Sentences with phrase «under penal»

«We are actively considering ways to prohibit transactions on domestic exchanges by judging virtual currency trading as a deceptive means of defrauding people -LSB-...] under the penal code,» the publication quotes an official as saying.

It is established authority that the privilege does not apply against the risk of incrimination under the penal law of another country (see Brannigan v Davison [1997] AC 547, [1996] 3 WLR 859).

Bowen dismissed one count accusing Oasis of usury under the penal code, agreeing with the defendants that it was a criminal statute and so there was no private right of action under the law.

This is because intoxication is defined under the penal code for DWI when a person «does not have the normal use of their mental or physical faculties...»

DWI law in Texas falls under penal code section 49.04.

On February 8, 2018, 110 animals were seized from a property in Miramonte CA under penal code 597.1.

Not exact matches

Under New York penal law 225, a contest is illegal gambling if a player stakes «something of value» in a contest that the player does not «control or influence the outcome.»

No one shall be held guilty of any penal offense on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offense, under national or international law, at the time it was committed.

No one has yet been executed for apostasy in Sudan under the 1991 penal code.

If convicted under Article 79 of the Vietnamese penal code, they could receive maximum penalty of capital punishment.

The petition claims that Maile engaged in a crime by involving her child in a sexual act, which is probably a stretch under the California penal code, where she resides.

The proposed legislation adds «synthetic cannabinoids» to the pre-existing crimes of selling marijuana under New York State's penal law.

He was facing up to seven years in prison if convicted having been charged with 19 counts each of first - degree offering a false instrument for filing and first - degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, all felonies under state penal law.

Under a provision of the state penal code, he said, parents and teachers are exempt from any criminal assault charges stemming from the use of corporal punishment.

But the VADIR data has been criticized as misleading because it uses penal code terminology to classify crimes; for example, an incident in which a child throws a crayon at another child would be classified as assault with a weapon under VADIR.

Mert Ulker, head analyst of the leading Turkish brokerage AK Investment, was stripped of his broker license and is facing criminal charges under articles from Turkey's penal code...

• The penal system does not rehabilitated the youth sentenced under them • It actually makes juveniles more violent.

Under any of the above Acts, refusal to cooperate with an inspector, or cooperating and failing an inspection, will attract penal consequences — ranging from suspension or cancellation of a licence, to a fine, to incarceration.

On July 31, 2015 the Supreme Court of Canada decided that proceedings under Canada's Income Tax Act (ITA) are administrative, not criminal, and a penalty imposed under it is not a «true penal consequence» — and the person on whom such a penalty is imposed doesn't get the protection of Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms» (section 11 (d)-RRB- guarantees of the presumption of innocence, proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and right to a fair and public hearing.

Canadian Supreme Court Justices Wilson and Cory emphasized the significance of the treatment in a 1990 case about whether solitary is a «true penal [consequence]» sufficient to attract criminal procedural protections under the Charter.

However, under California's penal code 3342, the victim of the dog bite must have been in a public or legally in a private place during the time of the attack to receive compensation.

Whereas resisting arrest involves an attempt to prevent an officer from making an arrest, obstruction of a peace officer covers a much broader spectrum of conduct that falls under the rubric of «hindering the enforcement of the penal law or the preservation of the peace.»

Under Article 177 of NY penal law, health care fraud refers to any attempt to defraud a health plan; in this instance, Medicaid.

Of the cases of torture and ill - treatment that prosecutors transferred to court, how many involved charges under Article 126 of the penal code on torture?

The court held that proceedings under s. 163 of the Income Tax Act are administrative in nature and not subject to the protection of s. 11 of the Charter, reserved for criminal matters or matters involving «truly penal consequences.»

What makes the Wigglesworth case significant is that the Supreme Court of Canada did articulate the circumstances in which Charter rights would be applicable in a non-criminal context, namely if the non-criminal process of statute they were charged under imposed a «true penal consequence»:

Under the modern law, the judicial discretion is not whether or not to attach a penal notice, it is whether or not to make the contact order itself.

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.

Nonetheless a private lawsuit — reportedly submitted by a member of the public — is under way with Facebook and Google both accused of circulating «obscene, lascivious content» under three sections of the Indian penal code.