Sentences with phrase «committed by public officials»

The criminality in question may involve corruption, extortion and other crimes committed by public officials and others in very challenging high risk jurisdictions where there may not be mutual legal assistance treaties or information sharing agreements.

And it should be considered a public offense where the killing was committed by a public official, and not by a private individual concerning a private matter, which would concern «private rights.»

Not exact matches

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

«Unfortunately, the decision was forced through by public officials who were blindly committed to this project and abandoned the public trust,» the Oneida Indian Nation said in a statement.

«When we have public officials who are entrusted by the public with their trust, it's absolutely outrageous that when they commit crimes and get convicted of them, that the same members of the public have to pay for them,» he said.

These cases involve crimes committed by public employees, elected officials, candidates for public office and other public servants.

Another biggie: Certain public officials who commit crimes related to their public offices may have their pensions reduced or forfeited in a new civil forfeiture proceeding brought by the attorney general or the prosecutor who handled the conviction of the official.

State GOP Chairman Chris Healy had requested the investigation by Kane's agency, and on Monday, another top Republican, Senate Minority Leader John P. McKinney of Fairfield, said: «The crimes Sen. Gaffey committed and will plead guilty to, as well as his prior violations of state elections law, undermine the public trust placed in elected officials.

In Connecticut, the SBAC disaster was slowed by a handful of dedicated and committed public school superintendents who recognized that parents had the fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the destructive SBAC test, but the majority of local education leaders (and elected officials) kowtowed to the Malloy administration and engaged in an immoral and unethical effort to mislead parents into believing that schools had «no degrees of freedom» on the SBAC testing issue.

Through demanding appropriate response by public officials, Mothers Against Drunk Driving has turned drunk driving into the most serious driving offense one can commit.

The dinner is a who's who of Texas, attended by attorneys from major law firms, judges and chief justices, other local and statewide public officials, university leaders, corporate leaders, and many other committed individuals.

He held: «Principles of transparent and open justice require a court sitting in public itself first to determine by a hearing in open court the extent of the criminal conduct on which the offender has entered the plea and then, on the basis of its determination as to the conduct, the appropriate sentence... those who commit such serious crimes as corruption of senior government officials must not be viewed or treated in any different way to other criminals.»

Examples of such cases are Chandler v Cape Plc [2011] EWHC 951 (QB)(liability of non-employer for exposure to asbestos), Kynixa Ltd v Hynes and others [2008] EWHC 1495 (QB)(claims arising from alleged breaches of restrictive covenants in employment contracts), Romantiek BVBA v Simms [2008] EWHC 3099 (QB) a claim alleging that a public official had committed the tort of misfeasance in public office when discharging a licensing function, OOO and others v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [20011] EWHC 1246 (QB)(claims by young foreign females that they had been trafficked into the UK by foreign nationals for the purpose of slavery and that officers of the Metropolitan Police Force breached their human rights in failing to investigate their complaints adequately or at all) and Mouncher and others v The Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2016] EWHC 1367 (QB)(claims by retired and serving police officers for false imprisonment, misfeasance in public office and malicious prosecution against South Wales Police arising from an investigation by officers of that force into alleged criminal conduct on the part of the claimants during the course of an investigation into a notorious murder in South Wales.

At a financial committee hearing, FSC director Choi admitted that several officials within the agency committed insider trading by obtaining knowledge about the Justice Ministry's statement prior to its release and selling bitcoin immediately before the statement was introduced to the public.