Sentences with phrase «used criminal prosecutions»

Since those companies were located outside the United States, the US used criminal prosecutions of their executives, who were then arrested as they happened to set foot in the country, often in transit at US airports.

He further questioned why the committee would cite him for being in contempt when the bribery commission did not use a criminal prosecution procedure.

These actions appear to demonstrate the FSA's ongoing commitment to using criminal prosecutions to deter insider dealing) and to maintain market integrity.

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And the European told me that in Europe, it's really a no - no to use customer funds for your own — to gamble with that at all, that this is so criminal that if there is no criminal prosecution of Corzine, if it turns out that he did take the money, then that is going to lead the European capital markets to withdraw their money from the American capital markets, because the whole — the whole of Wall Street would turn out to be gangsters, without any prosecution, without any rule of law at all.

Should crypto investors purposefully avoid reporting their capital gains and losses, the IRS can enforce a number of penalties, including criminal prosecution, which is only used in the most extreme circumstances.

Demands for criminal prosecutions follow Barclays» # 290 million fine for attempting to manipulate the interbank lending rate Libor, which is used to price over # 200 trillion worth of financial products around the world.

It went on: «Use of the term in a public setting could amount to a criminal offence, and leave those fans liable to prosecution and potentially a lengthy football banning order.»

«Because I ordered him to testify, his testimony can not be used against him in any criminal case, except in a prosecution for perjury, giving a false statement, or otherwise failing to comply with the order to testify,» Azrack said.

This is what we know: the Electoral Commission is still assessing claims that potentially illegal donations were made; the information commissioner is investigating «possible illegal» use of data; the heads of MI6 and GCHQ have both voiced unprecedented warnings about foreign interference in our democratic systems; the government has refused to elaborate on what these are; one of the leave campaigns has admitted the undeclared support and help of the American hedge fund billionaire who backed Trump; the Crown Prosecution Service is being asked to mount a criminal investigation; and questions have been raised about possible unlawful collaboration between different elements of the leave campaign.

Rectifying welfare fraud after it's occurred involves the use of 3 strategies: criminal prosecution, administrative sanctions and restitution.

Anyone who uses this information to commit a criminal act against another person is subject to criminal prosecution under New York State law.

Let this be a message to all that harassment of tenants will not be tolerated, and that government will use every tool possible to defend working families and take on unscrupulous landlords — whether through the Worst Landlord's Watchlist or criminal prosecution.»

All five agreed that the city had not done enough to address a meningitis outbreak among gay and bisexual men, that a state ban on surrogacy services contracts should be overturned, and that using condoms as evidence in criminal prosecutions should be barred.

I believe in educaton, prevention and treatment rather than immediate criminal prosecution especially on bogus allegations that are used as tactics in Family and Divorce Courts in NYC.

Encryption tools that garble the content of an email or message unless someone knows the secure key can still leave behind traces of «metadata,» which leak investigations or criminal prosecutions can use to prove a relationship between a reporter and a source existed.

Aided by excellent supporting performances including Don Cheadle («Iron Man 2») playing the pilot union's hotshot attorney seeking to get Whip off of any potential criminal prosecution; Bruce Greenwood as Whip's longtime friend and current pilot union rep and John Goodman as Whip's drug providing childhood friend, Zemeckis shows the various tools a functional alcoholic can use to fool themselves into thinking they have control.

Unauthorized use is subject to prosecution and criminal penalties for copyright infringement.

SQ 777 would protect inhumane puppy mills and will be used as a shield to protect criminal cockfighting operations from prosecution.

One response being suggested is improving the Mutual Legal Assistance regimes as means of sharing evidence regarding investigations or prosecutions of criminal suspects and strengthening the regulations surrounding the use of these emerging technologies.

At another firm, which has acted for multiple defendants in SFO investigations and prosecutions, a prominent partner says: «The advent of DPAs has allowed the state to do something it has been lamentably bad at doing: to use the criminal justice system as, potentially, an effective tool in the regulation of business.

The director was referring to the use, by the US DoJ, of Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) and Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs), pursuant to which the DoJ removes criminal charges once certain conditions are met (a DPA) or agrees not to file charges at all (an NPA).

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He understands how the prosecution will approach a criminal case and uses that knowledge to the advantage of his clients.

A review of AMP provisions suggests their drafters struggled to find terminology analogous to criminal law concepts such as «offence», «prosecution», and «conviction» without using criminal law terminology (which would itself be problematic as it would inevitably make the provisions criminal or quasi criminal in nature).

Since 1998, the Washington State Medical Use of Marijuana Act has provided an affirmative defense against criminal prosecution of physicians for prescribing medical marijuana and of qualified patients for their medical use of marijuaUse of Marijuana Act has provided an affirmative defense against criminal prosecution of physicians for prescribing medical marijuana and of qualified patients for their medical use of marijuause of marijuana.

Section 64 (1A) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) authorised the police to retain such fingerprints or DNA samples after they had fulfilled the purposes for which they had been taken, and provided that they were not to be used «except for purposes related to the prevention or detection of crime, the investigation of an offence or the conduct of a prosecution».

(b) Proof that the defendant - licensee, or his or her employee or agent, demanded, was shown, and acted in reliance upon bona fide evidence in any transaction, employment, use, or permission forbidden by Section 25658, 25663, or 25665 shall be a defense to any criminal prosecution therefor or to any proceedings for the suspension or revocation of any license based thereon.

Generally speaking, a defense of others defense that justifies a use of force under criminal law will also not give rise to civil liability in a lawsuit for assault and battery as opposed to a criminal prosecution for it.

The attorney general may give an undertaking not to use evidence given in the course of the inquiry in any subsequent criminal prosecutions against the witnesses.

Plea bargaining style deals are controversial, particularly where the evidence provided may be used subsequently in individual criminal prosecutions, but the tactic certainly seems to be working.»

He understands how the prosecution will approach a criminal case for disorderly conduct and can use his experience to his client's advantage.

1) make sure that the «access to and the subsequent use of the retained data [are] strictly restricted to the purpose of preventing and detecting precisely defined serious offences or of conducting criminal prosecutions relating thereto» (§ 229);

Many criminal defense lawyers, she says, «maintain that the prosecution practice of using peremptory strikes to remove black jurors remains widespread.»

The ruling, says Straw, could affect hundreds of cases in the prosecution pipeline and raises fears that serious convicted criminals could seek to use the technicality of the judgment to have their convictions quashed.

We understand the criminal justice system from every perspective and can anticipate the strategies the prosecution is likely to use.

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[3] The introduction of DPAs reflects a long - standing practice in the United States of granting corporates amnesty from prosecution on criminal charges, either through the use of non-prosecution agreements or DPAs, in exchange for the fulfilment of certain requirements.

Whether it is an individual involved in a simple business dispute, accident, domestic relations dispute, criminal proceeding, airplane crash, explosion, malpractice injury, a RICO indictment, injury by defective product or asbestos exposure; or a business organization faced with a multifaceted, multimillion dollar complex litigation problem, a control dispute, a grand jury investigation, a regulatory problem or an indictment; or a governmental unit facing financial default, the loss of a state - wide tax, prosecution or defense of a complex contract dispute or the need to use creative litigation to change a governmental structure — the individual, entrepreneur, corporation, private attorney, CEO, councilman, mayor, governor or even Presidential candidate has turned to the Climaco Firm to solve the problem.

Whether it is an individual involved in a simple business dispute, accident, domestic relations dispute, white collar criminal proceeding, airplane crash, explosion, malpractice injury, a RICO indictment, or injury by defective product; or a business organization faced with a multifaceted, multimillion dollar complex litigation problem, a control dispute, a grand jury investigation, a regulatory problem or an indictment; or a governmental unit facing financial default, the loss of a state - wide tax, prosecution or defense of a complex contract dispute or the need to use creative litigation to change a governmental structure — the individual, entrepreneur, corporation, private attorney, CEO, councilman, mayor, governor or even Presidential candidate has turned to the Climaco Firm to solve the problem.

CONTROL OF INFORMATION: SS 40 - 47 These provisions enable HM Revenue & Customs, and the Revenue & Customs Prosecution Office to supply the secretary of state with information for use in connection with: immigration control; criminal offences; carriers» liability; employment restrictions; asylum support; and nationality matters relating to good character and deprivation of nationality.

Law enforcement officials would have the «same criminal and civil forfeiture powers used in drug prosecutions,» and wiretapping would be permitted in criminal infringement investigations.

None of the legislation can apply to the use of apologies in Criminal Code prosecutions, as they are governed by the Canada Evidence Act.

The increased use of computers and the Internet has brought along with it prosecutions alleging computer - related criminal activity.

The use of scientific evidence is increasing in prosecutions and, in many cases, criminal attorneys must know more than just the law to effectively represent clients.

The largest fine in UK criminal enforcement history and the use of a deferred prosecution agreement signals the latest move towards a US style criminal enforcement model.

You'll be in a situation where you're trussed into a process — there used to be a sense that if you went on the witness stand and you took an oath then you would tell the truth because the sanctions for not telling the truth were very great, people were worries about perjury and contempt of court — and in fact the family courts can make a reference to the criminal courts for prosecution for perjury but they just don't do it.

An experienced criminal defense attorney will fight to ensure that you are given a fair and impartial hearing and that you do not fall victim to tricks the prosecution may try to use.

Our specialist anti-counterfeiting team effectively tackle copycats using a strategy involving criminal as well as civil prosecution and their invaluable network of contacts within law enforcement and service providers.

Finally, the Court of Appeal found that allowing the Crown to use an insurance statement (required as part of a process designed to facilitate the determination of liability) as part of a criminal prosecution would be to allow the Crown to do, through other means, what ss.

In both White and R v Fitzpatrick, [1995] 4 SCR 154, the Supreme Court of Canada outlined a series of contextual factors that can be used to assess whether to deploy the principle against self - incrimination to exclude an insurance report in criminal prosecutions.