Sentences with phrase «on bail conditions»

A bail application is a court hearing where the Crown and Defence present their arguments, and a judge decides whether to release the accused person on bail conditions.

In that case, a primary school teacher was charged with possession of child pornography and released on bail conditions which prohibited him from attending any school or holding a position of trust for a child of less than 14 years.

Similarly, will defence lawyers and crowns trust a career family lawyer and family court judge to make appropriate rulings on bail conditions and criminal sentences?

After being questioned by detectives from Operation Weeting — a process that could take several hours — the former rising star of News International is likely to be released on bail conditions that include appearing at court at a later date along with his three former colleagues who have already been arrested: Ian Edmondson, Neville Thurlbeck and James Weatherup.

«I think we will succeed in bringing it down to 14 days, I think the Government will do that, but watch carefully, because what they may do is tack on bail conditions which are over-oppressive.»

He asked the prosecution and the defence led by Mr. Ahmed Raji (SAN), to agree on the bail conditions to be imposed on the defendant.

Not exact matches

Over the past 12 months, over 3,000 people suspected of violent crime, murder, rape and sexual offences have been released on bail without conditions, according to the BBC.

Today a judge delayed bail for Rimsha Masih, arrested earlier this month on blasphemy charges, questioning the validity of a medical report confirming the girl's age and mental condition.

For example, under existing laws, there is no power to impose a general curfew in a particular area, and while curfew conditions can be placed on some offenders as part of their ASBO, criminal sentence or bail conditions, there are only limited powers to impose them on somebody under the age of sixteen.

Before the bail conditions are met however, the first and third defendants are to be remanded in prison while the second defendant, who had written a letter to the EFCC on his poor state of health, will be remanded in the Commission's custody.

He relied on Section 162 of Administration of Criminal Justice Act, which sets out conditions to be considered before a bail application is granted or refused.

But in his ruling on Thursday, Justice Yusuf Halilu of the FCT High Court granted bail to the ex-governor on conditions which merely required him to submit his travel documents to the registry of the court, produce «two reasonable sureties» residing in Abuja, and sign a register to be opened at the EFCC's office every two weeks.

Socio - political association of the Igbo, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has faulted moves by the Federal Government to revoke bail conditions of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who is being prosecuted before an Abuja Federal High Court on treasonable felony charges.

They were subsequently admitted to bail but however Colonel Dasuki was arrested after perfecting the bail conditions on December 29, 2015 and had been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) without filing any other charge against him.

Although Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court granted bail to the ex-governor on fresh bail conditions on Tuesday, he ordered the defendant to remain in Kuje Prisons, Abuja, pending when the bail conditions were met.

Adam Skelos — who faces a retrial in June alongside his dad on corruption charges — had his bail conditions modified to include mental health treatment, according to an order issued by Manhattan federal judge Kimba Wood on Monday.

It is on record that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja presided by Honourable Justice Binta Nyako on the 28th April, 2017, granted bail to one Mr. Nnamdi Kanu on health grounds with about 12 conditions attached to his Bbail to one Mr. Nnamdi Kanu on health grounds with about 12 conditions attached to his BailBail.

The Arewa youths said it was disappointing that despite the clear bail conditions reeled out by Justice Nyako, Kanu had brazenly violated all including the ban on organising rallies and press conference and being with any crowd of more than ten persons at any time.

Meanwhile, Metuh on Monday begged the court to vary his bail conditions, saying he could not meet the conditions which he said were too stringent.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The star witness at the bribery trial of a longtime top aide to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo returned to the witness stand on Tuesday and faced an aggressive cross-examination about his surprise arrest last week for allegedly violating his bail conditions.

Ms Zatuliveter was granted bail on condition that she does not travel, work or meet with anyone other than family, doctors and lawyers.

Katia Zatuliveter, the 25 - year - old former researcher for Liberal Democrat backbencher Mike Hancock, had her bail conditions relaxed at a hearing on Friday.

The three were arraigned on Thursday and granted bail, but were taken to BNI custody as conditions for their bail are being verified.

Each of the arms of government can check each other but not in the way of the President or any other person saying after a court of law has delivered a judgment and set free an accused person on bail, after looking at the various factor for the grant of bail, including severity of the punishment, including the weight of the alleged crime, including whether the accused person would jump bail or not, including whether you would produce surety or not, including whether he has health challenges or not, and the court has finally weighed all these and decided that the accused person must go on bail upon fulfillment of certain condition of bail.

But after he had met the bail conditions the SSS decided to rearrest him at the gate of Kuje prisons on the ground that investigations have not been concluded in respect of other criminal allegations.

The fugitive Liberal Democrat donor on the run from police since breaking his bail conditions earlier this week is thought to be overseas.

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Dawodu also argued that the bail condition granted Dasuki was on self - recognition.

An Ikeja High Court on Monday rejected an application to vary the bail conditions brought by Marco Ramirez, an American, accused of defrauding three Nigerians of $ 565,000 (N204.2 m) in a green card scam.

But they go on to warn that it would not be acceptable for them to be accompanied by a back door attempt to retain control orders by introducing bail conditions with similar restrictions for periods beyond the new limit of 14 days.

Ramirez had approached the court through his counsel, Mr Ademola Adefolaju, to vary the bail conditions granted him on July 10 by Justice Josephine Oyefeso.

«This is calling on the Attorney General of the Federation and minister of Justice to prevail on the EFCC (Law and Enforcement Agencies) to respect the rule of law and the constitution they have sworn to respect and protect, by promptly ordering Anyim's release forthwith, since no charges have been preferred against him and since he has fulfilled all administrative bail conditions.»

The Kogi State Chief Judge, Justice Nasir Ajanah, has granted an interim order for Senator Dino Melaye to be transferred to the National Hospital Abuja, while hearing for his bail conditions will be heard on Monday, next week.

Even though the tree trial courts granted him bail, however, the defendant was on December 29, 2015, re-arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, after his release from Kuje prison upon perfecting the bail conditions.

Ezeocha said this on Breakfast News on TVC while speaking on revisiting Kanu's bail conditions said the IPOB leader can not be denied of his right to freedom.

Earlier, Counsel to Lamido, Mr Offiong Offiong (SAN), had prayed the court to allow the defendants to continue on the previous bail conditions granted them by Justices Gabriel Kolawale and Adeniyi Ademola.

Dokpesi, who is currently standing trial on six count charge of fraud and violations of Public Procurement Act, was however handed very stringent bail condition.

The home secretary stressed, however, that the 22 - hour curfew bail conditions that he had been on up until his televised re-arrest on Tuesday were «among the most stringent ever applied to anybody here in the United Kingdom».

«Her hypocritical and timid silence while Kanu's IPOB supporters were engaged in lawlessness and recklessness in violation of his bail conditions is a burden on her credibility as a national crusader who should be courageous to condemn criminality.

When the prosecution answered in the affirmative, the court then stood down the case for ten minutes and directed counsel to meet and agree on certain conditions for bail for the defendants which would be subjected to the approval of the court.

But the Federal Government hinged its fresh motion seeking the revocation of Kanu's bail on the grounds that the IPOB leader had flouted the terms and conditions of the bail.

Kanu had, earlier in his application filed on July 1, 2017, urged the court to vary the conditions of the bail granted him on April 25, 2017.

A group of northern youths, Arewa Youths Assembly, on Thursday, called for the arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, for allegedly violating his bail conditions and making inciting statements.

In his application filed on July 1, 2017, Kanu maintained that parts of the bail conditions prohibiting him from being seen in a crowd exceeding 10 persons, granting press interviews and holding or attending rallies violated his constitutional rights.

He added, «Since each of the defendants has been on one administrative bail or the other, my sixth judicial sense informs me that I adopt the terms and conditions of the bail granted to the defendants by the EFCC and my learned brothers in the FCT High Courts.»

His lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, stated in the motion that the undesirable bail terms and conditions were contained in paragraphs 2 (vii) and (viii) of the court's ruling granting bail to his client on April 25.

AYA said it was disappointing that despite the clear bail conditions handed down by Justice Nyako, Kanu had brazenly violated all including the ban on organising rallies, addressing press conferences and being with a crowd of more than 10 persons at any time.

A source at the commission said that Abati was still struggling to meet the conditions of the administrative bail granted him by the commission on Friday night.

The Kaduna State Bureau Chief of the Vanguard Newspaper, Mr. Luka Binniyat, on Tuesday regained freedom after meeting his bail condition.

Justice Ashigar, on Friday, granted the former governor bail, which he said, must be under the condition stipulated by section 162 of Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015.