Sentences with phrase «protection against criminal»

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With fewer solicitors experienced in dealing with male violence against women, it becomes harder for women to get the help they need to obtain protections such as injunctions, let alone pursue criminal charges.

The Cuomo administration's handling of complaints against Jay Kiyonaga, a former Division of Criminal Justice Services official, has prompted concern about a pattern of protection of alleged harassers.

The legislation seeks to increase the criminal and civil statutes of limitations, remove special protections for public institutions that have acted as a shield against liability and create a one - year look - back window to allow survivors over the age of 23 to seek retrospective civil relief.

protection by the Federal Criminal Police Office against the dangers of international terrorism when a threat transcends the boundary of one Land, when the jurisdiction of a Land's police authorities can not be perceived, or when the highest authority of an individual Land requests the assumption of federal responsibility;

One published report noted that the criminal charges against former Speaker Sheldon Silver contain «vague references to how he sold out tenants the last time the protections expired in 2011 as part of a corrupt deal with a developer.»

Most forms of child abuse are a criminal offence but civil actions may be taken in negligence against local authorities and police entrusted with child protection.

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

Nuria Russell, 50, had faced two counts of second - degree criminal contempt, which stemmed from her alleged violation of an order of protection filed against her by her estranged husband, and one count of fourth - degree criminal mischief, stemming from her allegedly breaking a window in Mr. Russell's Cutchogue home June 10.

The Governor commended the Lagos State Judiciary for heeding the call to establish a Sexual Offences Court, just as he also lauded the State House of Assembly for enacting the Protection against Domestic Violence Law, 2007, the Child's Right Law of Lagos State, 2015 and the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, noting that all efforts was geared towards providing a solid platform for waging the war against Sexual and gender based Violence.

It is legal to represent yourself in a bankruptcy, but experts don't recommend it, because a simple mistake can take away your legal protection against debt collectors, allow creditors to take away major assets or even result in criminal charges.

No professional protection dog trainer will ever recommend leaving a dog alone to defend itself against a human criminal.

Both Lockwood and Fletcher said the public's best protection against attacks from pit bulls and other potentially dangerous breeds is strong «vicious - dog ordinances» that slap owners with hefty fines and, in some cases, criminal penalties.

MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. — The Humane Society of the United States, the nation's largest animal protection organization, applauds District Attorney Branny Vickery for filing criminal animal cruelty charges against Virginia Thornton, owner of Thornton's Kennels.

Skaggs believes the criminal charges against him are retaliation over his efforts to bring attention to Kentucky's failure to adopt adequate animal protection laws, his criticisms of county shelters and his efforts to push for improvements.

This D.C. law provides that if, after a hearing, the judicial officer finds that there is good cause to believe the respondent has committed or threatened to commit a criminal offense against the petitioner or against petitioner's animal or an animal in petitioner's household, the judicial officer may issue a protection order that directs the care, custody, or control of a domestic animal that belongs to petitioner or respondent or lives in his or her household.

In the view of the learned AG committing a crime «shows a total lack of desire to integrate into society» (para. 60), disqualifying the criminal from protection against expulsion (para. 49).

The discussion «Hacking America» centered on the proposed and unconstitutional changes to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which would violate the Fourth Amendment's protection against government hacking into the computers of innocent Americans.

Protecting your rights, supporting your goals — these are our objectives every day at the Law Office of John P. McKenna, P.C. Whether your situation calls for protection of your rights against serious criminal charges, resolution of an immigration law issue or representation for an accident personal injury caused by someone else's negligence, our Springfield law firm can help.

That is why the burden of proof in criminal cases must be as high as it is, «proof beyond a reasonable doubt» — to provide adequate protection against wrongful convictions.

Among other things, this may lead to more surveillance, less protection against it, and more reliance of criminal law to suspend activities absent injunctive recourses against third - parties (ISPs, search engines, etc.).

Putting one's fate in the hands of fellow citizens, rather than in the hands of the government, provides us with an important protection against government overreach or the politicization of criminal prosecutions.

In particular, as regards the impact on related criminal proceedings, the protections afforded to criminal defendants are not available to witnesses in a public inquiry, who may be compelled to give evidence or disclose documents that may breach the privilege against self - incrimination that would be available to them in the criminal proceedings themselves.

The court awarded the firm's client, previously a defendant in the criminal case, a permanent protection order against the alleged victim in that case and denied the alleged victim's request for a reciprocal order.

The court acknowledged that the insured expected the insurance policy to provide protection against loss resulting from criminal action, but reasoned that the policy only covered losses that fell within the restricted coverage set out in the policy.

«Since the time when the Review Panel made the decision to strike an Inquiry Committee to investigate allegations against Douglas ACJ, significant academic, legislative, and social changes have taken place that support the growing recognition that women whose intimate images are distributed without their consent are victims of a gendered form of abuse and worthy of protection while the perpetrators are morally culpable and deserving of criminal punishment.

This emphasis, Stuntz thinks, has led to the current mess, where accused criminals get laboriously articulated protection against procedural errors and no protection at all against outrageous and obvious violations of simple justice.

As part of her consideration of whether police actions had breached the s. 9 protection in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms against arbitrary detention, Greene looked at the provisions for release under s. 498 of the Criminal Code.

Combining the disappointing in De Wolf v. Bell ExpressVu, provincial regulation on payday lending that has led to higher interest rates than those allowed by the usury provisions in the Criminal Code and the limitations of consumer class actions against late payment practices, it seems that consumers have even less protection from exploitative credit arrangements today.

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We already have decent protection against obsolete or incorrect legal information through specific court orders, youth courts and pardons, and need this overarching invention of the EU like we need a legal requirement to forget the criminal behaviour of a certain railroad running through Quebec...

The proposed legislation also amends the Criminal Code to extend the protection against hate propaganda to any section of the public that is distinguished by gender identity or expression.

Not to do so would weaken the protection against self - incrimination, which is fundamental to the basis tenets of criminal law.

Violence Against Women: A discussion of federal and provincial laws dealing with criminal harassment and protection for victims of domestic violence.

Toronto criminal lawyer Aaron Harnett tells AdvocateDaily.com the recent withdrawal of sexual assault charges against his client by the Crown mid-jury trial and subsequent apology from the bench, demonstrates why defence counsel are resistant to water down fair trial protections in these serious matters.

The majority began its decision by noting that the preamble of the 1992 amendments to the Criminal Code «expresses concern about the prevalence of sexual assault against women and children and was intended to ensure the full protection of their Charter rights.

Family Court can also be the Court to turn to if you are seeking an order of protection against a family member or a person who you've had a close relationship with, even if you have already received an order of protection from Criminal Court.

With the advent of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms the right to privacy began to be recognized more and more in the criminal law particularly under section 8, the protection against unreasonable search and seizure.

Whereas the expressed intent of the law is to add «gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination» as well as amending the Criminal Code to «extend the protection against hate propaganda set out in that Act to any section of the public that is distinguished by gender identity or expression», some have argued that the law, under its commendable purpose, hides an agenda with the potential to curtail fundamental freedoms.

Carrying more legal weight as a constitutional document than its predecessor, the Charter provides the guaranteed protection of important rights such as freedom of conscience, religion, expression, and association; the democratic right to vote; mobility rights to enter and leave Canada as well as reside anywhere within Canada; legal rights in criminal matters; equality rights against discrimination; and language rights.

Navacelle represents clients against multi-jurisdictional criminal prosecutions, civil and administrative enforcement authorities, tackling parallel investigations, criminal judicial cooperation, protection of individuals» rights and handling of evidence.

At the same time, the start and finish of the criminal justice process are now indefinite and indistinct as a result of the introduction of mass surveillance and the erosion against «double jeopardy» protections caused by scientific advances that make it possible to revisit conclusions reached in the distant past.

In either scenario, if a referral was made that a child was in need of protection as a result of physical violence against the child, and criminal charges resulted against a caregiver, the focus of the Society's work with the family often came to a halt.

(Directive 2004 / 38 / EC — Right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States — Protection against expulsion — Concepts of «public policy» and «public security» — Concept of «imperative grounds of public security» — Criminal conviction for sexual abuse of a 14 year old minor, sexual coercion and rape)

My point then was that Fortune 500 GCs seeking a lawyer for a basic corporate deal did not require the same level of protection against a law firm's marketing as e.g. a terrified first - time criminal defendant or a teenager tragically injured in a car wreck.

In German civil proceedings there is generally and principally no document discovery and hence no necessity for a protection against forced seizure of documentary evidence as in criminal or administrative proceedings.

``... there have been powerful last - ditch efforts to get Clause 76 removed from the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill... There has been widespread support for the government's decision to strengthen the law, and — if data protection is to be taken seriously — it is vital that the government and other parties should stand firm against any possible amendments.

Either way, perhaps there should be better criminal mechanisms against those tenants who are essentially committing theft or fraud, as you suggest, but that does not have much to do with the procedural protections in the RTA.

If letters and private documents can thus be seized and held and used in evidence against a citizen accused of an offense, the protection of the Fourth Amendment declaring his right to be secure against such searches and seizures is of no value, and, so far as those thus placed are concerned, might as well be stricken from the Constitution... The tendency of those who execute the criminal laws of the country to obtain conviction by means of unlawful seizures and enforced confessions, the latter often obtained after subjecting accused persons to unwarranted practices destructive of rights secured by the Federal Constitution, should find no sanction in the judgments of the courts which are charged at all times with the support of the Constitution and to which people of all conditions have a right to appeal for the maintenance of such fundamental rights.

Divided into: i) civil and, ii) criminal divisions and hears appeals: i) from decision in the High Court and County Courts and, ii) against convictions or sentences passed by the Crown Court, (see also Public Trustee Monies held in Court, in the name of the Accountant General, for suitors, minors, Court of Protection patients etc)

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