Sentences with phrase «criminal jurisdiction»

In cases where a trial judge is not assigned, such as pending preliminary inquiry, a review may be initiated in the superior court of criminal jurisdiction.

The draft protocol would have created an International Criminal Law Section of the African Court with criminal jurisdiction over the international crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as several transnational crimes such as, terrorism, piracy, and corruption.

Goldsmith argues that — outside of a narrow exception for universal criminal jurisdiction — prescriptive jurisdiction needs a link between the activity regulated and the regulating nation.

In other words, there are two governments with criminal jurisdiction over every breath you take whenever you act within the territorial limits of the United States.

«Strikingly, these successes have come even though the Office of the Attorney General has long requested — and long been denied — original criminal jurisdiction to prosecute public corruption cases without first obtaining a specific referral from the Governor, Comptroller, or another State agency,» he wrote.

(The attorney general does not have general criminal jurisdiction and has limited power to investigate state government, with such powers granted to the elected district attorney in each county.)

He argued that the CCT in its trial of the Senate President was not properly constituted, and that the tribunal was not a court of competent criminal jurisdiction maintaining that the CCT is just a disciplinary panel for public officers.

It is a court with specific criminal jurisdiction.»

«The amnesty bill for suspected looters unquestionably conflicts with Nigeria's obligations under the UN Convention against Corruption to establish territorial criminal jurisdiction over corrupt acts, prosecute alleged offenders, and apply prescribed sanctions through a fair trial.»

Generally, they are either people under sanctions by EU, or people sued before criminal jurisdiction.

Non-inclusion in a list of examples at Wikipedia doesn't imply it's not; and the latter is about the extension of Swiss criminal jurisdiction abroad, which is not relevant.

The Commission will also be embarking on studies on the protection of persons in the event of disasters and the immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction, with the most - favoured - nation clause being a potential topic of future study.

The SCI exercises, inter alia, the following jurisdictions deriving its powers to do so under the Constitution of India: original jurisdiction [Article131], appellate civil jurisdiction [Articles 132 and 133], appellate criminal jurisdiction [Articles 132 and 134].

End - of - life care has what Canadian courts call a «double aspect»: it falls under provincial healthcare jurisdiction and under federal criminal jurisdiction.

The letter references the 141 page report Foreign Policy Practicum 2007 - 08 (PDF) from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, entitled «Repatriation of Omar Khadr to be Tried under Canadian Law: An Overview of the Case Against Omar Khadr and the Prospect of Canadian Criminal Jurisdiction, Brief Submitted to Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights» (January 2008).

Five years after federal law gave tribes criminal jurisdiction over non-Natives, public safety advocates say communities are empowered to report crimes and governments are collaborating.

Under the Georgia bill veterans court divisions can be created in any court with criminal jurisdiction.

Representing Italy in a dispute with India before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and an arbitral tribunal constituted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea concerning which of them has criminal jurisdiction over two Italian marines accused of wrongdoing off the coast of India.

«The CCT is a court of criminal jurisdiction, albeit limited jurisdiction,» the court had stated.

«At present, there are no agreed EU - wide rules on the allocation of criminal jurisdiction.

Were there any real likelihood of this ensuring more payments it might be tolerable to see the criminal jurisdiction — excluded for civil proceedings since the late 19th century — brought into family law; but I doubt there will be any higher a rate of clearance of arrears than under the existing scheme.

During her time at Hempsons, Sarah was fortunate enough to attend numerous Court hearings in both the Civil and Criminal jurisdictions to include hearings at the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords.

That is, the ATS should allow for universal jurisdiction only in circumstances that could give rise to universal criminal jurisdiction: «the narrow category of claims involving the most grave violations of the law of nations, such as genocide or torture, or conduct committed outside any nation's territorial borders, such as piracy» (p. 4).

In any event, any court proceedings in the criminal jurisdiction can be adjourned if a third party decides to challenge the court's ruling to issue a witness summons by way of juridical review (see R (on the application of Cunliffe) v West London Magistrate's Court [2006] EWHC 2081).

A court should not entertain an application in the criminal jurisdiction for a declaration as to the legality of a future course of action save in a truly exceptional case.

v. Durrani, 2008 ONCA 856 (CanLII), at para. 16; This results from the definitions of «superior court of criminal jurisdiction» and «judge» in sections 2 and 493 of the Criminal Code including both judges of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario and the Ontario Court of Appeal.

Civil jurisdiction is not completely resolved, but there are lots of cases, and criminal jurisdiction is also «known'to some extent.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the justice may, at any stage of a preliminary inquiry, with the consent of the accused and the prosecutor, order the accused to stand trial in the court having criminal jurisdiction, without taking or recording any evidence or further evidence.

Limited preliminary inquiry (1.1) If the prosecutor and the accused agree under section 536.5 to limit the scope of a preliminary inquiry to specific issues, the justice, without recording evidence on any other issues, may order the accused to stand trial in the court having criminal jurisdiction.

Stokoe's skilled solicitors have experience dealing with insider dealing cases that have proceeded via both the civil and criminal jurisdictions.

The Supreme Court is a court of record with unlimited civil and criminal jurisdiction and appellate jurisdiction from the lower courts.

487.01 (1) A provincial court judge, a judge of a superior court of criminal jurisdiction or a judge as defined in section 552 may issue a warrant in writing authorizing a peace officer to, subject to this section, use any device or investigative technique or procedure or do any thing described in the warrant that would, if not authorized, constitute an unreasonable search or seizure in respect of a person or a person's property if

This results from the definitions of «superior court of criminal jurisdiction» and «judge» in sections 2 and 493 of the Criminal Code including both judges of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario and the Ontario Court of Appeal.

Jeremy will be deployed to sit in the Criminal jurisdiction on the South Eastern -LSB-...]

Additionally, the preamble to the Statute of the International Criminal Court recalls «the duty of every State to exercise its criminal jurisdiction over those responsible for international crimes.»

• Jeffrey manages a practice involving approximately 60 cases each year across the whole range of civil, regulatory and criminal jurisdictions.

(15) Where anything is detained pursuant to subsections (1) to (3.1), a judge of a superior court of criminal jurisdiction, a judge as defined in section 552 or a provincial court judge may, on summary application on behalf of a person who has an interest in what is detained, after three clear days notice to the Attorney General, order that the person by or on whose behalf the application is made be permitted to examine anything so detained.

Conversely, a civil judgment awarding damages to a victim does not prohibit a court of criminal jurisdiction to order restitution when sentencing an offender.

Under common law powers, and also pursuant to various statutes, any person who is before «a court of record having a criminal jurisdiction» (see, for example, Justices of the Peace Act 1968, s 1) may be bound - over to be of good behaviour, for any period, for any sum.

2 (1) The Court of Appeal is continued as a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction and consisting of the Chief Justice of British Columbia and 14 other justices.