Sentences with phrase «public prosecutions»

While it resolves competition issues in many ways, it may seek legal action by referring criminal matters under any of these four statutes to the Director of Public Prosecutions of Canada.

Glenn was an appointed Agent for the Director of Public Prosecutions Service of Canada predominately prosecuting drug offences in the Salmon Arm and Revelstoke areas.

Because one of our partners was a standing agent for Public Prosecution Service of Canada, we can provide a unique perspective on these types of cases.

Roughly 80 per cent of the union's membership is within the Department of Justice, 15 per cent are with Public Prosecution Services Canada, and the balance are embedded in different tribunals or agencies such as Veterans Affairs.

Director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer last week told a select committee scrutinising the bill that he supports it.

Former director of public prosecutions Ken Macdonald is overseeing the review.

Heard was charged this week with two counts of illegally importing Pistol and Boo into Australia and one count of producing a false document, the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions said Thursday.

In Cape Breton District, the successful candidates were Diane McGrath QC, Senior Crown Counsel with the Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service in Sydney; and Carolyn A. MacAulay, whose areas of practice include family law, wills and estate planning and litigation work with The Breton Law Group in Sydney.

I have concluded that the exercise of the discretion to stay proceedings by front line prosecutors as agents for the Attorney General of Alberta and the federal Director of Public Prosecutions under s. 579 of the Criminal Code has become systemically unethical.

Counsel for the Director of Public Prosecutions took issue with the views of AIDWYC.

Criminal defence partner Nigel Richardson at London law firm Hodge Jones & Allen was one of the signatories in a letter to the Director of Public Prosecution published in The Times today requesting clarification of the urgent review of sexual assault and rape trials announced recently.

John Bosco Siboyintore, the head of the Genocide Tracking Unit at Rwanda Public Prosecution Authority, said Ntaganzwa is among the nine most - wanted fugitives in the 1994 genocide which killed more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

He was Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions before serving, since September 2015, as the 5th Solicitor General of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Chakrabarti is the latest high - profile advocate to enter parliament, with two former directors of public prosecution also taking party whips: Keir Starmer on the green benches for Labour, Ken Macdonald on the red benches for the Liberal Democrats.

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.

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But peers said men posting the images could be tackled if the director of public prosecutions offered guidance clarifying the circumstances in which charges can be brought.

The director of public prosecutions highlighted the fact that Thomas «intended the message to be humorous», did not intend it to go beyond his followers - «who were mainly family and friends» - and then took «reasonably swift action» to delete it.

The director of public prosecutions therefore promised new guidance on Twitter specifically to guide police and prosecutors on what might step over the boundaries.

Britons continue to travel abroad to die and the law - following guidelines from the director of public prosecutions endorsed by MPs - effectively forgives compassionate amateur assistance to die.

The director for public prosecutions reacted after a series of criminal charges brought against Twitter and Facebook users raised concerns about freedom of speech.

Coalition proposals for the civil justice system threaten the foundations of the British legal system, the former director of public prosecutions warned today.

But former director of public prosecutions Sir Ken MacDonald has spoken out against the government's plans, despite supporting the use of communications data evidence.

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.

The continued debate on the topic mirrors that occurring in England, where the director of public prosecutions recently assured the public he was unlikely to take legal action against friends of family members who help their loved ones die.

The charges are filed by the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions against alleged kidnap kingpin.

«For five years as director of public prosecutions people put problems on my desk that I had to solve.

3) The Home Secretary at the time Sir Leon Brittan liaised with the Director of Public Prosecutions over the issue.

On December 9th the director of public prosecutions opted not to charge two parents who helped their paralysed son travel to a suicide clinic earlier this year.

The MP for Holborn and St Pancras was director of public prosecutions until 2013.

But even before Friday's discovery of potentially lethal bomb plots, the Guardian reported that the review ordered by the incoming home secretary, and apparently in the safe hands of the former director of public prosecutions turned Lib Dem peer Lord Macdonald, was in danger of being captured by the security establishment.

Mr Khan also counts former London mayor Ken Livingstone, Margaret Hodge MP and former Director of Public Prosecutions Kier Starmer among his supporters.

She was employed as a state attorney at the Attorney - General's Department in 1995 and rose through the ranks till she was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions during the John Mahama administration.

Disgraced Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel is under investigation by the Dutch Public Prosecution Service and the Fiscal Information and Investigation Service, according to media reports in the Netherlands.

A unique app, iWitnessed, is launched today by leading forensic psychologists at the University of Sydney and UNSW - supported by NSW Police and former Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery QC - to assist victims and witnesses record Read more about iWitnessed app launched by memory experts, police, QC - Scimex

They led to accusations that Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders was «more interested in convictions than in people being tried fairly».

Whatever the outcome, the very public prosecution of Mike Duffy is likely to be a benefit to the public in significantly lessening the practice of improper expensing among employees.

Speaking in favour of deletion, Lord Macdonald, the former Director of Public Prosecutions identified three clear dangers in proceeding, none of which have been addressed by the Lords amendments, to public confidence in the judiciary, to fairness and to justice (Cols 1898 — 1900).

The Director of Public Prosecutions appealed.

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However, a search through the federal Public Prosecution Service of Canada found few convictions or appeals in B.C. and none related to real estate.

Director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer said: «The essence of the charges is that between March and May 2003, Mr Huhne, having allegedly committed a speeding offence, falsely informed the investigating authorities that Ms Pryce had been the driver of the vehicle in question, and she falsely accepted that she was the driver.