The fallout from the Al - Sweady inquiry represents
another strike against justice, says Jon Robins
Not exact matches
Delivering judgment on Tuesday,
Justice John Tsoho, in giving the EFCC a go - ahead to continue and conclude its ongoing investigations,
struck out the fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by the former First Lady
against the anti-graft agency.
But
Justice Nyako
struck out six out of the 11 count amended charge filed
against the defendants on grounds that the charges lack competence.
The Tribunal Chairman, Mr. Danladi Yakubu Umar threatened to
strike out the 10 - count charge brought
against the apex court
Justice -LSB-...]
Justice Archibong (now retired) had in a judgment delivered on April 2, 2012
struck out the 26 counts contained in a charge numbered FHC / L / 443C / 2013 filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
against Akingbola on the grounds that the prosecution was not diligent in the handling of the case.
In its 2012 suit
against Apple, the U.S. Department of
Justice maintained that, by
striking a coordinated deal to establish agency pricing for e-books, the publishers and Apple exhibited anticompetitive conduct by conspiring to fix prices.
This morning, Chief
Justice Kenneth Benjamin
struck out the long - running tort of misfeasance case filed by the Government
against former PUP Ministers Jose Coye and Florencio Marin, Sr..
Activist Scott Parking wrote, «Midwest Rising was a convergence for climate and economic
justice that brought together a diverse coalition of groups fighting home foreclosures in cities like Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, communications workers on
strike against Verizon Wireless, local labor organizers, Appalachian activists fighting mountaintop removal and climate
justice activists from around the world.»
Also in the last couple of years,
Justice Mosley, in NOV Downhole Eurasia Limited v. TLL Oil Field Consulting, 2014 FC 889, considered whether a pleading ought to be
struck that referred to the file history to defend
against infringement arguing that a feature added during prosecution and appearing in each of the claims did not exist in their device.
The British Columbia Supreme Court recently released a decision that further supports the argument that Chief
Justice Wittmann and the ABCA erred in
striking the claim
against the ERCB.
Two lower courts in Ontario
struck down two provisions of the Criminal Code prohibiting the operation of a common bawdy house and a prohibition
against living on the avails of prostitution on the basis that the provisions violated s. 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which provides that the state can not deny a person's right to life, liberty or security of the person except in accordance with the principles of fundamental
justice.
A majority of the Court of Appeal (
Justices Bruce McDonald and Barbara Lea Veldhuis) upheld the case management judge's decision
striking the appellant's statement of claim in relation to a motor vehicle accident and issuing an order for costs
against him.
Your subject article honestly
strikes me as «much ado about nothing» when weighed
against other abuses of our
justice system that seemingly come from within.