PricewaterhouseCoopers is, and still is, the financial, statutory auditor - with the duty to give an opinion on financial statement verity - of some of the biggest players in the financial crisis.

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But in the statement, it said the panel worked "within the adoption legislation which includes ensuring that statutory and personal references are undertaken, alongside criminal record bureau checks and medicals".

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In a statement it said it was "disappointed" by ACL's decision to issue a statutory demand, rather than "negotiate a level of rent which the club can afford and which is in line with the rent paid by other clubs".

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In a statement, Mr Knight said parents did not have the right to withdraw their children from the statutory sex and education part of the curriculum, only the optional PHSE element.

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"The editors of all national newspapers met yesterday and unanimously agreed to start putting in place the broad proposals - save the statutory underpinning - for the independent self-regulatory system laid out by Lord Justice Leveson, " a statement said.

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In a separate statement to MPs, the Liberal Democrat leader and deputy PM, Nick Clegg, said he believed statutory self-regulation could be done in a "workable and proportionate way".

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