A cross party group of peers has challenged the government's mental health bill, with the Lords voting for a series of amendments that weaken the proposed act's power to
detain people with severe personality disorders without consent.
A person who
detains another person with the intention to commit acts of homosexuality with him or herself or with any other person commits an offence and is liable on conviction for seven years.
Not exact matches
The bill forbids local authorities from working
with federal agents, including using «agency money, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to assist a federal agency to investigate,
detain, detect, report, or arrest a
person for commercial or noncommercial marijuana or medical cannabis activity that is authorized by law in the State of California.»
The law allows local officials to be charged
with misdemeanors if they knowingly fail to comply
with the detainer requests, and ensures localities can't ban police officers from questioning
people on their immigration statuses if they are arrested or
detained.
The government of Turkey — a predominantly Muslim country — has
detained, removed or suspended tens of thousands of
people in the civil service, military judiciary and elsewhere over their suspected links
with perpetrators of the attempted putsch.
More than 20
people were
detained across Spain as part of an operation launched by police, in conjunction
with Europol, on Monday.
Liberal Democrats are awaiting the report into the incident by independent terrorism reviewer David Anderson but they are already making it clear that they sympathise
with the idea that the police should lose the ability to
detain people if they have no suspicion about their activity.
However, the regime responded
with progression leaving thousands of citizens
detained land over 130
people killed in 2017.
An improvement of screening processes to make sure trafficked
people are not
detained and that GPs fill out a Rule 35 report assessing whether
people's injuries are consistent
with claims of torture
Boubeya also said 105 were injured in the postelection violence,
with security forces
detaining 800
people in the capital, Libreville, and 400 in other areas.
An unknown number of non-American legal residents who were trying to re-enter the country
with valid visas — including students, visitors, and
people with green cards — were either
detained at U.S. airports or not allowed to get on their flights to the United States, the media outlet reports.
City Hall has clashed repeatedly
with the new administration over New York's «sanctuary city» laws, which bar the NYPD and the Department of Corrections from
detaining and turning over
people without paperwork to federal immigration authorities — except in cases where those immigrants have committed one of 173 violent offenses.
The letter, which Labour has released publicly, states that while Yarl's Wood permits social and legal visits for detainees, Abbott was «not seeking to visit a specific individual but rather to see for myself the general conditions in which
people are
detained and to listen to any of those wishing to share their experiences
with me alongside those working in the institution».
How would you answer those who say that providing information which helps ICE arrest,
detain and deport non-UK rough sleepers is incompatible
with your mission of supporting vulnerable
people?
«The UK could have trained the Afghan authorities to
detain people lawfully
with proper standards, making sure they're treating them humanely,» lawyer Phil Shiner told the Today programme.
Ministers have argued that it provides more help for
people with mental health problems, while at the same time ensuring doctors can admit patients for treatment or
detain them where necessary, for example for public safety.
The Home Secretary Theresa May has today revealed plans to change the Mental Health Act to stop children and young
people with mental illness being
detained in police cells.
(a) An officer or employee of the United States authorized to make arrests, and a guard or watchman employed by the United States, may apprehend and
detain a
person whom he believes to be a
person with mental illness and found in a place specified by section 21 - 902
A year later, more than 3,300
people were
detained in removal centres under immigration powers,
with hundreds of others kept in prisons.
People with mental health problems ought to be able to feel confident that, should they be
detained under section, powers to
detain and treat them and make decisions on their behalf will be used
with great care and for the right reasons.
He disclosed that over 40 groups are fighting for the actualization of an independent state of Biafra,
with MASSOB as the parent body and urged the Federal Government to grant unconditional release to the
detained Leader of the Indigenous
People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
Mental ill health episodes may result in someone being
detained, and an advocate's role is to support that
person in their encounters
with health professionals and advise them that they can question treatments.
Five
people have so far been arrested in bitter battle,
with Nick Clegg criticising the police for
detaining peaceful protesters
Joseph Muscat told a press conference that eight
people — all Maltese nationals, most
with criminal records — had been
detained in early - morning raids in three different...
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said before 4 p.m. that 17
people are still being
detained JFK airport because of the ban, but that report conflicts
with what other officials have said.
His comments came during Seven Days of Action, a campaign led by families to shine a spotlight on the thousands of
people with autism and learning difficulties currently
detained in some form of in - patient setting.
«We» are standing up for human rights in line
with Shami Chakrabarti because we oppose the draconian imposition of state sponsored snooping and
detaining people willy - nilly subsequent to 911.
«
People are
detained at the whim of any high ranking
person in Aso Rock
with access to an army or police commander.
With immigration in the headlines again after Arizona passed a controversial law authorizing police to
detain people they suspect of being in the country illegally, turnout should be particularly high for today's 4th annual March for
With immigration in the headlines again after Arizona passed a controversial law authorizing police to
detain people they suspect of being in the country illegally, turnout should be particularly high for today's 4th annual March for more
The plans are part of a wider package of reforms that would tear up the Mental Health Act and replace it
with new legislation aimed largely at reducing the number of vulnerable
people detained in prison cells.
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and the Patriot Act,
people were
detained for reading foreign - language pages on public internet sites, or criticizing then - president Bush in chat rooms, or reporting the receipt of a National Security letter to their library's attorney, as happened to four Connecticut librarians, who were arrested for discussing a National Security letter
with their counsel.
If
people do not want cats to be killed and cleaned up as if they were nothing but garbage, then they ought to fund Trap Neuter
DETAIN shelters, where these cats can not only be taken out of their unnatural place in the food chain, but will be protected from humans
with malicious intent, as well as accidents
with things like cars.
Often, the tourist has not tried to make any sort of purchase, only conversing briefly
with the
person soliciting, before being
detained and fined.
I disagree
with them on the idea that
detaining people is bad unless they are a proven criminal.
«If we can not remove or
detain people fairly and in accordance
with the rule of law, we fail to live up to the standards we expect of others.
The section of the Criminal Code that deals
with bail says that the Justice «shall release» the accused
person, unless the prosecutor shows cause on the three grounds that exist to
detain a
person.
«When we
detain individuals in facilities that seek profit,
with no legal or moral standard of care, we are putting
people in danger and encouraging inhumane behavior,» said Grisel Ruiz, staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
In the United States, so - called Miranda rights are named after the US Supreme Court decision of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 US 436 (1966) that determined that a
person detained by law enforcement and interrogated must be made aware of the right to remain silent, the right to consult
with an attorney and have the attorney present during questioning, and the right to have an attorney appointed if they can't afford one... [more]
(5) The interference
with individual liberty resulting from the police conduct was substantial in terms of the number of
persons detained, the number of times individuals were
detained and the length of the detentions; and
Giving the leading judgment, Lord Lloyd - Jones observed the centrality of Hardial Singh principles which stipulate that (i) the authorities must intend to deport the
person and can only use the detention power for that purpose, (ii) the deportee may only be
detained for a reasonable period, (iii) if it becomes apparent that the authorities will not be able to effect deportation within a reasonable period then it should not seek to exercise the power of detention, and (iv) the authorities should act
with reasonable diligence and expedition to effect removal.
Lord Justice Lloyd Jones held that «While I readily accept the fundamental importance of the guarantees provided by Article 5, it does not follow that Article 5 must be equated for all purposes
with Articles 2, 3 and 4... In the present state of the Strasbourg jurisprudence, enforced disappearance cases are acknowledged to give rise to an investigative obligation because where agents of the State have assumed control over an individual it is incumbent on the authorities to account for his or her whereabouts... I can see no reason in principle why it should be extended to all cases in which a
person has been
detained in the absence of judicial scrutiny or control, even if the detention is not secret or unacknowledged.
It would be perverse if the law was such that in order to be lawfully able to
detain a
person to prevent their imminent commission of an offence, the police must harbour a purpose of continuing the detention, after the risk has passed, until such time as the
person could be brought before a court
with a view to being bound over to keep the peace in the future.
be based on one of the statutory powers (which are spread across different pieces of immigration legislation) which state that a
person may only be
detained under immigration powers...
with a view to his removal;
(1) A peace officer who arrests a
person with or without warrant or to whom a
person is delivered under subsection 494 (3) or into whose custody a
person is placed under subsection 163.5 (3) of the Customs Act shall cause the
person to be
detained in custody and, in accordance
with the following provisions, to be taken before a justice to be dealt
with according to law:
In R. v. Wigglesworth, the Appellant was a police officer who had been charged
with Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act for choking and slapping a
detained person, and later charted under the Criminal Code for common assault towards the same
detained individual.
Police officers are not required to provide their own cell phones to
detained or arrested
persons to facilitate communication
with counsel under s. 10 (b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Providing
detained or arrested
persons with the opportunity to use their cell phones to contact counsel may reduce the risk of accidental self - incrimination.
Duty solicitors frequently encounter
people detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, s 136 and should therefore make themselves familiar
with the content of this circular, and in particular para 2.2:
The law on deprivation of liberty is «unfit for purpose», leaving thousands of
people with dementia or learning disabilities
detained in hospitals and care homes without the appropriate checks, the Law Commission has said.