Sentences with phrase «criminal offence for»

It also says children should have more say in divorce proceedings and that it should become a criminal offence for any parent unreasonably to refuse the other parent access to a child.

Peaker said the move was simply «headline - grabbing», as section 7 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 already protects homeowners and makes it a criminal offence for a squatter to remain in a property once asked to leave by the owner.

The Competition Act makes it a criminal offence for two or more bidders, in response to a call or request for bids or tenders, to secretly agree that one party will refrain from bidding, or to agree on the bids they will submit, without informing the party issuing the call for bids of these arrangements.

Since the Act came into force in June 2003, it has been a criminal offence for any individual to agree with another individual to engage in cartel activity, including market sharing, limitation of supply or production, price - fixing and bid rigging.

Codification can be a good thing: instead of searching multiple statutes to find the criminal offence for which your client is charged, as an English barrister must do, the Canadian lawyer just flips through the weighty but convenient

4 The following persons are excluded from serving as jurors: (a) members of the Privy Council, the Senate and the House of Commons of Canada; (b) members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the Executive Council; (c) members of the council of a municipality or members of a board of trustees of a school district or school division; (d) judges of the Provincial Court, justices of the Court of Appeal and Court of Queen's Bench and justices of the peace, whether retired or not; (e) barristers and solicitors, whether or not they are practising, and students ‑ at ‑ law; (f) medical examiners under the Fatality Inquiries Act; (g) officers and employees of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta; (h) persons who (i) have been convicted of a criminal offence for which a pardon has not been granted, or (ii) are currently charged with a criminal offence; (i) witnesses summoned to attend before the Legislative Assembly or a committee of the Legislative Assembly during the period that their attendance is required; (j) persons confined in an institution; (k) persons engaged in the administration of justice, including (i) members and employees of any police service, (ii) probation officers, (iii) employees of the Department of Justice, and (iv) employees of the Department of Justice of Canada or the Department of the Solicitor General of Canada.

Filkow Law's criminal defence lawyers understand the devastating impact that being charged with a criminal offence for the first time can have on individuals — and on their families, jobs and reputations.

Furthermore, Section 811 of the Criminal Code sets out that it is a criminal offence for a person bound by a Section 810 peace bond to breach that recognizance.

Canada's foreign anti-bribery law, the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), makes it a serious criminal offence for Canadians and Canadian companies to bribe foreign government officials.

It would be a criminal offence for any member of the media to breach anonymity even indirectly, for example, where the naming of others in the case would itself be likely to identify the victim.

If you have been charged with a criminal offence for the first time we understand the anxiety that a criminal record can bring.

If you do not comply with a condition of your release you can be charged with a Criminal offence for breaching your conditions.

It is also a criminal offence for a third party to act as a broker for surrogates and intended parents, and advertising — whether as a surrogate or someone looking for a surrogate — is prohibited.

Section 45 (1)(b) makes it a criminal offence for two or more competitors to allocate sales, territories, customers or markets for the production or supply of a product.

As discussed above, in 1999, the Competition Act's criminal misleading advertising provisions were replaced with a dual - track system which retains a criminal offence for serious cases, and deals with the rest through a civil system.

It is a criminal offence for a creditor to harass you (bully or repeatedly annoy) to get you to repay.

This is a criminal offence for which they should be appropriately sanctioned.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told ITV News he will consider Professor Don Berwick's proposal that a new criminal offence for «wilful neglect» should be made law.

First is that it is a criminal offence for you not to remit taxes to states.

Tax advisers have welcomed the Government's launch of a debate over penalties for offshore tax evasion but expressed concern over proposals for a new criminal offence for those who fail to declare taxable offshore income and gains.

And it will create a criminal offence for MPs to knowingly make a false claim for an allowance, fail without reasonable excuse to register a relevant interest and contravene without reasonable excuse the rules on paid advocacy.

Making it a criminal offence for seven people to be on a picket line is a waste of police time and not something you would expect in a country with a proud tradition of liberty.

Indeed, until it was reformed in 1989, Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 made it a criminal offence for any civil servant or public contractor to reveal any information he or she had learned in the course of his or her work: an offence that successive governments continued to prosecute well into the 1980s, despite recommendations published in 1972 by the Franks Committee calling for reform.

Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse - the nation's highest form of inquiry - recommended that all states and territories in Australia introduce legislation which would make it a criminal offence for people to fail to report child sexual abuse in an institutional setting.

So, Skof's logic is that we can reduce gun violence by devoting thousands of hours of police resources to randomly asking young black and Middle Eastern men who are not suspected of committing any criminal offences for their papers.

Its prevalence means it is considered by the CPS to be one of the least serious criminal offences for the purpose of instructing prosecuting barristers, attracting a miserly fee (# 480 for a 2 - day trial requiring on average 20 hours» work (2 days at court plus a conservative 4 hours» preparation), so around # 24 gross an hour, of which I would take home about # 12), and is therefore prosecuted often by the least experienced in our ranks.

The Bill proposes significant changes to the UK's anti-money laundering laws under POCA, and introduces new criminal offences for failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion.

On 30 September the Criminal Finances Act 2017 introduces two strict liability corporate criminal offences for failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion.

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That is why he is still wanted by the Swiss police for breaking banking secrets, a criminal offence in the Confederation.

With the additional role of cannabis, the Regulatory Services Division has over 300 staff in five offices responsible for licensing, inspections, background checks, audit, mandatory staff training programs, and criminal / provincial investigations with respect to illegal gaming, tobacco, and cannabis retailer offences.

«Parents who refuse to take responsibility for children accused of criminal offences were condemned by a judge yesterday who demanded to know why the mother of a 14 - year - old girl in the dock over the looting of three shops was not in court.

A lawyer representing the group said Islamic Sharia law, which views apostasy as a criminal offence, makes no provision for those wanting to leave the faith.

The US Department for Homeland Security had said the Chaldean Christians who were arrested had criminal convictions for offences including murder, rape and assault.

Unauthorized use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and / or be a criminal offence.

«It's worth noting that it's a criminal offence too and we will support a police prosecution if we can identify, along with the police, those individuals responsible for that behaviour today.»

July 28 — Two weeks after being cleared of racial abuse in a criminal prosecution, former England captain John Terry was charged by the Football Association (FA) yesterday for virtually the same offence.

As well as appealing for any information about the theft, I'd like to remind the public that ticket - touting is a criminal offence, and that anyone buying tickets off the street runs the risk of being refused entry if those tickets turn out to be stolen.

It will be a criminal offence under the Statutory Instruments for England, Northern Ireland (NI) and Wales / Cymru for a company not to act by the specified deadline on an Improvement Notice issued by an enforcement authority.

The police did attempt to prosecute some cases under the 1929 Childrens act which makes it a criminal offence to be responsible for the care of a child under 3 whilst intoxicated.

The bill will, for example, make organising the 2014 annual TUC Congress or organising a TUC national demonstration in the 12 months before the 2015 general election criminal offences.

Today's report recognises the need for a new, narrowly defined criminal offence of indirect incitement to terrorist acts, but says it is concerned about the wording of the new offence of encouragement to cover this purpose.

Like I said, and I have served notice, this same Bawumia, I am taking him to court [over] the fake Togolese register under the Criminal Offences Act 1960, Act 29 Section 251 [for] deceiving a public officer.

It didn't mean that a criminal conviction for a racially aggravated offence would follow - that was a question of evidence - but the views of the victim counted for more than before.

We hope our clarion call to the Police to look into such a criminal offence and arrest Bugri Naabu for interrogations will not be marred by political interference but justice will be done to put this matter to rest.

There was one new offence for every day Tony Blair was in office and the passing of a criminal justice bill became a de facto annual event.

Of the number, 58 had been serving various jail terms for criminal offences, including stealing, assault, arson, malicious damages, kidnapping, rape and fraud.

His attack was on someone being investigated for a criminal offence being appointed Shadow Justice Secretary.

The Romanian Government's emergency ordinance to change the Penal Code decriminalizes or and reduces the criminal punishments for corruption offences such as abuse of office, conflict of interest, and negligence at work.

Causing death or harm to a patient should become a criminal offence, gagging clauses should be banned and only those registered to do so should care for patients.

The government officially claims that more than half of those who breach their Asbo are imprisoned - but in reality they are actually being locked up for other criminal offences at the same time.