Sentences with phrase «punishment of criminal offences»

Mutual assistance encompasses all measures aimed at facilitating the prosecution and punishment of criminal offences and is generally requested by prosecution authorities.

Not exact matches

The Romanian Government's emergency ordinance to change the Penal Code decriminalizes or and reduces the criminal punishments for corruption offences such as abuse of office, conflict of interest, and negligence at work.

[Anyone] who, in public and against the facts, ascribes to the Polish Nation or to the Polish State, responsibility or co-responsibility for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich, [as] defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Annex to the Agreement for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis, signed in London on August 8, 1945 -LSB-...], or for other offences which are crimes against peace [or] humanity or [that are] war crimes, or who otherwise grossly reduces the responsibility of the actual perpetrators of said crimes, is subject to a fine or [to] imprisonment for up to 3 years.

By Section 270 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, a plea bargain agreement is allowed as in this case, wherein the first defendant has provided relevant information to aid the prosecution of this case... it appears to me that by the above provisions of the ACJA, under a plea bargain agreement, the appropriate sentence to be recommended should be within the appropriate range of punishment stipulated for the offence charged.

As of July 2, 2008, the minimum punishment for a first offence is a criminal record, a $ 1000 fine and a 1 - year absolute prohibition from driving.

As a conclusion, one can say that the CJEU did not only reply to the question raised by Advocate General Kokott whether «EU law require [s] the courts of the Member States to refrain from applying certain provisions of their national law on the limitation periods applicable to the prosecution of criminal offences in order to guarantee the effective punishment of tax offences» (§ 1 of the Opinion).

Writing for the 5 - 2 majority, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin found that the minimum sentences of three years imprisonment for a first offence and five years in the case of a second or subsequent offence under s. 95 (2)(a) of the Criminal Code contravened the right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment under s. 12 of the Charter of Rights.

Restraining orders may also include conditions for arrest upon breach of the order, and breaches are considered criminal offences under section 127 of the Criminal Code, RSC 1985, c C - 46, which creates the offence of disobeying a court order without lawful excuse where no other punishment is expressly providedcriminal offences under section 127 of the Criminal Code, RSC 1985, c C - 46, which creates the offence of disobeying a court order without lawful excuse where no other punishment is expressly providedCriminal Code, RSC 1985, c C - 46, which creates the offence of disobeying a court order without lawful excuse where no other punishment is expressly provided by law.

As the cornerstone of criminal law in Canada, the Criminal Code, is a large piece of federal legislation officially called An Act respecting the Criminal Law that includes the majority of Canada's criminal offences, procedures, and punicriminal law in Canada, the Criminal Code, is a large piece of federal legislation officially called An Act respecting the Criminal Law that includes the majority of Canada's criminal offences, procedures, and puniCriminal Code, is a large piece of federal legislation officially called An Act respecting the Criminal Law that includes the majority of Canada's criminal offences, procedures, and puniCriminal Law that includes the majority of Canada's criminal offences, procedures, and punicriminal offences, procedures, and punishments.

A fine, by contrast, is a punishment imposed by a court upon conviction of a criminal offence, and failure to pay may lead to imprisonment.»

A hybrid offence is an offence defined in the Criminal Code as having both summary and indictable classes of punishment.

Section 750 of the Criminal Code refers to the total time taken into account by the sentencing judge in determining the degree of punishment justified by the gravity of the offence and the moral blameworthiness of the offender.

Criminal Law: Impaired; Higher Sentences Should there be a greater punishment by reason of previous convictions for alcohol related driving offences.

If the case goes to court, in offences based on negligence, the court must determine whether an individual acted so carelessly or with such reckless disregard for the safety of others as to deserve criminal punishment.

It was certainly relevant to ask whether the evidential test in the code was compatible with the obligation under Art 2 to «put in place effective criminal law provisions to deter the commission of offences against the person, backed up by law enforcement machinery for the prevention, suppression and punishment of breaches of such provisions» (the formulation in Osman v United Kingdom (2000) 29 EHRR 245).

By making the unemployed also do community service, they are a) being â $ œpunishedâ $ in the same way as a convicted criminal, and b) reducing the impact of this prevalent court punishment for those that have caused a criminal offence.