What about legal competence in the rest of the criminal justice system?

"I just wanted to try to make sure that people had no questions about my competence when the debate was over," he said.

Most of the time he talked generally, about reform, competence and change.

But others say that too many questions are being raised about the panel's competence.

This lasted only 20 minutes, and some questions have been raised about its competence.

To say that the election is about "competence" tells us nothing.

"There is some question about his credentials and competence," she said.

After your very first job and outside the state sector employers care far more about competence than which degree where.

Your disputes about competence will not, at any rate, meet with much public sympathy.

Even before then, several students and faculty members had raised concerns about his competence to practice medicine.