Sentences with phrase «law offences»

The whistleblower sections of the Competition Act (s. 66.1 and 66.2) protect the identities of people who report competition law offences to the bureau and prohibit employers from retaliating against employees who, in good faith and on reasonable belief, report potential competition law offences.

Many of these common law offences have been abolished in many jurisdictions but where this is so, they have been replaced with similar statutory offences.

In both cases these are Inchoate offenses there are a whole bunch of common law offences you could be charged with depending on the specific facts, including:

Where corporations commit securities and competition law offences which involve consumers or investors across the nation the potential for huge damages arises.

As mentioned in question 38 above, securities law offences may cause, inter alia, disqualifications of the offender from maintaining or taking offices as a member of the management or supervisory boards of companies, from owning a significant shareholding in supervised companies or from undertaking specific activities, professions, businesses or jobs.

Only with respect to breaches of certain specific limited securities law provisions (which do not include, inter alia, market abuse and other major securities law offences), Consob officers must evaluate whether those breaches caused damage to the investors» protection, to the market for corporate control, to the financial markets or to the exercise of its supervision activities, and, if this is not the case, they can not proceed with charges.

However, with respect to breaches of certain specific limited securities law provisions (which do not include, inter alia, market abuse and other major securities law offences) investigated by Consob, there are two available options.

* the repeal of the [Defamation Act], 1961 [blogged here] including Part 2 dealing with various criminal offences * the explicit repeal of â $ œthe common law offences of criminal libel, seditious libel and obscene libelâ $?

Interesting to see the majority speak of traditional criminal law principles in the context of offences, which, for public policy reasons, are the least traditional criminal law offences in the

By - law offences are classified as provincial offences because the power to create by - laws is delegated by the province under provincial statute.

When by - law offences are added into the mix, the total number of provincial offences increases dramatically.

«In English criminal law, incitement was an anticipatory common law offence and was the act of persuading, encouraging, instigating, pressuring, or threatening so as to cause another to commit a crime.»

As a result, the Government have had to dredge up an old common law offence to put the frighteners on officials, MPs and, presumably, journalists.

In that case, where the defendants had been convicted on two counts of conspiracy to corrupt public morals and conspiracy to outrage public decency in respect of the publication of a magazine which contained advertisements inviting readers to engage in homosexual acts, the House of Lords was split about whether a common law offence of conspiracy to outrage public decency existed.

Wolchover also argues that the prime minister and senior ministers may have committed the common law offence of misconduct in public office by wilfully misconstruing the referendum as decisive.

To be guilty of the common law offence of gross negligence manslaughter, a company had to be in gross breach of a duty of care owed to the victim.

The Attorney General intends the guidance to be binding, and that the common law offence will not be used where there is an effective statutory alternative.

Each time the common law offence is prosecuted, the prosecutor will have to justify its use in writing.

HELD The offence in the US was akin to the common law offence of conspiracy to defraud; it was clear that the element of secrecy could amount to an act of dishonesty.

Nevertheless, some at least of the common law offence will survive, and if the Bill becomes law in its present form, then the procedural limitations in the 1961 Act will have been removed.

The only exception being the common law offence of contempt of court pursuant to s. 9 of the Criminal Code.

First, ACSA 2001, s 108 amended the existing statutory offences to ensure that: - The common law offence of bribery extends to people holding public office outside the UK.

Not exact matches

In fact, despite its cover date, the law required The World to distribute its Sunday edition on Saturday night, a practice also popular in the U.S., with the difference being that employing staff past midnight in Canada would be a federal offence.

A series of new tax and transparency laws came into force this year, including the new criminal offence of failing to prevent tax evasion.

Individuals that violate the law will land a fine of up to $ 500 for their first offence, $ 1,000 for their second and $ 2,000 for their third.

Providing digital currency services without registration will be deemed a criminal offence under the new laws.

A lawyer representing the group said Islamic Sharia law, which views apostasy as a criminal offence, makes no provision for those wanting to leave the faith.

The man used to frequent the house of his (second) wife, so the police watched him and came to assume that she was his wife and that he had committed an offence against the law.

Therefore he asks whether it is not time that the law stops the movement of proselytisation which is «a form of aggression», and take a decision that «propagating one's own religion is different from proselytisation and that while the former is every Indian's birthright, the latter is a punishable offence» (pp. 223 - 9).

Rom 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound.

But the formal error of the last generation in eliminating the quest has been to ignore the relevance for the Christian dialectic, paradox, and offence, of seeing Jesus causally bound within the historical reconstruction of first - century Judaism, and yet encountering in him transcendence: «born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law.»

The pro-Kremlin United Russia party proposed the law introducing prison terms for religious offences after a protest against Putin's increasingly close ties with the Church by punk band Pussy Riot in Moscow's main cathedral last year.

The law of England wisely and religiously concurs that no man hath a power to destroy life but by commission from God, the author of it, and as their suicide is guilty of a double offence, one spiritual, in evading the prerogative of the Almighty and rushing into his immediate presence uncalled for, the other temporal against the King, who hath an interest in the preservation of all his subjects [Commentaries, Book 4, Chapter 14].

As a Pharisee inviting Jesus to a meal, Simon would have observed all of the appropriate laws and customs so as not to cause offence to his guest but it is done more out of duty than with generosity and warmth.

Be warned, if you know anything about competition law or economics the content of the report may cause offence.

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He sent Gabriel off with a straight red for an offence that was smaller than actions the referee had seen (or hadn't if we want to apply blatant disregard of duty to his list of offences) and not actually a straight red offence as there was no contact, and it was not «violent conduct» under most common interpretations of the law.

The unauthorised sale of football tickets is a criminal offence under UK law.

In particular, they must be aware that, even if a player commits a number of different offences, he must still be cautioned for persistently infringing the Laws.»

And so next time a breastfeeding mother and child are asked to move or cover up, I hope people will simply respond that such a request is an offence in law and due process should follow.

Recommendations will need to be made in respect of all new offences that have been created by the regulations law officers.

No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence under national or international law at the time when it was committed.

Jimoh noted that the offence for which the suspects were arrested are state offences which are triable under the state laws.

Only 13 per cent of those arrested under Britain; s anti-terror laws end up being convicted of the offence, the Home Office has admitted.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, convictions for homosexual offences increased markedly, with several high profile figures being prosecuted, leading to increased public pressure for a re-assessment of the law.

Possession will be an offence in prisons, and it's still unclear as to how the law will work when purchasing psychoactive substances from foreign websites.

He argued that since the crime for which the senator was being tried was not a capital offence, he was entitled to bail under the law.

Touching on the emergence and activities of vigilante groups, he said people who committed criminal offences should be made to face the full rigours of the law irrespective of their status in society.

The witness told Justice Adeniyi Ademola that some money was found in Dasuki's house but that he would not know whether the defendant committed money laundering offence or not because he does not know the definition of money laundering under the law.

In some areas, they are even behind the times in respect of the legal situation: changes to the law last year introduced two new stalking offences.