Sentences with phrase «from justice minister»

Not exact matches

This summer, the Justice Department took the first public steps toward seizing $ 1 billion in assets that it says were moved to the United States after being taken from 1MDB by family and friends of Mr. Najib, the prime minister.

Mr. Rafizi, a member of the People's Justice Party, has been a leading critic of Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is accused of receiving $ 1 billion from 1 Malaysia Development Berhad, or 1MDB, a government investment fund that Mr. Najib established and oversaw.

Seoul To Regulate After «Sufficient Consultation» After the South Korean justice minister caused «confusion and anger» last week by saying the government would ban cryptocurrency exchanges, local news media report, the latest statements from Seoul indicate a significant U-turn.

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson stopped to admire a man wearing a vintage uniform of the North West Mounted Police from the late 1800s.

Moreover, in Europe, Italy's new Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has taken a different tack than his French neighbors by acknowledging that sustainable growth does not come from government spending programs but rather from policies such as labor market flexibility, job training and simplification of Italy's archaic civil justice system.

In Alberta, a similar practice was stopped in 2010 by then - Justice minister Alison Redford after it was revealed that local returning officers had been appointed from a list submitted by the Progressive Conservative Party.

OTTAWA (Sept. 22, 2015)-- Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shown reckless incompetence with his recent remarks on the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations and Canada now has no choice but to step away from the table, says the Trade Justice Network.

May El Khansa told CNN that she got confirmation from Ibrahim Najjar, Lebanon's justice minister, that her client, Ali Hussain Sibat, was still alive.

May El Khansa told CNN she received assurances from Lebanon's justice minister that Ali Hussain Sibat (pictured above with his wife) will not be executed Friday.

The Buddhist majority country's minister for Justice and Buddha Sasana (Religious Affairs), Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, threatened to bar Dias from the legal profession unless he retracted his comments and apologised within 24 hours.

I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country, from savage mobs to executive ministers of justice.

The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, a black minister of the American Baptist Church and longtime Harvard chaplain, wrote in the Boston Globe: «When lawyers, the courts, and the media all seem complicit in the cycle of vengeance and blood and no closure short of decapitation seems acceptable, then we have reason to worry about the climate for justice, mercy, and charity; and Salem in 1692 seems not so far removed in moral climate from Boston in 2002.»

Chaired by State President P.W. Botha, the SSC expands and contracts at the whim of the leadership from a central core of the ministers of defense, foreign affairs, police, justice and their lieutenants.

If one is pastor to a church which ministers to a large number of people who are unemployed, there is little doubt about addressing issues of economic justice from the pulpit.

The Irish Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, was quoted recently in the Irish Times as saying Ireland must shift from «overt paternalism» with regard to making decisions that are in people's «best interests».

In a news conference this lunchtime Scottish justice minister Kenny MacAskill confirmed his decision to free Abdelbaset al - Megrahi, who is suffering from terminal prostate cancer and has an estimated three months to live.

«Elect MCE's, Separate Attorney General from Minister of Justice position.

Supreme Court justices ruled, by a majority of eight to three, that Prime Minister Theresa May can not lawfully bypass MPs and peers by using the royal prerogative to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and start the two - year process of negotiating the UK's divorce from its EU partners.

From 2010 to 2016, he was Minister of State for Europe, Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.

«The fact that the decision to release was taken by the Scottish justice secretary does not preclude you, as the prime minister of the United Kingdom, from now expressing your opinion on a subject that is of great public concern, and which affects Britain's international reputation and our relations with our allies,» he wrote.

The statement read in part, «We gathered that the swoop on the country home of the former Attorney General and Minister of Justice will happen any moment from now as part of EFCC's sustained campaign to soil the good name of Mr. Adoke in the guise of seeking evidence to indict him.

Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan called the deputy prime minister's announcement a «humiliation» for the government and a «spectacular failure» of leadership from David Cameron.

The Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Mrs. Gloria Akuffo, has hinted that government has secured financial clearance from the Ministry of Finance for the employment Fifty (50) State Attorneys to augment and strengthen the delivery of justice in the cJustice and Attorney General, Mrs. Gloria Akuffo, has hinted that government has secured financial clearance from the Ministry of Finance for the employment Fifty (50) State Attorneys to augment and strengthen the delivery of justice in the cjustice in the country.

Fresh reports from Kogi State said more than 10 policemen have again, invaded the Okene residence of Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN) former Attorney - General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

In his latest move to tackle the issue, the Chief of Staff, Mr. Julius Debrah, has asked the Attorney General and Minister of Justice to recover from Smartty's Management Limited, a total of GHC 1.9 million.

Tom McNally, a minister in the Department of Justice, was the sole representative from the coalition.

[9] She assailed Conservative Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke over «secret inquests» opposed by military families, [10] provoking a «swipe» at the Royal British Legion from the Minister., [11]

Meanwhile, in another document, the Former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke SAN while responding to a request by the then Secretary General of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, said that the CCT chairman can not be removed from by a mere fiat of the executive arm of the government.

«The Tories have raked in over # 1 million from private dinners with David Cameron and senior ministers in the last quarter,» shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said.

Today foreign secretary Margaret Beckett announced the government had agreed to a request from the UN that Mr Taylor serve any sentence in the UK, insisting ministers were «determined to do what is necessary to defend international justice».

«It was evitable the government could not proceed with their hated and illegal residence test after the judgement from the high court,» shadow justice minister Andy Slaughter said.

They are unhappy with appointment of Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo; the President's cousin from Akropong — Akuapim in the Eastern Region, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori - Atta, Housing Minister, Samuel Atta Akyea, Justice Minister, Gloria Akuffo and Roads and Highway Minister, Kwesi Amoako - Atta.

«I appreciate that the minister is under the strict riding instructions from a lord chancellor whose jurisprudential credibility has been forensically unpicked by my noble friend Lord Pannick and secretary of state for justice who has wreaked havoc on the ability of the prison and probation services to protect the public.

«That the Attorney - General of the Federation and Minister of Justice perform his duties creditably by advising President Muhammadu Buhari to remove IGP Idris from office within 5 (five) working days, from tomorrow Monday.»

The report, however, commended the former attorney general, Betty Mould Iddrissu, for negotiating down the 163million euros to 94 million euros «This decision by the then Attorney - General and Minister of Justice Betty Mould - Iddrisu, which recommended and insisted that the awards which she had managed to negotiate downwards from about 163 million Euros ($ 163 million) to 94 million Euros ($ 94 million) should be satisfied and paid by the State was, in the opinion of this Commission, one of the best decisions that could be taken in the interest of the State.

Indeed, expert opinion has long converged around the need to separate the Attorney General's functions from that of the Minister of Justice, if this country is to make a head way in its fight against corruption, but it appears no government has yet mustered the required political will to undertake that venture.

Today, all institutions of governance are afflicted by the virus of a failed system and the clamour has again resumed with some calling for the return to parliamentary constitution or a thoroughly modified presidential system with devolution of powers to the states, independence of local government areas, restructuring, separation of office of Attorney - General from that of Minister of Justice, etc..

Shadow minister covering the Cabinet Office, Scotland and Justice Wayne David has just resigned from Labour's frontbench.

Extracts from the remarks of Mr Justice Sweeney as he sentenced the former cabinet minister and his ex-wife

• Lord McNally, a Lib Dem justice minister, has said his party must defend the Human Rights Act from the Conservatives.

Ministers» plans to withdraw the UK from the European court of human rights (ECHR) are encouraging the government of Ukraine to trample on the liberties of its people, the shadow justice minister has claimed.

The MPs advised separating the political and legal aspects of the roles so that legal advice comes from a career lawyer and the ministerial role is adopted by a Ministry of Justice minister.

Justice secretary Chris Grayling is the first Cabinet minister to attempt to exclude Scottish MPs from voting against his department's controversial changes.

Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High court, Abuja on Wednesday announced her withdrawal from the trial of a former Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro.

«The women's parliamentary Labour party ask that you and the minister of justice meet with a delegation from our group to discuss how the government will progress on this issue.

Speaking to the New Statesman on Monday, the shadow justice minister, Sadiq Khan, said Labour's mayoral contenders should not allow themselves to get distracted from the general election.

«Therefore, we took directives from the Chief Legal Officer of the nation; the Attorney General and Minister of Justice.

How come one Iyiola Omisore got elected into the upper chamber of the National Assembly from behind prison bars while standing trial for complicity in the murder of Uncle Bola Ige, the Cicero, then serving Federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General?

In a 2009 article on MPs» expenses, we said «senior Labour sources» had predicted that Shahid Malik MP, who had stepped down as justice minister pending an investigation into his renting a flat in his Dewsbury constituency from a local businessman, would not return to government and that the prime minister, Gordon Brown, had «lost confidence in Malik».