Sentences with phrase «duffy trial»

Now, this is all interesting stuff, but here's the point that makes the Duffy trial occasionally so frustrating for legal observers: whether I'm right or wrong, this is ultimately a legal question for the judge to answer.

The Mike Duffy trial is back for round three and, while this albatross was hung firmly around Stephen Harper's neck, its return to the headlines is bound to remind people of Trudeau's promise to radically revamp the Red Chamber.

Harper said he wasn't going to discuss the latest controversial revelations from the Duffy trial from the previous day that more closely linked Ray Novak, his current chief of staff, to a $ 90,000 payment to Duffy in 2013.

Opposition leaders take aim at Harper's aide and his connection to the ongoing Mike Duffy trial as the campaign continues

Not exact matches

During Wright's six days in the witness box at Duffy's fraud trial, it emerged that Novak was informed about Wright's plan to repay the expenses.

With the current ongoing fraud trial of Senator Mike Duffy, we have seen the consequences these cases can have on a public figure.

Mr. Duffy has successfully obtained not guilty verdicts at trial, thereby avoiding a criminal conviction and preventing his client from having to suffer any criminal consequences.

Mike Duffy expected to push for trial in order to fight charges over his expense claims, The Globe and Mail

He was a key figure in the Harper government, and a prominent witness at the fraud and bribery trial of Senator Mike Duffy.

I think it would be fair to say that the verdict in Duffy's trial surprised many who had decided that corruption was rampant in the Senate and Duffy was simply the tip of the iceberg.

Senator Mike Duffy's trial starts today, April 7, and will have its full share of drama and revelation.

These three charges relate to Duffy's acceptance of a cheque from Nigel Wright, and here is where the trial might get most complicated.

This is a good place to start because, as will become apparent, I'm pretty convinced after reading the coverage of this trial that not everyone is on the same page with respect to what the Crown needs to prove to show that Duffy is guilty of a crime here.

Examined in combination, however, it is easy to feel that «justice» is not being done here and that we are bearing witness to a trial that has very little to do with whether Mike Duffy is guilty of the three counts with which he's been charged.

Unlike the Bernardo trial, where the primary interest was in the facts of the case, as the legal issues were quite uncontroversial, it is not difficult to sense great confusion about what is actually happening in Duffy's case.

It's hard to remember a trial that has dominated the public consciousness quite as much as the ongoing case against Mike Duffy.

Reverie Labs» founders Connor Duffy, Ankit Gupta and Jonah Kallenbach, who named their company after a pivotal detail in the HBO series «Westworld,» explain that its tech analyzes early ideas for molecules from pharmaceutical scientists and suggests possible improvements to shorten the amount of time it takes to reach clinical trials.