Sentences with phrase «civil sanctions on»

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

Not exact matches

This article describes a daring idea both for Desmond Tutu and the BBC in which the victims or families of the victims were invited to confront on TV either the perpetrator or someone associated with the organization that had sanctioned, planned and accomplished the killing or injury of their loved ones during the Civil rights marches in the late 1960s.

And while the social customs, civil laws, and authoritatively sanctioned principles of a society can be said to have determinative influence on the social practices and development of a society, still it is the case that these social customs, etc., have that efficacy only as enacted by individuals in daily social intercourse.

The government stated that there are 1,390 cases on civil litigations (legal disputes between two or more parties that seek money damages or specific performance rather than criminal sanctions) in Magistrate, High Courts, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Nigeria.

Penalties for Frivolous Lawsuits — Vote Passed (230 - 188, 11 Not Voting) The bill would modify federal rules governing civil lawsuits to require federal courts to impose sanctions on parties that violate the existing prohibition on the filing of frivolous lawsuits, with such sanctions to include monetary penalties to cover the other party's attorneys» fees and other costs.

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

Black Panther, which finds Killmonger plotting to arm black revolutionaries the world over (and, implicitly, to strike back at the kind of sanctioned terrorizers who put Oscar Grant in the ground), replaces the civil - rights metaphor of the X-Men comics with the real horrors inflicted on real people.

Some civil rights advocates have voiced similar concerns about accountability systems that rely exclusively on growth measures, which could allow schools serving disadvantaged students to avoid sanction even if their students» academic progress is insufficient to close achievement gaps.

The Obama administration's initiative to tighten oversight of public - school disciplinary practices by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, based on racially disparate effects of standard penalties (such as suspensions) as well as hard - to - assess accusations that minority students are being treated more harshly for similar infractions, has put additional pressure on integrated schools to equalize rates of disciplinary sanctions by race and class.

On the plus side civil sanctions do not lead to prison, however harsh they may be.

On the day after president Obama's February State of the Union speech, Brune zip - tied himself to the White House gates — the first sanctioned, illegal, act of civil disobedience in the Sierra Club's history.

Mark didn't write much more scornfully about Mann's scientific impersonation of Rocket Richard and Wayne Gretzky than I did, so let me be clear that in these matters Michael Mann is a sleazy charlatan, and he is welcome to try the same legal trick on me, in Canada, where there is a civil legal sanction against defamation, for which, as for much else in this country, I am grateful.

The new rules on budgets and sanctions nearly destroyed the reputation of our civil justice system for fairness with the disastrous Mitchell decision when # 506,000 of costs was disallowed from a budget because it was filed the day before the hearing, not seven days before (Mitchell MP v News Group Newspapers [2013] EWCA Civ 1537, [2014] 2 All ER 430).

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 45 (c)(1) allows a district judge issuing a subpoena to award appropriate sanctions, including lost earnings and reasonable attorney's fees, against a party or attorney responsible for issuing and serving a subpoena that imposes «undue burden or expense» on a person subject to the subpoena.

In addition to the new civil penalty regime, the maximum penalty for criminal sentences for sanctions violations has been increased from 3 to 12 months on summary conviction, and from 2 to 7 years on indictment.

The three dominant themes in 2008 cases where PIL was invoked were as follows: UK / EU law implementation of UNSC resolutions concerning freezing of alleged terrorist assets (sanctions cases); the acts / omissions of UK authorities in Iraq / Afghanistan viewed in the context of PIL and provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and Human Rights Act 1998 (Iraq / Afghanistan related cases); and state / diplomatic immunity in the context of civil proceedings and / or attempts to enforce arbitration awards against assets of State entities in the UK (Civil immunity cacivil proceedings and / or attempts to enforce arbitration awards against assets of State entities in the UK (Civil immunity caCivil immunity cases).

«As some of us do from time to time in the course of our civil litigation practices, we venture into the criminal world on behalf of existing clients who face criminal sanction for some alleged transgression.

A contemnor is subject to a range of judicial sanctions which, to a large extent, depends on whether the contempt was civil contempt or criminal contempt.

He advises banks, corporations and individuals on major fraud, corruption, bribery, unfair trading, money laundering, sanctions, extradition, market abuse and regulatory matters, as well as civil recovery of losses.

The KBA seeks sanctions against the Judge based on their guess on how the Kentucky Supreme Court will rule on this issue in the plaintiff's civil case now on appeal.

Thus, for reasons I elaborate in Part III of the paper, retributive damages are best understood as an intermediate civil sanction that require (constitutionally and normatively) an intermediate level of procedural safeguards, that is, a level falling roughly between what is due defendants facing on the one end, compensatory damages, and on the other, criminal fines.