legitimate expectation
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflegitimateandexpectation
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legitimate
adjective
uk/ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mət/us/ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mət/
allowed ...
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expectation
noun
uk/ˌek.spekˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.spekˈteɪ.ʃən/
the feeling that good things are going to happen in ...
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(Definition oflegitimateandexpectationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If the law tells you that the decisions of higher courts are not binding, you cannot have alegitimateexpectationthat they would be.
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The courts also try to give effect to 'legitimateexpectation' which is trying to ensure that public bodies adhere wherever possible to statements and undertakings which have been made public.
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Do the public have alegitimateexpectationthat people working in the public sector should not have intoxicants in their bodies?
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The common element in the subject is the doctrine oflegitimateexpectation.
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If there is alegitimateexpectation, then it has to be reasonably complied with.
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There is alegitimateexpectationamong such visitors that their right of appeal will continue; 21 years establishes thatlegitimateexpectation.
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We have an entirelylegitimateexpectation, however, that no false information is put into circulation.
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No one could have had alegitimateexpectationthat the existing tax regime would remain unchanged.
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I hope that no attempt will be made to disappoint thatlegitimateexpectationof the working classes of the country.
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There is a real problem in regard to what lawyers term "legitimateexpectation".
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At that time it had thelegitimateexpectationof fulfilling its statutory duty of supplying gas to its customers whatever their needs.
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Those allowances clearly have been alegitimateexpectationon the part of those currently in the police service.
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This is not just alegitimateexpectationon the part of the business world; it is also a precondition for a positive climate for investment.
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If these proposals are put into practice, they should help turn understandable apprehension intolegitimateexpectation.
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There is also a risk of delays in making some of the payments of which farmers have alegitimateexpectation.
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In a sense, that is what the constitution of the organisation says, so that is alegitimateexpectationon their part.
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The second is the erosion of the contributory principle and therefore the taking away of what one might perhaps regard as alegitimateexpectation.
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They had alegitimateexpectationthat the review would map out a clear future.
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If so, why should not a private employer have thatlegitimateexpectation?
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Equally, the public have alegitimateexpectationthat driving instructors should deliver a reliable and satisfactory standard of tuition.
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