Sentences with phrase «with director of public prosecutions»

3) The Home Secretary at the time Sir Leon Brittan liaised with the Director of Public Prosecutions over the issue.

The home affairs committee will continue their questioning with director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer on Tuesday April 5th and the information commissioner on Tuesday April 26th.

With the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) having been aware of the allegations, questions have been posed over why nothing was done.

Not exact matches

Chakrabarti is the latest high - profile advocate to enter parliament, with two former directors of public prosecution also taking party whips: Keir Starmer on the green benches for Labour, Ken Macdonald on the red benches for the Liberal Democrats.

In November 2007, the director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, said prosecutors have «managed comfortably» with the existing 28 - day limit.

This means that any extension would not only be: - subject to a specific case being made by the Director of Public Prosecutions; - subject every seven days up to the agreed limit to the approval of a High Court Judge; - subject to the regular report of the independent reviewer with an annual debate in parliament; - but also be subject in each and every instance to a specific parliamentary notification procedure, to a further statement to parliament on the individual case, a review on the specific case by the independent reviewer and with the provision for this House to scrutinise and debate the report and all the circumstances.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, in a speech in March 2011 spoke of the «very many» disability hate crimes that the Crown Prosecution Service deals with every year.

Sprawling guidelines on prosecuting suspected paedophiles are to be revised with a single policy to prevent another Jimmy Savile scandal, the director of public prosecutions is set to announce.

Led in evidence by Mrs. Idowu Alakija, the State's Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Obafunwa, who is a Consultant Pathologist to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and the former Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), said the victims of the collapsed building died due to multiple injuries, traumatic asphyxia, severe blood loss, severe fracture and compression of the skull with the brain tissue, congested heart failure against the background of hypertension and accumulation of blood in the chest cavity.

Last night, my State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatai Ahmed revealed to me an information at his disposal that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for several weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice were ordered to be transferred to Abuja thprosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice were ordered to be transferred to Abuja thProsecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice were ordered to be transferred to Abuja this morning.

One of the latest twist of the story told on Wednesday was by Senate President Saraki who announced that his State governor and ally, Abdulfatai Ahmed had told him that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for several weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the director of public prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice, were ordered to be transferred to Abuja on the directive of IGP) Idris Ibrahim.

This mirrors the opinion expressed previously by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, who implied that Judge Shorrock's comments led to perpetuating «the victim - blaming rape myths» that «allowed sexual predators to offend with assumed impunity in days gone by.»

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Chris Hansen, director of communications for Nova Scotia's Public Prosecution Service, says the unique characteristics of sexual assault cases led the NSPPS to seek specialists with an academic and professional background in women's studies and sexual violence.

As lead counsel in over 200 federal and state jury trials and numerous administrative proceedings, Peter Anderson helps public companies, their officers and directors, along with financial service companies, accounting and law firms and their principals, as they respond to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement actions, Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations and criminal prosecutions and complex civil litigation.

(iv) Prosecutors when tendering such statements should be armed with the case of Thom v Director of Public Prosecutions [1994] RTR 11.

An accompanying article dealt with the «justice gap» between reported rapes and convictions and there followed the next day in the same newspaper a further account of the reasons for the very low prosecution rate, featuring comments by the director of public prosecutions (DPP), Sir Ken Macdonald, and the solicitor general, Vera Baird, among others, in which they attributed it in part to police and prosecutorial under - performance.

For instance in the Irish case of the Director of Public Prosecutions v Maresa Cagney [2013] 3 JIC 1101 where the Director of Public Prosecutions relied on the case of DPP v. Patricia Behan [2003] JIC 0304, in support of the proposition that failing to provide samples of her breath under section 13 of the Road Traffic Act 1994 Act was a strict liability offence with a limited defence.

Technology law specialist Luke Scanlon of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said that Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer was wrong to suggest that Twitter users with many «followers» would be more likely to face prosecution over comments that breach the Communications Act than those with fewer followers.