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Where Bureau investigators secure sufficient evidence of an offence, the Commissioner will not hesitate to refer the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions for prosecution.

Though no plea was taken because the case was related to capital offence, the Magistrate, M.F. Poromon, directed that the matter should be transferred to the Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.

She further directed the court registrar to remit the case file to the Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice and adjourned the matter indefinitely.

Not exact matches

The presiding judge, Justice James Tsoho during the hearing ordered that Nnamdi Kanu be taken to prison instead of being kept in custody of the DSS overruling the request by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr. Mohammed Diri, for the continued incarceration of Kanu by the DSS.

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.

On the afternoon of 19 July 2011, the HASC took evidence from both holders of the position of the Director of Public Prosecutions, for the period which covered the scandal.

The attention of the Kwara State Ministry of Justice has been drawn to a story published by an online medium that the suspected cultists arrested and interrogated by the Police in Ilorin and recommended for trial by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) but suddenly transferred to Police Headquarters, Abuja, had in their statement indicted -LSB-...]

The attention of the Kwara State Ministry of Justice has been drawn to a story published by an online medium that the suspected cultists arrested and interrogated by the Police in Ilorin and recommended for trial by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) but suddenly transferred to Police Headquarters,...

The freed female inmate, Ameh Happy, who was standing trial for criminal conspiracy and armed robbery got reprieve when advise from the Director of Public Prosecution DPP absolved her of any complicity in the alleged offence.

This means that any extension would not only be: - subject to a specific case being made by the Director of Public Prosecutions; - subject every seven days up to the agreed limit to the approval of a High Court Judge; - subject to the regular report of the independent reviewer with an annual debate in parliament; - but also be subject in each and every instance to a specific parliamentary notification procedure, to a further statement to parliament on the individual case, a review on the specific case by the independent reviewer and with the provision for this House to scrutinise and debate the report and all the circumstances.

At the resumption of his trial on Thursday, the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, in the state, Titilayo Shitta - Bey told the Justice Justice Hakeem Oshodi - led court that the amendment relates only to the punishment section for the second charge.

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

Householders are extremely unlikely to be prosecuted for attacking burglars in their own home unless they go after them for revenge, the Director of Public Prosecutions said today.

They were pointed to in June last year, when the director of public prosecutions published guidelines for how prosecutors should approach what is said on social media.

In fact the sole reason for having a director of public prosecutions is to give guidance as to when certain prosecutions may or may not be in the public interest.

The «motivation of the suspect» has been made the main focus for prosecutors when they assess assisted dying cases, but the director of public prosecutions has denied relaxing rules on euthanasia.

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 director of public prosecutions was instructed by the law lords to draw up guidelines indicating the various factors for and against prosecution in such cases.

Last night, my State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatai Ahmed revealed to me an information at his disposal that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for several weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice were ordered to be transferred to Abuja thprosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice were ordered to be transferred to Abuja thProsecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice were ordered to be transferred to Abuja this morning.

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

The presiding magistrate, Mrs Abibat Bashiru directed the police prosecutor, Inspector Mireti Wilson, to forward the case file to the Director of Public Prosecution, Ministry of Justice, Osun State for legal advice.

One of the latest twist of the story told on Wednesday was by Senate President Saraki who announced that his State governor and ally, Abdulfatai Ahmed had told him that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for several weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the director of public prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice, were ordered to be transferred to Abuja on the directive of IGP) Idris Ibrahim.

«The newspaper produced no new evidence for us to consider reopening the case - a position endorsed separately by the Director of Public Prosecutions and leading counsel.

In December 2013, Mackay awarded QCs to Simon Fothergill, Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Legislation and House Planning, and Machinery of Government) and Counsel, Privy Council Office; Colonel P.K. Gleeson, Deputy Judge Advocate General Operations, Military Justice and Administrative Law, Department of National Defence; Claude Joyal, Senior General Counsel, (Quebec Regional Office), Department of Justice; Urszula Kaczmarczyk, Senior General Counsel, Ontario Regional Office, Department of Justice; Sandra Phillips, Associate Assistant Deputy Attorney General for Tax Assessments; Donald K. Piragoff, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Justice; Brian J. Saunders, Director of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.

The consent of the director of public prosecutions is needed for proceedings to be instituted (s 17).

● The power o f the AG to give directions to the director of public prosecutions or the director of the SFO or the director of Revenue and Customs not to pursue specific criminal investigations or proceedings is to be limited to situations where the AG is satisfied that it is necessary to do so «for the purposes of safeguarding national security» (Cl 12).

The House of Lords» ruling means that Keir Starmer, Britain's director of public prosecutions, will be required to promulgate a policy defining the circumstances in which he would prosecute someone for assisted suicide.

The DPA Code of Practice16 sets out public interest factors for and against prosecution, which, the Director of the SFO has stated, were designed to incentivise self - reporting and effective compliance controls and encourage corporates to demonstrate that they are «serious about behaving ethically».

Chris Hansen, director of communications for Nova Scotia's Public Prosecution Service, says the unique characteristics of sexual assault cases led the NSPPS to seek specialists with an academic and professional background in women's studies and sexual violence.

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

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The Director of Public Prosecutions is responsible for prosecuting criminal offences under the Act.

The former director of public prosecutions (DPP) for England and Wales, Sir Keir Starmer QC is to join Mishcon de Reya as a part - time dispute resolution consultant.

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.

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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.

An accompanying article dealt with the «justice gap» between reported rapes and convictions and there followed the next day in the same newspaper a further account of the reasons for the very low prosecution rate, featuring comments by the director of public prosecutions (DPP), Sir Ken Macdonald, and the solicitor general, Vera Baird, among others, in which they attributed it in part to police and prosecutorial under - performance.

For instance in the Irish case of the Director of Public Prosecutions v Maresa Cagney [2013] 3 JIC 1101 where the Director of Public Prosecutions relied on the case of DPP v. Patricia Behan [2003] JIC 0304, in support of the proposition that failing to provide samples of her breath under section 13 of the Road Traffic Act 1994 Act was a strict liability offence with a limited defence.

Milwyn Jarman QC (instructed by the CPS) for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

Purdy, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, had asked for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to issue an offense - specific policy on whether or not her husband would be prosecuted if he accompanied her to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland where she hopes to end her life.

In the last year, the Joint Committee on Human Rights, the Attorney General, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and a former head of MI5 have joined Liberty in calling for this bar to be lifted.

They are also unhappy that the director of public prosecutions has to give consent to any prosecutions, that the legislation lacks extra-territorial bite, and that the test of senior management failure is too restricted — namely that «only those persons who play a significant role in decisions or in the actual managing or organising of the whole or a substantial part of those activities» can be the catalyst for the offence.

Among other things, it may seek legal action by referring criminal matters under any of the four statutes to the Director of Public Prosecutions of Canada for possible prosecution.