The Equality and Human Rights Commission was established by the Equality Act 2006, bringing together the three existing UK equality commissions - the Commission for Racial Equality, the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Disability Rights Commission. During this process of rationalisation, the Government placed three new strands of human rights under the aegis of the EHRC - age, sexual orienta...

Mr. Steven Opoku-Mensah, Western Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC) said the Commission will not hesitate to dismiss any polling assistant found to have taken sides with any political party.

The EU commission is getting thoroughly fed up with this, the continuing saga of the so-called "VW Law" which has been dragging on since 2004. It cropped up most recently last May when the commission was already fed up so, to say it is now "thoroughly fed up" is perhaps an understatement. However, we are not a swear blog so we cannot articulate what the commission is probably thinking – and ...

According to the second paragraph of Article 197 of the Treaty establishing the European Community (TEC), Members of the Commission may attend all meetings and shall, at their request, be heard on behalf of the Commission. Under the consolidated Treaty of Lisbon, the first paragraph of Article 230 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) would shorten this to: The Commission m...

Secretary of State Owen Paterson has appointed Peter Osborne as Chair of the Parades Commission for Northern Ireland and six new Commission members.

Last year’s Liberal Democrat manifesto promised that “We will establish an independent commission, with cross-party support, to develop proposals for long-term care of the elderly.” The new Government took swift action on this manifesto call, setting up an independent commission chaired by Andrew Dilnot in July last year. This week, the Commission on the Funding

Handelsblatt reports on the Commission’s proposals for stricter regulation and supervision of the derivatives market, to be published later in the month. According to a draft of the proposal seen by the paper, the Commission plans to take a "central role" in regulating "bilaterally traded derivatives [which] will have to be processed through a central counterparty".

Baroness Ashton has been nominated as the British member of the European Commission to replace Peter Mandelson, but she’ll be in post only until the summer of 2009 as a new Commission takes office in autumn 2009 (presuming she can take even up the position). She would of course be eligible for full 5 year

By email to louise.edwards at the Charity Commission Hard copy will be sent to Louise Edwards Compliance Investigation Unit ( London) Charity Commission Direct PO Box 1227 Liverpool L69 3UG To the Charity Commission, I have been travelling for many weeks in North Africa and the Middle East, Europe, and North America . I have returned to a London address I seldom visit

The Irish Independent reports that the Commission is planning to table a proposal for a common corporate tax base in the EU. The Irish Times quotes a draft Commission document, which reads: “The Commission will take steps to improve the co-ordination of national tax policies, notably by proposing a directive introducing the common consolidated corporate tax base”.