Sentences with phrase «joint submission to the court»

Not exact matches

The ACCC and Coles have made joint submissions to the Federal Court seeking consent orders from the Court.

Notwithstanding the fact that the other plaintiffs had acknowledged that they were jointly and severally liable for anything for which the Joint Venture might be liable, the court did not accept the defendant's submission that the Joint Venture itself ought to be removed as being unnecessary with Justice Griffin stating:

Attached hereto as Exhibit B are the joint submissions of CCD and CACL, in support of their position, should this Court allow their motion to intervene.

Meerai Cho pleaded guilty in Ontario provincial court Wednesday to one count of criminal breach of trust and was sentenced on a joint submission with the Crown, according to her lawyer, William Trudell.

The vast majority of defence counsel will recommend it to a client because a joint submission would certainly be accepted by the court as falling «within the range» that would then insulate the disposition from hostile appellate intervention.

In this case, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of a sentencing judge to reject a joint submission for a two year sentence for an accused convicted of impaired driving causing death and upheld the sentence imposed of two years and eight months; noting, however, that a sentence of no less than four years ought to have been imposed: R v Gibson, 2015 ABCA 41 (CanLII).

In short both parties plead guilty to the offence and joint submissions (ie a plea bargain) were made which the Court accepted.

The matter was further appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada (hereinafter SCC) to clarify the test to be used by a sentencing judge in departing from a joint submission on sentence.

Or if a prosecution was in the SFO's opinion necessary this could be confined to a limited part of the suspected criminality and there would be potential for a joint submission on sentence to the court.

As this Court said in R. v. Nixon, 2011 SCC 34 (CanLII), [2011] 2 S.C.R. 566, not only do joint submissions «help to resolve the vast majority of criminal cases in Canada», but «in doing so, [they] contribute to a fair and efficient criminal justice system» (para. 47).

The Alice case induced a long list of companies to file briefs, including a joint submission from a group of tech companies — including Google (s goog), Amazon (s amzn), Facebook (s fb) and Netflix (s nflx)-- that are rivals in the marketplace, but that have come together to ask the Supreme Court to squash abstract software patents.