Sentences with phrase «director of public prosecutions»

In 2004 the Foreign Affairs Select Committee called for the ISC to become a full Parliamentary committee, something backed by former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord MacDonald and many more.

The prosecution led by Director of Public Prosecution, Yvonne Atakora Oboubisa informed the court that their efforts to reach the husband of Aisha have...

The Prosecutor, Insp Okunade Johnson, urged the court to remand the accused persons in prison pending receipt of legal advice from the Office of Director of Public Prosecution.

The former director of public prosecutions for England returns to the front bench after quitting in July over fears about Corbyn's leadership.

Conversation frequently turns to who could lead the party after another defeat in 2020: the former paratrooper Dan Jarvis; the shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna (who withdrew from the race after just a few days); the former director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer; even David Miliband.

With the announcement this week that Alison Saunders will be stepping down from her role as Director of Public Prosecutions in October this year, with no named successor, more doubt is cast over the CPS and the disclosure regime.

The home affairs committee will continue their questioning with director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer on Tuesday April 5th and the information commissioner on Tuesday April 26th.

(iv) Prosecutors when tendering such statements should be armed with the case of Thom v Director of Public Prosecutions [1994] RTR 11.

I have concluded that the exercise of the discretion to stay proceedings by front line prosecutors as agents for the Attorney General of Alberta and the federal Director of Public Prosecutions under s. 579 of the Criminal Code has become systemically unethical.

Having failed thus far to put the phone hacking issue to rest, News International's law firm, Hickman & Rose, hired former Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald to review the emails that News International executives had used as the basis of their claim that no one at the News of the World but Clive Goodman had been involved in phone hacking.

Former director of public prosecutions Lord Macdonald of River Glavenn called it «a policy beloved of the world's worst regimes during the 20th century».

Former director of public prosecutions says phone - hacking trials helped dispel idea that journalists were above the law

«For five years as director of public prosecutions people put problems on my desk that I had to solve.

In the Motion, which was filed and moved by the State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Mr Gbemiga Adaramola, an order of the court was sought to issue warrant of arrest against Mr Aluko to be executed by the State Commissioner of Police for the purpose of committing him (Aluko) to trial for the offence of perjury.

Eventually (my boss having been sentenced to 7 years» imprisonment for corruption) I was promoted to head of the Commercial Crime Unit which was also the post of Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions.

Objecting to the application, Mr. Muhammed Diri, Federal Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) argued that seizing Dasuki's passport was the only condition upon which he was granted bail and that it has been discovered that the ailment of the accused could be treated at the National Hospital, Abuja.

Frances Knickle, acting director of public prosecutions with the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Justice and Public Safety, was appointed a judge of the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador in Happy Valley Goose Bay.

But in the amended charges filed by the new Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Mr. Umar Mohammed, the National Coordinator of IPOB member, Mr. Chidiebere Onwudiwe, was added to the defendants, bringing the number of accused persons to four.

She was employed as a state attorney at the Attorney - General's Department in 1995 and rose through the ranks till she was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions during the John Mahama administration.

Chakrabarti is the latest high - profile advocate to enter parliament, with two former directors of public prosecution also taking party whips: Keir Starmer on the green benches for Labour, Ken Macdonald on the red benches for the Liberal Democrats.

Coalition proposals for the civil justice system threaten the foundations of the British legal system, the former director of public prosecutions warned today.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is mounting a major inquiry into misconduct allegations at South Yorkshire police, while director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer is reviewing evidence which informed the independent panel report published in September.

But former director of public prosecutions Sir Ken MacDonald has spoken out against the government's plans, despite supporting the use of communications data evidence.

It stated that the AGF office replied his petition through a letter dated February 4, 2016 and signed by the then Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr. Mohammed Diri.

The MP for Holborn and St Pancras was director of public prosecutions until 2013.

But even before Friday's discovery of potentially lethal bomb plots, the Guardian reported that the review ordered by the incoming home secretary, and apparently in the safe hands of the former director of public prosecutions turned Lib Dem peer Lord Macdonald, was in danger of being captured by the security establishment.

Mr Khan also counts former London mayor Ken Livingstone, Margaret Hodge MP and former Director of Public Prosecutions Kier Starmer among his supporters.

A unique app, iWitnessed, is launched today by leading forensic psychologists at the University of Sydney and UNSW - supported by NSW Police and former Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery QC - to assist victims and witnesses record Read more about iWitnessed app launched by memory experts, police, QC - Scimex

They led to accusations that Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders was «more interested in convictions than in people being tried fairly».

The Goldman Environmental Foundation joins Omido and CJGEA members in their demands to the Kenyan Director of Public Prosecution, Keriako Tobiko, to step in and investigate the responsible parties.

He was Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions before serving, since September 2015, as the 5th Solicitor General of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Linklaters has hired the outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Alison Saunders, for its dispute resolution practice.

Speaking in favour of deletion, Lord Macdonald, the former Director of Public Prosecutions identified three clear dangers in proceeding, none of which have been addressed by the Lords amendments, to public confidence in the judiciary, to fairness and to justice (Cols 1898 — 1900).

On Thursday, the retiring English Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, published final guidelines for crown counsel on the approach they should take in cases involving communications sent via social media.

Mohunram and Another v National Director of Public Prosecutions and Another (Case CCT 19/06, 26 March 2007), demonstrating just the kind of proprortionality reasoning rejected out of hand in Australia in Theophanous.

Sir Keir Starmer QC, the former director of public prosecutions for England and Wales, is in talks to join Mishcon de Reya.

The former barrister and director of public prosecutions said: «Some of us have worked in countries where judges do as governments tell them.

But then there's former director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer, who is yet to show his hand.

The Judgment in the Twitter Joke Trial Case Paul Chambers v Director of Public prosecutions [2012] EWHC 2157

But its calls have been rejected by former attorney general Lord Goldsmith, director of public prosecutions Ken MacDonald and, yesterday, former lord chancellor Lord Falconer.

Former director of public prosecutions Lord McDonald, who has been asked to review the Harbottle file of emails, told the Commons committee of culture, media and sport that the file did suggest wider criminality.

It comes as director of public prosecutions (DPP) Keir Stramer appears before MPs in parliament.

She is a lawyer of 30 years standing at the Ghana Bar and a former acting Director of Public Prosecutions.

Additionally, the new Director of Public Prosecutions was announced this week.