Sentences with phrase «notorious cases»

Richard Peck Partner, Peck & Co., Vancouver Criminal lawyer Richard Peck has been a part of some of the most notorious cases in Canadian legal history.

During that time, we have represented clients in complex and high - profile cases, as well as many clients in less notorious cases.

«The episode is one of... America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria.

At the heart of FitzGerald's colourful CV, her notorious cases and underneath all her «fun», is her love of her law, in particular of the «case»: «Everybody is entitled to have their case put forward to the best of the advocate's ability».

Such a strange sentence to type out in the context, due to the Puyo Puyo franchise being one of those notorious cases of a series being stuck in Asian shores with maybe the rare localized title or import title that quickly comes and goes.

Jeffries recounted several recent notorious cases, including Eric Garner, noting that «those officers weren't even charged with a misdemeanor count of assault» as Cuomo listened and nodded.

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, questioned the quality of justice delivery in Ghana in light of the lenient handling of the Delta Force, a New Patriotic Party - affiliated group, whose members were at the centre of one of the most notorious cases of political party vigilantism.

And there have been notorious cases where a husband or a wife deliberately committed adultery in order to obtain a divorce.

The failure was particularly egregious in notorious cases when canonical action was not brought against serial child abusers.

The most notorious case might be that of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who failed to see the U.S. housing catastrophe on the cards before he left in 2006.

In the notorious case that started the 2002 crisis, as recounted in the film Spotlight, the Globe reported that Law and two of his predecessors as Boston archbishop had transferred former priest John Geoghan among parish assignments despite knowing he molested children.

She represented tenants and residents groups - including in a notorious case against noise nuisance from Futters, a local factory.

At a press conference calling for new rules for lifting deed restrictions like the one in that now - notorious case, the speaker called it «very troubling» that the mayor's office impeded the Department of Investigation's probe of the affair.

In one particularly notorious case during the postwar McCarthyism hysteria over suspected communist infiltration of the United States, however, a personal position led to career disaster for a prominent scientist.

«In the most notorious case, two German oncologists were convicted of fabricating or falsifying data in more than 50 articles.»

This culminated in a notorious case in 2004 in which extremists exhumed and stole the remains of a woman whose son - in - law ran a guinea pig breeding business.

Award - winning investigative reporter Brian Deer (left) reviews the notorious case which led to the SEC's pursuit of Porter Stansberry.

In today's SkaDate Dating Software digest: Queen Sofia of Spain gets involved in a notorious case featuring dating site advertisement, big names compete in online dating business, while UK's largest internet dating company is exposed of creating fake profiles to make users pay for the service.

Heavenly Creatures Year: 1994 Director: Peter Jackson Before making this feverish biopic based on a notorious case in New Zealand history, Peter Jackson was best known for grisly horror comedies like Brain Dead (released in U.S. as Dead Alive).

The most notorious case of Amazon purposely turning off a publisher's ebook buy buttons happened in January 2010, when the company turned off Macmillan's Kindle buy buttons to protest the publisher's implementation of agency pricing.

One notorious case was the experience of firms that contracted to build dams in central Africa in the 1950s, and consulted with climatologists about the largest floods that could be expected according to past statistics.

This lack of the state of the art, I think, is one of the reasons that the focus in WGIII shifted from its original conception in the SAR (the notorious case where one draft valued Indian lives at one tenth the value of First World lives, leading to a conclusion that you could kill 10 Indians with heat waves but save one American from death by winter cold, and it would all balance out).

The investigation should be overseen by the IACHR which has established an effective model for investigating high profile killings through convening independent experts, as it has done, for example, in the notorious case of the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico in 2014.

In this notorious case, Belgium was precluded from denying a right of residence to a Colombian father of two Belgian minors.

For legal historians, Lawrence Stone's book on Uncertain Unions has a full chapter on the notorious case of Hooper v. Fazas.

In a notorious case, they might «set precedent» in inspiring other jurors to act similarly, but this is not enforceable precedent in the way that case law precedent is.

The issue was laid bare in the notorious case of Ontario pathologist Charles Smith, whose think - dirty approach to child pathology contributed to a string of wrongful convictions in the 1980s and 1990s.

The four - part series will «reveal the hidden truths in the notorious case of John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt and challenge the long - held narrative that surrounded the event.»

Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Joshua Rofé (Lost for Life), Lorena is a four - part documentary series that reveals the hidden truths in the notorious case of John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt and challenges the long - held narrative that surrounded this event.

Not exact matches

What it does: This bacteria is most notorious for causing severe illnesses such as tuberculosis, leprosy, and Hansen's disease, though most species of mycobacteria in nature are benign in humans, unless in cases of those who have weakened immune systems.

And her record in death penalty cases speaks for itself: she has defended some of the most notorious killers in US history - including Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Tucson shooter Jared Loughner, and Susan Smith, convicted of drowning her two young children in a South Carolina lake.

As well as the WTO case and other trade action Canada has taken to expand markets for existing GMOs, Canada is notorious internationally for trying to undermine the de facto moratorium on «terminator seeds» in the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.

In one case we had a little revival outside one of the most notorious gun shops in Philadelphia, Colosimo's on Spring Garden Street.

Mourinho is notorious for his ultra defensive strategy against big team in away matches and the upcoming match will not be a different case for him.

Sadly, that wasn't the only SI cover story that came off the crime blotter — the magazine has also had to chronicle assaults, pedophilia, rape and a notorious murder case

In years gone by, Arsene Wenger has brought many notorious Frenchman to the club, however in recent years this has not been the case and only Laurent Koscienly and Olivier Giroud are expected to make the French squad.

Stupidly rigid 70th minute subs, rather than as the game warrants; ludicrous playing of players in wrong positions, for which he is notorious; catastrophic ingnorance of the vital need for attack / defence BALANCE, with never two fullbacks up at same time; inability to motivate players to fight, inability to keep them fit, stupid loyalty to long term hospital cases like Diaby and much more besides, too long to list on here.

Based on Wengers» notorious lunacy of playing so many players out of position, perhaps he could do the same for himself and get instead the position of tea lady (or man in his case).

That's not the case in some notorious NFL stadiums.

I will say that some of these cases are notorious for shedding gems.

Countries with day fines are notorious for having the most expensive speeding tickets in the world in cases where a day fine is imposed on someone with an extremely high income like a CEO of a major company.

(«Unanimous» in this case means all of the people who were present, since those allied with the so - called «rogue faction» led by the «notorious Haggerty brothers» — the party's words, not mine, and it makes them sound like outlaws in a bad Western movie — et al attended the other meeting).

Asked to comment on the decision of the apex court in the notorious Montie 3 case, Justice Akuffo, who was appointed to the Supreme Court on November 30, 1995 by then president Jerry John Rawlings, said a nation without a good justice system could easily break down.

Case in point, the notorious Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (9/11 mastermind and behind Daniel Pearl's execution) who WAS jailed in Egypt early in his life, had to flee Bosnia when intelligence had pinpointed him, and was finally captured and turned over to the US by Pakistan.

Cases developing new precedents are notorious for their unpredictability and huge cost and are therefore rare.

Following the rampant cases of kidnappings, cattle rustling and armed banditry along Toro, Gumau and Ningi axis, the Bauchi State Police Command in partnership with a renowned hunter Ali Kwara has stormed Yuga forest, a notorious hideout for kidnappers in Toro LGA of Bauchi State.

First night in federal prison, and he was already headed to solitary confinement, his case too notorious for him to mingle safely with the others.

Following the recent insecurity incidences in the state, the Lagos State Government on Monday assured its residents that it was working hard in conjunction with security agencies to address the recent cases of kidnapping and armed robberies in some parts of the State, just as it disclosed that security intelligence has revealed useful leads towards identifying notorious syndicates behind the heinous crimes and their accomplices.

The task force was created by former Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1987 amid the uproar caused by the notorious Baby M custody case in New Jersey.

HUNTS POINT — A notorious South Bronx strip club that won a court case to resume operation could be forced to remain shuttered if local politicians get their way.