The types of
criminal penalties handed out increase with subsequent convictions.
Not exact matches
A retailer can be hit with costly fines and
penalties if it ignores increasingly tight regulations governing the protection of customer data — especially if the violation leads to an actual release of customer information into
criminal hands.
Applying these considerations to the case at
hand, the CJEU concluded that Sweden had to observe the Charter when imposing tax fines and
criminal penalties when giving effect to the VAT directive.
On the other
hand, the national legislation which provided for tax
penalties and
criminal proceedings was not a transposition of the directive and therefore the situation might fall within the «scope» of EU law but Member States were not «implementing» EU law.
In the field of environmental regulation, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has recently
handed down an important decision — known as the shipshore pollution case — concerning community competence in relation to
criminal penalties (European Commission v European Council (European Parliament intervening): C - 440 / 05 [2007] All ER (D) 338 (Oct)-RRB-.
This differs from a
criminal case where the state or local prosecutor files the lawsuit, and a guilty person or party is punished with jail time, fines, probation, or a number of other
penalties that can be
handed down by a judge.
* NOTE: In addition to any suspensions
handed down by the TN DOS, you may also face
criminal penalties.
As a result, more young people are now staying and succeeding in school, courts are
handing down fewer death
penalty sentences, advocates are successfully addressing inequities in our
criminal justice system that do great harm, and other groups are leading efforts to protect our civil liberties.