Sentences with phrase «meaning under the criminal law»

Not exact matches

Sales could be prosecuted under the criminal accessory component of this law, though such prosecutions were rare, because the state's policy was meant to prevent birth - control clinics from operating in Connecticut.

CIOT has responded to HMRC's recent consultation on proposals to find an appropriate and proportionate means of ensuring corporations can be held accountable under the criminal law for failing to prevent their agents from criminally facilitating tax evasion.

@mbomb007 Your prisons are overflowing because for - profit prisons mean they have an incentive to keep prisons as full as possible, even if it means lobbying for heavier criminal penalties even for minor offenses (usually under such auspicious euphemisms as «tough on crime», «law and order»).

But it seems like the companies are getting paranoid and are now putting in desperate measures that is aimed to «put one criminal to justice even if it meant putting 100 more innocent people under the law».

What the ECJ meant was that under Italian law «the requirements of foreseeability, precision and non-retroactivity inherent in the principle that offences and penalties must be defined by law apply also -LRB-...) to the limitation rules for criminal offences relating to VAT» (para. 58, see also para. 45).

In anti-money laundering law, the concept of funds or income «lawfully obtained» has always been used and it means income or funds obtained lawfully under the laws of the country from where the income or funds arise (see for example, the Criminal Finances Act 2017).

It is useful to quote key observations by Stadlen J [at paras 126 - 129]: «In my view, notwithstanding the absence in the FTPP proceedings of some of the statutory and non-statutory safeguards which apply to criminal proceedings... [I] n deciding whether it would be fair to admit the hearsay evidence, the requirements both of Article 6 and of the common law obliged the FTPP to take into account the absence of all those [safeguards]... [I] n my judgment, no reasonable panel in the position of the FTPP could have reasonably concluded that there were factors outweighing the powerful factors pointing against the admission of the hearsay evidence... The means by which the claimant can challenge the hearsay evidence are... not in my judgment capable of outweighing those factors... The reality would appear to be that the factor which the FTPP considered decisive in favour of admitting the hearsay evidence was the serious nature of the allegations against the claimant coupled with the public interest in investigating such allegations and the FTPP's duty to protect the public interest in protecting patients, maintaining public confidence in the profession and declaring and upholding proper standards of behaviour... However, that factor on its own does not in my view diminish the weight which must be attached to the procedural safeguards to which a person accused of such allegations is entitled both at common law and under Article 6... The more serious the allegation, the greater the importance of ensuring that the accused doctor is afforded fair and proper procedural safeguards.