Sentences with phrase «civil sanctions»

In addition to criminal sanctions, the courts may also impose civil sanctions for interference with custody.

So while civil sanctions (no prison) is the more likely threat - are you comfortable with this?

Its various provisions include the new civil sanction of Unexplained Wealth Orders, wider powers for the police to seize cash and other property alleged to be the proceeds of crime, and the broadening of the UK's anti-money laundering regime.

Here is the issue presented for review in this case: Whether a federal court is required to tailor compensatory civil sanctions imposed under inherent powers to harm directly caused by sanctionable misconduct when the court does not afford sanctioned parties the protections of criminal due process.

Throughout their history, Baptists of all persuasions have been ardent supporters of religious liberty, opposing state «imposed religious conformity and the attendant civil sanctions associated therewith.

He led an effort to collaborate with law enforcement authorities in both the U.K. and the U.S., thus limiting the company's likely liability in both countries and enabling it to avoid any criminal prosecutions or major civil sanctions for bribery in the U.S., at least so far.

Defending clients in enforcement proceedings including defending criminal prosecutions, negotiating civil sanctions and enforcement undertakings and acting as advocates in sentencing hearings.

GM has had to face this issue several times in the recent past and has already paid into the billions in criminal and civil sanctions over the faulty switch.

It is quite wrong to criminalise mere negligence or even sharp practice where the existing civil sanctions for undertakings and disqualification for individuals are a sufficient penalty.

As of 3 January, it can impose a range of civil sanctions on those who pollute, endanger or otherwise damage England's countryside.

Gorski may also face civil sanctions for his conduct if his victim and / or the victim's family file a personal injury lawsuit.

The firm also represents those facing professional disciplinary, regulatory and compliance proceedings where, in today's heavily regulated commercial world, such proceedings can attract significant criminal penalties as well as civil sanctions.

The CIOT has also responded to HMRC's proposal for civil sanctions for enablers of offshore evasion.

According to the IRS, however, «Employers who fail to comply with employment tax law will be subject to criminal and civil sanctions.»

The CIOT's submission to HMRC on Tackling offshore tax evasion: Civil sanctions for enablers of offshore evasion — can viewed here.

In addition to the civil sanctions imposed by the Ethics Commission, Darr faces the possibility of criminal charges which a state prosecutor says he is considering.

Those benefits include: the availability of a civil sanction rather than a criminal prosecution; the opportunity to work with the SFO to minimize negative publicity; and the avoidance of an automatic bar from involvement in public and private utilities contracts.

If this is the case, then the whole rationale of the market abuse procedures seems to have been undermined — it was supposed to be easier and less resource intensive to pursue the civil sanction of market abuse.

Where possible, we help them to avoid environmental prosecutions through the negotiation of alternative mechanisms such as warning letters, cautions, civil sanctions and enforcement undertakings.

Collateral consequences are social and civil sanctions that exist simply because you have a criminal record.

But if we think there is something distinctive and worth preserving about the higher level of condemnation communicated through a criminal sanction compared to the presumably lower level of condemnation communicated with a civil sanction, then keeping some of the relevant and reasonable collateral consequences of conviction might better facilitate the realization of that gradation.