Sentences with phrase «at the crown prosecution»

It is clear there is something seriously wrong at the Crown Prosecution Service.

Nazir Afzal, Former Chief Crown Prosecutor for Northwest England at the Crown Prosecution Service

Alison Stanley, HR director, civil service employee policy; David Stephens, director of resources (Army), HM Armed Forces, Ministry of Defence; Andrea Sutcliffe, chief inspector of adult social care, Care Quality Commission; Deborah Walsh, deputy head of counter-terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service; and Nick Whitfield, chief executive, Achieving for Children, all also receive CBEs.

Tuckers Solicitors Fraud & White - Collar Business Crime Department has an renowned international reputation for successfully defending cases brought by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), National Crime Squad, HM Customs & Excise (HMRC), the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), Financial Services Authority (FSA), Fraud Prosecution Division, Ministry of Defence, Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the Department of Trade and Industry and the Casework Directorate at the Crown Prosecution Service.

Also receiving an OBE were: Karen Jones, Crown Advocate at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), for services to law and order; David Thomas, senior legal business advisor at the CPS, for services to law and order; Derrick Kelleher, head of operations in the National Crime Agency's organised crime command; Graeme Nuttall, partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse, for services to employee ownership, share schemes and mutual; Jennifer Bibbings, Dubai partner at Trowers & Hamlins, for services to British business interests; and Elspeth Macarthur, former member of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland, for services to judicial appointments.

Not exact matches

This statement is made by the Crown Prosecution Service in the interests of transparency and accountability to explain the decisions reached in the cases of Mr Christopher Huhne and Ms Vasiliki Pryce and to explain the time taken in arriving at these decisions.

Quite how Mr Cameron intended to guarantee that fetter on the discretion of the independent Crown Prosecution Service was never explained, but the public was thereafter treated to Chris Grayling's party piece at the Conservative party conference, which went someway beyond Mr Cameron's hashed restatement of the existing law.

Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson had even more legal problems laid at their desk today, after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced criminal charges for conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office.

The chances of further prosecutions over phone hacking at news of the World increased today after the Metropolitan police handed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service.

The chances of further prosecutions over phone hacking at News of the World increased today after the Metropolitan police handed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

In May, the Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service set up a joint panel of detectives and lawyers to look at the reports of how some MPs were using the Parliamentary expenses.

I am distressed and angry that the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] have reached this decision when they knew all the facts and were in a position to stop the case at this stage.

At every stage - from the police's handling of the PR around an incident, to the slowness of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), to the imbalance of the coroner's court and the reluctance of the Crown Prosecution Service — there are reasons for a family to lose faith in British justice.

Crown Prosecution Service advice at the time was that proving the offence of voicemail interception meant demonstrating that a voicemail had been intercepted prior to it being listened to by the intended recipient, Mr Yates said.

Insiders admit that there is a debate about Mr Coulson's future at Downing Street which has intensified since last week's announcement that the Crown Prosecution Service is to review all evidence in the phone - hacking case.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in a statement that Chris Huhne «made sustained challenges against the prosecution before pleading guilty at the last minProsecution Service (CPS) said in a statement that Chris Huhne «made sustained challenges against the prosecution before pleading guilty at the last minprosecution before pleading guilty at the last minute».

She is to appear at Westminster magistrates court on September 19th to face 15 charges of false accounting and six of forgery, the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed.

At a time when the families of the victims are waiting to see whether the Crown Prosecution Service will prosecute those responsible, comments like these are not helpful

A dozen police forces have passed files to the Crown Prosecution Service over allegations that up to 20 Conservative MPs broke local spending limits at the last general election.

«All the public statements made by the Crown Prosecution Service about this case have been made based on the information that was available at the time.

Dozens of Conservative MPs expect to learn shortly whether they will be charged with fraud in relation to their spending at the last election, as deadlines for the Crown Prosecution Service to make a decision approaches.

Some of those questions were hinted at by the man who led the inquiry, John Yates, the deputy assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard, who said it had been the Crown Prosecution Service's decision not to go to court, not his.

Given the nature of the legislation, given the nature of what would constitute something the Crown Prosecution Service would constitute was worth taking to trial, then I think you would need to say it's at that point you need maximum judgment,» he said.

After qualifying at a City law firm, Milford joined the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in 1992 and became a solicitor - advocate seven years later.

The Court noted at para. 64: «In Crown Policy manuals, the initiation or continuation of a prosecution is generally not recommended unless there exists a reasonable prospect of conviction and it is in the public interest to pursue the criminal proceeding.»

Kelly Dawson, Criminal Trial Lawyers Association president and managing partner at Dawson Duckett Shaigec & Garcia Barristers in Edmonton, says he does «believe and accept that the Crown prosecution service is under - resourced and has been for some time,» though he says he can't comment to the severity of the issue.

Articles of clerkship were served at the Crown Law office — Criminal, which handles Ontario's serious Criminal Code appeals and prosecutions of police officers.

[11] Crown Prosecution Service and Serious Fraud Office, Deferred Prosecution Agreements Code of Practice — Crime and Courts Act 2013, 11 February 2014, at para. 2.8.2 (i).

She worked at the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service, most recently serving as the co-ordinator of the High Risk Offenders Unit in Specialized Prosecutions.

Until the problem of «the unavailability to the majority of the population of legal services at reasonable cost» is solved, the prosecutors of this offence should be Crown counsel, or at the least such prosecutions should require approval by Crown counsel.

Until the problem of «the unavailability to the majority of the population of legal services at reasonable cost» is solved, the prosecutors of this offence should be Crown counsel, or at the least such prosecutions... [more]

She studied the LPC at The University of Law (ULaw)'s former York campus before working for the Crown Prosecution Service, the Home Office Immigration Department, and her own legal practice.

The Crown's decision to wait so long to withdraw charges «prevented Batchewana from logging for eight years... At the last moment to say, «we're not going to pursue this, you should really initiate a civil claim — they could have done that in 2009, and said, listen, we're not going to pursue this prosecution.

There are three ways by which a Crown Attorney may terminate a prosecution other than by proceeding to verdict at trial:

Many junior criminal lawyers in Alberta think that a stay of proceedings is a normal way for a Crown Attorney to terminate a prosecution before verdict at trial.

At Corker Binning, Jemma has advised on a wide range of white collar, general crime, extradition and regulatory matters including investigations and prosecutions brought by the Crown Prosecution Service, the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Health & Care Professions Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the Taxation Disciplinary Board.

A theatre group charged with impersonating police officers at the G20 protests are planning to sue the Metropolitan Police after the Crown Prosecution Service dropped all charges.

A smattering of days playing at being a Crown don't quite qualify me to claim that I've walked a mile in those shoes, but my short jog in prosecution sneakers has provided me with a fuller appreciation of the disparate voices in our struggling system.

Private prosecutions are further discouraged by the fact that the Crown Prosecution Service can at any time take the prosecution away from the private citizen and teProsecution Service can at any time take the prosecution away from the private citizen and teprosecution away from the private citizen and terminate it.

This role is, as suggested by Madame Justice Abella, timeless and does not crystallize at particular points of a prosecution but must permeate every action or inaction of the Crown.

The first successful prosecution under the Bribery Act 2010 was against Munir Patel, a clerk at Redbridge Crown Court.

This case concerned extension of the custody time limit under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, s 22 (3) in circumstances where delay had been caused by listing difficulties at the crown court.

This is modern Canadian justice, where even such a shocking killing is rendered sterile, the poor victim barely given a nod, all in the name, presumably, of a prosecution so measured that no one will ever again be wrongfully convicted — or at least not because a Crown attorney thundered inappropriately and inflamed a jury.

The provision would extend the powers and rights of audience of DCWs by enabling them to conduct: - summary trials in magistrates» courts; - certain proceedings in magistrates» courts, including proceedings relating to offences triable only on indictment by a judge and jury at the crown court; - applications and other proceedings relating to «preventative civil orders» such as anti-social behaviour orders; and - certain proceedings (other than criminal proceedings) assigned to the director of public prosecutions by the attorney general under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, s 3 (2)(g).

«No bills» meant that, that was the end of the prosecution, even though a judge at a preliminary inquiry had decided that the Crown's evidence justified a trial — that there was a case of probable guilt.