Sentences with phrase «under criminal law»

Potential offences under the criminal law include murder, theft, rape, criminal damage and even using a TV without a license!

The person or persons responsible may also be prosecuted under criminal law in those cases.

It is only to suggest that the bail issue may be as problematic under criminal law as it is under immigration law.

She found the entire act valid under the criminal law power.

But the report recommended that, as hacking is an offence under criminal law, those avenues should be pursued first.

To be sure they are capable of acts of violence against unarmed people, which most regard as psychotic, and they have to be dealt with under the criminal law — unless killing them is the only way to save other lives.

Hadopi # 2 or «the law for the protection of artistic and literary works on the internet under criminal law» New additional penality: suspension of internet access

Such provisions must be formulated in terms that are clear, precise and stringent, both in order to enable people to understand the consequences of their actions under criminal law and also in order to prevent arbitrariness when applied by the courts.»

The unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted information, like the employer's list, constitutes an infringement of copyright under [the Copyright] Act but does not constitute theft under the criminal law.

This is the paradox of a fraudulent person who has himself committed several crimes under the criminal law being protected and touted by his complicit principal, the Government as a an anti-corruption crusader of some integrity.

CIOT has responded to HMRC's recent consultation on proposals to find an appropriate and proportionate means of ensuring corporations can be held accountable under the criminal law for failing to prevent their agents from criminally facilitating tax evasion.

One of it is that the Police can decide to prosecute whoever did what they did under criminal law or the persons interested in the matter can pursue a civil action in it under fundamental human rights.»

Causing destruction to someone's property or wounding someone badly is a crime and such circumstances are exclusively covered under criminal law.

This includes responding to and defending SFO cases and other government and regulatory investigations, the review of and / or implementation of anti-bribery policies and practice, corporate internal fraud and corruption investigations, and providing advice on directors» liability under the criminal law.

Note that this is a civil remedy which differs from any penalty imposed upon Sam under the criminal law of theft.

The position under the criminal law was considered comprehensively in Attorney General's Reference (No 3 of 1994).

That has no meaning under the criminal law, but when time came to get custody of his kids, that process was a lot easier when he could point to a finding of innocence, rather than to a finding that the crown didn't prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt (which leaves open the possibility that he might nevertheless have been guilty).

For certain criminal offences (such as giving a bribe and acquiring influence), a person (physical and legal) who reports its participation in a criminal offence will receive leniency under criminal law, if the self - reporting is done before law enforcement authorities become aware (by any other means) of the offence.

Experts also said that the term «aggravated felony» does not exist under criminal law, despite its use as grounds for...

In recent years, U.S. lawmakers have significantly expanded the authority and reach of the justice system; in the last decade, hundreds of thousands of Americans have been charged and convicted under criminal laws.

In the past it has proved to be extremely difficult to prosecute cases of insider dealing successfully under criminal law as the prosecution need to establish that: an individual possessed inside information; the individual knew that such information was inside information; such individual traded using such inside information; the individual knew that the inside information has come from an inside source.

If we allowed only private actions brought under the criminal law, we would lose both the expertise and the disciplinary op - portunities to keep the prosecutor in check, facts that occur as a result of the government serving as a repeat player in the criminal justice system.

Protection orders are made under the Family Law Act, but there are other protections for people facing family violence under criminal law — these are called Peace Bonds.

They wrote: «The provisions of the AHR Act concerning controlled activities, namely those involving assistance for human reproduction and related research activities, do not fall under the criminal law power, but belong to the jurisdiction of the provinces over hospitals, civil rights and local matters.»

Moving violations committed under the influence of alcohol, are regulated under criminal laws that are placed in a Hawaii Department of Transportation DUI arrest record.

Instead, Mr Noble was imprisoned without conviction under the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused Act) 1996 for the last 10 years.

The Criminal Liability of Parent Corporations for Acts of Its Subsidiaries under Criminal Law in Jordan: A Comparative Study

Because the loot boxes in these titles are a form of gambling that is easily accessible to minors, the Belgian Gaming Commission decided that these loot boxes «are therefore in violation of gaming legislation and can be dealt with under criminal law.»

But ratifying CAT did not, by itself, make torture criminal or punishable under domestic US criminal law; the US simply became obligated to «ensure that all acts of torture [we] re offences under its criminal law» (art. 4).

Hadopi # 2 or «the law for the protection of artistic and literary works on the internet under criminal law» Implementation of the Internet access suspension penalty and control thereof by the HADOPI

According to the letter, one list posted includes the names of all Boston Archdiocese clergy who have been found guilty of sexually abusing a child by the Catholic Church or under criminal law, as well as any accused individuals who voluntarily requested removal from the clergy.

The Court decided that people living with HIV have a legal duty, under the criminal law, to disclose their HIV - positive status to sexual partners before having sex that poses a «realistic possibility» of HIV transmission.

The financial penalties (under the criminal law and for administrative sanctions) altogether therefore from your conviction can total close to $ 5000 to you.

Retaliation by employers against whistleblowers in certain circumstances may be offences under the Criminal Law and Chinese labour laws.

It will have no impact on Canada's ability to deny refugee status to those who have actually been involved in serious international crimes or on Canada's ability to prosecute them under criminal law.

«Truth» is generally considered to be a defence to defamation as a civil offence but under criminal law, truth is a defence only in a limited number of circumstances.

Rosie, an Aboriginal woman with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, was declared by a Magistrate to be «unfit to be tried» under the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996 (Western Australia).