Sentences with phrase «unlawful seizure»

So this decision will not mean that people are deprived of «innocent» cash resulting from unlawful seizures.

Read Exton Cubic's press statement: Minister accused of unlawful seizure of mining trucks War between Wontumi and Mahama Ibrahim Mahama and Wontumi have been at each other's throat with the NPP chairman accusing Mr Mahama of being a thief and dishonest man with criminal tendencies.

Mining company Exton Cubic Group Limited is considering taking legal actions against the police and some authorities in the Ashanti Region for what it called the unlawful seizure of Ibrahim Mahama's Engineers and Planners (E&P) vehicles and mining equipment.

Also in June 2014 when soldiers disrupted the circulation of newspapers in controversial circumstances, Obaigbena, who is the president of the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), sought compensation for the affected papers «for the brutal and unlawful seizure».

He said despite the so - called missing state vehicles saga and the unlawful seizure of privately - owned vehicles by the «thugs», the government has yet to show one example where they seized a car and it, indeed, belonged to the State.

To preclude a justified forfeiture on the basis of an unlawful seizure might appear to be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Individuals who have been subject to an unlawful seizure or detention do have the power to judicially review, which could, if successful, result in a return of the cash.

If cash can be forfeited even after an unlawful seizure, does this not circumvent the statutory requirement for reasonable grounds for suspicion?

The tendency of those executing Federal criminal laws to obtain convictions by means of unlawful seizures and enforced confessions in violation of Federal rights is not to be sanctioned by the courts which are charged with the support of constitutional rights.