Sentences with phrase «of public prosecutions by»

The provision would extend the powers and rights of audience of DCWs by enabling them to conduct: - summary trials in magistrates» courts; - certain proceedings in magistrates» courts, including proceedings relating to offences triable only on indictment by a judge and jury at the crown court; - applications and other proceedings relating to «preventative civil orders» such as anti-social behaviour orders; and - certain proceedings (other than criminal proceedings) assigned to the director of public prosecutions by the attorney general under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, s 3 (2)(g).

It is important to emphasize that the discretion is an administrative one conferred on the Attorney General of Alberta and the Director of Public Prosecutions by statute.

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While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

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

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.

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.

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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.

The practice, part of a broader inquiry into the fundraising practices of Mayor Bill de Blasio and his allies, was recommended for criminal prosecution by the chief enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections in a memorandum made public last week.

Section 5 of the Public Order Act has resulted in many controversial arrests and prosecutions, including several instances in which police officers themselves have complained of being offended by people swearing around them.

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.

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State...

A new inquest into the deaths increases the chances of convictions that were suggested by the recent announcement by the Crown Prosecution Service, who are looking into the possibility of manslaughter, perjury and misconduct in public office offences.

[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-...]

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

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,...

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.

Chief Oyegun who was represented by APC National Deputy Chairman (South), Engineer Segun Oni, said the President's widely lauded war on corruption has started to yield fruit, just as astronomical sums of money have and continue to be recovered from corrupt public officials with several prosecutions carried out by a newly re-energized EFCC.

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.

[Anyone] who, in public and against the facts, ascribes to the Polish Nation or to the Polish State, responsibility or co-responsibility for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich, [as] defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Annex to the Agreement for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis, signed in London on August 8, 1945 -LSB-...], or for other offences which are crimes against peace [or] humanity or [that are] war crimes, or who otherwise grossly reduces the responsibility of the actual perpetrators of said crimes, is subject to a fine or [to] imprisonment for up to 3 years.

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.

Keir Starmer QC, director of public prosecutions, said: «Having thoroughly reviewed the evidence gathered by the police, we have decided there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to bring criminal charges against Margaret Moran.

In 2004 the Foreign Affairs Select Committee called for the ISC to become a full Parliamentary committee, something backed by former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord MacDonald and many more.

A statement released by the Information Minister said «preliminary investigations suggest that decision was taken without recourse even to the Director of Public Prosecution and may amount to breach of internal procedures.»

Led in evidence by Mrs. Idowu Alakija, the State's Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Obafunwa, who is a Consultant Pathologist to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and the former Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), said the victims of the collapsed building died due to multiple injuries, traumatic asphyxia, severe blood loss, severe fracture and compression of the skull with the brain tissue, congested heart failure against the background of hypertension and accumulation of blood in the chest cavity.

The director of public prosecutions was instructed by the law lords to draw up guidelines indicating the various factors for and against prosecution in such cases.

He said that the prosecution wanted the witnesses to be known to the public by acronyms such as «xyz» and that only the court would know the true identity and name of each witness.

This has been preceded by a flurry of media headlines, subjecting him to an open - air political trial and a trial in the court of NPP public opinion supported with earlier pressure from some leading Members of New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Government, to commence prosecution of former NDC Government appointees including Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni for alleged acts of corruption for over a year now.»

The Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer will take the final decision on the case, after it has been considered by lawyers.

Outside parliament the government's proposals have been attacked as unnecessary by Sir Ken Macdonald QC, director of public prosecutions, and as unworkable by Andy Hayman, former head of special operations at Scotland Yard.

The prosecution led by Director of Public Prosecution, Yvonne Atakora Oboubisa informed the court that their efforts to reach the husband of Aiprosecution led by Director of Public Prosecution, Yvonne Atakora Oboubisa informed the court that their efforts to reach the husband of AiProsecution, Yvonne Atakora Oboubisa informed the court that their efforts to reach the husband of Aisha have...

The Federal Government's counter-affidavit filed in support of the motion and deposed to by a litigation clerk in the Office of the Director Public Prosecutions, pieced together Kanu's alleged acts of serial violation of the bail conditions imposed by the court.

But even before Friday's discovery of potentially lethal bomb plots, the Guardian reported that the review ordered by the incoming home secretary, and apparently in the safe hands of the former director of public prosecutions turned Lib Dem peer Lord Macdonald, was in danger of being captured by the security establishment.

According to him, although the rights of the girls were violated by the public humiliation, the rights «do not in any way close the door to the criminal prosecution of the act that they allegedly committed.»

But in the amended charges filed by the new Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Mr. Umar Mohammed, the National Coordinator of IPOB member, Mr. Chidiebere Onwudiwe, was added to the defendants, bringing the number of accused persons to four.

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.

«The newspaper produced no new evidence for us to consider reopening the case - a position endorsed separately by the Director of Public Prosecutions and leading counsel.

A unique app, iWitnessed, is launched today by leading forensic psychologists at the University of Sydney and UNSW - supported by NSW Police and former Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery QC - to assist victims and witnesses record Read more about iWitnessed app launched by memory experts, police, QC - Scimex

Other reasons given by women for not pursuing formal justice include fear of shame due to having rape incidents being made public and thus damage to their social standing, as well as inadequate protection and difficulties encountered during prosecution due to evidence tampering and witness withdrawal.

He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.

The prosecution of Edwin Tan was led by Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Selene Yap, who argued for a fine of at least $ 30,000 per charge.

The Animal Control Division provides animal control services to all residents of El Segundo by handling and investigating all animal complaints, public nuisances and enforcing animal related laws including licensing requirements, animal abandonment and prosecutions for animal cruelty.

The Foundation promotes animal welfare by assisting individuals and organizations that remove animals from abusive conditions; by funding quality care and living conditions for abused or neglected animals; by promoting and providing cost - effective spay and neuter programs; by funding organizations that identify and work towards the prosecution of companies that maintain inhumane animal conditions; and by educating the public on animal fighting, adoption alternatives, and inhumane livestock conditions.

Allows privately funded industrial hemp research to be conducted in Hawaii under certain conditions; requires monitoring by department of public safety; requires reporting to county law enforcement; exempts argonomic data derived from research from public records disclosure; confers immunity from criminal prosecution for the research.

Allows privately funded industrial hemp research to be conducted in Hawaii under certain conditions; requires monitoring by department of public safety; requires reporting to county law enforcement; exempts agronomic data derived from research from public records disclosure; confers immunity from criminal prosecution for the research.

She insisted that action had been taken to address false claims and IHAT's work would be completed by the end of 2019, after a review of the system by former Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir David Calvert - Smith.

In Krohn v Director of Public Prosecutions [1997] EWHC 286 (Admin), where the lawfulness of a s 18 search was in issue after a senior officer had failed to make a record in writing of the grounds of the search and the nature of the evidence sought as required by s 18 (7), Brooke LJ stated: