Sentences with phrase «from penal law»

Not exact matches

Just like any other third world country: NO EDUCATION; NO EMPLOYMENT; NO FUTURE aside from a robust penal system engaged in martial law.

Lavine's legislation would add felony and misdemeanor hate crimes to the list of «serious offenses» in state penal law that disqualify individuals from possessing firearms.

The bill sponsored by Stewart - Cousins and Glick, both of whom are Democrats, would move state abortion law from the penal code to the health code and revise state law to make it similar to federal law, meaning that women could get an abortion past the 24 - week period if the mother's health — including emotional or mental health — is at risk.

He is preventing the animal cruelty laws from being placed in the NY state penal code section so that law enforcement officers will be required to know what those laws are.

The balance struck was serving a quite different purpose from that served by the criminal law when answering the question whether or not the infliction of physical injury on another in consequence of a mistaken belief by the assailant of a need for self - defence should be categorised as a criminal offence and attract penal sanctions.

Whereas resisting arrest involves an attempt to prevent an officer from making an arrest, obstruction of a peace officer covers a much broader spectrum of conduct that falls under the rubric of «hindering the enforcement of the penal law or the preservation of the peace.»

An example from the case law of substantive reliability is a natural, swift and specific utterance by a young child, who lacks a motive to lie and has no anticipation of penal consequences, implicating the accused in wrongdoing (R v Khan, [1990] SCR 531).

When it comes to the rule of law, human rights - sensitive good governance initiatives reform legislation and assist institutions ranging from penal systems to courts and parliaments to better implement that legislation.