31.   It could use its powers of compulsory acquisition to amalgamate land which was in separate ownerships and acquire land the owners of which could not be traced.

32.   A convicted armed robber has gone to the High Court in Edinburgh to ask that special legal powers be used to re-examine his case.

33.   The organisation has called on the European Commission to use its powers under the Euratom Treaty to investigate contamination around Mururoa.

34.   Conservation group Plantlife has called on the government to use powers of compulsory purchase to protect the remaining bogs.

35.   As a matter of good practice, local authorities should consider using this power as an alternative to removing the child under an emergency protection order.

36.   Local authorities may wish to use these powers to offer short periods of respite care to children in need whose families are otherwise able to accommodate them.

37.   The Independent Broadcasting Authority is an example of a licensing body which has on occasion used its powers to stop the broadcasting of items of borderline legality.

38.   Judges can order reporting to be postponed until the end of the trial, and should where necessary use this power rather than exclude the press.

39.   And it uses less power?

40.   So the Government therefore seeks to use its powers to stop people gaining access to the law and getting advice from local sources.