Sentences with phrase «against alleged perpetrators»

Representing the local authority seeking injunctions against the alleged perpetrators and reporting restriction orders due to jigsaw identification arguments.

Taking action against alleged perpetrators of sexual violence in Somalia is however, beset with difficulties.

But New York is one of the most restrictive in the nation when it comes to allowing victims from long - ago abuse to file lawsuits against their alleged perpetrators, and so neither the former priest or the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo is liable for the acts he told The Buffalo News he committed long ago.

New York is among the most restrictive states in the nation when it comes to allowing victims of sexual abuse from years ago to file lawsuits against their alleged perpetrators.

Pakistani officials have been cracking down on social media dissent in recent years, and even turning a blind eye to mob violence against alleged perpetrators of blaspheming.

Also, it may be the responsibility of the church to initiate church disciplinary proceedings against the alleged perpetrator.

The measure also contains a one - year window of opportunity where any New Yorker who was sexually abused as a child can bring civil action against the alleged perpetrator, regardless of the victim's age.

The mother had never lodged a domestic violence complaint against the alleged perpetrator.

The civil case safeguards the animals while the criminal case against the alleged perpetrator gets ready to proceed.

A further provision will be inserted into PHA 1997 whereby the criminal court, when acquitting an alleged perpetrator of any offence, may, if it considers it necessary to do so to protect a person from harassment by the alleged perpetrator, make a restraining order against the alleged perpetrator.

The employee could lodge a complaint against the alleged perpetrator (depending on the wording of the law and the relationship between the perpetrator and the complainant), their own employer, or both, with the relevant regulatory authorities under any (or more than one) of the laws, simultaneously or consecutively, and either contemporaneously with, before or after a workplace policy complaint.

If the employer has an internal harassment policy, a harassed employee could lodge a compliant against the alleged perpetrator under it.

Not exact matches

Under federal law, it is already a victim's choice whether to pursue charges against an alleged assailant on campus, if the perpetrator is a student, or with local police, or both.

He was the proven perpetrator of more sabotage against Republicans and their candidates than the other three persons combined were alleged to commit.

If no alleged perpetrators of fraud at major companies or banks end up being sent to prison, then the mere payment of large fines is a distinctly Pyrrhic victory in the long - term battle against fraud.

Where an investigation pits the savvy of the alleged criminal against that of the authorities — who use some of the most advanced technology in the industry to catch predators — some victims and even some alleged perpetrators may be denied justice under the law.

Judges have, as a result of their experience, in recent years adopted the course of cautioning juries against applying stereotypical images how an alleged victim or an alleged perpetrator of a sexual offence ought to have behaved at the time, or ought to appear while giving evidence, and to judge the evidence on its intrinsic merits.

Last January, Peter Wilson was appointed special prosecutor to look into the possible prosecution of alleged perpetrators of sexual exploitation and other offences against minors in Bountiful, the polygamist enclave of fundamentalist Mormons in southeastern British Columbia.