Sentences with phrase «rules with criminal charges»
Because the code would be mandatory, countries could enforce its rules with criminal charges and fines.
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He also cited section 396 (1) to (3) of the ACJ Act which stipulates that any application challenging the competence of criminal charges could only be considered along with the substantive issues in the case and ruling on it delivered along with the judgment on the entire case.
«Even persons who were facing criminal prosecution prior to the 2015 presidential elections who are now members of the ruling APC and other members of APC who are overtly known to be involved in known cases of corruption were excluded from the list whilst persons who have never been charged with any crime and who in fact have not held any previous government portfolio including myself were listed as «looters».
She was charged with disobeying a court order, which she tried to quash by claiming that two of the Rules of Civil Procedure make it impossible to apply that section of the Criminal Code.
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The ruling came in the case of Richmond criminal defense lawyer Horace F. Hunter, who was hit with disciplinary charges by the Virginia State Bar over his criminal law blog where he wrote about cases he had handled and other criminal - law issues.
The ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct offer an insight into what motivates criminal defense lawyers called upon to provide representation for serial killers and others charged with horrible crimes.
The Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta has ruled that the provincial Jury Act may exclude people convicted or charged with criminal acts from serving on juries.
However, Justice Brian Burrows of the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench ruled that the exclusion of accused and criminally convicted persons was reasonable and acceptable because «a person who has been convicted of a crime, or is currently charged with a crime, is prima facie likely not to be impartial as between the Crown and the accused in a criminal proceeding.»
A native Miamian now in his 22nd year of practice, Brian's clients are either lawyers trying to remain lawyers, law students trying to become lawyers, law firms seeking ethics opinions and compliance with various rules, regulations and statutes, or individuals and corporations facing state or federal criminal charges.
There has been heightened public scrutiny on courts to deal with criminal cases at risk of being tossed since the Jordan ruling, and that pressure only increased last November when a Superior Court judge in Ottawa stayed a first - degree murder charge against ex-soldier Adam Picard, after it took four years to get his case to trial.
The final rule defines correctional institution as any penal or correctional facility, jail, reformatory, detention center, work farm, halfway house, or residential community program center operated by, or under contract to, the United States, Start Printed Page 82489a state, a territory, a political subdivision of a state or territory, or an Indian tribe, for the confinement or rehabilitation of persons charged with or convicted of a criminal offense or other persons held in lawful custody.
The questions included: (i) whether or not a non-derogating control order imposed under PTA 2005 constituted a criminal charge for the purposes of Art 6 of the Convention; and (ii) whether or not the procedures provided for by PTA 2005, s 3 and the rules of court were compatible with Art 6 in circumstances where they had resulted in a case made against a person subject to a control order being in its essence entirely undisclosed to him and in no specific allegation of terrorism - related activity being contained in open material.