Sentences with phrase «of terrorism offences»

Along with unrelated domestic violence charges, Stanikzy was charged with a number of terrorism offences: counselling the commission of an offence under section 464, uttering threats under section 264.1 and attempting to possess explosives under section 81 (1)(d).
With the possible exception of the rise of terrorism offences since September 11, 2001 and possibly offences going to the core of the democratic state (such as treason), the most serious criminal offence within the Criminal Code is homicide.
After reading about the new terrorism offence criminalizing the advocacy or promotion of terrorism offences in a newspaper article, Ms.. A worries that her website might be a criminal offence.
The ATA, 2015 introduced a new offence to the Criminal Code: knowingly advocating or promoting the commission of terrorism offences in general.
Two heroin addicts, John Nuttall and his common law spouse Amanda Korody, were convicted of terrorism offences arising from planting explosive devices made from pressure cookers.
Our Terrorism team in Special Casework, headed by Senior Partner Richard Egan, supported by Vajahat Sharif and Somsul Hoque, have secured the acquittal of a charity worker accused of terrorism offences.
President Hollande is now pushing for powers to strip dual - nationals of their French citizenship if they are convicted of terrorism offences.
He was held on suspicion of terrorism offences, murder and attempted murder.
R (Abedin) v Secretary of State for Justice [2014] EWHC 78 (Admin) Whether a person convicted of a terrorism offence was lawfully recalled to prison

Not exact matches

A preliminary report by peers and MPs today finds new offences of encouragement of terrorism and attending terrorist training camps could be incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Equally, it calls for their inclusion in the new offence of training for terrorism.
Last week statistics for the use of section 44 - the power enabling stop and search without any suspicion - showed that of the more than one hundred thousand people stopped last year, not one was arrested for a terrorism - related offence.
Murder and drug trafficking cases account for the majority of Saudi executions, although 47 people were put to death for «terrorism» offences on a single day in January.
The fact that a variety of offences, from public order, to inciting racial hatred, to encouraging terrorism might have taken place did not appear to have been considered.
The last government allowed thousands of people to be stopped using this power but it resulted in no arrests for terrorism - related offences.
A further three people have been charged with offences under the Terrorism Act 2000, one of whom has been charged with possession of articles useful to a person preparing an act of terrorism.
Eight people have been charged with conspiracy to murder and the new offence of preparing acts of terrorism, which was introduced under the Terrorism Act 2006.
The Conservative leader of the Local Government Association, Sir Simon Milton, has warned councils against over zealous use of surveillance powers that they were given to fight terrorism and criminal offences.
Less controversially, the counterterrorism bill also enables post-charge questioning of suspects, increased sentencing for general offences linked to terrorism and increased use of DNA evidence in terror offences.
«The people who say they're against this bill need to look victims of serious crime, terrorism and child sex offences in the eye and tell them why they're not prepared to give the police the powers they need to protect the public,» she said.
As the Press Association reports, a total of 228 people were held on suspicion of terrorism - related offences over a 12 - month period ending in June, compared with 140 during the previous period.
This is aggravated by the fact that the offences which belong to the categories of terrorism and serious crime are not exhaustively listed (para. 235).
It would also provide authority to revoke Canadian citizenship from dual citizens and deny it to permanent residents who are convicted of terrorism, high treason, treason or spying offences, depending on the sentence.
«(1) A person commits an offence if he possesses an article in circumstances which give rise to a reasonable suspicion that his possession is for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism.
«A person commits an offence if he possesses an article in circumstances which give rise to a reasonable suspicion that he intends it to be used for the purpose of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has upheld a production order requiring a journalist to hand over all his communications with a man charged with terrorism - related offences.
(2) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this section to prove that his possession of the article was not for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism
Their principal submission was that an offence could only be committed under s 57 if there was a direct connection between the article possessed and an intended act of terrorism, and no such connection had been established in their case.
Criminal offences committed on an Austrian ship or aeroplane are subject to the StGB, as are certain offences regardless of the criminal law of the place of the offence, including economic espionage, criminal offences against an Austrian official, human trafficking, terrorism, corruption and several other types of major crimes (section 64 StGB).
the offender has not been convicted of a serious personal injury offence, a terrorism offence, or a criminal organization offence prosecuted by way of indictment for which the maximum term of imprisonment is ten years or more;
The Criminal Code contains several offences that address terrorism in a variety of different forms, including financing offences, participating offences, facilitating offences, instructing offences, and harbouring offences.
At minimum, the offence prohibits private and public speech advocating or promoting any of the several terrorism offences in the Criminal Code, some of which are non-violent offences, as well as speech advocating or promoting indictable criminal offences committed for the sake of or in association with terrorist groups.
Immediately after 9/11, the government enacted wholesale changes to Canadian security laws that created a bevy of novel new terrorism offences.
2008: Five men cleared by the Appeal Court of offences under Section 57 of the Terrorism Act; judges say that it is not illegal to possess extremist material unless it is used to inspire terrorism.
We all want the highest level of protection of our privacy and security of our data; and at the same time, we want to know that those guilty of heinous offences (such as terrorism, hate crime etc.) can be brought to justice quickly.
Addressing this issue, particular value should be attached to those cases where the defendant provides evidence in the form of a witness statement or is prepared to give evidence at any subsequent trial, and does so, with added force where the information either produces convictions for the most serious offences, including terrorism and murder, or prevents them, or which leads to disruption to or indeed the break up of major criminal gangs.
Our caseload includes cases of murder, manslaughter (including corporate manslaughter), terrorism, serious sexual offences, fraud, business crime and large scale drug conspiracies.
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Although Canadian law makes some exemptions for freedom fighters and does not base terrorism convictions on objective fault, some Canadian terrorist offences are as broad as the American material support offences which allow convictions in the absence of a terrorist purpose.
A 16 - year - old boy, the youngest on trial for terrorism offences in Canada, has been found guilty by a Quebec youth court judge of committing a robbery in association with a terrorist organization and planning to leave Canada to join a jihadist group abroad.
Moreover, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Parliament enacted a reverse onus that requires anyone charged with a terrorism offence to justify why they should be granted bail.
In most cases it would be far more advantageous to the state to lay a criminal charge under one of the broad terrorism offences and argue that the accused has not shown cause for bail, as opposed to employing the novel preventive arrest powers.
Part I of this article will demonstrate, however, that those charged with terrorism offences face a reverse onus that requires them to establish that they should not be denied bail.
The secretary of state accepted that «The scheme of the [Act] is that control orders should only be made where an individual can not realistically be prosecuted for a terrorism - related offence».
The Bill will expand the list of specified offences to include terrorism, sexual offenses, and money laundering for example.
Green Paper Topic (s) Criminal Code speech offence of advocating or promoting «terrorism offences in general», and Proposal for radicalization prevention programs What it is Law Against Advocating or Promoting Terrorism in General The Anti-Terrorism Act 2015 (ATA, 2015)(«Bill C - 51»)... Read More →
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