Sentences with phrase «which prosecution»

Serious violence will involve, or will appear to involve, serious bodily harm in a sexual context; and serious sexual violence will involve, or will appear to involve, serious bodily harm where the violence is sexual; and serious bodily harm covers violence in respect of which a prosecution of grievous bodily harm could be brought.

If our public legal and medical institutions are to command the trust and respect of the public they are supposed to serve, the climate in which the prosecution or local authority is out to win at any cost must be comprehensively altered.

Several of the defendants utilised «pay as you go» phones for communication and Ironkeys which the Prosecution argued was for added secrecy.

This was mirrored in a guideline to which the prosecution attached importance, namely that the Department of Health in 1991 had recommended that in respect of nursery classes in schools maintained by local education authorities, the minimum ratio should be 2:26.

What is important is that the risk which the prosecution must prove should be real as opposed to a fanciful or hypothetical: see R v Chargot Ltd (trading as Contract Services) and Others [2007] EWCA Crim 3032 at para 26 -LSB-[2007] All ER (D) 198 (Dec)-RSB-.

In the dissenting judgment, Lords Reed and Mance took the view that the language of the provisions can not be interpreted as excluding offences which the prosecution had elected to leave out of account for the purpose of assessing the benefit obtained by the defendant.

After a jury trial in which his client, a Prince George's County police officer was acquitted of 10 counts of an 11 - count indictment, Robert C. Bonsib, Esq. successfully convinced the trial court to grant a new trial on the 11th count after which the prosecution dismissed the final count.

«Indeed for my part, I would encourage Magistrates» Courts before whom prosecutions are brought or, for that matter, Crown Courts before which any prosecution comes on indictment, to reflect in any financial penalty imposed the amount of commercial advantage which has been obtained by a person through the unlawful deposit of controlled waste.»

On the other hand, if the material were incriminatory, it would be open to the trial judge to exclude evidence of the means by which the prosecution gained access to it.

By nature, white - collar crime cases usually involve a large volume of documents and bank records upon which the prosecution relies to build its case.

Prior to the enactment of Bill 177, section 69 read: «No prosecution under this Act shall be instituted more than one year after the last act or default upon which the prosecution is based occurred».

If treatment through the program is a condition of a deferred prosecution agreement, and the program administrator determines that the person is ineligible for further assistance, the commissioner may agree to modify the terms and conditions of the deferred prosecution agreement or may issue an administrative complaint, pursuant to s. 1012.796, alleging the charges regarding which prosecution was deferred.

Immediately after his arrest and interdiction in March, David Nenyi Ampah - Bennin, director general in charge of public affairs of the Ghana Police Service told the media that investigations into the affair could be over in about a week, after which prosecutions will begin.

Not exact matches

Libel is something that is regulated at the state level, which means that to change it, the president would have to either convince all of the states to change the way they handle libel prosecution or pass a new federal law specifically governing libel.

He maintains the government's actions during the crisis saved the country and contends his prosecution is an attempt to discredit his Independence Party, which ruled for well over a decade.

The price of the Angola 5 prosecution has figured prominently in an ongoing study of death penalty costs by a committee of Louisiana lawmakers, which is expected to conclude by the end of the year.

Lawyers and prosecutors say that requiring such proof would make it harder for authorities to pursue insider trading cases, potentially preventing prosecutions in which corporate executives tip friends or relatives without any tangible quid pro quo.

«They gave immunity to the very person you would most want to prosecute, which is the person who destroyed official public records after there was a subpoena and after there was a prosecution order,» Gowdy said.

The government says deferred prosecution agreements (DPA), which were called for in public consultations last fall, will be another tool used by judges to hold companies accountable.

Hernandez's defense, led by Michael Fee, however, spun the conversation as proof of a close friendship between the men, which could lead the jury to question Hernandez's motive for murder, a significant element in the burden of proof for the prosecution.

The documents, which Fortune has not seen directly, were entered into evidence by a defense attorney in the troubled prosecution of a California doctor accused of possessing child pornography.

Since the raid, the president and his advisers have been singularly focused on the risk of a potential federal prosecution of Cohen, which they view as a much bigger existential threat to the presidency than former FBI Director James Comey, whose book «A Higher Loyalty» has dominated headlines and even Trump's Twitter feed even before its Tuesday release.

Some commentators argued that the early charges against Manafort, which didn't reference as many potential crimes as many had expected, were a sign that Mueller was leaving the door open for state prosecution and avoiding the double jeopardy issue.

The conviction in R. v. Karigar 2013 ONSC 5199 follows the first prosecution under the CFPOA which has proceeded to trial and holds important lessons for Canadian companies in any industry doing business abroad.

Cohen has discussed offering the government a deal in which his firm would pay a fine, admit wrongdoing and close to outside investors to avoid prosecution, a person familiar with his thinking said last month.

The agencies managed to avoid criminal prosecution by noting that the small print of their contracts said that they were only providing an «opinion,» not a realistic analysis for which they could be expected to take any honest professional responsibility!

-LSB-...] if it turns out that the shareholders or top managers of these companies have their own wallets kryptowalutowe, which are used for personal gain, using the position of their companies, they are subject to prosecution.

And, as United States Attorney from the Eastern District of New York, she was involved in two high profile financial fraud cases, one in which Citicorp paid $ 7 billion in settlement for its role in the mortgage - backed securities fraud, and one in which HSBC paid $ 1.7 billion and took a deferred prosecution agreement for facilitating money - laundering.

If one searches for news on LIBOR (= London Interbank Offered Rate, i.e., the rate at which banks lend dollars to each other in the euro - dollar market), they are currently dominated by Deutsche Bank getting slapped with a total fine of $ 775 million for the part it played in manipulating the benchmark rate in collusion with other banks (fine for one count of wire fraud: US$ 150 m.; additional shakedown by US Justice Department: US$ 625 m., the price tag for a deferred prosecution agreement).

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.

It challenged the prosecution's evidence, and asked the court to uphold the right to a free trial, which is in the Sudanese constitution.

Oregon's Supreme Court, which had already concluded that this question was irrelevant, dutifully answered that in its judgment criminal prosecution of Smith and Black would violate the federal Constitution.

The prosecution was trying, we suspect, to find an objective basis by which to convict the Roma, that is, a way of disproving the defense's claim on grounds the defense couldn't contest.

The Chapter said it disbanded the team after the ringers refused to accept its decision not to reinstate one of its members, who had been suspended following a police investigation into allegations of sex offending against children, which did not lead to a prosecution.

But the U.S. insisted on an ICC that would be an arm of the UN Security Council, which would make prosecutions subject to a U.S. veto and insulate Washington from unwanted trials.

(CNN)- English football fans have been warned they face criminal prosecution if they continue to chant a word which has been deemed anti-Semitic.

The signatories - which include former Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir - Ali and the founder of Christian Concern, Andrea Williams - said similar high - profile cases have all been dropped without prosecutions.

Laufer reassures us, «The Obama administration and the DOJ have issued the Cole Memo, which deprioritizes federal criminal prosecutions of marijuana crimes, when commercial operators are operating in accordance with state laws.»

As early as 1835 he would write to Froude and comment on the abandonment of State prosecution for blasphemy which has a contemporary flavour — and argues that «there should be some really working court of heresy and false doctrine.»

This reductionist point of view, which seeks knowledge by analysis, almost inevitably leads its proponents to assume, quite unwarrantably, that all that is then required is to work out the consequences of these laws by the prosecution of what is called «extensive science,» whereupon all truth will be revealed!

There were many «what ifs» and «could haves» in the prosecution's case, which alone, leaves room for reasonable doubt.

The WA Department of Agriculture last month began preparing a prosecution case against WA - based Emanuel Exports over conditions on a ship that left Fremantle on 1 August, 2017, on which 2,400 sheep died, primarily of heat stress.

A live map which links to a database of successful food standards, food hygiene and food safety related prosecutions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has been published by the FSA.

It is the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) which has the power to bring criminal indictments under the Act.

Every food manufacturer has to strictly comply with the requirements, failing in which they are liable to prosecution.

Had the Plaintiff gone to Sparrow's ER on the morning of the 12th and had a SANE nurse do a rape kit there might have been pubic hair samples or semen samples, both which might produce DNA evidence which would strengthen the prosecution case.

Mr. Dean would then be free should he wish - which is however very unlikely — to pursue a private prosecution against Wenger for llibel, if in print or slander if in publicly spoken words.

Victims will likely now fear vilification by the ignorant masses should their prosecution team fail to convict their alleged attackers, which can be incredibly difficult.

An aggressive prosecution accused Harry of lying to which he replied that he was initially and deliberately lying to the News of the World reporter Rob Beasley but telling the truth — which prosecuting counsel denied — in court.

That this House is concerned that the provisions of the Infant Formula and Follow - on Formula Regulations 2007 are disrespected in the UK, as evidenced by the current promotion for Nestlé SMA infant formula by Tesco in breach of Article 23 of that regulation, the near identical labelling of infant and follow - on formula to make them cross-promotional in breach of Article 19 of that regulation, the widespread advertising of infant formula brand names and logos in breach of Article 21 of that regulation and the use of idealising text and images on labels in breach of Article 17 of that regulation; therefore rejects the Department of Health's proposals to decriminalise certain of those requirements, such as labelling provisions in planned draft legislative proposals, related to EU Regulation 609/2015 which will replace these 2007 regulations; and stresses that any move to a system of Improvement Notices must have the purpose of speeding up compliance and be backed by prosecutions rather than giving companies who have flouted the law for many years additional time to comply.