Sikh students have indeed been allowed to wear turbans since colonial times but that historicalpractice does not justify further modifications for other groups.
Bernard Houdin, an adviser to former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, said that such payments were "a historicalpractice" and that "the sums mentioned are no doubt below reality".
And as both historicalpractice and judicial decisions confirm, the fact that documents reside within an agency rather than in the White House is irrelevant to whether they are privileged.
It took me nearly 20 years to write the book because it took my father 10 years to tell me the stories and teach me the principles of my own immigrant values and historical past, and another 10 years to put them into practice so that I could refine them and design the methodology.
The investigation came after NHS Lothian was found to be manipulating waiting time codes in 2011, although ministers said the practice was not widespread and that concerns raised in the Audit Scotland report were "historical".