Sentences with phrase «reason for prosecution»

For recognition as a refugee it is also required that the reason for prosecution is established.

Not exact matches

One reason: In 2012, the company paid a $ 3 billion fine to US authorities for various illegal marketing activities, but remained under investigation for fraudulent sales practices in China and elsewhere, and could have faced criminal prosecution, according to the lawsuit.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

Second, there are reasons, both logical and evidentiary, to doubt the prevailing rationales for judicial prosecution, deterrence, and social rehabilitation.

The rather straightforward reasoning was that, unlike the members of organized crime who are typical objects of RICO prosecutions, the antiabortion protestors did not obtain anyone else's property for their own use.

I believe that Zimmerman initiated the incident and altercation, for all the reasons the prosecution presented.

The Prosecution say he carried out punishments for «fake reasons», such as «failing to use double margins».

Since taxes were paid there was no reason for civil prosecution.

So if a party claims to be open to new members but rejects everyone for undisclosed reasons, it's up to the prosecution to prove that they refuse everyone and are not just very picky.

At every stage - from the police's handling of the PR around an incident, to the slowness of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), to the imbalance of the coroner's court and the reluctance of the Crown Prosecution Service — there are reasons for a family to lose faith in British justice.

A spokesman for Dunkirk's prosecution service said they would have set up a criminal investigation if there had been reason to suspect foul play.

The miraculous manner he emerged the Senate President against all odds and his strong opposition to a Muslim - Muslim ticket for the APC in the build - up to the 2015 general elections were major reasons for Saraki's persecution and prosecution, based on his claims.

In fact the sole reason for having a director of public prosecutions is to give guidance as to when certain prosecutions may or may not be in the public interest.

When the Crown Prosecution Service announced in December 2015 that there would be no further criminal action on phone hacking, it said it had considered evidence of email deletion and decided that there were «legitimate reasons for companies to have an email deletion policy... In this case, there is no evidence to suggest that email deletion was undertaken in order to pervert the course of justice.»

NEWARK — Tuesday's Bridgegate testimony dropped a bombshell from star witness to the prosecution David Wildstein: that both New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo knowingly signed off on a fake «traffic study» as the reason that three local access lanes into the George Washington Bridge were funneled into one for four days in September 2013.

In Italy they ran the risk of prosecution for Judaizing, given that in law they were baptized Christians; for this reason they generally avoided the Papal States.

Other reasons given by women for not pursuing formal justice include fear of shame due to having rape incidents being made public and thus damage to their social standing, as well as inadequate protection and difficulties encountered during prosecution due to evidence tampering and witness withdrawal.

’27 For that reason, the RPF government has been arguing that those who fled Rwanda between 1994 and 1998, regardless of their well - founded and reasonable fear to repatriate, «have a dark, ugly past to hide and are running away from prosecution» but not persecution.28 Whereas it can not be denied that some genocide perpetrators remain at large, it can strongly be argued that a list of Hutu refugees who were suspected of having committed genocide crimes was established and thus handed out by the RPF government to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTFor that reason, the RPF government has been arguing that those who fled Rwanda between 1994 and 1998, regardless of their well - founded and reasonable fear to repatriate, «have a dark, ugly past to hide and are running away from prosecution» but not persecution.28 Whereas it can not be denied that some genocide perpetrators remain at large, it can strongly be argued that a list of Hutu refugees who were suspected of having committed genocide crimes was established and thus handed out by the RPF government to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTfor Rwanda (ICTR).

If the determination of ineligibility was the only reason for setting aside the deferred prosecution agreement and issuing the administrative complaint and the administrative proceedings result in a finding that the determination was erroneous, the complaint shall be dismissed and the deferred prosecution agreement reinstated without prejudice to the commissioner's right to reissue the administrative complaint for other breaches of the agreement.

For this reason, an acquittal or conviction in a prosecution for a specific crime under the laws of the United States shall bar a proceeding for criminal contempt, which is based upon the same act or omission and which arises under the provisions of this Act; and an acquittal or conviction in a proceeding for criminal contempt, which arises under the provisions of this Act, shall bar a prosecution for a specific crime under the laws of the United States based upon the same act or omissiFor this reason, an acquittal or conviction in a prosecution for a specific crime under the laws of the United States shall bar a proceeding for criminal contempt, which is based upon the same act or omission and which arises under the provisions of this Act; and an acquittal or conviction in a proceeding for criminal contempt, which arises under the provisions of this Act, shall bar a prosecution for a specific crime under the laws of the United States based upon the same act or omissifor a specific crime under the laws of the United States shall bar a proceeding for criminal contempt, which is based upon the same act or omission and which arises under the provisions of this Act; and an acquittal or conviction in a proceeding for criminal contempt, which arises under the provisions of this Act, shall bar a prosecution for a specific crime under the laws of the United States based upon the same act or omissifor criminal contempt, which is based upon the same act or omission and which arises under the provisions of this Act; and an acquittal or conviction in a proceeding for criminal contempt, which arises under the provisions of this Act, shall bar a prosecution for a specific crime under the laws of the United States based upon the same act or omissifor criminal contempt, which arises under the provisions of this Act, shall bar a prosecution for a specific crime under the laws of the United States based upon the same act or omissifor a specific crime under the laws of the United States based upon the same act or omission.

I don't think I could get to the point of calling for the prosecution of somebody for what their reason has concluded, however.

Thus, I'd like to see a criminal prosecution take place if for no other reason than to find out who authored the «fake» Heartland document.

the only reason they avoided prosecution was due to a mis - understood loophole wrt the reporting time frame for the incident.

The Panel's careful, closely reasoned decision has important implications for corporate legal practice and for the Law Society's standards of investigation and prosecution.

I preface this comment by saying that I know nothing about the evidence in the Law Society of Upper Canada's prosecution of Torys LLP lawyers Darren Sukonick and Elizabeth DeMerchant, other than what is disclosed in the reasons for judgment of the Hearing Panel dated October 17, 2013 [Ed.

Since that time, for a variety of reasons, including a Supreme Court decision that found certain ABA efforts to limit UPL to be anti-competitive, UPL prosecutions have declined.4 Still, every state but one has an unauthorized practice of law statute that makes it illegal for anyone who doesn't meet the requirements set by state bars or lawyer regulators to practice law.

Important reasons for judgement were released today by the BC Court of Appeal (MacKenzie v. Rogalasky) addressing an unsettled area of law, whether interest charges on disbursements incurred during the prosecution of an injury lawsuit could be recovered.

Madam Justice Bruce held that while the delay in the prosecution was inordenate and inexcusable there was no prejudice and did not dismiss the claim for this reason.

However, the danger is that, as the private prosecution industry grows, and sometimes questionable claims are made about the benefits of private prosecutions, or the circumstances in which they should be used, more private prosecutions are brought on the basis of unreliable evidence and / or for abusive reasons.

[38] For these reasons, the plaintiff's action will be dismissed under Rule 22 - 7 for want of prosecution, failure to comply with the Civil Rules, and failure to comply with the Order of this Court dated August 11, 20For these reasons, the plaintiff's action will be dismissed under Rule 22 - 7 for want of prosecution, failure to comply with the Civil Rules, and failure to comply with the Order of this Court dated August 11, 20for want of prosecution, failure to comply with the Civil Rules, and failure to comply with the Order of this Court dated August 11, 2011.

To be charged as a first degree felony, the prosecution will need to prove that the defendant committed kidnapping for one of the following reasons:

But I see defendants in Germany argue on the basis of prosecution history all the time, presumably because they believe that for psychological reasons the persuasive value of arguments based on prosecution history is greater than its formal legal weight.

In seeking to explain the court's reasons for preferring the prosecution's submissions, he set out on a historical journey which took in the 17th century origins of the offence as well as the 19th century and modern cases.

But on Aug. 26, the U.S. Attorney's Office filed a request for leave to dismiss the charge against Sullivan for the reason that «further prosecution of the violation would not be in the interest of justice.»

While this may be a bar to cases ending up as money laundering prosecutions, there is good reason for that, and any attempt to make changes here is likely to be met (rightly, in the author's view) with great resistance.

Such latent health and safety violations appear to be the principle reason for the alteration of the limitation period, and can reasonably be characterized as the government response to cases such as an unsuccessful OHSA prosecution involving the Corporation of the City of Guelph, (2012 ONCJ 251 (CanLII)-RRB-, where a wall in a municipal building collapsed and tragically killed a student five years after the wall was built.

BC Injury Law Blog Follow Up Medical Reports After The Passage Of Time Are Not «Extravagant» Disbursements Reasons for judgement were released this week by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, addressing the reasonableness of multiple physician reports ordered in the course of a personal injury prosecution.

In the U.S. almost every State has rejected criminal prosecution for this offence, primarily for policy reasons, as it encroaches on civil liberties.

It may well be in a given case that the defendant does not care about disclosing such information or making admissions that facilitate the prosecution, even admitting the whole of the Crown's case, for a variety of reasons.

Neuropsychologists are extensively trained with respect to the cognitive and behavioural consequences of brain injuries and for this reason their evidence is often vital in the prosecution of brain injury claims.

For the reasons expressed in MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN's dissent in Scales v. United States, ante, p. 367 U. S. 278, they believe that this prosecution was barred by § 4 (f) of the Internal Security Act.

The reasons for the increase in crime higher were given as higher numbers of sitting days and more pages of prosecution evidence in more complex cases.

The general reasoning of the Court seems to imply that this requirement could not be set for other categories in similar situations either, such as asylum seekers who fear prosecution for their homosexual orientation, or «westernised» women who fear they will be subjected to persecution of returned to their home country.

«Certainly, as it regards the Crown and police, I think there was every reason for them to initiate the prosecution of Mr. Ghomeshi given the information they had from the complainants.

Reasons for judgement were released today by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, ordering ICBC to pay $ 350,000 in punitive damages for malicious prosecution following assertions that the Plaintiff acted fraudulently following a pedestrian collision.

«We see no reason», said that Court, «for overruling the law as stated in this jurisdiction that a wrongful refusal to license is not a bar to a prosecution for acting without a license.»

The reason double jeopardy does not apply when a person faces both a federal and state prosecution for the same conduct is that separate and distinct crimes are being charged.

Data from the Crown Prosecution Service London indicates that jury acquittals are the primary reason for unsuccessful outcomes in rape cases.

The object and meaning of the rule is this: that as, by reason of the complexity and difficulty of our law, litigation can only be properly conducted by professional men, it is absolutely necessary that a man, in order to prosecute his rights or to defend himself from an improper claim, should have recourse to the assistance of professional lawyers,... to use a vulgar phrase, that he should be able to make a clean breast of it to the gentleman whom he consults with a view to the prosecution of his claim, or the substantiating of his defence... that he should be able to place unrestricted and unbounded confidence in the professional agent, and that the communications he so makes to him should be kept secret, unless with his consent (for it is his privilege, and not the privilege of the confidential agent), that he should be enabled properly to conduct his litigation.

So it is true that the SCC may end up ruling, but there is no good reason for BC to hold off prosecution in the meantime.