Sentences with phrase «of public prosecutions in»

But in a written response to the lawyers» association, the director of public prosecutions in Nova Scotia announced that he had initiated an internal review.

These matters are prosecuted by the Director of Public Prosecutions in the courts.

Oyediran, a staff of the Department of Public Prosecution in the Oyo State of Ministry of Justice was accused of killing her husband with a knife after a disagreement ensued between them.

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Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) BRF employees paid bribes to regulators and politicians to subvert inspections in order to conceal unsanitary practices at the Company's meatpacking plants; (ii) the foregoing conduct, when it came to light, would foreseeably subject the Company and its officers to heightened regulatory enforcement and / or prosecution; and (iii) as a result of the foregoing, BRF's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Since its formation, the task force has made great strides in facilitating increased investigation and prosecution of financial crimes; enhancing coordination and cooperation among federal, state and local authorities; addressing discrimination in the lending and financial markets; and conducting outreach to the public, victims, financial institutions and other organizations.

In the case of the investigation into Rettenmaier's computers, the documents released to EFF do not appear to have been made public in that prosecutioIn the case of the investigation into Rettenmaier's computers, the documents released to EFF do not appear to have been made public in that prosecutioin that prosecution.

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.

According to Edward J. Larson's scholarly, informative, Pulitzer Prize - winning book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, the prosecution of young John Scopes for presumedly violating a state law restricting the teaching of evolution in the public schools need not have resulted in the now legendary high - pitched standoff between the atheistic radical Clarence Darrow and the robustly religious populist William Jennings Bryan.

Today's report calls for defences of «reasonable excuse» of «public interest» be included in the legislation, to reduce the chance of prosecutions being thrown out of court as being incompatible with the ECHR.

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.

The two men who oversaw prosecution of the pay - to - play pension fund scandal that resulted in former comptroller Alan Hevesi's jail sentence today both said the penalty should serve as a warning against other public officials seeking favors and gifts while in office.

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.

It went on: «Use of the term in a public setting could amount to a criminal offence, and leave those fans liable to prosecution and potentially a lengthy football banning order.»

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

Swift passage of the Independent Commission bill, and efficient prosecution of its mandate, can resolve this crisis of public confidence in a timely manner.

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.

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.

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

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:

I then considered the second stage of the test, applying the DPP's interim guidelines on assessing the public interest in cases involving the media, and I have concluded that a prosecution is required in the public interest in relation to each of these eight suspects.

But even amid the cries of despair there was a real sense at the meeting that public opinion is now more interested in safety than in prosecution.

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.

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.

It observed that following public outcry that the Presidency should hand the former officials to the EFCC for prosecution after their sacking, «spokesmen of the administration have been speaking in forked tongues about Presidency not teleguiding the anti-graft war and that the agency would exercise its discretion.»

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,...

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

It comes as director of public prosecutions (DPP) Keir Stramer appears before MPs in parliament.

But in a detailed letter to the home affairs committee today, director of public prosecutions (DPP) Kier Starmer directly contradicted Mr Yates testimony.

Sir Ken Macdonald, director of public prosecutions, said: «They have said that they are prepared to put Mr Lugovoi on trial in Russia if the evidence is forwarded to them.

Edward Leigh MP, chairman of the committee, said: «The new director of the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office was thrown in at the deep end when appointed from outside the public sector.

Householders are extremely unlikely to be prosecuted for attacking burglars in their own home unless they go after them for revenge, the Director of Public Prosecutions said today.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, in a speech in March 2011 spoke of the «very many» disability hate crimes that the Crown Prosecution Service deals with every year.

They were pointed to in June last year, when the director of public prosecutions published guidelines for how prosecutors should approach what is said on social media.

However, the ORR decided not to proceed with the prosecution of Jarvis, stating that: «while there remained sufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction of Jarvis, a prosecution was no longer in the public interest.»

As a series of public figures have survived prosecutions, legal experts say that shifts in the law have eroded the government's ability to combat graft.

The prosecution counsel, S. K. Atteh, in his response, expressed fears on how a serving commissioner could diligently prosecute his fellow commissioner and be expected to serve the interest of justice and public good.