Sentences with phrase «of public prosecutions during»

She was employed as a state attorney at the Attorney - General's Department in 1995 and rose through the ranks till she was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions during the John Mahama administration.

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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.

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».

The prosecution had alleged, among other asset declaration breaches, that the Senate President while being a public officer, operated bank accounts outside Nigeria, and failed to declare the foreign accounts to the Code of Conduct Bureau while being governor and a senator during the period.

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.

During his six years as a federal prosecutor, he led the investigation and prosecution of a wide range of federal crimes, including financial fraud, money laundering, public corruption, asset forfeiture, racketeering, narcotics trafficking, and murder.

The court noted that, «[o] ver time, prosecution disclaimer has become a fundamental precept in our claim construction jurisprudence, which promotes the public notice function of the intrinsic evidence and protects the public's reliance on definitive statements made during prosecution.»

If an indication is given, the judge should make it clear that if the defendant is later assessed as «dangerous», the sentences mandated by CJA 2003 — an indeterminate or extended sentence — will be imposed and that, if the accused is assessed as dangerous, the indication can only relate to the notional determinate term which will be used in the calculation of the minimum specified period the offender would have to serve before he may apply to the Parole Board to direct his release or, in a case where an extended sentence is the only lawful option, it will relate to the appropriate custodial term within the extended sentence — that is, the indication does not encompass the length of any extension period during which the offender will be on licence following his release.Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No 16) Order 2007 (SI 2007/1999) Section 29 of CJA 2003 creates (in the case of public prosecutions only) a new method of commencing criminal proceedings — written charge and requisition, to replace laying an information and issuing a summons.

Examples of such cases are Chandler v Cape Plc [2011] EWHC 951 (QB)(liability of non-employer for exposure to asbestos), Kynixa Ltd v Hynes and others [2008] EWHC 1495 (QB)(claims arising from alleged breaches of restrictive covenants in employment contracts), Romantiek BVBA v Simms [2008] EWHC 3099 (QB) a claim alleging that a public official had committed the tort of misfeasance in public office when discharging a licensing function, OOO and others v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [20011] EWHC 1246 (QB)(claims by young foreign females that they had been trafficked into the UK by foreign nationals for the purpose of slavery and that officers of the Metropolitan Police Force breached their human rights in failing to investigate their complaints adequately or at all) and Mouncher and others v The Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2016] EWHC 1367 (QB)(claims by retired and serving police officers for false imprisonment, misfeasance in public office and malicious prosecution against South Wales Police arising from an investigation by officers of that force into alleged criminal conduct on the part of the claimants during the course of an investigation into a notorious murder in South Wales.

At the same time, under current procedures, one must keep in mind the necessarily limited ability of the Canadian Patent Office to comprehensively initially evaluate patent validity, and balance the public interest in not having to engage in expensive litigation or re-litigation of matters (such as construction) previously determined during patent prosecution.