Sentences with phrase «joint trial»

According to him, the court can not proceed to trial when the plea of the firms which are in joint trial with the other accused persons is in contention.

At common law, courts have broad discretion to conduct joint trials in the interests of justice.

To justify their anger against joint trial, the three defendants brought a motion before Justice Hussein Baba - Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, complaining that the continuous unnecessary delay of their trial along with Dasuki is negatively affecting their family business and detrimental to their advantage.

Several failed mediations demonstrated that an agreement among the parties would not be possible, so the Canadian and US Courts conducted an unprecedented joint trial in 2014 to determine the appropriate allocation of the Lockbox Funds.

In 2013, after several failed rounds of formal mediation, the Canadian and US Courts directed the allocation of the Lockbox Fund to be determined by way of a historic and precedent - setting joint trial before the two Courts.

«It will be recalled that 71 soldiers were arraigned on several charges in joint trials.

Col. Sambo Dasuki said that his joint trial with Bafarawa and others is not negotiable because of the nature and circumstances of the charges.

Pulver agreed to a prosecution motion for separate retrials for LoPorto and Democratic Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough after their joint trial, which ran for nine weeks, ended in a hung jury and mistrial March 13.

But the EFCC had opposed the request insisting that with the joint trial which Justice Ademola and Agi underwent, the judge would likely be biased if the case was returned to him (Justice Ademola).

The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, had re-assigned the case to Justice Quadri when Justice Ademola was on suspension as a result of the joint trial.

Owonikoko also said that this was particularly so because he had made a clear case that fair hearing could not be achieved in a joint trial between the first and second accused.

He said he was concerned with the joint trial of the first and second accused as well as the choice of Lagos as venue in a matter which he said had nothing to do with Lagos.

In a joint trial, the team then tested the treatment in a further tumor model which mimics the clinical situation of the brain tumor patient even better.

The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed the appeal of an Ontario man who was convicted under both the Criminal Code and the province's Highway Traffic Act and who had argued that the trial judge lacked jurisdiction to conduct a joint trial on the criminal and provincial charges.

In R. v. Sciascia, 2017 SCC 57, the majority of the Supreme Court found that an Ontario Court of Justice judge has jurisdiction to conduct a joint trial of provincial charges and summary conviction criminal charges, depending on compliance with legislative intent and adherence to relevant common law principles, and that combining charges led to greater efficiencies in the court system.

Indeed, a joint trial in the circumstances of this case did not serve any truth - seeking interest, and brought few if any benefits to the administration of justice.

However, in this case, there was an absence of compelling countervailing reasons for having a joint trial.

In other circumstances, after balancing all relevant factors, the interests of justice may have nevertheless required a joint trial.

The Court of Appeal found that it was an error for the joint trial to have occurred, but dismissed the appeal on the basis that the jurisdictional error could be cured by s. 686 (1)(b)(iv) of the Criminal Code.

In this case, although Mr.. Last was likely to testify on both incidents, the risk of prejudice to Mr.. Last in having a joint trial was nevertheless significant because of the dangers of credibility cross-pollination and prohibited propensity reasoning.

Permitting a joint trial of provincial charges and summary conviction criminal charges is consistent with the intent of both the Provincial Offences Act and the Criminal Code, Justice Michael Moldaver wrote, with Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and justices Rosalie Abella, Andromache Karakatsanis, Richard Wagner, Clément Gascon and Malcolm Rowe concurring.

Despite concerns it could lead to «chaos» a joint trial announced to divvy up the $ 9 billion from the liquidation of Nortel Networks could be a creative solution that might just work.

Derek Adler of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, the lawyer for the European units, says a joint trial would lead to chaos if the judges in the Canada and the United States reached conflicting rulings with no appeals court to bind them both.

Lasting 24 days, the joint trial was conducted by video link between the Ontario and Delaware Courts between May and September, 2014.

It is the first appellate decision in Canada following a joint trial conducted by a Canadian Court with a foreign Court.

The analysis was flawed and the trial judge instead should have asked «would requiring Al - Enzi to proceed without counsel but with the assistance of amicus strike a reasonable balance between Al - Enzi's right to a fair trial, the Crown's interest in a joint trial and Kayem's interest in the continuation of this trial?»

The C.A noted the trial judge thought he had only two options: 1) preserve the joint trial or, 2) allow Al - Enzi his counsel of choice at a separate and new trial (at para. 70).

The C.A. found it was an error for the joint trial to have occurred.

Joint trials are both permissible and desirable where the provincial charges and the summary conviction criminal charges share a sufficient factual nexus and it is in the interests of justice to try them together.

joint trial: When two or more cases that have the same facts or issues of law are tried together.

The Dunson court would easily have held that there was no request for a joint trial and thus, no basis for CAFA jurisdiction.

Do we now have a request for a joint trial?