Sentences with phrase «for terrorist offences»

As a result of the decision in R (Binyan Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2008] EWHC 2048 (Admin), the Divisional Courts made Norwich Pharmacal [1974] Ac 133) order, requiring disclosure by the foreign secretary of material which it considered was essential to a fair trial in criminal proceedings in the US for terrorist offences.

The suggestion that it may be appropriate for some terrorist offences is also utterly misguided.

Not exact matches

Today's report recognises the need for a new, narrowly defined criminal offence of indirect incitement to terrorist acts, but says it is concerned about the wording of the new offence of encouragement to cover this purpose.

However, it is also true that all attempts to charge and convict them of terrorist offences for more than 14 years, including subjecting them to legally questionable interrogation methods, failed to establish credible grounds for their incarceration.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has commuted the death sentences passed on 66 soldiers who were tried by several Military Court Martials for mutiny and other offences in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists»...

And the forthcoming Counter Terrorism Bill will propose additional penalties for terrorists charged with other criminal offences.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has commuted the death sentences passed on 66 soldiers who were tried by several Military Court Martials for mutiny and other offences in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists» in the North East to terms of 10 years imprisonment.

Turning to the remainder of the questions the AG found that a joint reading of Article 12 (2)(c) and Article 12 (3) implied that the exclusion clause was not limited to terrorist acts and that a conviction for offences listed under Article 2 FDCT could be the basis for exclusion from refugee status.

For the first time in Canadian legal history, a definition for «terrorist activity,» together with several new terrorism - related offences, was written into our Criminal CoFor the first time in Canadian legal history, a definition for «terrorist activity,» together with several new terrorism - related offences, was written into our Criminal Cofor «terrorist activity,» together with several new terrorism - related offences, was written into our Criminal Code.

If my proposal were merely to introduce capital punishment as an available penalty for certain terrorism offences, I see no credible reason to believe future terrorists would suddenly give up their craft.

CCLA continues to argue against disproportionate knee - jerk reactions to terrorist threats — such responses overlook the robust broad powers already existing in the Criminal Code and other laws in place — and argue for more and more state powers and new offences which may cast a far - too - wide and ineffective net, while simultaneously threatening to normalize exceptional powers.

At minimum, the offence prohibits private and public speech advocating or promoting any of the several terrorism offences in the Criminal Code, some of which are non-violent offences, as well as speech advocating or promoting indictable criminal offences committed for the sake of or in association with terrorist groups.

For instance, under the new provision, speech that promotes tax fraud benefiting a terrorist group can be a terrorist offence.

Mr. Khadr was detained for eight years by the U.S. government in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before he pled guilty to five offences (the equivalent offences under Canadian law were first degree murder, attempted murder, participation in terrorist group activities, commission of offences for a terrorist group and spying for the enemy).

83.19 (1) Every one who knowingly facilitates a terrorist activity is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

Consequently, the substantive curtailment of a mens rea requirement for the definition of «facilitation» of a terrorist offence is disturbing, since it does the opposite of being commensurate with the assured gravity of the offence or its punishment.

Topics: mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences; external information in jury rooms; and whether criminal law can stop terrorist propaganda

The legislation raises a plethora of issues and significantly alters the security landscape: It gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) powers beyond intelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected» terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreign entities.

Although Canadian law makes some exemptions for freedom fighters and does not base terrorism convictions on objective fault, some Canadian terrorist offences are as broad as the American material support offences which allow convictions in the absence of a terrorist purpose.

A 16 - year - old boy, the youngest on trial for terrorism offences in Canada, has been found guilty by a Quebec youth court judge of committing a robbery in association with a terrorist organization and planning to leave Canada to join a jihadist group abroad.

«In those days, it wouldn't have been especially surprising if the government had added an offence of being in wilful possession of an Irish accent within designated areas of the Home Counties to the panoply of absurd, panic - stricken measures adopted in the wake of terrorist violence,» he wrote for Proof, the new magazine of the Justice Gap which has as its theme «justice in a time of moral panic».

If there is a financial transaction occurring or attempted in the course of the real estate agency's activities (for example, related to client transactions), and the Realtor has «reasonable grounds to suspect» that the financial transaction is related to the commission of a money laundering or terrorist financing offence under the Criminal Code of Canada, it must be reported.

They also do not know that suspicious transaction monitoring requires screening for the identity of terrorist groups to determine whether they are dealing with funds owned by a terrorist group that may involve a terrorist activity financing offence.