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(a) Has the Assessment Office "faithfully" followed

the procedures presented in its terms of

reference ?

This seems to be a matter of reviewing the

terms of reference of the Assessment Office

and asking ourselves whether what the Office

has done in discharging its task

including

the scope and handling of its report

—

dealt

"faithfully" with all that its terms of

reference required. The media assessment

may present a special problem. Our answer

may quickly be "Yes"; but we may also wish

to note that the Assessment Office had to

go beyond its strict terms of reference

in arranging advertisements and dealing

with confidentiality.

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(b) Has the Assessment Office discharged its

duties "properly" ?

We may wish to make clear that "properly" might be

regarded as covering "impartially" and also "accurately".

Having said that, we may wish to ask ourselves whether

the way in which the Assessment Office was staffed and

organized, and the modus operandi it adopted, proved

in practice capable of enabling it to discharge its

duties "properly" primarily in the sense of efficiently

and (I should perhaps add) in a way that commanded

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