meeting
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New drive to thrash out tenancy reforms
The Scotsman
; REPRESENTATIVES of every organisation with a vested interest in farm tenancy reform will meet at Ingliston this morning to put the finishing touches to a united front on the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Bill. Agreement by all on the priorities of the Bill - including rents determined according
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320m pounds bill for right to buy land
The Scotsman
; TAXPAYERS in Scotland face a massive 320 million pounds compensation bill under controversial plans to give tenant farmers an absolute right to buy their land, it emerged last night. The Scottish Parliament's rural development committee is considering pressing for the absolute right to buy being
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Ewing keeps on fighting
The Scotsman
; ABSOLUTE right to buy for tenant farmers has not yet been given up by its supporters in the rural development committee report published yesterday on the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Bill. Fergus Ewing, SNP, who won a 6:3 vote to insert a sympathy vote for absolute right to buy into the 255
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Finnie against farmers' absolute right to buy
The Scotsman
; ROSS Finnie, the rural development minister, said yesterday that he was against giving tenant farmers an absolute right to buy their holdings. He told the rural development committee taking evidence on the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Bill that it proposed a pre-emptive right to buy - first
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Gates should stand up to government
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Bill Gates is wavering in the face of government and public criticism. A hard-line response he could make is: "I have an absolute right to offer for sale a product I have created on any terms I set. I recognize the absolute right of every prospective buyer to reject my offer or accept it as he or
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Minister rules out absolute right to buy
The Scotsman
; ROSS Finnie, the rural development minister, has effectively ruled out any future absolute right to buy for tenant farmers. Trying to quell criticisms of the Executive's farm-tenancy reform bill, which gives a first-chance right to buy for some tenants, effective from yesterday, the minister said:
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MSPs back right-to-buy plan
The Scotsman
; IT SEEMS increasingly likely that the rural development committee taking evidence on the Agricultural Holdings Bill will recommend absolute right-to-buy for tenant farmers who hold existing secure tenancies. That became clear yesterday when, for the third session in succession, questions from the
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Art has limits, readers say
Chicago Sun-Times
; By a margin of more than 4-1, Chicago Sun-Times readers say art students don't have an absolute right to artistic expression. The readers were responding to a Sun-Times PhonePoll about a controversial student artwork at the Art Institute that appears to invite people to step on the American flag.
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