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But in a written response to the lawyers» association, the director of public prosecutions in Nova Scotia announced that he had initiated an internal review.

These matters are prosecuted by the Director of Public Prosecutions in the courts.

Not exact matches

An inquest into the death of a baby boy at a vicarage in Lancashire has been halted and referred to the director of public prosecutions, after new evidence emerged.

Rather than ignore the complaint, the Irish police took it seriously and prepared and forwarded a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions, who in turn opened an investigation.

The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Kwara State Ministry of Justice, Jimoh Mumini, made this known after an emergency Security Council meeting chaired by Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed on Wednesday at the Government house in Ilorin.

The presiding judge, Justice James Tsoho during the hearing ordered that Nnamdi Kanu be taken to prison instead of being kept in custody of the DSS overruling the request by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr. Mohammed Diri, for the continued incarceration of Kanu by the DSS.

Rosemary Bechler (RB): Few of us understood the full import of what Ken Macdonald QC, former Director of Public Prosecutions, was saying at the Convention of Modern Liberty in 2009 when he referred to the then just published paper by Sir David Omand on the effect of modern data mining and processing techniques on intelligence work.

The director of public prosecutions and head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Ken McDonald, leads the list of knighthoods in the Queen's 2007 new year's honours.

The director of public prosecutions should never have been put in this position.

Immediately after his arrest and interdiction in March, David Nenyi Ampah - Bennin, director general in charge of public affairs of the Ghana Police Service told the media that investigations into the affair could be over in about a week, after which prosecutions will begin.

[210] Later on the same day, giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, former director of public prosecutions Lord MacDonald stated that it took him «three to five minutes» to decide that the same emails contained in the file passed to Harbottle & Lewis contained «blindingly obvious» evidence of corrupt payments to police officers, which had to be immediately passed to the Metropolitan Police.

[241] On 19 July, Lord MacDonald the former Director of Public Prosecutions engaged by News Corporation to review the emails handed to Harbottle & Lewis in 2007, said in evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee:

The attention of the Kwara State Ministry of Justice has been drawn to a story published by an online medium that the suspected cultists arrested and interrogated by the Police in Ilorin and recommended for trial by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) but suddenly transferred to Police Headquarters, Abuja, had in their statement indicted -LSB-...]

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is mounting a major inquiry into misconduct allegations at South Yorkshire police, while director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer is reviewing evidence which informed the independent panel report published in September.

In November 2007, the director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, said prosecutors have «managed comfortably» with the existing 28 - day limit.

The former director of public prosecutions has only just become an MP after being elected in Frank Dobson's old seat of Holborn and St Pancras, in North London at the general election.

The attention of the Kwara State Ministry of Justice has been drawn to a story published by an online medium that the suspected cultists arrested and interrogated by the Police in Ilorin and recommended for trial by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) but suddenly transferred to Police Headquarters,...

The freed female inmate, Ameh Happy, who was standing trial for criminal conspiracy and armed robbery got reprieve when advise from the Director of Public Prosecution DPP absolved her of any complicity in the alleged offence.

This means that any extension would not only be: - subject to a specific case being made by the Director of Public Prosecutions; - subject every seven days up to the agreed limit to the approval of a High Court Judge; - subject to the regular report of the independent reviewer with an annual debate in parliament; - but also be subject in each and every instance to a specific parliamentary notification procedure, to a further statement to parliament on the individual case, a review on the specific case by the independent reviewer and with the provision for this House to scrutinise and debate the report and all the circumstances.

Conversation frequently turns to who could lead the party after another defeat in 2020: the former paratrooper Dan Jarvis; the shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna (who withdrew from the race after just a few days); the former director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer; even David Miliband.

Details of the charges were confirmed by Alison Levitt, the principal legal adviser to the director of public prosecutions at the CPS, in a statement read to journalists in central London this morning.

Others are the Code of Conduct Bureau, the CCT; the CCT chairman, Umar; Mr. Ataedzeagu Adza, CCB chairman, Mr. Sam Saba; Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Diri, and a Deputy Director in the ministry, Mr. Muslim Hassan.

At the resumption of his trial on Thursday, the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, in the state, Titilayo Shitta - Bey told the Justice Justice Hakeem Oshodi - led court that the amendment relates only to the punishment section for the second charge.

It comes as director of public prosecutions (DPP) Keir Stramer appears before MPs in parliament.

But in a detailed letter to the home affairs committee today, director of public prosecutions (DPP) Kier Starmer directly contradicted Mr Yates testimony.

Sir Ken Macdonald, director of public prosecutions, said: «They have said that they are prepared to put Mr Lugovoi on trial in Russia if the evidence is forwarded to them.

Edward Leigh MP, chairman of the committee, said: «The new director of the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office was thrown in at the deep end when appointed from outside the public sector.

Householders are extremely unlikely to be prosecuted for attacking burglars in their own home unless they go after them for revenge, the Director of Public Prosecutions said today.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, in a speech in March 2011 spoke of the «very many» disability hate crimes that the Crown Prosecution Service deals with every year.

They were pointed to in June last year, when the director of public prosecutions published guidelines for how prosecutors should approach what is said on social media.

Acting deputy commissioner John Yates and director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer locked horns last week over the legal advice given to the Met in the original investigation.

In fact the sole reason for having a director of public prosecutions is to give guidance as to when certain prosecutions may or may not be in the public interesIn fact the sole reason for having a director of public prosecutions is to give guidance as to when certain prosecutions may or may not be in the public interesin the public interest.

Keir Starmer QC, director of public prosecutions, said: «Having thoroughly reviewed the evidence gathered by the police, we have decided there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to bring criminal charges against Margaret Moran.

What we have been given today is clarity from the director of public prosecutions (DPP) that certain considerations may mean prosecution «is not in the public interest».

In 2004 the Foreign Affairs Select Committee called for the ISC to become a full Parliamentary committee, something backed by former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord MacDonald and many more.

Led in evidence by Mrs. Idowu Alakija, the State's Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Obafunwa, who is a Consultant Pathologist to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and the former Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), said the victims of the collapsed building died due to multiple injuries, traumatic asphyxia, severe blood loss, severe fracture and compression of the skull with the brain tissue, congested heart failure against the background of hypertension and accumulation of blood in the chest cavity.

The director of public prosecutions was instructed by the law lords to draw up guidelines indicating the various factors for and against prosecution in such cases.

Last night, my State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatai Ahmed revealed to me an information at his disposal that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for several weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice were ordered to be transferred to Abuja thprosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice were ordered to be transferred to Abuja thProsecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice were ordered to be transferred to Abuja this morning.

In a separate development, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, has taken the unusual step of publicly challenging a senior serving police officer, who has been closely involved in the hacking affaiIn a separate development, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, has taken the unusual step of publicly challenging a senior serving police officer, who has been closely involved in the hacking affaiin the hacking affair.

The Federal Government's counter-affidavit filed in support of the motion and deposed to by a litigation clerk in the Office of the Director Public Prosecutions, pieced together Kanu's alleged acts of serial violation of the bail conditions imposed by the court.

But even before Friday's discovery of potentially lethal bomb plots, the Guardian reported that the review ordered by the incoming home secretary, and apparently in the safe hands of the former director of public prosecutions turned Lib Dem peer Lord Macdonald, was in danger of being captured by the security establishment.

But in the amended charges filed by the new Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Mr. Umar Mohammed, the National Coordinator of IPOB member, Mr. Chidiebere Onwudiwe, was added to the defendants, bringing the number of accused persons to four.

One of the latest twist of the story told on Wednesday was by Senate President Saraki who announced that his State governor and ally, Abdulfatai Ahmed had told him that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for several weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the director of public prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice, were ordered to be transferred to Abuja on the directive of IGP) Idris Ibrahim.

She was employed as a state attorney at the Attorney - General's Department in 1995 and rose through the ranks till she was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions during the John Mahama administration.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Reg Blanch, is considering bringing charges against two other doctors involved in the case, John Herron and Ian Gardiner.

The Goldman Environmental Foundation joins Omido and CJGEA members in their demands to the Kenyan Director of Public Prosecution, Keriako Tobiko, to step in and investigate the responsible parties.

In December 2013, Mackay awarded QCs to Simon Fothergill, Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Legislation and House Planning, and Machinery of Government) and Counsel, Privy Council Office; Colonel P.K. Gleeson, Deputy Judge Advocate General Operations, Military Justice and Administrative Law, Department of National Defence; Claude Joyal, Senior General Counsel, (Quebec Regional Office), Department of Justice; Urszula Kaczmarczyk, Senior General Counsel, Ontario Regional Office, Department of Justice; Sandra Phillips, Associate Assistant Deputy Attorney General for Tax Assessments; Donald K. Piragoff, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Justice; Brian J. Saunders, Director of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.

In Krohn v Director of Public Prosecutions [1997] EWHC 286 (Admin), where the lawfulness of a s 18 search was in issue after a senior officer had failed to make a record in writing of the grounds of the search and the nature of the evidence sought as required by s 18 (7), Brooke LJ stateIn Krohn v Director of Public Prosecutions [1997] EWHC 286 (Admin), where the lawfulness of a s 18 search was in issue after a senior officer had failed to make a record in writing of the grounds of the search and the nature of the evidence sought as required by s 18 (7), Brooke LJ statein issue after a senior officer had failed to make a record in writing of the grounds of the search and the nature of the evidence sought as required by s 18 (7), Brooke LJ statein writing of the grounds of the search and the nature of the evidence sought as required by s 18 (7), Brooke LJ stated:

Currently, assisting someone's death is a criminal offence, although there have been no prosecutions since the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) published their policy on the issue in Feprosecutions since the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) published their policy on the issue in FeProsecutions (DPP) published their policy on the issue in February 2010.

This mirrors the opinion expressed previously by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, who implied that Judge Shorrock's comments led to perpetuating «the victim - blaming rape myths» that «allowed sexual predators to offend with assumed impunity in days gone by.»