He added that it was not up to the Lord Advocate or the health minister to decide whether or not to hold an inquiry, insisting they were obliged to do so under Article 2.
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One nurse consultant I spoke to told me that being asked to vote on whether or not to accept the deal felt a bit like trying to decide whether or not to take out a bank loan without knowing the interest rate.
They are due to meet shortly to decide whether or not to pass the case on to the law officers, who in turn would decide whether it would be taken to court.
Investors are, of course, entitled to decide whether or not to take a stance against investing in defense industries.
It will then be up to the new pope to decide whether or not to keep the account running.
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Holyrood's party leaders will meet later today to decide whether or not to endorse the proposal of a royal charter.
The full council will meet the following day to decide whether or not to proceed with consultation on the plans.
Channel 1 will take a month to decide whether or not to green-light a weekly series after viewing the pilot.
His lawyer Peter Keith-Lucas insisted that the committee had no power to decide whether or not to suspend his client.
The technology is there for voice calls, and it's up to the airlines to decide whether or not to deploy it.
The prime minister now has to decide whether or not to try to reverse the vote in the House of Commons.
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According to one UK government source, they have yet to decide whether or not to force an earlier vote on Scotland's future.
Speaking at the 92nd Street Y, Kennedy said it was hard to decide whether or not to edit the interview, by historian Arthur M.
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Instead its up to individual stores to decide whether or not to offer the extended exchange period, or simply stick with the standard 14-day return policy.
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Given the speed of technological change, it's time for both the commission and the FTC to decide whether or not to bring their anti-trust lawsuits against Google.
Psychiatrist Dr Stephen Tyrer told the Court of Protection at the High Court in London, that the woman had the capacity "to decide whether or not to continue with, or terminate, pregnancy".
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Instead of setting out the Bank's advice to the chancellor, who had to decide whether or not to act on it, it will now set out a defence of the Bank's own decisions.
But the new chair has already said that it was his duty to provide the best advice possible - but it was the prerogative of ministers to decide whether or not to accept it.
The call-in notice means the plans have to be discussed by a cross-party panel of councillors to review the decision and to decide whether or not to ask the council's cabinet to rethink their plans.
Electronic chips consist of millions of transistors, each of which does one simple thing: it uses the voltage at one of its three junctions to decide whether or not to let current flow between the other two.
With less than three months to go before Americans take to the polls to decide whether or not to keep Barack Obama in the White House, PricewaterhouseCoopers released some disappointing survey data that shows just how hard of a row the president has to plow.
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The Metropolitan Police has provided a further file of evidence to the crown prosecution service to help them decide whether or not to lay criminal charges against the trio.
He also said ministers would have heard the point of order and would have to decide whether or not they needed to say something to the Commons, "sooner rather than later".
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The longer-term danger, which is no less acute for being unmeasurable, is that the young financier from Madrid, Manhattan or Mumbai will decide not to come to London in the first place.
The snag for the Republicans is that they will have to decide on whether or not to allow the stimulus package to go through long before it is clear whether any attempt to get to grips with budget reform will bear fruit.
Mantega just has to decide whether or not he is going to let the market know about the new currency measures today, Thursday, or in the days ahead.
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If you have two or three industries tentatively targeted, decide whether or not you want to do banks.
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These laws secure the right of employees to decide for themselves whether or not to join or financially support a union.
One of our first acts in government will be to negotiate an amendment to the Treaty of Rome, to allow each country the freedom to decide for itself whether or not to apply new European legislation outside that core.
Much of what passes for international law is really at best international norms countries agree to follow, and politics or national interest when they decide not to.
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