Sentences with phrase «civil proceedings ended»

Although the civil action was started later, the criminal and civil proceedings ended up running concurrently.

Although this is something I as civil counsel try to avoid for a variety of reasons, what sometimes happens is that criminal and civil proceedings end up running in tandem.

Not exact matches

Some of my professional work involves acting as an Expert Witness in civil proceedings (relating to construction engineering — not quite sure how I ended up here from academic geochemistry, but so be it...).

These are that: (i) the jurisdiction is to be invoked and exercised exceptionally and with great caution; (ii) there must certainly be something more than mere infringement of the criminal law before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked and accorded for the protection or promotion of the interests of the inhabitants of the area; (iii) the essential foundation for the exercise of the court's discretion to grant an injunction is not that the off ender is deliberately and flagrantly flouting the law, but the need to draw the inference that the defendant's unlawful operations will continue unless and until effectively restrained by the law and that nothing short of an injunction will be eff ective to restrain them.

(a) to recognise the right of a mentally competent adult who is suffering intolerably from a terminal illness to request a medical practitioner to provide medical services that allows the person to end his or her life peacefully, humanely and with dignity; and (b) to grant a medical practitioner who provides such services immunity from liability in civil, criminal and disciplinary proceedings.

HELD The purpose of a criminal restraint order, as with a civil freezing order, is not to prevent third parties from enforcing civil rights against a defendant if those rights would be unaffected by any order which may be made against the defendant at the end of the proceedings.

However, rules on evidence in civil proceedings set forth deadlines by which documents and information need to be produced or alleged, and this may make it difficult to use information and documents that emerged at the end of the investigations in the context of civil proceedings started during the same investigations.

At the end of the criminal trial, counsel for the prosecution advised the directors that they should now issue their civil proceedings, as it appeared that 4Eng was not a victim under the terms of the indictment (the victim was Mars) and as such it was not entitled to any compensation under the criminal regime.

PAG was refused permission to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, which brings to an end the first civil proceedings involving -LSB-...]