Sentences with phrase «by the criminal court»

Then came the ruling by a criminal court this January: «Egyptian Court Sentences Family to 15 Years for Converting to Christianity» read the Western headlines.

... than would be applicable in a criminal case, since people are assigned the office of President for the benefit of the country, not the benefit of the people serving the position, and as such removal from office might not be viewed as a «punishment» akin to those meted out by criminal courts.

We are sad that the AG continuously want to criminalize and punish Mr. Woyome even though all her actions in that regard in the courts have failed even with the outcome of her appeal against his acquittal by the criminal court.

The terms of the agreement provide for a statewide permanent injunction and require Kisicki to comply with probation requirements from her criminal case and pay the SPCA for Monterey County restitution as awarded by the criminal court.

In addition to being prosecuted by the criminal court system, the defendant may also be sued for financial damages in civil court by the victim or their family.

The Guideline, which was created as part of a package to support the introduction in the UK of Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs), contains a 10 - step process to be followed by the criminal courts when sentencing corporations for fraud, bribery and money laundering offences.

Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBO) are being used more and more by city councils to target people who are often acquitted by the criminal courts.

With regard to criminal proceedings, it is still to be worked out by criminal courts what use can be made of these documents and admissions.

Another mother was jailed for sending a birthday card and a father jailed for waving at his children in care as they passed by in the street.Cases of child abuse or neglect should be dealt with by criminal courts where parents are presumed innocent of such offences unless proved guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

This contrasts with the progress made by the criminal courts regarding vulnerable witnesses, and obtaining best evidence from them.

This is especially true if the order was issued by a criminal court or a Supreme court.

Although liability under Legislative Decree No. 231/2001 is considered administrative in nature, infringements are investigated by public prosecutors and adjudicated by criminal courts, in parallel with the prosecution of the individuals» related crimes and in accordance with the code of criminal procedure.

However, there is a number of procedures available that allow, under certain conditions, for settlements with the prosecution or other ways to avoid further prosecution and criminal sanctions, or adjudication by a criminal court in a public hearing.

The patchwork nature of traffic - court decisions is creating a dangerous precedent in this area and I can only hope that we will see a judicial pronouncement by a criminal court judge in a well argued case soon.

Thus, as a senior member of the judiciary, if Richards LJ perceives his acquittal by a criminal court as «clearing his name», he entertains profound ideological differences about the function of the criminal courts than we do.

Although an order for restitution is made by a criminal court as part of an offender's sentence, it does have certain similarities to an order made in a civil court.

Alcohol abuse also features prominently in many cases heard and determined by our criminal courts.

In the calculation of the CSI, each offence is assigned a weight, derived from average sentences handed down by criminal courts.

Not exact matches

Accused of genocide in the country's Darfur region, al - Bashir is officially listed as a sponsor of terror by the United States and wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity.

Lewandowski said the encryption issue was «a topic of high complexity, with no data and specific studies on the possibility of implementing measures such as the one prescribed by the judge of the 2nd Criminal Court of Duque de Caxias and supposedly violated by WhatsApp.»

«A criminal defendant, we hold, need not request special interrogatories, nor need he acquiesce in the Government's request for discrete findings by the jury, in order to preserve in full a timely - raised objection to jury instructions,» Justice J. Ginsburg wrote in her explanation of the court's decision.

«Based on the advice of counsel, I will assert my 5th Amendment rights in connection with all proceedings in this case due to the ongoing criminal investigation by the FBI and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York,» Cohen wrote in the filing in Los Angeles federal court.

Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, sentencing Larry Nassar for criminal sexual conduct, decided to let any women who said they'd been assaulted by the former USA Gymnastics team doctor face him in court and describe how his actions had affected them.

Ramirez, who has no criminal record according to court papers filed in his case, was taken into custody last week at his father's home in Seattle by ICE officers.

Those electronic and paper documents are now being reviewed by a court - appointed special master to determine what material is protected by attorney - client privilege and what is eligible to become part of the criminal investigation of Mr Cohen.

All five banks were put on a 3 - year probation which will be overseen by a Federal Court and ordered to cease all criminal activity.

Those electronic and paper documents are now being reviewed by a court - appointed special master to determine what material is protected by attorney - client privilege and what is eligible to become part of the criminal investigation of Cohen.

Strange that the pedophile cases have been taken to civil courts instead of criminal courts by the families of the victims for compensation.

Release a list of all the Archbishops, Bishops, and priests that molested their congregation, with a list of who was molested, as well as complete signed apologies from all the resulting offenders, and a signed confession by the Pope that these people will be charged in a criminal court for these crimes and will not ever be allowed to preach the word of God in a Catholic church, and then, MAYBE, I'll think you have a right to tell your followers they can't do with their bodies as they please.

«Parents who refuse to take responsibility for children accused of criminal offences were condemned by a judge yesterday who demanded to know why the mother of a 14 - year - old girl in the dock over the looting of three shops was not in court.

The author argues that the United States ought to accept the provision for an International Criminal Court, as worked out in Rome in the summer of 1998 and agreed to by most of the nations participating in the discussions.

As a permanent global court, the ICC will likewise differ from the special International Criminal Tribunals created by the UN Security Council to address atrocities in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

Last summer in Rome, by a vote of 120 nations in favor, seven opposed and 21 abstentions, a United Nations diplomatic conference adopted a treaty to establish an International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague in the Netherlands.

It would not have been a civil case only (as the victim would retain the right to sue in civil court as well) but a criminal matter, punishable by time in prison.

The extradition was welcomed by lawyers for a legal advocacy organisation, The Guernica Group, and the Spanish Association for Human Rights, who in 2008 filed a criminal complaint before the National Court on behalf of the victims.

To the contrary, if tested by the Supreme Court, a direct criminal prohibition against adultery would likely be struck down as unconstitutional, whereas the Court would have no problem in recognizing adultery as a factor towards dissolving a union that was based on fidelity.

Indeed, in 1966 the Supreme Court observed that even criminal activities were not punished by the tax code.

The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (Rule 26) provide that in the absence of statute or rule, the court shall follow «the principles of the common law as they may be interpreted by the courts of the United States in the light of reason and experience.»

In a statement, the DORH said: «State Attorney's Office in Osijek opened the investigation against Croatian citizen (1985) due to the existence of reasonable doubt that when giving testimony before the County Court in Osijek committed a crime against justice by giving false testimony under Article 305, paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code / 11.

A criminal case that was brought against Huntley last summer by AG Eric Schneiderman is still pending in Nassau County Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court Justices also ordered that where applicable, criminal Action should be instituted against accused persons by the Attorney General.

Three former expenses MPs» bid to avoid a criminal trial has been decisively thwarted by the supreme court.

«Why did he not go to the court to defend himself of the criminal charges preferred against him by the Oluwo Oke?

Gbagbo was eventually defeated by pro-Ouattara forces, backed by the UN and France, and is now awaiting trial before the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity.

One of the more notable, retrospective, criminal Acts in the UK is the War Crimes Act 1991, which allowed for the punishment, by British Courts, of people responsible for war crimes during WWII, i.e. before the Geneva Conventions.

Sudan's president has been accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur by the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.

Ignoring a ruling by any court in the registered jurisdiction would, in these cases, could be considered a criminal act by the senior managers and they could, in principle, find themselves being arrested.

Despite its innocuous title, the Statute Law represented an attempt by the government of President Uhuru Kenyatta to clamp down on the activities of civil society groups that had supported his prosecution at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

American foreign policy has long put its sovereignty first, whether by not joining the League of Nations, the International Criminal Court or various international treaties on human rights and environmental controls.

The report released by the ID found the state could reach an annual savings of $ 117.1 million through the criminal justice reform based on the reduction of costs such as detention, transportation and court hearings as well as probation and parole.