Sentences with phrase «by judge and 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).

Once a suspect is identified, he or she may be prosecuted by a judge and jury under the law.

(iv) The witnesses were to give evidence behind screens so that they could be seen by the judge and the jury but not by the appellant.

(v) he witnesses» natural voices were to be heard by the judge and the jury but were to be heard by the appellant and his counsel subject to mechanical distortion so as to prevent recognition by the appellant.

Mr. Grant was convicted by judge and jury of one count of second ‑ degree murder.

Synopsis: The appellant was convicted of 16 counts of firearms and drug related offences following a trial by judge and jury.

It is presumptively tried by judge and jury.

Mr. V elected to be tried by a Judge and Jury and to have a preliminary inquiry in the Ontario Court of Justice.

If the Crown elects to proceed by Indictment then the accused can choose (or elect) to have his trial heard by a Judge or by both a Judge and Jury in Supreme Court.

The Plaintiff's claim was set for trial in November to be heard by Judge and Jury.

The trial lasted for 15 days, and was by judge and jury.

So construed question of law would include (without attempting anything like an exhaustive definition which would be impossible) questions touching the scope, effect or application of a rule of law which the courts apply in determining the rights of parties; and by long usage, the term question of law has come to be applied to questions which, when arising at a trial by a judge and jury, would fall exclusively to the judge for determination.»

Robbery is a straight indictable offence in the Criminal Code, which means that robbery always involves the right of an accused person to have a preliminary inquiry and a trial by judge and jury, if the accused person wishes to.

R. v. P.C. 2014 ONCA 577 Civil Rights Summary: The accused, a young offender at the time, was tried by a judge and jury and found guilty of manslaughter.

Hopefully no one will ever have to deal with the stresses of going to court and having their future hanging in the balance by a judge and a jury of their peers.

R. v. J.F. 2013 SCC 12 Criminal Law — Attempts, conspiracies, accessories and parties — Parties to offences — Party to conspiracy The accused youth was convicted by a judge and jury of conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced to an 18 month custody and supervision order.

However, the appellant, like all who elect to be tried by judge and jury, had the right to a properly instructed jury

Robbery is a serious charge and is always an indictable offence (i.e. the most serious offence), which means it involves the right of the accused to have a preliminary inquiry and a trial by judge and jury, if the accused wishes to.

Before calling for a change so fundamental as to delete the dishonesty element in order to secure some convictions, what is urgently needed is that the OFT gains some experience of prosecuting a contested trial and that there is some «road - testing» of the offence by a judge and jury.

He was tried by a judge and jury.

It was thrown out of court by the judge and jury as a frivolous waste of the court's time.

That determination is made by a judge and jury.

«Instead of being decided by judges and juries, cases will be heard by arbitrators who are seasoned lawyers familiar with industry practice and issues specific to art disputes.»

Not exact matches

Winners are found this way: First, the Product of the Year Canada jury carefully selects the finalists — that is, products that meet or exceed innovation standards — which are then categorized and judged by an online survey, on behalf of Rogers Insights and conducted by TNS, of thousands of regular Canadian shoppers.

In March, two judges ruled Liss - Riordan's Uber and Lyft cases will go to a trial by jury.

Who hasn't felt ousted by community, felt the community turn into a mob, turn into the judge and jury, felt the community turn into the crowd that pushes you out?

The citizens of the USA judge every day as noted by the US Supreme Court, State Supreme courts and analogous judicial / jury venues across this great land.

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

Maybe justice and the good society are brought about precisely by lawyers and judges sending the jury out of the courtroom while they decide whether to admit the testimony of an old black woman who has been listening in on the whole trial of her son.

Absolutely, it does make sense to at least 6 billion people on earth including but not limited to professionals and the elite such as Doctors, Scientists, Juries, Judges, Magistrates, Politicians, even by the person who holds the highest position of the most powerful country of the world.

Zimmerman was judged by a jury of his peers and found innocent.

«The bishop certainly is not a shepherd to the shepherds in that structure where he really becomes the judge, jury and, by and large, the executioner,» he said.

Ahead of the 30th Awards for Packaging Innovation, organised by DowDuPont, chair of the judging panel David Luttenberger, global packaging director at Mintel Group, shares his perspectives on the renowned competition and on packaging innovation itself with fellow jury member Tim Sykes.

The rights and positions of people with learning disabilities are not judged by juries of their peers but by systems where power is held by «lords» — commissioners, social workers, service providers, psychiatrists, judges and politicians.

She expects to be handcuffed, put in a police car, driven to the courthouse and brought before a judge after being secretly indicted by a grand jury run by a special prosecutor who was secretly selected to investigate campaign finance filings from 2009.

A list of the questions asked by the jury to the judge includes one example in which they asked if a juror can «come to a verdict based on a reason that was not presented in court and has no facts or evidence to support it».

It was the Special Grand Jury's role to assess the credibility of witnesses that did testify and a judge's responsibility to make sure their conclusions were supported by the evidence.

«All those who have had any involvement in this case, including the jury and the judge, have, however, been prepared to recognise that here was an exemplary teacher, in a fragile mental state, brought to breaking point by a number of critical failures on the part of his employer.

Another judge, Joan Madden, consolidated unrelated asbestos cases, which resulted in huge increases in jury verdicts — from an average of $ 7 million to $ 24 million per plaintiff between 2010 and 2014, data collected by Bates White Economic Consulting show.

Note that there is no relationship (at least legally) between the death penalty and use of weapons by police force; even in countries with death penalty police follows the same Rules of Engagement (use weapon as self - defense or when other people are in danger), death penalty is stablished by a jury or judge (police is a law enforcement agency, sentences are issued by judges or juries)

Experts say the requests by former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, for no jail time resulting from their corruption convictions could run the risk of backfiring by being interpreted as essentially thumbing their noses at the judge and jury.

«The court notes that there was opinion testimony offered to the effect that (1) but for being asked by Henry Wojtasek, Synor probably would not have hired Meghan Ortt, (2) that she had a «no - show job,» and (3) that Synor was a conduit for funds to be paid to her,» the judge wrote of the grand jury testimony he inspected.

The judge noted that Ortt said in his grand jury testimony that he was approached in 2008 by Maziarz, then a politically potent GOP senator, along with Bill Patton and Wojtaszek about running for North Tonawanda mayor.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan concluded, in light of the Supreme Court's narrower definition, that the jury instructions given by the judge in Mr. Silver's trial were erroneous and that a properly instructed jury might not have convicted him.

And they tried to convince the judge that pre-indictment publicity by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara prejudiced the grand jury that considered the cases.

Another indictment in the shooting death of Ramarley Graham in 2012 was tossed by a judge on technical grounds and a second jury voted not to indict.

Whatever the nuances of the current research, the job of the experts brought into a case by prosecutors and defense attorneys «is to make the judge or the jury believe that their version of the science is true and correct and should win the case,» Rothstein said.

Most judges and juries are not persuaded by neurobiological evidence used to argue that a defendant was not fully responsible for his or her actions, as in Gunther's case, the analysis found.

Police, lawyers, the judge and jury had been contaminated by the certainty of Dr Skuse's conclusions that two of the men had handled explosives.»

Your rights will be determined by a NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR and NOT a judge or jury and your claims can not be brought as a class action.