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The first panel, «Sexual Assault Allegations in the Me Too Era» will deal with giving criminal practitioners tips and strategies in dealing with these types of allegations in today's climate.

The Firm has also specialized in handling a number of High Profile Same - Sex Domestic Assault allegations in Toronto.

The Firm has defended a number of High Profile Domestic Assault allegations in Toronto for men, women and a number of same - sex couples.

Regina v. W.W. (2007) Client found not guilty of sexual assault x 2, sexual interference x 2, arising from historical sexual assault allegations in the Superior Court of Justice after a three day trial.

But changes in the TV industry are evident in the nominations, and the set of sexual assault allegations in Hollywood made an impact in at least one category as well.

For a time, Chalamet seemed like a potential dark - horse spoiler, but the best picture nomination for Darkest Hour — and the curious failure of the assault allegations in his past, which were dismissed in court, to affect his campaign — have made that seem virtually impossible.

As the stars in Hollywood gathered at the Golden Globes under the shadow of the recent wave of sexual assault allegations in Hollywood — and the #TimesUp movement — many of those watching closely from home were quick to use social media to call out the men in the room who had made questionable headlines over the years, and proudly stood in solidarity with the women of Hollywood on Globes night.

Dozens of men have faced harassment and assault allegations in recent months, including Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose and Kevin Spacey.

Speaking up: Margot Robbie has revealed she's been rocked to the core by the sexual assault allegations in Hollywood, admitting she has been forced to confront her old memories and has been «reassessing things» about her past

In early 2015, Baylor's Title IX Office first learned of the sexual assault allegation in connection with three other reports of sexual assault involving multiple football players.

Treanor stepped down on May 1, the same day the New York Post reported his sister had leveled the sex assault allegation in a 2008 lawsuit.

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Dallas Mavericks owner and tech billionaire Mark Cuban has denied a sexual assault allegation from 2011 that resurfaced this week in a report by Willamette Week, a weekly alternative newspaper in Portland, Ore..

Lauer's ouster is the latest in a long (and growing) list of high - profile men in media, entertainment, and other industries who have lost their jobs over a flood of sexual harassment, assault allegations, and other misconduct, including Charlie Rose, Garrison Keillor, Harvey Weinstein, and Kevin Spacey.

CBS says it is looking into recent allegations made by actress Ariane Bellamar that actor Jeremy Piven, who stars in its new drama series Wisdom of the Crowd, sexually assaulted her on the set of the HBO series Entourage several years ago.

Ivanka Trump has weighed in on the allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, claiming that she believes the accounts of the women who have come forward.

In the wake of the sexual harassment and assault allegations that rippled throughout the entertainment, media, and political worlds, 300 prominent women in show business have created an initiative to fight systematic harassment in Hollywood and blue - collar workplaceIn the wake of the sexual harassment and assault allegations that rippled throughout the entertainment, media, and political worlds, 300 prominent women in show business have created an initiative to fight systematic harassment in Hollywood and blue - collar workplacein show business have created an initiative to fight systematic harassment in Hollywood and blue - collar workplacein Hollywood and blue - collar workplaces.

Roy Moore, the party's candidate for what had been one of its safest Senate seats, lost after allegations arose that he had sexually assaulted a 14 - year - old girl when he was in his mid-30s and had pursued other teenagers.

Moore, a controversial far - right Republican, is facing multiple allegations that he sexually assaulted teenage girls while he was in his 30s, while Trump has been accused by more than a dozen women of sexual misconduct.

Kirsten Gillibrand, 51, has often spoken out against sexual assault and harassment, and with many allegations coming to light in 2017, Gillibrand has been an advocate for those coming forward.

Its creation went hand - in - hand with the #MeToo movement of women coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment and assault.

In the past, models and celebrities who worked with the photographer accused him of creating a sexually hostile environment on set, encouraging provocative poses, and sexual assault and harassment, according to a comprehensive list of the allegations leveraged against Richardson compiled by Complex.

Sexual harassment in the workplace is hardly a new phenomenon, but the deluge of disturbing allegations of sexual assault and harassment by powerful, high - profile men has prompted an increasing number of women to come forward with stories of how harassment has impacted their careers.

Sharper's Las Vegas attorney, David Chesnoff, appeared Friday before a Las Vegas judge on two sexual assault charges stemming from allegations that he forced sex on two women in January 2014 while they were incapable of resisting.

Their first test case is in support of a small business owner named Melanie Kohler, one of the first #MeToo women to post allegations of assault against director Brett Ratner.

In fact, it was that entrepreneur (not Fitton) who originally approached Axios, following a November story about Pishevar having been arrested in London for sexual assault (he was never charged with a crime, and denies the allegationIn fact, it was that entrepreneur (not Fitton) who originally approached Axios, following a November story about Pishevar having been arrested in London for sexual assault (he was never charged with a crime, and denies the allegationin London for sexual assault (he was never charged with a crime, and denies the allegation).

Clinton has faced multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment, most famously his affair with Monica Lewinsky — which, while consensual in some sense, was nonetheless textbook sexual harassment of a subordinate of a kind that would (or perhaps more accurately,

Trump himself is the subject of an array of sexual assault and other misconduct allegations, none of which has been properly investigated by congressional Republicans, who prefer to stay in the dark.

Clinton has faced multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment, most famously his affair with Monica Lewinsky — which, while consensual in some sense, was nonetheless textbook sexual harassment of a subordinate of a kind that would (or perhaps more accurately, should) get many CEOs fired from their companies.

As Goldberg notes, some of the conservatives who resurfaced the Broaddrick case in 2015 and 2016 were clearly doing so in bad faith to attack the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, who certainly did not personally assault Broaddrick (Broaddrick's allegations of intimidation aside).

Bill Clinton denied Juanita Broaddrick's allegations through his personal lawyer, David A. Kendall, in 1999, who said, «Any allegation that the president assaulted Mrs. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false.

(Bloom, the daughter of prominent Hollywood attorney Gloria Allred, is known for representing women who bring sexual assault allegations to court; in April, she announced that Weinstein would produce her book as a docuseries.)

But while the Ghomeshi affair revealed the craven efforts of CBCâ $ ™ s management to protect one of their stars in the facing of numerous allegations of assaulting women, the Lang affair speaks to the issue of how the CBC has, in effect, increasingly become a mouthpiece for big business and neo-conservative ideologues.

Last month a report by the US Senate — entitled Putin's Asymmetric Assault on Democracy in Russia and Europe: Implications for US National Security — also criticized the adequacy of the investigations conducted thus far by Facebook and Twitter into allegations of Russian social media interference vis - a-vis Brexit.

Fabiani says: «In May 2017, Mr. Pishevar was detained briefly in London in connection with an alleged sexual assault, an allegation he categorically denieIn May 2017, Mr. Pishevar was detained briefly in London in connection with an alleged sexual assault, an allegation he categorically deniein London in connection with an alleged sexual assault, an allegation he categorically deniein connection with an alleged sexual assault, an allegation he categorically denied.

The sexual assault allegations come in the middle of a reckoning that began with allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, leading to hundreds of women coming forward with their own allegations against dozens of powerful and high - profile men.

State - run newspaper Global Times, commonly regarded a Party mouthpiece, publishes an article in which it addresses claims made by Western media outlets that «sex - related crimes are serious in China,» but that the country ««rarely» takes sexual assault allegations seriously.»

Judd was one of the first women in October 2017 to make an on - the - record allegation of sexual misconduct against Weinstein, which soon afterward evolved into the social media #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault.

It speaks more to the possibilities of women than to the limitations, and Sokolowski said it was chosen based on spikes seen in online searches after three events: the Women's March, the release of «Wonder Woman» and the uncovering of sexual assault allegations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.

A spokeswoman said: «Three members of Victoria police travelled to Rome last week where Cardinal George Pell voluntarily participated in an interview regarding allegations of sexual assault.

A former priest and cathedral clergyman in Northern Ireland has been suspended from ministry over allegations of sexual assault.

This type of allegation is common in spurious sex - abuse cases, in part because it solves a common problem: If the victim was never alone with the predator, when and where did the assault take place?

Handling abuse and assault allegations «in house» by reporting them to the male elders of a church instead of to the police doesn't protect women; it harms them.

Allegations against Bill Cosby have been piling up for the past year, as more than 50 women accused the comedian of rape, sexual assault and sexual misconduct in incidents dating...

There are only a few fraternities on or off campus, and fewer than a hundred students live in them, but they have been the object of allegations of sexual assault, and students and faculty have demanded that something be done.

Scotland Yard is also investigating Spacey over two allegations of sexual assault said to have taken place in Lambeth, south London, in 2005 and 2008.

Fr Wesolowski, from Poland, was expelled from the priest hood in late June amid allegations of a sex assault on a child in the Dominican Republic.

Lawyers have told how, in late 2013, a man made an allegation to the Metropolitan Police, saying he had been sexually assaulted by Sir Cliff at Sheffield United's Bramall Lane football stadium, in Sheffield, when a child in 1985.

A report in the Telegraph claimed Chelsea paid off an alleged victim who had threatened to go public with allegations he was sexually assaulted.

I had a discussion afterwards that in the light of publicly recent assault allegations and allegations of bad dates / unwanted touching / unwelcomed advances... some people question women's behavior (unfairly bc why aren't they equally questioning the men?)

The MP and former London Assembly member had the Conservative whip withdrawn following allegations he had assaulted his pregnant wife in September 2007, although the case was later dropped without charge.