Sentences with phrase «before courts»

This was clearly a scheme she designed to intimidate the aspiring candidates and frighten them with the police powers of the Executive from vindicating their rights before the Courts.

The advisory panel's consultation paper reveals that a significant proportion of shoplifters - 27 per cent - who come before the courts are already being given community sentences, with more than half getting community rehabilitation orders.

In all the cases which have gone before the courts, the Home Office only bothered to supply two witness statements, both from members of its staff.

We would, with all deference, strongly advise the police in future not to fail in their threat assessment of cases that come before the courts.

By the GJA Award, are you not prejudicing the outcome of the case before the courts especially the Supreme Court?

He also asked that «by the GJA Award, are you not prejudicing the outcome of the case before the courts especially the Supreme Court?

His success or otherwise, will depend largely on the scope of work and the caliber of people, he will present before the courts for adjudication.

The vast majority of defendants coming before the courts are suffering from addiction, poverty or mental ill - health — very often they suffer from all three.

The criminal courts charge may be misguided and wrong but it has done at least one service, in raising fundamental and far - reaching questions about who is being brought before the courts and why.

Prior to the DFS, Vullo was a litigation partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where she led civil, criminal and regulatory investigations before courts and governmental authorities across the country.

However, he did indicate his interest in getting a plan passed before the courts finish their intervention, something that could still very well happen, although with a rapidly diminishing window of time.

Seven years after it was passed by the Chambers and challenged before the courts, the Tribunal Constitucional finally declared it compatible with the constitution in late 2012.

There, the court decided that as the issue was such a high profile ethical debate, Parliament should first of all have a chance to decide the matter, before the courts do.

The Government need to go back to the drawing board and ensure that everyone has the means to enforce their rights before the courts.

For example, both maps eliminate retiring Congressman Maurice Hinchey's district, which could be indicative of the direction a compromise map between the State Assembly and State Senate would take, should the two bodies manage to pass a set of lines before the courts have finished intervening.

He added that: «On the 8th of May, 2018, the Inspector General of Police sent a letter to the President of the Senate, Federal Republic of Nigeria signed by the Commissioner of Police, Legal and Prosecution Department, explaining why he would not be appearing before the Senate on the 9th of May, 2018 due to legal restraint as a result of pending cases before the courts filed: (i) by Senator Dino Melaye against the IGP and the Nigeria Police Force in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in suit No.

The High Court also ruled that it is crude and improper for police officers to appear before courts with ex parte motions seeking to prohibit the holding of street protests and other public events.

I may yet be proved right in the future when no corruption cases in the judges» corruption cases are pending before the courts or when this government decides to investigate my allegations against the John Mahama government in the use of unconstitutional covert agents during his administration.

Be available to represent and speak for the Club in the public forum, and before the Courts of the University and the University authorities

[p 15] Only a handful of cases were brought before the courts on the reliance on the provision.

«We have had a lot of companies coming in here, Apple is a classic example, who we have before the courts now, who come into Australia and do business the same way they do overseas.

They were, for instance, similarly influenced by the 1970s «consensus» in England that one should not bring abused children or young persons before the courts as witnesses, and that paedophiles and pederasts could be «cured» by therapy.

A wide - ranging child sex scandal, where priests have been accused of molesting young parishioners in the United States and in Europe, has since led to criminal charges in cases still pending before the courts.

The Hobby Lobby case is just one of many before the courts over the religious exemption aspects of the law.

Atheists had been petitioning courts for half a century before the courts started paying any attention.

Therefore, while we may expect it to become more and more a political issue, it is not yet the issue in most cases that come before courts.

Calling a woman who has an abortion for any reason a murderer is hate speech and those who speak in such a way need to be hauled before the courts.

The need goes so far that in British Columbia there are items before the courts dealing with the adoptees» rights to know about sperm donors.

The province has put a jurisdictional question before the courts, asking whether it has the authority to regulate the transport of heavy oil in the province.

Health Minister Helena Jaczek said she could not comment on the lawsuits because they are before the courts but told reporters the Liberal government — which is up for re-election June 7 — has increased funding for nursing homes since taking power in 2003.

«It's before the courts — obviously I can't say much.»

Asked repeatedly about Novak on Wednesday, Harper said he wasn't going to comment on a matter before the courts.

It should certainly be interesting, if the RECBC does decide to carry this thru to the nth degree with this example of government meddling, when some buyer, (that can't use his licensee Sister) decides it is a draconian measure for the Government of BC to dictate whom said buyer may choose to write his contract to purchase a property in The Province and brings the matter before the courts.

The issue of permitting virtual office websites (VOWs) to publicly display sold data — a property's purchase history — is still before the courts.

The Competition Bureau also refused to comment, indicating that «as the matter is before the courts, it would be inappropriate to comment further.»

The issue of permitting virtual office websites (VOWs) to publicly display sold data — a property's purchase history — is still before the courts, a years - long litigation between the Toronto Real Estate Board, CREA and the federal competition bureau.

UPDATED 1:13 PM: EXCLUSIVE: Aspects of Relativity's first bankruptcy are still before the courts, but as expected the company today filed for Chapter 11 with a promise that «funds will be available for distribution» to its approximately 200 unsecured creditors.

«The money comes from interests that have matters before the courts, and they'd like to have those matters settled in their favor.»

Leon's denies the allegations, and the case is still before the courts, though the retailer's reputation has taken a bruising.

After all, acing the algorithms to manage your online reputation is a lot less expensive than dragging the situation before the courts.

I can't say any more on this at this point because the matter is before the courts.»

As it turns out, it's not just the Hulk Hogan case: Thiel admitted in his interview with the Times that he decided several years ago to secretly fund multiple cases in an attempt to cripple the company, and that there is at least one other case before the courts that he's involved in.

The primary issue before the court was whether the CFTC had standing to sue the defendants under the CEA.

The cases before the court seem to hinge on the question of whether corporations can have religious beliefs.

«Our bill, the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act, would resolve the question currently before the Court in a way that balances consumer, law enforcement, and privacy interests.

Well, it seemed that I had, during the course of negotiation with the opposing counsel, started speaking in a slight to moderate Southern accent during our marathon discussions before a court in Western Virginia.

Timothy Lee Hurst, a convicted murderer in Florida v. Hurst, the case before the court, was deemed fit for capital punishment by one of Florida's courts, even though psychologists determined that he was intellectually disabled.

Those include a shareholder lawsuit before a court in the German town of Braunschweig that alleges company officials were too slow in disclosing the scandal, depriving investors of information they needed to make decisions about their holdings.

Balin objected and argued there was an «intense public interest in the issues that are before this court,» according to Bloomberg News.

The court was very concerned about this issue, but found the issue of whether the AG was failing to enforce against seasonal fantasy sports was not yet squarely before the court — but it will be.