Sentences with phrase «bring criminal prosecutions»

Liberty argues new measures should be introduced to make it easier for police and prosecutors to collect sufficient evidence to bring criminal prosecutions against terror suspects.

In May 2007, federal prosecutors brought a criminal prosecution of Purdue Pharma, the Stamford, Connecticut - based maker of OxyContin.

In February 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit agreed, saying that because prosecutors could bring a criminal prosecution against him based on the contents of the decrypted files, the man «could not be compelled to decrypt the drives.»

The right of any individual or entity to bring a criminal prosecution is regarded by UK law as a constitutional safeguard against the failure or refusal of a State prosecutor to prosecute an offender.

You may not see as many people invest in future businesses, but if the businesses are still selling today, they are going to still sell tomorrow, unless and until the government brings criminal prosecutions I suppose.

Not exact matches

Prosecutors who specialize in terrorism, narcotics trafficking and organized crime, led by the acting head of the Justice Department's criminal division, will bring prosecutions designed to restrict the flow of money to terrorist groups, Sessions said.

He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted in a pending criminal case — one of several prosecutions brought against him.

It is the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) which has the power to bring criminal indictments under the Act.

«But the question for the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] is not whether it was offensive, but whether it was so grossly offensive that criminal charges should be brought.

The bill, however, is encountering fierce opposition from district attorneys who complain it will, among other things, allow criminal defendants to bring bogus charges against prosecutors in a bid to bog down prosecutions.

The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, said there was no evidence to bring criminal charges against David Cameron's director of communications.

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently «seek from the International Criminal Court an arrest warrant to bring Mrs Diezani Alison - Madueke before the court on allegations of corruption against her, which the government should consider as crimes against humanity and serious enough for it to sanction her prosecution before the court.»

The inspector general, who can not bring criminal charges, referred to the Onondaga County District Attorney's office for possible prosecution findings that a former unnamed fair worker stole copper wire from the fairgrounds.

Mr Cable continued: «We therefore believe that the police should investigate this matter fully and the crown prosecution service (CPS) should make an assessment as to whether charges should be brought against those individuals who are implicated in what looks like criminal behaviour.»

Despite bringing more prosecutions, most cases will continue to be dealt with by HMRC levying financial penalties rather than seeking a criminal conviction.

Keir Starmer QC, director of public prosecutions, said: «Having thoroughly reviewed the evidence gathered by the police, we have decided there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to bring criminal charges against Margaret Moran.

«From the CV, it is quite clear that my professional experience is in prosecution and criminal law and that is what I am bringing on board to help him.

If Vote Leave did commit a criminal offence — and the Good Law Project stands ready to bring a private criminal prosecution if the Electoral Commission will not — then parliament will have to work out how much it cares about the laws it enacted.

[63] Although the verdict of the election court indicated a prima facie breach of criminal law, in March 2011 the Crown Prosecution Service announced that it would not bring criminal charges against Woolas as the finding of the Election Court already disqualified him from holding elected office and they felt that this was sufficient punishment.

Announcing the Crown Prosecution Service decision, Mr Starmer said: «In four cases, we have concluded that there is sufficient evidence to bring criminal charges and that it is in the public interest to charge the individuals concerned.»

Regarding the legalities of the case concerning Sangji, early January brought the news that the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which had earlier cited and fined UCLA for «serious» safety violations, sent its report to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office for determination of whether criminal prosecution is warranted.

In cases with the potential to significantly improve legal protections for companion animals, the legal advocacy department will bring legal proceedings corollary to the criminal prosecution including writs, declaratory judgments and petitions for injunctive relief, and will initiate or support civil litigation on the state and federal level to promote those heightened legal protections.

Per a scathing report in 2010 by its Office of Inspector General, the department chose to prioritize «education» of breeders over punishment, «took little or no enforcement action against most violators,» failed to respond to «repeat violations,» and collected insufficient evidence in the few prosecutions it brought against criminal breeders.

It is unclear at the present time whether any criminal prosecutions will be brought in connection with the case.

Justice Mosley did find that the Act's penalty provisions, ss 54 (1)(c) & (1.1) were unconstitutional, saying they «fundamentally altered the nature of the section 13 process and brought it uncomfortably close to the state's ultimate control measure, criminal prosecution.»

She has expertise in defending complex criminal fraud prosecutions, particularly matters brought by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), as well as HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Conducting the defence of a multi-million pound whistleblowing claim brought by a senior employee of a UK retail bank which involved investigation of all allegations, liaising with the regulator, liaising with the police in relation to criminal prosecutions, and defending the employment litigation brought by the relevant employee.

She has experience in handling investigations and prosecutions brought under a wide variety of federal criminal statutes, including banking fraud, health care fraud, bitcoin schemes, computer crimes, securities fraud, mail and wire fraud schemes, Ponzi schemes, insider trading, government contracting fraud, commercial bribery, Anti-Money-Laundering violations, and conspiracy offenses.

«(C) any charge in a criminal prosecution brought under State law if the conduct underlying the charge would constitute a violation of section 2421A of title 18, United States Code, and promotion or facilitation of prostitution is illegal in the jurisdiction where the defendant's promotion or facilitation of prostitution was targeted.».

In order to bring these funds back in to Canada safely, you will need to properly disclose offshore income and assets to the Canada Revenue Agency or you could face stiff penalties, interest and in some cases even criminal prosecution.

If a suspect is not present in a state to be criminally prosecuted, then the options available to a state are (1) to toll the running of the statute of limitations while the suspect is outside the state to the extent permitted by the relevant state statute and the U.S. Constitution, (2) to bring a civil lawsuit against the suspect instead of a criminal prosecution, or (3) to seek extradition of the suspect, which must be granted under certain circumstances under the United State Constitution and reads as follows in the pertinent part:

All criminal prosecutions in the United States are brought by «the People» or «the State» or in the name of «the People» or «the State» even in the small minority of states (not including California) in which private individuals can bring and prosecute criminal complaints (Massachusetts is one of the outliers in the U.S.; England also allows private individuals to prosecute some crimes in a similar fashion, although the government can take over a case if it wishes to do so.)

The gallows has yet to be built on the Andover, Mass., town common, but this weekend brings to that bucolic town an international array of lawyers, academics and authors for the Justice Robert Jackson Conference on the Planning for Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals.

Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 brought its provisions into domestic law with the result that prosecutions can be brought wherever the offence occurred, if the accused is a public official of any state.

A civil action is generally (and advisably) brought after a criminal prosecution has been completed.

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Criminal prosecutions can be brought before the superior courts in each province, as well as the Federal Court.

Following the investigation, we brought the findings to the U.S. Department of Justice for successful prosecution and criminal conviction of the former employee.

The increased use of computers and the Internet has brought along with it prosecutions alleging computer - related criminal activity.

Jasvinder is renowned for her specialism in acting for corporate and individual clients in fraud - related criminal investigations and prosecutions brought by domestic and international authorities.

«The power of the prosecutor to stay public or private prosecutions under s. 579 of the Criminal Code has been described by the Supreme Court as one of the five «core elements of prosecutorial discretion» [Krieger v. Law Society (Alberta) 2002 SCC 65 at para. 46] that relate to whether a prosecution will be brought and what form a prosecution will take.

The case was supported by a coalition of interveners who argued that defamation disputes should be handled under civil law and that criminal prosecutions should be brought only in matters such as incitement to violence.

Beginning in 1987, a series of criminal prosecutions for abuse many years earlier at various Indian residential schools were finally brought.

Samaroo v. Canada Revenue Agency et al. 2015 BCCA 116 Criminal Law — Torts Summary: The plaintiffs brought a civil claim for malicious prosecution after they were acquitted of all tax charges on a 21 - count information.

«In appropriate cases prosecutions may be brought where it is not possible for the Crown to prove by direct evidence the involvement of the defendant in the commission of specific offences nor the receipt of monies by him arising out of the commission of specific criminal offences... Whilst the prosecution must prove that the property is «criminal property» within the meaning of the statutory definition, there is nothing in the wording of the section which imports any further requirement that the property emanated from a particular crime or a specific type of criminal conduct.»

The claimants did not bring their challenge in the context of defending a criminal prosecution, but as an application for a declaration that provisions of the Criminal Code were unconstitcriminal prosecution, but as an application for a declaration that provisions of the Criminal Code were unconstitCriminal Code were unconstitutional.

He applied to the High Court for leave to bring a private prosecution against Ingrams and other Private Eye journalists for criminal libel.

He says the Autorité des marchés financiers in Quebec brought in a special prosecutor who had a background in corporate law and corporate criminal prosecution and supported him with an integrated team from the AMF and Sûreté du Québec.

As detailed in this new Reason piece, headlined «Ross Ulbricht Files Appeal to the Supreme Court on His Life Sentence Without Parole: Silk Road founder's appeal stresses the dangerous Fourth and Sixth Amendment implications of his prosecution and sentencing,» a notable federal criminal defendant is bringing some notable issues to the Supreme Court via a new cert petition.

It allows mothers to anonymously drop off their newborn baby without fear of criminal prosecution IF (1) the baby is unharmed, (2) is no more than 72 hours old, and (3) is brought to a designated drop off site.