Sentences with phrase «rights against criminal»

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Additionally, despite the explanation provided for his unusual actions, the SEC also filed a criminal complaint against Mr. Na Ayudhya for infringing on shareholder rights.

In an exclusive interview right now, this young hacker known as Cosmo the God reveals how he went from being wanted by the government as a teen to raking in millions by helping companies defend against cyber criminals.

Why should my right to defend myself against those criminals be taken away?

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

It covers such basic national rights as security against invasion, the control of entrance and exit of persons, the ownership of property, the extradition of criminals, and honorable treatment of ambassadors.

The Pope says that society has a right to defend itself against criminals, but that in our time such self - defense hardly ever justifies executions.

October 13 — In a stunning twist to their anti-corruption football probe, Swiss federal prosecutors have opened a criminal case against the Qatari boss of Paris St Germain, Nasser Al - Khelaifi, for suspected bribery linked to World Cup broadcasting rights.

Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta cited the Tory attack on human rights just days before appearing before the International Criminal Court in the Hague on charges of crimes against humanity.

Nevertheless, my consideration echoes to an extent the «right - wing» outcry against the purported «entitlement culture» that fed the «criminal tendencies» of the «underclass».

Although democratically legitimated, Duterte has shown little appetite for due process, basic rights or restraint in waging his war against criminals and terrorists.

Right now, state law does makes it very difficult for prosecutors to file criminal charges against careless drivers unless they can establish «intent.»

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently «seek from the International Criminal Court an arrest warrant to bring Mrs Diezani Alison - Madueke before the court on allegations of corruption against her, which the government should consider as crimes against humanity and serious enough for it to sanction her prosecution before the court.»

I believe we all observe the basic social criteria that... «Protecting human lives and their basic rights of living supersedes teaching, doing business or doing research»;... Before this case clarified, and those fascists along with this criminal suspect Gabriele Scheler and Sebastian Thrun being concurred, I bet nobody would like to play up personnels associated with fascism crimes, the likes of Sebastian Thrun and Gabriele Scheler, nor cover up their fascism crimes and everybody has the obligation to fight against such anti-humanity crimes;

If Schneiderman really wants equal justice for all as he claims, he would appoint a member of the NRA to the criminal justice committee to ensure our Second Amendment rights aren't torched any further by Jackie Hilly of New Yorkers Against Guns — who he did have the foresight to include.

«The criminal complaint should be unsealed because it is a public record, the public has a right to know the specifics of the criminal allegations against Nojay, and because the continued sealing of the record could imply that Nojay has received preferential treatment in death that others do not receive,» attorney Christopher Thomas wrote.

The Law Society said: «It is a fundamental aspect of the right to a fair trial that the defendant in a criminal trial is able to challenge the evidence adduced against them.

A rights advocacy group, Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project, said it had sued the Federal Government for its failure to initiate criminal proceedings against the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, in relation to the $ 15m traced to bank accounts belonging trights advocacy group, Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project, said it had sued the Federal Government for its failure to initiate criminal proceedings against the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, in relation to the $ 15m traced to bank accounts belonging tRights and Accountability Project, said it had sued the Federal Government for its failure to initiate criminal proceedings against the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, in relation to the $ 15m traced to bank accounts belonging to her.

Schneiderman, who was a hold out on the deal until the final hours before the agreement was reached, says his resistance gained the right to continue criminal prosecutions against the banking industry for possible fraud, and to provide money for underwater and foreclosed homeowners for legal representation.

It seems every politician wants to take a stand against crime and criminal activity and every candidate wants people to think they aren't criminals and thus people should have respect for political figures, but when push comes to shove, actions speak louder than words, and right now everyone remains silent.

National president of IPDI, Austin Ozobo, cautioned the military against arresting innocent members of Tompolo family and ex-agitators, saying the group would sue the military in ECOWAS Court and International Criminal Court if it violates fundamental human rights in Gbaramatu kingdom.

Off - topic questions included efforts at combating sex trafficking on Roosevelt Avenue, reports of criminal charges against a defunct arm of the Working Families Party, whether the mayor will veto proposed bills criminalizing police use of chokeholds and requiring police to advise people of a right to refuse before asking to search them, whether the mayor plans to see the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge when they visit New York, whether his message is getting lost in critical news coverage and his view of the Astoria Cove development deal.

Over half of all Conservative backbenchers rebelled against David Cameron on the vote to ban foreign criminals claiming their right to a family life to avoid deportation, Labour said.

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.

Federal prosecutors Thursday leveled public - corruption charges against eight individuals including Cuomo's former right - hand man, Joe Percoco, stemming from what was described as «two overlapping criminal schemes.»

Some question whether the attorney general used the right approach, since no criminal charges were filed against Carlos Velasquez, head of Galos Corp., the company accused of misappropriating the $ 1 million.

The Fifth Amendment says that nobody may be «compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,» which has become known as the right to avoid self - incrimination.

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Playing in the intersection of fact and fiction, O'Connell invents a form of Pop abstraction that pits Andy Warhol against Ellsworth Kelly while commenting on human rights and criminal justice.

As a criminal law principle, this right is mostly applicable in the context of procedures against individuals.

In Mubarak v Mubarak [2001] 1 FLR 698, [2000] All ER (D) 2302 the first post-Human Rights Act 1998 case on this jurisdiction (and see «Enforcement matters», David Burrows, 159 NLJ 7368, p 653), Brooke LJ emphasised the importance that the respondent, who faces what amounts to a criminal charge (see Engel and Others v The Netherlands (No 1)(1979) 1 EHRR 647), should know the case against him or her (ie McFarlane LJ's list: (a) and (b)-RRB-: «In Newman v Modern Bookbinders Ltd [2000] 2 All ER 814, [2000] 1 WLR 2559 judgment was given in [a case which is] far removed from the present.

We hold, therefore, that where, as here, the investigation is no longer a general inquiry into an unsolved crime, but has begun to focus on a particular suspect, the suspect has been taken into police custody, the police carry out a process of interrogations that lends itself to eliciting incriminating statements, the suspect has requested and been denied an opportunity to consult with his lawyer, and the police have not effectively warned him of his absolute constitutional right to remain silent, the accused has been denied «the Assistance of Counsel» in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution as «made obligatory upon the States by the Fourteenth Amendment,» Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. at 342, and that no statement elicited by the police during the interrogation may be used against him at a criminal trial.

Failure to do so can lead to fines and ultimately criminal sanctions against the business and also the individual, not to mention the risk of bad publicity should the business fail to compile to any minimum legal employment rights.

For over 20 years, Hugh James McDonnell has been defending people against criminal charges, ensuring their rights are protected, and working hard to get the charged dropped.

The right of any individual or entity to bring a criminal prosecution is regarded by UK law as a constitutional safeguard against the failure or refusal of a State prosecutor to prosecute an offender.

He will fight to make sure that your legal rights are respected and that you have every opportunity to defend yourself against any accusations of criminal wrongdoing.

If your civil rights were violated in your arrest or if the evidence against you was gathered in a way that was a civil rights violation, our criminal defense lawyers can have the arrest invalidated, the evidence excluded, and the charges dismissed.

You have the right to defend yourself against criminal charges in San Diego.

If your civil rights were violated in your arrest or if the evidence against you was gathered in a way that might be a civil rights violation, our criminal defense lawyers will have the arrest invalidated, the evidence excluded, and all charges dismissed.

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.

Whether you have been charged with a crime or you're being investigated for one, you need an experienced Sandusky criminal defense lawyer who can protect your rights and defend you against the charges you face.

Minnesota Society for Criminal Justice attorneys are committed to protecting and advancing the civil rights and constitutional rights of the People against the government.

The ECJ could not remain indifferent to the global trend to widen the category of crimes that «should not go unpunished», according to recent International Criminal Court (ICC) guidelines (see Policy Paper on Case Selection and Prioritisation of the Office of the Prosecutor, 15 September 2016), and therefore consider «serious» financial crimes as crimes against human rights, with the primary objective of ensuring «jointly with the relevant national jurisdictions, that the most serious crimes committed in each situation do not go unpunished» (ICC, Policy Paper, para. 1 (8)-RRB-, through the implementation of «effective» measures.

Earlier this year, the Blair government defeated a move in Parliament to ease Britain's severe restrictions on self - defense in the home, because, in the British government's view, criminals also have a right to be protected against violence.

The current human rights code allows too many frivolous cases to proceed against citizens, when the Criminal Code already covers hate speech that could generate harm against an individual or group.

Human Rights Watch has released a book entitled «Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: A Topical Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.»

If they are stripped of their right to silence by statutory compulsion, their answers can not be used against them in subsequent criminal proceedings and «exclusion of the evidence is compulsory».

The district judge was therefore not asking himself the right question — which was whether there were reasonable grounds for suspecting that this money derived to a material degree from the labour of people whom it was a criminal offence to employ, and whether its further detention was justified pending investigation of its derivation, or consideration was given to bringing proceedings against any person «for an offence with which the cash is connected».

Counseled a human rights organization regarding international criminal law, including with regard to genocide and crimes against humanity.

She argued that sections of the Criminal Code were unconstitutional because they infringed the right to be presumed innocent, the right against self - incrimination, and the right to make full answer and defence.

Arguably, Article 7 (5) seems to suggest that the EU legislator is willing to do more than a (partial) codification of the ECtHR's case - law as it provides that the exercising of the right to remain silent and the right not to incriminate oneself shall not be used against the individual and it can not be considered to be evidence that they have committed the criminal offence at hand.