Sentences with phrase «justice over allegations»

The Suffolk County Legislature approved a settlement on Tuesday between the county police department and the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations of discriminatory policing.

9.30 am Chris Huhne and ex-wife Vicky Pryce plea and case management, after both were charged with perverting the course of justice over allegations she took speeding points on his behalf.

The pharmaceutical company is also under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and the US department of justice over allegations of bribery around the world, including in Poland and Lebanon.

Not exact matches

In May of this year, US - based cooperative Dairy Farmers of America, was forced to deny allegations of any wrongdoing over price fixing for some of its products, amidst an ongoing enquiry by the Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Ajet Nassam and six other judges, namely Justices Francis K. Opoku, Kofi Essel Mensah, Ernest Obimpeh, Kwame Ohene Essel, Ivy Heward - Mills and Gilbert Ayisi Addo, were recently suspended over allegations of trading justice for pecuniary gains.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Most of the allegations captured in petitions sent to President Akufo - Addo, and subsequently handed over to the Chief Justice, had been described as frivolous; and mostly hearsay from third parties.

The court, presided over by Mr Justice Victor Ofoe, dismissed the state's appeal over criminal charges against Woyome, pointing out that state prosecutors failed to establish allegations of fraud against the National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier.

The Attorney - General and Minister for Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah - Oppong, has said she will demand of the Supreme Court an order for the former Attorney - General, Martin Amidu, to apologize for «false allegations» he made against President John Mahama and the government, in respect of government's decision not to orally examine Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome, over the unpaid 51 million Ghana Cedis...

Monaco's justice minister resigns over art fraud case links Monaco's minister for justice Philippe Narmino has resigned (#, The Times) over allegations, published in French newspaper Le Monde (#, French language article), that he was recruited by Dmitry Rybolovlev to influence a billion - dollar art fraud case.

Justice Doherty noted that there were no material facts supporting the students» allegation that the Diocese knew or should have known of the ongoing abuse; there were no material facts supporting a direct relationship between the Diocese and the school or the students; there was no allegation that the Diocese founded, controlled or was involved in the operation of the school in any way; and there was no allegation that the Diocese had any power over the headmasters in so far as running the school was concerned.

My fellow Justices on this Court and our brethren throughout the federal judiciary know only too well the time - consuming task of conscientiously poring over hundreds of thousands of pages of factual allegations of misconduct by police, judicial, and corrections officials.

Represented the Republic of Nicaragua before the International Court of Justice in the Case Concerning Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) in a dispute with Costa Rica over territorial sovereignty and allegations regarding breach of international environmental law in relation to dredging of the San Juan River.

That said, both Smith and Moorhead are impressed by chief exec Des Hudson who arrived at Chancery Lane in 2006 to knock some shape into what was seen to be an organisation lurching from crisis to crisis — for example, a bruising encounter with the then Lord Irvine over its campaign against the Access to Justice Bill («irresponsible scaremongering») and the bitter recriminations following the departure of Kamlesh Bahl, the first Asian woman to become vice-president, who resigned following bullying allegations.

He also asserts inadequate representation of counsel,» states Justice of the Peace Errol Massiah's Jan. 30 factum seeking the Superior Court's supervisory jurisdiction over the review council's receipt, investigation, and adjudication of the allegations of misconduct.

When she took over in 2009, the role was only five years old, having grown out of Ontario Superior Court Justice Denise Bellamy's investigation into allegations of conflict of interest and bribery in the awarding of computer leasing contracts by the city.

Thousands of plaintiffs harmed by corporate greed finally receive justice Dupont Chemical recently agreed to settle a massive toxic chemical exposure lawsuit with 3,500 plaintiffs over allegations the notorious chemical giant dumped cancer causing chemicals into the Ohio river from its West Virginia plant.

Mr Justice Tugenhadt has ruled that a celebrity who obtained an injunction against a newspaper over allegations about his private life should be named.