Sentences with phrase «of director of public prosecution»

One of the latest twist of the story told on Wednesday was by Senate President Saraki who announced that his State governor and ally, Abdulfatai Ahmed had told him that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for several weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the director of public prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice, were ordered to be transferred to Abuja on the directive of IGP) Idris Ibrahim.

Last night, my State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatai Ahmed revealed to me an information at his disposal that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for several weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice were ordered to be transferred to Abuja this morning.

On the afternoon of 19 July 2011, the HASC took evidence from both holders of the position of the Director of Public Prosecutions, for the period which covered the scandal.

The consent of the director of public prosecutions is needed for proceedings to be instituted (s 17).

Decisions to prosecute in individual cases are at the discretion of the director of public prosecutions (DPP).

SCPOs may be made by the High Court, upon the application of the director of public prosecutions, the director of revenue and customs prosecutions or the director of the Serious Fraud Office.

For instance in the Irish case of the Director of Public Prosecutions v Maresa Cagney [2013] 3 JIC 1101 where the Director of Public Prosecutions relied on the case of DPP v. Patricia Behan [2003] JIC 0304, in support of the proposition that failing to provide samples of her breath under section 13 of the Road Traffic Act 1994 Act was a strict liability offence with a limited defence.

Not exact matches

An inquest into the death of a baby boy at a vicarage in Lancashire has been halted and referred to the director of public prosecutions, after new evidence emerged.

Rather than ignore the complaint, the Irish police took it seriously and prepared and forwarded a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions, who in turn opened an investigation.

It is the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) which has the power to bring criminal indictments under the Act.

An indictment was filed by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions on Thursday, but further details are not yet known.

Director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer last week told a select committee scrutinising the bill that he supports it.

Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, acknowledged a series of failings which had led to the failure to pursue Savile while he was still alive.

The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Kwara State Ministry of Justice, Jimoh Mumini, made this known after an emergency Security Council meeting chaired by Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed on Wednesday at the Government house in Ilorin.

Former director of public prosecutions Ken Macdonald is overseeing the review.

These include individual detention beyond 28 days being considered by a judge, the director of public prosecutions, and scrutiny of positive decisions by an independent reviewer and parliament.

The director of public prosecutions highlighted the fact that Thomas «intended the message to be humorous», did not intend it to go beyond his followers - «who were mainly family and friends» - and then took «reasonably swift action» to delete it.

The presiding judge, Justice James Tsoho during the hearing ordered that Nnamdi Kanu be taken to prison instead of being kept in custody of the DSS overruling the request by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr. Mohammed Diri, for the continued incarceration of Kanu by the DSS.

Rosemary Bechler (RB): Few of us understood the full import of what Ken Macdonald QC, former Director of Public Prosecutions, was saying at the Convention of Modern Liberty in 2009 when he referred to the then just published paper by Sir David Omand on the effect of modern data mining and processing techniques on intelligence work.

Former director of public prosecutions Lord Macdonald of River Glavenn called it «a policy beloved of the world's worst regimes during the 20th century».

Chakrabarti is the latest high - profile advocate to enter parliament, with two former directors of public prosecution also taking party whips: Keir Starmer on the green benches for Labour, Ken Macdonald on the red benches for the Liberal Democrats.

Britons continue to travel abroad to die and the law - following guidelines from the director of public prosecutions endorsed by MPs - effectively forgives compassionate amateur assistance to die.

Coalition proposals for the civil justice system threaten the foundations of the British legal system, the former director of public prosecutions warned today.

The director of public prosecutions and head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Ken McDonald, leads the list of knighthoods in the Queen's 2007 new year's honours.

The director of public prosecutions should never have been put in this position.

The Communications Committee's inquiry into revenge pornography found that the social media guidelines from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) did not specifically refer to this offence.

Immediately after his arrest and interdiction in March, David Nenyi Ampah - Bennin, director general in charge of public affairs of the Ghana Police Service told the media that investigations into the affair could be over in about a week, after which prosecutions will begin.

[210] Later on the same day, giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, former director of public prosecutions Lord MacDonald stated that it took him «three to five minutes» to decide that the same emails contained in the file passed to Harbottle & Lewis contained «blindingly obvious» evidence of corrupt payments to police officers, which had to be immediately passed to the Metropolitan Police.

[241] On 19 July, Lord MacDonald the former Director of Public Prosecutions engaged by News Corporation to review the emails handed to Harbottle & Lewis in 2007, said in evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee:

The attention of the Kwara State Ministry of Justice has been drawn to a story published by an online medium that the suspected cultists arrested and interrogated by the Police in Ilorin and recommended for trial by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) but suddenly transferred to Police Headquarters, Abuja, had in their statement indicted -LSB-...]

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is mounting a major inquiry into misconduct allegations at South Yorkshire police, while director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer is reviewing evidence which informed the independent panel report published in September.

The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, said there was no evidence to bring criminal charges against David Cameron's director of communications.

Former director of public prosecutions Ken Macdonald asked: «What exactly does Bernard Hogan - Howe consider is the purpose of having an inquiry into the men he has already exonerated on television?

A letter has been published showing Nick Clegg was warned not to jettison the snoopers» charter by the director of public prosecutions.

The committee's inquiry has seen a public dispute develop between Scotland Yard's John Yates and the Crown Prosecution Service's director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer.

But former director of public prosecutions Sir Ken MacDonald has spoken out against the government's plans, despite supporting the use of communications data evidence.

In November 2007, the director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, said prosecutors have «managed comfortably» with the existing 28 - day limit.

The former director of public prosecutions has only just become an MP after being elected in Frank Dobson's old seat of Holborn and St Pancras, in North London at the general election.

The attention of the Kwara State Ministry of Justice has been drawn to a story published by an online medium that the suspected cultists arrested and interrogated by the Police in Ilorin and recommended for trial by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) but suddenly transferred to Police Headquarters,...

Clegg has won the influential support of Lord Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions and a Liberal Democrat.

The freed female inmate, Ameh Happy, who was standing trial for criminal conspiracy and armed robbery got reprieve when advise from the Director of Public Prosecution DPP absolved her of any complicity in the alleged offence.

Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk says Cyril Smith's victims have been let down by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Director of Public Prosecutions.

This means that any extension would not only be: - subject to a specific case being made by the Director of Public Prosecutions; - subject every seven days up to the agreed limit to the approval of a High Court Judge; - subject to the regular report of the independent reviewer with an annual debate in parliament; - but also be subject in each and every instance to a specific parliamentary notification procedure, to a further statement to parliament on the individual case, a review on the specific case by the independent reviewer and with the provision for this House to scrutinise and debate the report and all the circumstances.

With the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) having been aware of the allegations, questions have been posed over why nothing was done.

Conversation frequently turns to who could lead the party after another defeat in 2020: the former paratrooper Dan Jarvis; the shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna (who withdrew from the race after just a few days); the former director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer; even David Miliband.

Details of the charges were confirmed by Alison Levitt, the principal legal adviser to the director of public prosecutions at the CPS, in a statement read to journalists in central London this morning.

They were Karin Smith, Keir Starmer (former Director of Public Prosecutions), Jim Fitzpatrick, Andy Slaughter, and Crispin Blunt, who is the group's Vice Chair.

Others are the Code of Conduct Bureau, the CCT; the CCT chairman, Umar; Mr. Ataedzeagu Adza, CCB chairman, Mr. Sam Saba; Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Diri, and a Deputy Director in the ministry, Mr. Muslim Hassan.

At the resumption of his trial on Thursday, the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, in the state, Titilayo Shitta - Bey told the Justice Justice Hakeem Oshodi - led court that the amendment relates only to the punishment section for the second charge.

But its calls have been rejected by former attorney general Lord Goldsmith, director of public prosecutions Ken MacDonald and, yesterday, former lord chancellor Lord Falconer.