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Training takes up a massive amount of the work day or night of an operational firefighter. At two hours a week at best, that is not the case for a retained firefighter.
That fact has, at least, been recognised, which is a first step towards exploring how those difficulties can best be mitigated.A place of refuge is just a part of what is needed.
He goes on to say:"It seems to me that the best policy is one of openness with the advice on the law given by the clerk being made available to the parties as well as to the justices."
It is disappointing if they are not, because they should be. We will do our best to ensure that they do. On returns, we can produce statistics only on the information that we are given.
Rather than our placing the entire burden on the use of the affirmative procedure, it may be best for us simply to recommend that that should be a shot in the ministerial locker.