Sentences with phrase «investigate alleged violations»

A number of IHL instruments imply an obligation to investigate alleged violations.

Our mandate is to license and inspect our regulated businesses, respond to consumer inquiries, investigate alleged violations of consumer protection laws, classify all general release motion pictures and provide information and referrals to consumers.

The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), based at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, has asked the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to investigate alleged violations of Canadian privacy law by the popular social networking site, Facebook.

The Court also considered the circumstances in which there might be a duty to investigate alleged violations of Article 5.

-- The Attorney General shall investigate alleged violations of this title, and shall undertake periodic reviews of compliance of covered entities under this title.

It's the committee's responsibility to investigate alleged violations of Senate rules and policies by members.

The findings of a UN inquiry investigating alleged violations of disabled people's human rights in the UK as a result of welfare reforms will not be published for two years, the Guardian has learned.

Santoro's job within the general counsel's office includes investigating alleged violations of ethical conduct, including perceived or real conflicts of interest.

The Board of Directors shall then investigate the alleged violation, and will permit the member in question to respond.

«When investigating alleged violations of these Terms, Microsoft reserves the right to review Your Content in order to resolve the issue,» according to the Microsoft Services Agreement.

The Claimants argued that the circumstances in which a duty to investigate an alleged violation of Article 5 arises were not limited to cases of enforced disappearance, but that an investigative duty arose in all cases where detention takes place beyond the reach of the courts, even if such detention was not secret or unacknowledged.

Well, that part falls under Code of Conduct Enforcement, which states, «When investigating alleged violations of these Terms, Microsoft reserves the right to review Your Content in order to resolve the issue.»

It does say that it «reserves the right to review Your Content» when it's «investigating alleged violations of these Terms.»

Not exact matches

Stone added that when he reached out to Manafort following The Times» report alleging that prosecutors planned to indict him, Manafort sounded «very combative» and told him he believes Mueller's team is «guilty of multiple violations of the law and due - process in their efforts to investigate him,» according to Yahoo.

The NPP presidential candidate, further explained that the Special Prosecutor, would be established by Act of Parliament, to be independent of the executive, and to possess «an exclusive remit to investigate and prosecute certain categories of cases and allegations of corruption, including those involving alleged violations of the Public Procurement Act and cases implicating political office holders and politicians.»

The U.S. annual report on global human rights violations, released in Washington D.C. on Friday afternoon, said the administration of President Buhari «took steps to investigate alleged abuses, but fewer steps to prosecute officials who committed violations, whether in the security forces or elsewhere in the government».

Creating an independent counsel to investigate claims of wrongful convictions and alleged civil rights violations by law enforcement.

Following the passage of the bill, the Special Prosecutor has an exclusive remit to investigate and prosecute certain categories of cases and allegations of corruption, including those involving alleged violations of the Public Procurement Act and cases implicating political office holders and politicians.

Babachir is being investigated for alleged violations of law and due process in the award of contracts under the Presidential Initiative on the North - East; and Oke, over the $ 43.4 m hauled from a residential apartment at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos.

«It hardly bears repeating that the leak of a document alleging potential criminal violations by individuals specifically named raises serious legal and regulatory issues that should be fully investigated,» Laufer wrote.

The Office of the Special Prosecutor has been tasked to investigate and prosecute certain categories of cases and allegations of corruption and other criminal wrongdoing, including those involving alleged violations of the Public Procurement Act, 2003 (Act 663) and cases implicating public officers and politically - exposed persons.

In 2010, Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who was then the state's attorney general, named her independent counsel to investigate several alleged ethics violations by Mr. Paterson.

It investigates alleged ethics violations in the executive branch and regulates lobbying while the Legislature's ethics commission investigates lawmakers.

The New Patriotic Party in the election manifesto said, the office will «be independent of the Executive, to investigate and prosecute certain categories of cases and allegations of corruption and other criminal wrongdoing, including those involving alleged violations of the Public Procurement Act and cases implicating political officeholders and politicians.»

Rep. George Miller, D - Calif., has asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate alleged fraud and other possible violations of federal law by a nonprofit Utah corporation that is affiliated with 11 private boarding schools for troubled youths that are located outside the United States.

All complaints alleging discrimination are investigated to determine if there has been a violation (s) of the passenger's civil rights.

DOT investigates complaints from the public alleging violations of Title VI, and follows the process in the DOT External Civil Rights Complaint Processing Manual, Order 1000.18.

(See «PA House majority leader Turzai took $ 3,000 from pigeon shooters, killed vote on pigeon shooting, but will not be investigated for alleged ethics violations,» http://wp.me/p4pKmM-Vu.)

The office conducts routine inspections and investigates complaints of alleged violations of the law for animal shelters in Delaware.

The CA helps parents seeking the return of a child to obtain legal services; provides the local court with information on the Convention; gets periodic updates from the court; processes requests for background checks on the child from the child's country of habitual residence (see Habitual Residence); obtains a written opinion on the wrongfulness of the alleged violation from the country of habitual residence; may ask a local social welfare agency to investigate child's welfare.

CCPR / C / 55 / D / 563/1993, para. 8.6 (states parties are «under a duty to investigate thoroughly alleged violations of human rights»); Conclusions and recommendations of the Committee against Torture: The Russian Federation, UN Doc.

(ii) Within 180 days (360 if the investigated person is based abroad) from ascertaining an alleged violation of securities laws, the competent Consob office for the investigation (different from Consob's Sanction Office) must notify the investigated person with a formal letter of charge describing, inter alia, (a) the supervisory and investigation activities carried out by Consob, (b) the alleged violations, (c) the unit responsible for the proceeding, and (d) the defensive powers available to the investigated party.

OCR will monitor and audit covered entities in both the private and government sectors, will ensure compliance with requirements of this rule, and will investigate complaints from individuals alleging violations of their privacy rights.

Specifically, in the final rule, we define law enforcement official as an official of any agency or authority of the United States, a state, a territory, a political subdivision of a state or territory, or an Indian tribe, who is empowered by law to: (1) Investigate or conduct an inquiry into a potential violation of law; or (2) prosecute or otherwise conduct a criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding arising from an alleged violation of law.

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.

Investigated all alleged food safety violations and infractions in coordination with vendors and consumers.

Conduct 10 - 15 quarterly internal investigations Investigating and responding to alleged violations of laws, regulations, contractual requirements and / or policies.

I have an inherent interest in law and order enforcement, and have been highly successful in investigating alleged and suspected criminal violations, by determining if acquired evidence is sufficient to recommend prosecution.

Depending upon the nature of the alleged violation, conducts a site visit or requests assistance from staff to investigate the complaint or to inspect for compliance.