Sentences with phrase «conducting criminal prosecutions»

If disciplinary proceedings against the technician were for gross incompetence or dishonesty, this would almost certainly make him unemployable within police forces as a technician (due to the close links between police forces and the need to use unimpeachable forensic staff when conducting criminal prosecutions).

1) make sure that the «access to and the subsequent use of the retained data [are] strictly restricted to the purpose of preventing and detecting precisely defined serious offences or of conducting criminal prosecutions relating thereto» (§ 229);

So we will look very closely at his recommendation to transfer the right to conduct criminal prosecutions away from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Commission.

At the same time, the IDC would enhance the power of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office to conduct criminal prosecutions of corruption.

Not exact matches

Chief Judge Janet DiFiore ordered the investigation «immediately following the revelation of David Bookstaver's conduct,» which will include «a review as to whether Mr. Bookstaver's behavior warranted a criminal referral for prosecution or other action,» said OCA spokesman Lucian Chalfen.

«This is a criminal prosecution, not a political campaign — but one wouldn't know it from the conduct of the United States attorney in this case,» the two groups said in a joint statement.

He argued that the police and Crown Prosecution Service should have obtained those emails, and once that material revealed Briscoe actions, they were under a duty, whatever Huhne's own position, «to investigate her likely criminal conduct», and he should not have to pay for that investigation.

The US Attorney requested a stay in the case because of concerns for the integrity of «a pending criminal prosecution that has substantial overlap with the witnesses and conduct at issue in the Civil Cases».

Allows privately funded industrial hemp research to be conducted in Hawaii under certain conditions; requires monitoring by department of public safety; requires reporting to county law enforcement; exempts argonomic data derived from research from public records disclosure; confers immunity from criminal prosecution for the research.

Allows privately funded industrial hemp research to be conducted in Hawaii under certain conditions; requires monitoring by department of public safety; requires reporting to county law enforcement; exempts agronomic data derived from research from public records disclosure; confers immunity from criminal prosecution for the research.

Allows private funded industrial hemp research to be conducted under certain conditions; requires monitoring by the DPS; requires reporting to the respective county law enforcement; exempts agronomic data derived from research from public records disclosure; confers immunity from criminal prosecution for the research.

(7) records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement records or information (A) could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings, (B) would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or to an impartial adjudication, (C) could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, (D) could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source, including a State, local or foreign agency or authority or any private institution which furnished information on a confidential basis, and, in the case of a record or information compiled by criminal law enforcement authority in the course of a criminal investigation or by an agency conducting a lawful national security intelligence investigation, information furnished by a confidential source, (E) would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law, or (F) could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual; [the law enforcement exemption]

If that helps the successful investigation and prosecution of criminal conduct in the end, does this really matter?

Conducting the defence of a multi-million pound whistleblowing claim brought by a senior employee of a UK retail bank which involved investigation of all allegations, liaising with the regulator, liaising with the police in relation to criminal prosecutions, and defending the employment litigation brought by the relevant employee.

Justice Moldaver then turns to what is described as practical considerations for law enforcement and the administration of justice, at paras. 183 - 6, suggesting that (a) the disclosure of text messages received by a complainant could be challenged by a sender who is alleged to have abused the complainant and thus exposes vulnerable complainants such as children, people with mental disabilities and the elderly (b) the increased need for warrants could strain police and judicial resources in an overburdened criminal justice system and (c) at the trial stage, these repercussions could complicate and prolong proceedings where defendants have standing to challenge searches conducted against collateral targets in large prosecutions.

«(C) any charge in a criminal prosecution brought under State law if the conduct underlying the charge would constitute a violation of section 2421A of title 18, United States Code, and promotion or facilitation of prostitution is illegal in the jurisdiction where the defendant's promotion or facilitation of prostitution was targeted.».

Section 64 (1A) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) authorised the police to retain such fingerprints or DNA samples after they had fulfilled the purposes for which they had been taken, and provided that they were not to be used «except for purposes related to the prevention or detection of crime, the investigation of an offence or the conduct of a prosecution».

What is more, there are numerous examples of public inquiries (both statutory and non-statutory) being conducted either in parallel with legal proceedings or when such proceedings were contemplated, from the Ladbroke Grove Rail Crash inquiry to the Bloody Sunday inquiry, since the conclusion of which there has been considerable discussion of possible criminal prosecutions.

There are, however, also concerns for the conduct of the public inquiry itself, as witnesses may be more reluctant to give frank and open evidence if they feel exposed to the risk of a criminal prosecution as a result, and they may refuse to give evidence or disclose documents on the basis of the privilege against self - incrimination.

The B.C. Prosecution Service's civil disobedience policy manual says whether contempt is a civil or criminal matter is determined by «the character and nature of the conduct.»

These three types of proceedings have different objectives: the objective of a protective services investigation is to provide immediate help and relief to the victim and prevent further harm; the civil action is to seek compensation for damages; and the criminal prosecution is when the state seeks to punish the harmful conduct.

He understands how the prosecution will approach a criminal case for disorderly conduct and can use his experience to his client's advantage.

A criminal trial is conducted between the prosecution (plaintiff in a civil trial) and the defence.

As a former prosecutor, Gus Kostopoulos understands how the prosecution will conduct an investigation and build a criminal case against you.

Accordingly, health care providers should only face criminal prosecution when their conduct rises to the level of recklessness.

We conduct internal investigations and vigorously defend our clients subject to regulatory and criminal investigation and prosecution.

Interviews in Child Sexual Abuse Cases — In January 2013, our Supreme Court decided State v. Kromah, hopefully putting to rest prosecution attempts to improperly bolster child witnesses in criminal sexual conduct cases.

The responsibility for investigation of corporate conduct lies with regulatory and prosecuting authorities (depending on the subject of investigation) but responsibility for criminal prosecution of corporate conduct always lies with the Prosecutor's Office (the Prosecutor).

In the first situation the Dutch prosecution service — with the participation of international partners — is conducting a criminal investigation.

In November 2012, Francois Rolland, then chief justice of the Quebec Superior Court wrote to the CJC to request a review of Girouard's conduct in the wake of being notified of allegations against the judge by Quebec's Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions.

... WHEREAS there are circumstances when the interests of justice are served by having an offender and the victim of the unlawful conduct or other community representatives find a resolution that promotes public safety by providing healing, reparation and re-integration into the community outside the traditional criminal prosecution process;

Lawyers practicing in the areas of criminal defence / prosecution and family / divorce law have been shown to face the highest risk of violence and threatening conduct within the legal community.

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.

Enforcement activities will include working with covered entities to secure voluntary compliance through the provision of technical assistance and other means; responding to questions regarding the regulation and providing interpretations and guidance; responding to state requests for exception determinations; investigating complaints and conducting compliance reviews; and, where voluntary compliance can not be achieved, seeking civil monetary penalties and making referrals for criminal prosecution.

We represent national and international companies, individual defendants and trade associations in connection with criminal antitrust investigations and prosecutions, and we have successfully represented defendants against charges of anticompetitive conduct at trial.

In both civil and criminal settings, if the person is given immunity eliminating the threats of criminal prosecution, then they can be compelled to give testimony (though it gets sticky when the same conduct can be classified as an offense under both state and federal law).

«In appropriate cases prosecutions may be brought where it is not possible for the Crown to prove by direct evidence the involvement of the defendant in the commission of specific offences nor the receipt of monies by him arising out of the commission of specific criminal offences... Whilst the prosecution must prove that the property is «criminal property» within the meaning of the statutory definition, there is nothing in the wording of the section which imports any further requirement that the property emanated from a particular crime or a specific type of criminal conduct.»

The provision would extend the powers and rights of audience of DCWs by enabling them to conduct: - summary trials in magistrates» courts; - certain proceedings in magistrates» courts, including proceedings relating to offences triable only on indictment by a judge and jury at the crown court; - applications and other proceedings relating to «preventative civil orders» such as anti-social behaviour orders; and - certain proceedings (other than criminal proceedings) assigned to the director of public prosecutions by the attorney general under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, s 3 (2)(g).

Powell gives a detailed account of the prosecution and imprisonment of individual executives of well - known firms such as Merrill Lynch based on creative new theories of criminal liability, following dubious prosecutorial conduct including the withholding of evidence favorable to the defense, so - called Brady violations.