Sentences with phrase «potential imprisonment»

The bill is certainly creating apprehension and fear in Poland's re - maining Jewish population, with many suggesting that it is time to leave a place they call home and that a change in the public per - ception of the holocaust and potential imprisonment for those who recognise the Polish contribution to it may be forced into exile: A worrying echo of events during the Second World War.

While there must obviously be sanctions (including potential imprisonment) for refusing to testify, they should only be imposed on compellable witnesses who willfully defy judicial authority, and only in accordance with the ordinary rules of criminal procedure and evidence.

The five had appealed a unanimous ruling by the Court in April that their potential imprisonment in a US «supermax» prison would amount to «inhuman and degrading treatment» under Art 3 of the European Convention, in Babar Ahmad & Ors v UK (App Nos 24027 / 07, 11949 / 08, 36742 / 08, 66911 / 09 and 67354 / 09).

The bill is certainly creating apprehension and fear in Poland's remaining Jewish population, with many suggesting that it is time to leave a place they call home and that a change in the public perception of the holocaust and potential imprisonment for those who recognise the Polish contribution to it may be forced into exile: A worrying echo of events during the Second World War.

That bravado would send The Post into an epic legal and existential battle just as Graham was preparing to take her family's media company public — a deal that could easily be scuttled by her potential imprisonment and a Supreme Court fight, not to mention the vindictive administration of president Richard M. Nixon.

Not exact matches

In addition, so far as the public is concerned, imprisonment offers potential victims short - term security at best, Ninety - five per cent of those incarcerated are released after serving an average sentence of from 24 to 32 months.

After reviewing 30 cases of potential wrongful imprisonment for murder from the tenure of his controversial predecessor Charles Hynes, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson's office has begun to investigate the former prosecutor's non-homicide felony convictions, too.

You break an unjust law and submit to the unjust consequences of arrest and potential conviction and imprisonment for doing so.

The act defines a violent felony as: «any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year... that — «(i) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another; or (ii) is burglary, arson, or extortion, involves use of explosives, or otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another.»

Writing in this week's NLJ, Bindman says the home secretary's Modern Slavery Bill consolidates existing laws and imposes tougher sentences for offences, including potential life imprisonment for kidnapping and false imprisonment.

These are all very serious offences which have the potential of resulting in a lengthy term of imprisonment for the offender.

Under this statutory instrument, the only circumstances where legal aid was available were as follows: parole board hearings where there is the potential for immediate release, external adjudications where additional days of imprisonment can be added to the individual's sentence; and sentence calculations where internal procedures for settling disputes have been exhausted.

If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment in federal prison, and a potential lifetime of supervision.

He is thus denied his right to be presumed innocent and subjected to the potential penalty of life imprisonment unless he can rebut the presumption.

Potential penalties include criminal fines, civil «administrative monetary penalties» or «AMPs» (essentially civil fines), imprisonment, damages (or settlements) arising from private civil actions and court orders (injunctions or prohibition orders) to stop or modify conduct.

Potential penalties for violating the criminal misleading advertising provisions include up to 14 years imprisonment and / or an unlimited fine (i.e., fines in the discretion of the court).

Chief Justice McLachlin concluded that the ground for denying bail on the basis of public confidence was not vague or overbroad because it instructed judges to focus on the gravity and circumstances of the offence, the potential lengthy term of imprisonment faced by the accused and the apparent strength of the prosecution's case.

This potential for prosecution and imprisonment due to the mandatory collection of self - incriminatory information indirectly triggered section 7: see Canada (Attorney General) v. PHS Community Services Society, 2011 SCC 44.

But a 5 - 7 day trial, raising complex Charter, evidentiary and severance issues, and with a potential consequence of imprisonment, is not one in which an accused should be unrepresented.

Researchers from the Australian National University, led by Dr Jill Guthrie, are conducting an innovative community research study in Cowra, NSW to evaluate the potential use of a justice reinvestment approach to addressing crime, and particularly the imprisonment of the town's young people.

Furthermore, it may be difficult to quantify the potential health benefits of holding hands compared to the potential health benefits of avoiding physical harm, imprisonment or death.

In Russia, it is now illegal for same - sex couples to hold hands and doing so can lead to imprisonment and hefty fines.5 In Nigeria, same - sex couples holding hands can face up to 10 years in prison6 and in Uganda, similar displays of affection could lead to legal execution if a controversial bill is passed that allows «aggravated homosexuality» to be punished by death.7 Even without the risk of these extreme legal penalties, many same - sex couples avoid holding hands because they fear the potential repercussions from doing so in front of the wrong person at the wrong time.8 Such fears are not irrational.

The former, by detecting individuals with health issues that can put them at risk of imprisonment while in the community and working with them to treat those issues and prevent potential offending; and

expanding the capacity of ACCHOs and other services as required to establish and / or build on existing interdisciplinary mental health and social and emotional wellbeing teams that can work effectively with or coordinate health care for people at risk of imprisonment while in the community and work to divert them from potential contact with the criminal justice system;