Sentences with phrase «month justice secretary»

Advancing the idea of a British constitutional court at an EU justice select committee hearing in the House of Lords earlier this month the justice secretary, Michael Gove, said it could give British judges the power to decide not to enforce EU law if it was contrary to basic principles.

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Sean Spicer, the former Trump White House press secretary, said in March, just after Flynn registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, that Trump had not been aware that Flynn had been paid to lobby for Turkish interests in the months before the US election.

A long - awaited Justice Department internal report on former FBI chief James Comey's public disclosures on Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state and whether FBI employees leaked information to try to hurt her 2016 presidential bid is expected to be issued next month.

David Griffiths, former executive director of a Bronx nonprofit and ex-law partner of state Labor Secretary Peter Rivera, will spend five months in prison for mail fraud, making false statements to the government and obstruction of justice.

Yet shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan pointed out that there is a «black hole» in the department, and that today's National Audit Office report revealed there was a # 130m loss of savings, since the Tory - led government took over 28 months ago, as a result of sentencing reforms not going ahead.

After two months of internalised head - scratching, and public moaning, shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan and shadow local government secretary Hilary Benn finally put forward their proposal early this morning.

The former energy and climate change secretary was photographed emerging from Gloucestershire's Leyhill prison, having served a quarter of the eight - month sentence he received for perverting the course of justice.

A new survey of grassroots members by ConservativeHome shows that the justice secretary is their top choice for leader for the third month running.

Megrahi was released under the orders of Scottish justice secretary Kenny MacAskill on compassionate grounds, on the basis that he had three months to live.

Home secretary John Reid is expected to outline a major overhaul of the criminal justice system next month, but today the prime minister outlined the key areas in which he believed reform was most urgent.

Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan fired off a raft of parliamentary questions about Grayling's draconian prison reforms last month only to have them all dismissed as too expensive to answer.

The new justice secretary expressed his objections to short sentences during a speech earlier this month, triggering dismay from right - wing Tory MPs, glee from Liberal Democrats and disdain from Labour.

There were a lot of things the new justice secretary didn't know when she appeared before the justice committee earlier this month.

Late last month, the «no» campaign introduced its leaders: Margaret Beckett was named president; David Blunkett and Lord Prescott were given supporting roles, along with the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, and the Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, making it a truly crossbench affair.

Former energy secretary Huhne pleaded guilty last month to perverting the course of justice by passing his points to Pryce in 2003, ending his political career.

Yet after spending months with Johnson during the campaign the Justice Secretary seems to have returned to his damning judgement.

The scathing conclusions are the latest in a series of public humiliations for the previous justice secretary, Chris Grayling, who introduced the charge in the final months of the last parliament.

Earlier this month Representative Jared Huffman, Democrat of California, urged Secretary of State John Kerry to press Costa Rica to pursue justice in the case, noting that three American women and a Spanish woman who were volunteers in the turtle protection effort had been abducted in the same incident (they escaped).

In — PLP v Secretary of State for Justice — a rare three judge Divisional Court has held that the Government's proposal to introduce a residence test for legal aid — where all applicants will have to prove 12 months continuous lawful residence in the UK — is both ultra vires and discriminatory.

A government consultation led by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Michael Gove MP, is expected in a few months» time to set out what the proposed British Bill of Rights will look like.

In spring 1945, Jackson permitted Neal to leave his clerkship a few months early because he had the opportunity, through the intercession of Justice Felix Frankfurter, to assist Department of State official Alger Hiss in his work as secretary general of the United Nations organizing conference.

Last month, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling proposed restricting the standing requirements by replacing the «sufficient interest» test for applicants with a stricter «direct interest» test.