Sentences with phrase «crown prosecutors»

In December 2010, CLHE was very pleased that then Attorney General Chris Bentley agreed to develop, with the input of CLHE, guidance for Crown prosecutors in relation to HIV non-disclosure, and to share a draft with CLHE.

A serious shortage of Crown prosecutors still persists throughout Canada, (as does intelligent and wise «untruthful sentencing»).

There is no such title as crown prosecutor in Russia — the Crown Prosecution Service is a British term — but the equivalent in Russia is the prosecutor general of Russia.

Conduct pre-trial discussions with Crown prosecutor as per court protocols / practice directions for date setting, and related preparation;

Such proceedings may be undertaken by Crown prosecutors if privacy commissioners or their counterparts were not comfortable doing so.

Here we have former prosecutors who have worked for Revenu Québec and former Crown prosecutors.

In its place, the court has created a framework (the Jordan framework) that sets a «presumptive ceiling» for delay of 30 months — above which the burden will now fall on Crown prosecutors to prove that the delay was a result of exceptional complexity or unavoidable circumstances.

Many of their colleagues had abandoned private practice to become Crown prosecutors.

See the Edmonton Crown Prosecutors play the Criminal Defence Lawyers including our own Scott Kurie in the 4th annual Charity Hockey Tournament.

City of Montreal chief Crown prosecutor Julie Provost laughs when she recalls the trip that she and a dozen other Quebec legal and health - care professionals and bureaucrats took to Toronto in 2006 to see the Queen City's mental health court in action.

As a program of Humane Canada (formerly the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies), NCPAC includes representative Crown Prosecutors from the majority of Canadian provinces together with various other professionals from organizations such as Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCAs), humane societies and members of the veterinary community.

On the other hand, Crown prosecutors argued that the evidence demonstrated that Norris was not delusional and planned a deliberate killing, even going so far as to dispose of the weapon.

The panel also urges provincial governments to create policies to make clear the circumstances under which Crown prosecutors will not proceed with charges (that is, where there has been a free and informed decision to request assistance to die made by a competent individual).

Assigning one prosecutor for the length of a file promotes proper case management practices, hold Crown prosecutors accountable for the progress of a file, decreases the risk of successful Askov applications, reduces the number of prosecutors investing time and effort reviewing files and provides one point of contact for police, defence counsel and witnesses.

Rogers says that, in 2007, there was a decision made that the prosecution service was understaffed and that, over the next three years, a number of personnel including Crown prosecutors, were hired, so there was a peak number of prosecutors reached in 2010.

For Vancouver Crown prosecutor Alex Burton, the race, and possibly a Liberal Party leadership, is about creating jobs.

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Requiring the Crown to weigh proportionality, the court says, «would greatly expand the scope of judicial review of discretionary decisions made by prosecutors and put at risk the adversarial nature of our criminal justice system by inviting judicial oversight of the numerous decisions that Crown prosecutors make on a daily basis.»

The Alberta government has promised to hire 35 more crown prosecutors, after complaints by the provincial crown attorney's association that the province's justice system was in crisis.

He has also played a key role in pushing the Ministry of the Attorney General to develop prosecutorial guidelines for Crown prosecutors handling allegations of HIV non-disclosure, as co-chair of the Ontario Working Group on Criminal Law and HIV Exposure.

Vancouver Criminal Lawyer Emmet J. Duncan persuaded Crown prosecutor that the documentation that ICBC and the Office of the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles sent to Client were ambiguous and difficult to understand, and as a result, that the Crown should accept a plea to an offence under the Motor Vehicle Act.

Kirsty Allman, senior crown prosecutor for Thames and Chiltern Crown Prosecution Service, described Mrs Kurtz as «emaciated» at just 39 kg.

In Ontario, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi announced that the government would appoint 13 new judges to the Ontario Court of Justice and 32 new Crown prosecutors, among other changes, though critics say that still falls short of what is needed.

While Burnaby RCMP conducts their own investigations, all their cases are forwarded to Crown prosecutors working at the Vancouver law courts in downtown Vancouver.

OTTAWA — The «mountain» of graphic evidence tabled by Crown prosecutors at the Russell Williams sentencing hearing has led to a new and troubling frontier for Canada's justice system and news media, say Williams» lawyers.

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Your use of «federal» might get confusing, since the term Crown prosecutor is also used in (e.g.) England and Wales, which is a division of a unitary state, and thus has no federation to prosecute for.

Crown prosecutor Ian MacKenzie told court that animal protection officers from the Edmonton Humane Society responded to a home near 118 Avenue and 58 Street on June 11, 2014, after being informed about cats in distress.

Our aim is to make available various resources that include the most up - to - date information possible to assist Crown Prosecutors in achieving appropriate, consistent and proportional outcomes for animal cruelty cases.

NCPAC supports Crown Prosecutors and other professionals who are involved in animal cruelty cases throughout Canada through the provision of information and assistance from prosecutors and other professionals with experience in the prosecution of animal cruelty offences.

As a young Crown prosecutor, the man who would one day become a chief justice decided to take a year - long sabbatical to travel.

After all, as any honourable Crown prosecutor is well aware, the nondisclosure of exculpatory evidence has been identified as a hallmark of so many wrongful conviction cases.

OTTAWA — In our legal system, Crown prosecutors wield considerable power in the exercise of their discretion.

According to Crown prosecutor Jean - Simon Larouche, the man's case has been remanded «many times» since then.

«By setting presumptive ceilings and subtracting defence delay, Jordan forces Crown prosecutors and defence lawyers to abandon their silos and Cold War posturing so that they, and not judicial officers, are the ones to resolve disputes.»

Crown prosecutors prosecute domestic abuse cases with «vigor» and identify domestic abuse as a serious social issue.

The court said it was hopeful that the hard cap on trial delays would cause Crown prosecutors, court administration, and politicians to make real changes to give effect to the constitutional right to a speedy trial.

It is also quite obvious that his findings against Ontario Crown prosecutors and police must have had lot of merit to them as otherwise Justice Paul Cosgrove would have been classified as yet another crank on the judicial bench and sidelined to Family Court where he would have little chance to interact with Ontario Crown or the Police.

A debate that has continued in Ontario courtrooms since St. Onge - Lamoureux has taken an unfriendly turn for defence counsel, and the advantage falls to Crown prosecutors seeking convictions for «over 80» offences.

Sgt. Steve Desjourdy was not in court as an out - of - town Crown prosecutor provided one of his lawyers with two thick white binders of disclosure collected during the Special Investigations Unit review of Bonds case.

Crown prosecutors typically attempt to prove this by introduction of a «Certificate of Analysis» — a document that reports the test results obtained from an «approved instrument» such as the Intoxilyzer 8000C.

The provincial government announced this week that it had reached tentative agreements with the New Brunswick Crown Prosecutors» Association and New Brunswick Crown Counsel Association, which include 109 employees working in legal, legislative.

Milton crown prosecutors have a lot of discretion in how it chooses to handle assault charges, from the procedure they use to the specific charges they lay to the punishment they seek.

[1] This appeal raises the following question: Are Crown prosecutors constitutionally required to consider the Aboriginal status of an accused when deciding whether or not to seek a mandatory minimum sentence for impaired driving?

In this column, part of the Ottawa Citizen's «Right to Know» series, Ottawa defence lawyer Solomon Friedman discusses the remedies available when Crown prosecutors «go rogue».