Sentences with phrase «gave evidence against»

The mother gave evidence against him at the threshold hearing (ChA 1989, s 31) in care proceedings concerning the two surviving siblings of the family.

Why did they just pick on two people who some of us gave evidence against and were taken to court and imprisoned?

Eleven SSP members, including Mr Fox and MSPs Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, gave evidence against him in the case, in which Mr Sheridan won # 200,000 in damages for the defamatory allegations made by the newspaper about his personal life.

It gives evidence against the Word.

Now, give me some evidence against what I am giving.

They must litigate without the power to cross examine witnesses giving evidence against them, who may remain anonymous and absent from the court, without publicly funded legal representation, without any restriction as to the material placed before the fact - finding court, and can be found responsible for conduct on a mere balance of probabilities.»

Jacobs added that: «Some of the witnesses who would be called to give evidence against him include some of his subordinates, and so if granted bail, his presence will have impact on them.»

The challenge was to a decision that a child (J, aged 17 and 3 months) need not give evidence against her stepfather.

Operators can also face an additional challenge: most hotel employees are employed by the Owner, and employees are unlikely to want to give evidence against their employer.

Three witnesses, who identified the defendant as the gunman, claimed to be in fear for their lives if it became known that they had given evidence against the defendant.

A lawyer can't be compelled by the prosecution to give evidence against you.

In August 2008, brothers and former UVF members Robert and Ian Stewart turned themselves in to the PSNI and entered into «assisting offender agreements» to give evidence against others accused of UVF membership, shootings and hijackings in south - east Antrim.

While the case did not relate, actually, to enforcement of a judgment — but rather related to the issue of the compellability of a witness to give evidence against his own interests in a contempt hearing — the Court, in obiter, did make the following comment:

Three witnesses (the only witnesses in the case who had identified the appellant as the gunman) claimed that they were in fear for their lives if it became known that they had given evidence against Davis.

Not exact matches

«Given the nature of the charges against the defendant and the apparent weight of the evidence against him, defendant faces the very real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison,» Ellis said of the former campaign manager.

Given that much of it is private, most people here can rest assured in the knowledge that if her claims did not hold up against this evidence, these people would speak out publicly here and / or privately to Julie.

The fact that this can be altered, gives good evidence against a immaterial soul.

My guess is that it will be a difficult case to argue against the impact of the contraceptive coverage rule as anything but an «incidental effect» given it targets a market and there's no evidence that the rule is over or under inclusively fashioned as a pretext to target the religious beliefs of those opposed to contraception.

Rather we are well reminded that the Judaeo - Christian God is the immediate sustainer of all, and that to give a scientific explanation is more evidence for the Creator than against him.

In fact, most if not all of the relevant evidence, as the previous example illustrated, counts against the idea that physics can in principle provide a complete account of the physical world, especially given the existence of human and other animals in it.

Giving Allah's Evidence against man's rejection of Faith might differ from time to another, or a place or town to other.

For this reason Luther sided against the peasants in the Peasants» War, and gave added religious sanction to a social stratification which is still much in evidence in European society.

Given all the objective evidence against the gods so far worshiped, it's not unreasonable to ask for objective evidence for a god.

An exception to this rigorous rule might have been the duty to give evidence in court concerning a crime which a priest learned about in the confessional; but as the civil law of evidence developed, it included a privilege for the priest against being compelled to reveal anything told to him under the «seal of the confessional.»

Lead researcher Ira Driscoll told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: «The mounting evidence of caffeine consumption as a potentially protective factor against cognitive impairment is exciting given that caffeine is also an easily modifiable dietary factor.

There is also evidence about that breastfeeding helps protect against colitis — I wasn't breastfed as my mum couldn't do it due to other meds she was taking and since my dad has colitis (and so there's a genetic link) I wanted to give ds the best chance that he wouldn't get it too.

«Many pediatricians recommend against giving eggs and fish in the first year of life because of allergic reactions, but there is no evidence that introducing these nutrient - dense foods after 4 to 6 months of age determines whether your baby will be allergic to them.»

When parents are given ambiguous, conflicting message or the watered down version of recommendation against bedsharing like in British Columbia in 2011 and told how «there is no evidence that bedsharing is a risk in the absence of additional risks like smoking or drinking» you get this: http://www.perinatalservicesbc.ca/Documents/Resources/Alerts/BCCSInfantSafeSleepAlert.pdf

«The powers include powers to summon any person to appear before her, give evidence, including power of an officer of the legislative House to arrest any person who commits an offense against the Act.»

The suspended General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has exhibited lack of principle, as he appeal to the media to allow him a peaceful mind, after deliberately refusing to enter the witness box to give evidence in the Paul Afoko case against the NPP.

«After careful deliberation, given the totality of the circumstances here and absent additional evidence, we do not intend to bring federal criminal charges against the Mayor or those acting on his behalf relating to the fundraising efforts in question,» said Joon Kim, the acting U.S. attorney.

Rupert Murdoch's lawyer said he was engaged in a personal campaign against him after he gave evidence to the Leveson inquiry today.

During a House of Commons debate on 7 July 2009, Davis accused the UK government of outsourcing torture, by allowing Rangzieb Ahmed to leave the country (even though the government had evidence against Ahmed, upon which Ahmed was later convicted for terrorism) to Pakistan, where it is said the Inter-Services Intelligence was given the go ahead by the British intelligence agencies to torture Ahmed.

It was alleged that they had deleted some messages, giving false hope to police and to Dowler's family, who thought that she might have deleted the messages and therefore might still be alive and potentially destroying valuable evidence about her abduction and any evidence against a potential abductor and murderer.

However, legal experts have warned against scrapping the reduction for a guilty plea, saying it is the only incentive for offenders to confess, thus ensuring victims do not have to give evidence in court and speeding up the whole justice process.

Dasuki told the court the need for him to be allowed to access his records and make necessary clarifications and consultations in order to be in good position to give cogent and verifiable evidence in the transaction that led to the filing of criminal charges against Metuh.

David Miliband voted for the iraq war, for 90 days» detention without trial, which was defeated despite him, for setting control orders at the instance of the Secretary of State for Justice instead of the Lord Chief Justice and against giving suspects the right to see the evidence against them.

«Any such commission of inquiry should be given the mandate to establish the facts and circumstances surrounding the slave auction and other atrocities being perpetrated in Libya against Nigerians and other African women, men and children, and to collect and preserve evidence as well as clarify responsibility, including the potential complicity of any governments and non-state actors.»

Phil Boothe, national coordinator of No2ID, which campaigns against the DNA database, said the findings were further proof of the dangers in the government's database programme, but warned not to give up on traditional forensic use of DNA, together with chains of evidence and presentation in court.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed a recommendation in a report by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee that the «self - employed» should be given at least «worker» employment status unless the engager of their labour can prove otherwise.1 This is a recommendation that LITRG made in written evidence to a separate inquiry.2 LITRG believes that the denial of employment rights to people working in the «gig economy» and the exploitation of other flexible workers regarding their taxes share a common cause: the workers» own lack of knowledge, their reluctance to challenge their treatment because they lack confidence or just need the work and the businesses involved apparently having little fear of action being taken against them by public bodies.

«Given the totality of the circumstances here and absent additional evidence, we do not intend to bring federal criminal charges against the Mayor or those acting on his behalf relating to the fundraising efforts in question.»

Witnesses before committees are protected by parliamentary privilege and any attempt to punish a witness or bring legal proceedings against «any person on account of evidence which he may have given in the course of any proceedings in the House or before one of its committees» would be treated as a contempt of Parliament.

British diplomats are seeking to persuade Jordan to give assurances that evidence against Qatada obtained through torture will not be used in a trial against him.

Speaking out against media intrusion of privacy and on gagging injunctions, the celeb trio of Hugh Grant, Steve Coogan and Max Mosley faced the joint select committee to give evidence.

She was giving evidence on day four of the libel trial brought by Mitchell against the Sun newspaper for its story on the row.

Evans admitted that while they were talking about potential evidence that he could give against senior people at the paper, he had mentioned his meeting with Andy Coulson at the Aldwych Hotel.

Welsh Labour has responded to opposition criticism following a decision by Labour members of the Assembly's Health Committee to vote against inviting Ann Clwyd to give evidence.

«This important evidence gives hope to the fact we can protect some of the world's ecosystems against climate change.

Although there was additional evidence against Dobson and Norris that helped to secure their conviction, several new studies illustrate that contamination is an issue that should be given more consideration than suggested by the prosecution.

Given well - established evidence that free radicals can cause cancer, the research community had simply assumed that antioxidants, which destroy them, provide protection against the disease.