Sentences with phrase «fraud allegations before»
Defending metal producer Timminco Ltd. against fraud allegations before the Ontario Court of Appeal last year, he helped set an important precedent barring plaintiffs from bringing secondary - market class action suits if they failed to get leave to appeal within three years.
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The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, would on Tuesday appear before the Senate committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to answer questions on allegations of fraud preferred against him.
«He had transmitted a notification letter the state House of Assembly under the leadership of the former Speaker, Jumoke Akindele, some days before her removal from office over N15 million fraud allegation.
Speaking in April 2010, a month before his appointment as deputy prime minister, he said: «The allegations about alleged fraud in Goldman Sachs are extraordinarily serious.
Serious allegations of fraud by Tetra Tech were raised long before the LANL cleanup contract was awarded.
In the development of the standard, the difficulty arose in applying the civil standard to cases with quasi-criminal elements (defence allegations of fraud or crime on the plaintiff's part), family law proceedings in the time before no - fault divorce, or matters of equity decided in the common law courts.
The Ecuadorean villagers still have a long legal fight before them — Chevron has been successfully staved off collection of assets in the U.S. by raising allegations of fraud.
Mr. Morris routinely represents clients before the US Competent Authority and has handled matters involving allegations of tax fraud and potential criminal tax charges.
l When the case involves an allegation of serious fraud or dishonesty, generally conclusions on such issues ought to be reached at trial, caution ought to be exercised before giving summary judgment in a case of that nature (Wrexham Associated Football Club v Crucialmove Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 237, [2006] All ER (D) 199 (Mar)-RRB-.
Within the first three years of practice, Jeff orally argued a case before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, successfully defended a large healthcare corporation from serious fraud allegations with a team at trial and obtained a large recovery for consumers in a statewide class action.
In sum, on the record before us, including the presumed facts as adopted by the chambers judge, our view is that it was a palpable and overriding error for the chambers judge to conclude that the allegation of fraud «was rooted only in speculation and conjecture with a mild dose of melodrama thrown in».
Before the fraud allegations surfaced, Sino - Forest had the largest market value of any forestry firm on the Toronto Stock Exchange.