| This inability of a provincial court judge to put public safety above the comforts of the criminal is unacceptable. |
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| In a typical case of job fraud, for example, a criminal group will contact a job seeker offering employment handling money transfers. |
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| The youth criminal justice system is expanding into areas that child welfare services would once have intervened in. |
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| There should be special provision in the international criminal court to protect their quarry from inhumane and unnatural persecution. |
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| Violations of the Stream Litter Act are heard in criminal court, and fines are levied by a judge. |
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| Articles 5 and 6 both deal with the promptness with which an adjudication must proceed against criminal defendants. |
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| The legal reforms proposed in the Queen's Speech raise ominous questions about the future of the entire criminal justice system. |
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| From this week civil cases will be heard on a Tuesday with criminal cases heard fortnightly on Wednesdays and Thursdays. |
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| Many now see drug addiction as a health and social problem rather than a criminal one. |
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| I think that the kids caught in the act of vandalism or anything criminal should be handcuffed and taken to the police station. |
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| Academic commentators have discussed various possibilities for legal actions, both of a criminal and civil nature. |
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| Unlike political or terrorist acts, criminal abductions were found to largely occur without any accomplices. |
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| The four white officers were acquitted on criminal charges a year after the shooting. |
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| The ailing hospital chain already faces a criminal investigation into its accounting. |
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| Smuggling, bribery, protection rackets and the rise of criminal mafias are some of the common symptoms of rigidly controlled economies. |
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| She wantonly allowed criminal activity to occur at the home, which she owns. |
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| The U.S. attorney in the district can impanel a grand jury if they feel that there is evidence warranting a criminal investigation. |
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| The difficulty of it, John, is the fact that the criminal isn't a criminal until he's adjudicated a criminal. |
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| That would be contrary to the whole concept of an accusatorial criminal justice process, in our submission. |
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| As the criminal had a quartan fever, Fallopius wished to investigate the effects of opium on the paroxysms. |
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| He presided over a criminal courtroom where, as in most such courtrooms in Los Angeles, defendants were railroaded by false testimony by cops. |
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| He soon started using harder drugs and supported his addictions through criminal activities. |
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| Even while abjurations were in force, such a criminal was not allowed to take sanctuary and abjure the realm. |
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| Another issue raised by submitters was the extension to the criminal limitation period. |
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| Witnesses to the act of criminal genius called police who, so far, have only charged the man with theft. |
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| Removal of a child from a parent without lawful authority may amount to the criminal offence of child abduction. |
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| The bill proposed making joyriding a criminal offence and provided penalties of up to seven years in prison. |
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| He kept reappearing in my life to offer me more criminal jobs for money to pay to return. |
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| In fact, the NRA lent support to some of the most abusive criminal justice practices in effect today. |
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| Transgression of this boundary was the act of a criminal and a heroic nature. |
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| The fiscal service has long been regarded as the Achilles' heel of the whole criminal justice system. |
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| At the same time, he couldn't abide facile equations between criminal desperadoes and the legalized murder machinery of a state. |
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| The Law Commission should return to this subject as a matter of urgency, and should recommend one of these radical approaches to accessorial criminal liability. |
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| Having a criminal record can reduce the likelihood of getting a callback or job offer by 50 percent. |
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| Identifying the perpetrators of this appalling tragedy is a criminal matter, not a technical one. |
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| It tells the story a British barrister, a criminal lawyer, in mid-life crisis. |
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| The framing was that I had the power to stop a criminal by putting him behind bars through direct eyewitness testimony. |
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| Clearly, Rampal is a charismatic leader who has used his power in weird, possibly criminal ways. |
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| Diane and Will were warned at the time about taking a notorious criminal as a client. |
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| Chan ordered the man to put it down and the ensuing criminal complaint would say that he complied. |
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| When you look at what has happened in the last eight years to the criminal law, there's a massive shift in the balance of power from defence to prosecution. |
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| Over time, levels of criminal behavior have waxed and waned. |
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| Soon after she was recruited by OSI, she says she was brought in to work on criminal cases with the Biloxi police department. |
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| Rice had received this video in discovery during his criminal case, but it had not been aired publicly, as had the first video. |
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| Now, alongside possible impeachment, Hall may face criminal charges as a result of his probe. |
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| Are you the kind of criminal who runs down the beach at night wielding a knife and stabbing every woman you pass? |
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| He will be extradited from the U.S. to Canada to face criminal charges there. |
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| Either way, the organization failed to appropriately punish criminal behavior. |
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| They were arraigned in Manhattan criminal court on charges of burglary, reckless endangerment and jumping from a structure. |
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| Meanwhile, says brunet, the police are launching a massive criminal probe into the explosion. |
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| Should the selection of the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court be quarterbacked by a man who is currently the subject of an on-going criminal investigation? |
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| We channeled all our criminal smarts into finding ways to con the food system. |
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| Should a criminal be held responsible for his crime when a brain scan can demonstrate some abnormality in his neural circuitry? |
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| He was awaiting his preliminary criminal hearing in that case in a civil court in Vicenza when the latest incident took place. |
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| Only the judicial system can properly adjudicate criminal guilt. |
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| The chances of that happening in a criminal court, or even a civil court, now appear increasingly remote. |
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| On Monday, Kurilla was arraigned on charges of criminal homicide and aggravated assault. |
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| The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads. |
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| A criminal trial is an accusatorial and adversarial process. |
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| Paul has since clarified that he would not, in fact, support drone use in normal criminal situations. |
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| The prime minister also ordered that the general and his immediate subordinates face criminal charges for abandoning their posts. |
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| As soon as the criminal left the shop, the victim snapped back into consciousness and tried to chase after him. |
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| In the criminal context, women convicted of capital crimes were permitted to plead that they were quick with child, and to have this claim tested by a group of six women. |
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| A judge will now decide whether Vannoni should face a criminal trial, or if his work gets validated in a clinical trial. |
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| Their gang, The Firm, established a Mafia-style grip on the city's criminal underworld in the 1960s, specialising in protection and extortion rackets. |
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| Cherbourg became a town and district in January 1790, seat of a justice of the peace and a civil and criminal court. |
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| However, six out of ten members of Congress now face one criminal investigation or another. |
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| He became alcalde of criminal causes in the Royal Audiencia of Mexico City. |
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| Since its creation in 1986, it is the principal, though not the only, body that can bring a case to a criminal court in England and Wales. |
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| All Cuban citizens over 16 who have not been convicted of a criminal offense can vote. |
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| Many criminal offences are common law offences rather being specified in legislation. |
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| Scholars have argued that, as a historical matter, the phrase ex post facto referred to civil as well as criminal laws. |
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| This plastic-spiral-bound workbook for students in criminal justice contains hands-on exercises and reference guides. |
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| However, there have been three exceptional instances when ex post facto criminal laws have been used in Finland. |
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| Nathan McGrail, 25, of Whinchat Avenue, Newton, is charged with conspiring to transfer criminal property. |
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| Issues relating to money laundering have existed as long as there have been large scale criminal enterprises. |
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| If he were a corporation instead of a criminal he'd be in the Fortune 500 by now. |
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| The forcible administration of poison is by no means a new thing in criminal annals. |
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| In Algeria, the el Kseur platform in Kabylie gives tribes the right to fine criminal offenders. |
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| A criminal law adhocracy is bad enough, but at times the ensuing disparities can have uncomfortable associations with race and ethnicity. |
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| Amnesty International accused it of practicing coordinated torture against criminal and political detainees. |
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| Like France, there is an exception when retroactive criminal laws benefit the accused person. |
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| Arbabsiar's criminal behavior is entirely aberrational, with no precedent in his life. |
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| Unlike Scotland, for example, which has its own criminal and civil justice system, Wales still has a unified justice system with England. |
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| The government, courts and civil and criminal laws enforce a moral code established by Shari'ah. |
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| It should be emphasized that the Charter prohibition applies only to criminal law. |
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| Aggression is aggression, a crime is a crime, and a war criminal is a war criminal. |
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| The more severe penalties available in criminal law also means that it requires a higher burden of proof to be discharged than the related tort. |
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| The resulting proceeding remains the only contempt proceeding and only criminal trial in the Court's history. |
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| Telecom companies Reliance Telecom Ltd, Swan Telecom and Unitech Wireless were charged with criminal conspiracy and abetment in the case. |
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| Corporations can even be convicted of criminal offences, such as fraud and manslaughter. |
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| He approached people who were not in the criminal world, including his poker machine attendant, to acquire firearms or arrange hitmen for him. |
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| The introduction of alien plants or animals can bring a criminal penalty, as can the extraction of any indigenous species. |
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| An equivalent in Canada is causing death by criminal negligence under the Criminal Code, punishable by a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. |
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| The Imperial Chamber Court could only intervene in criminal cases if basic procedural rules had been violated. |
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| Sometimes a plaintiff may prevail in a tort case even if the person who allegedly caused harm was acquitted in an earlier criminal trial. |
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| Some law allowed for the criminal to be housed and fed by the clergy for seven days. |
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| In some cases a person voluntarily lives in exile to avoid legal issues, such as litigation or criminal prosecution. |
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| Worldwide slavery is a criminal offense but slave owners can get very high returns for their risk. |
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| That is second only to drug trafficking in terms of global criminal enterprises. |
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| It's criminal that the government is doing nothing to stop the problem. |
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| Alleygating has been shown to work. A number of criminal or anti-social acts can be curtailed or eliminated if security gates are installed. |
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| As there is no criminal law within contemporary Welsh law, Wales cannot be considered a fourth jurisdiction of the United Kingdom. |
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| However, even during periods of peace, many pacifists still refuse to register for or report for military duty, risking criminal charges. |
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| Charlie reminds me of the color beige He has no criminal record. He has no traffic tickets. His social media posts are just like... he's beige. |
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| Scots criminal law is separate to English criminal law, including the use of a not proven verdict at criminal trials in the Courts of Scotland. |
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| English courts apply criminal statutes and common law as part of their responsibility for applying justice and dealing with the culprits. |
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| Budget cuts since 2009 have severely impacted the national police force, producing a steep increase in criminal activity in recent years. |
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| The household was surrounded by a wider group of courtiers, and appears to have also attracted a circle of prostitutes and criminal elements. |
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| The criminal law was much the same, with felonies such as murder, larceny and robbery prosecuted before the justiciar, as in England. |
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| A career criminal was caught by police as he attempted to leave a swag bag of stolen goods with a friend's next-door neighbour. |
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| They include driving offences, vandalism, criminal damage of small extent, low level violent offences and being drunk and disorderly. |
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| The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the highest court for criminal and civil cases in England and Wales. |
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| Together with an actus reus, mens rea forms the bedrock of criminal law, although strict liability offenses have encroached on this notion. |
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| Scots juries, sitting in criminal cases, consist of fifteen jurors, which is three more than is typical in many countries. |
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| Maria Clarke, of Whinberry Drive, Kirkby, admitted concealing, disguising, converting or transferring criminal property. |
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| It is estimated that in the UK, there are 3,500 classes of criminal offence. |
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| For example, the statute making tax evasion a felony pertains to both criminal law and tax law, but is found only in the Internal Revenue Code. |
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| The administration of justice and enforcement of the criminal code are the responsibilities of the provinces. |
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| Up to the 17th century the most common punishments for criminal offences were fines, corporal punishment and executions. |
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| Along with substance abuse, criminal involvement, suicide and murder were also on the rise. |
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| They alleged that the firm used a real estate company to help hide criminal proceeds from the scheme involving Petrobras. |
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| They fled here over the last five years, making this country the world's war criminal capital. |
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| A party that fails to comply with an injunction faces criminal or civil penalties, including possible monetary sanctions and even imprisonment. |
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| They are the primary criminal patrol and first responder agency in all matters criminal and civil. |
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| Orleans Parish divided Sheriff's duties between criminal and civil, with a different elected sheriff overseeing each aspect. |
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| Prisoners were carefully selected for transportation based on information about their character and previous criminal record. |
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| In December 2009 an inquest into the death was halted for the case to be considered for criminal charges. |
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| Appeals from the Court lie to the High Court on the civil side and the Court of Criminal Appeal on the criminal side. |
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| Nobody shall be punished multiple times for the same crime on the base of general criminal law. |
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| Provided, That it shall not exempt the person impeached from civil or criminal liability. |
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| These rookeries sustained criminal social systems that provided schooling in crime for the young and newcomers. |
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| In criminal cases, women witnesses are unacceptable in stricter, traditional interpretations of sharia, such as those found in Hanbali madhhab. |
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| Lamer's criminal law background proved an influence on the number of criminal cases heard by the court during his time as chief justice. |
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| By the rules of common law, a criminal outlaw did not need to be guilty of the crime he was outlawed for. |
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| Under the Criminal Code, a federal statute, they have jurisdiction over the most serious criminal offences, such as murder. |
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| The assizes exercised both civil and criminal jurisdiction, though most of their work was on the criminal side. |
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| They also hear appeals from the Provincial Courts in criminal matters and some civil matters. |
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| When a defendant in civil or criminal cases could not be found, the reason would not always be clear. |
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| This case of shrieval corruption eventually led to the sheriff facing criminal charges. |
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| The Indian Penal Code formulated by the British during the British Raj in 1860, forms the backbone of criminal law in India. |
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| Instead, criminal procedure in California is codified in Part 2 of the Penal Code, while Part 1 is devoted to substantive criminal law. |
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| The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 governs the procedural aspects of the criminal law. |
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| The standards of proof are higher in a criminal case than in a civil one, since the state does not wish to risk punishing an innocent person. |
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| Note that gross criminal negligence represents such a serious failure to foresee that in any other person, it would have been recklessness. |
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| A patroon could create civil and criminal courts, appoint local officials and hold land in perpetuity. |
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| In February 2011, the Supreme Court of India ruled that criminal defendants have a constitutional right to counsel. |
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| As a general rule, someone who acted without mental fault is not liable in criminal law. |
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| Negligence does not carry criminal responsibility unless a particular crime provides for its punishment. |
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| Their criminal commissions were the commission of the peace, the commission of oyer and terminer and the commission of gaol delivery. |
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| The criminal appeal was a private criminal prosecution instituted by the accuser directly against the accused. |
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| In Scottish criminal courts, the person on trial is referred to as the accused. |
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| The accused's responsibility for causing death is constructed from the fault in committing what might have been a minor criminal act. |
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| Every offence created under the IPC virtually imports the idea of criminal intent or mens rea in some form or other. |
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| Evidence from a criminal trial is generally admissible as evidence in a civil action about the same matter. |
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| Infringement can be addressed by civil litigation and, in several jurisdictions, under criminal law. |
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| They are mostly centred around kinship and contractual relations, although we have some ideas about criminal law and legal procedure as well. |
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| At Trier, Priscillian was tried by a secular court on criminal charges that included sorcery, a capital offence. |
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| In the Common Pleas, Blackstone operated under a civil jurisdiction rather than a mixed civil and criminal one. |
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| The courts operated under summary procedure and dealt primarily with minor criminal offences. |
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| The criminal Court is based at the courthouse at Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, and will initially sit on two consecutive days each fortnight. |
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| The High Court of Justiciary deals with serious criminal matters, such as Murder, and the Court of Session is Scotland's supreme civil court. |
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| An omission can be criminal if there is a statute that requires one to act. |
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| Appeals may be made to the High Court of Justiciary sitting as the Court of Criminal Appeal from the lower courts in criminal cases. |
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| The Supreme Court has no authority to hear appeals on criminal matters from the High Court of Justiciary. |
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| Decina argued, inter alia, that he had not engaged in criminal conduct because he did not voluntarily strike the school girls. |
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| Not all offenses require specific intent, and a misreading, even in good faith, may not excuse the criminal conduct. |
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| A district court was the least authoritative type of criminal court of Scotland. |
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| After this time, the consul would only serve as judges in extraordinary criminal cases and only when called upon by decree of the Senate. |
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| Substantive criminal appeals will be heard on Tuesdays and appeals against sentence on Wednesdays. |
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| Serious crimes, at the direction of the Procurator Fiscal, are still dealt with in the usual criminal courts. |
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| It shows less culpability than intention, but more culpability than criminal negligence. |
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| Some states, such as Minnesota, still do not formally recognize a right to criminal appeals. |
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| Because of this, other newspapers were unwilling to expose the Krays' connections and criminal activities. |
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| However, the Court of Appeal acted so as to limit its application to offences involving criminal damage and reckless driving. |
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| There are a number of criminal statutes in the California Penal Code defining grand theft in different amounts. |
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| The court operates under summary procedure and deals primarily with less serious criminal offences. |
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| Matters under federal jurisdiction include criminal law, trade and commerce, banking, and immigration. |
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| A justice of the peace court is the least authoritative type of criminal court in Scotland. |
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| An equivalent to causing death by dangerous driving in Canada under the Criminal Code is Causing death by criminal negligence. |
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| The LMPS provides uniformed policing, criminal detection, and traffic policing. |
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| The law of evidence governs the proof of facts and the inferences flowing from such facts during the trial of civil and criminal lawsuits. |
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| In criminal law, guilt is the state of being responsible for the commission of an offense. |
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| Justices of the peace were then left with jurisdiction in the licensing board and minor criminal cases. |
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| The 1990s saw extreme corruption and lawlessness, the rise of criminal gangs and violent crime. |
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| The doctrine arises in both English criminal law, and in civil law, where it is relevant to English contract law and English trusts law. |
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| Some breaches of fiduciary duty can be charged and tried as criminal offences in a court of law. |
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| Their judgments can be appealed to the High Court of Justiciary in the same way as any other criminal court. |
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| Francesco Carrara, an advocate of abolition of the death penalty, was one of the foremost European criminal lawyers of the 19th century. |
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| Bonaparte also insisted that the courts judging civil and criminal cases should be the same, if only to give them more prestige. |
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| Caesar claims that the druids are the judges for all kinds of legal disputes, both where criminal and where civil law is concerned. |
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| The barristers are called advocates, and the judges of the high court for civil cases are also the judges for the high court for criminal cases. |
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| Some pacifists and multilateralists are in favor of international criminal law as means to prevent and control international aggression. |
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| Typical actions include painting slogans on buildings owned by businesses, and other minor criminal damage. |
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| Article Three also protects the right to trial by jury in all criminal cases, and defines the crime of treason. |
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| English criminal law details a series of criminal acts, and when these should apply. |
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| Article 88 of Qatar's criminal code declares the punishment for adultery is 100 lashes. |
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| Failure to comply with such a consent or permit or making a discharge without the benefit of a consent can lead to criminal prosecution. |
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| Article 4 of the Convention also bans forced or compulsory labour, with some exceptions such as a criminal penalty or military service. |
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| Simpson was acquitted in criminal court of murder but later found liable for the tort of wrongful death. |
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| However, other areas of law, such as criminal law, company law and family law, are almost completely statutory in nature. |
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| The captain of the wrecked boat was accused of criminal negligence. |
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| In a criminal case, however, the defense may always submit evidence to rebut a point for which judicial notice has been taken. |
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| The fact that a kidnapped victim may have been taken across state lines brings the crime within the ambit of federal criminal law. |
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| However, Oklahoma and Texas have separate highest courts for criminal appeals. |
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| As of July, 1985, 19 states permitted victim allocution at the sentencing phase of criminal trials. |
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| The Crown Court hears all serious criminal cases which are committed to trial. |
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| Important pieces of evidence point to the intensified activities of the archepiscopal curia's criminal forum. |
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| This bullying continuum illustrates the progressive escalation from harmless banter to bullying and criminal behaviours. |
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| In all criminal cases the most favourable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear. |
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| For example, criminal and civil laws can be voted by only the federal bicameral Congress and are uniform throughout the country. |
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| The detectives were trying to identify the big enchilada who controlled the entire criminal network. |
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| There was no trial by jury, and evidence standards were weaker than in criminal courts. |
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| To enforce judicial decisions, the Constitution grants federal courts both criminal contempt and civil contempt powers. |
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| And as long as cannabusiness remains highly profitable to the criminal underworld, the battle will continue. |
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| Not only because she was buying clothes to entice a creepazoid criminal to sleep with her, but because she was still so furious with Jared. |
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| The worst of housing conditions were to be found in this area, and China was also home to what many regarded as a criminal class. |
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| Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves. |
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| The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God. |
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| If Wilton croaked the criminal he did a jolly good day's work, and there's an end of it. |
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| The criminal applications of viruses in the cyberverse are almost without limits. |
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| The dark figure concerning these criminal offences, is very high and the attitude towards reporting such cases is not constant. |
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| The adversarial principle that a person could not be tried until formally accused continued to apply for most criminal cases. |
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| Public law, criminal law and other federal law operate according to Canadian common law. |
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| The most junior judges are the justices of the peace who preside over minor criminal matters in the Justice of the Peace Courts. |
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| Generally, the Finnish legal system does not permit ex post facto laws, especially those that would expand criminal responsibility. |
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| The main subjects of public law are constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law and procedure. |
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| The chief courts are the Court of Session, for civil cases, and the High Court of Justiciary, for criminal cases. |
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| For civil, commercial and criminal cases presided over by a panel of judges the right address is Honorable Court. |
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| The sheriff court is the main criminal and civil court, hearing most cases. |
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| Enslavement into prostitution was sometimes used as a legal punishment against criminal free women. |
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| The Judiciary have jurisdiction in all civil and criminal matters throughout the country. |
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| Maria Clarke, of Whinberry Drive, Kirkby, admitted concealing, disguising converting or transferring criminal property. |
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| English law is the common law legal system governing England and Wales, comprising criminal law and civil law. |
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| Constitution and the Sixth Amendment require that criminal cases be tried by a jury. |
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| This requirement was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1897, but the standard was relaxed in 1972 in two criminal cases. |
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| Since a clear archetype for determining guilt does not exist, the criminal justice system must rely on rulings handed down by juries. |
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| There is no appeal available in criminal cases to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, with respect to points of criminal law. |
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| There is a specific criminal offence for disclosing anything that takes place during jury deliberations. |
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| Juries only decide questions of fact and have no role in criminal sentencing. |
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| Furthermore, the Union has legislated in areas such as extradition, family law, asylum law, and criminal justice. |
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| It codified procedures for criminal trials and protections for vassals from ejection from the land. |
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| From the reign of King James I a legal profession began to develop and the administration of criminal and civil justice was centralised. |
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| Aficionados continued to play housie for the rest of the decade, but always under the threat of criminal prosecution. |
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| Objection, Your Honour! The defendant's criminal record is immaterial to this case. |
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| The problem of powerful families protecting criminal relatives was to be solved by expelling them to other parts of the realm. |
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| In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful asportation and confinement of a person against his or her will. |
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| In 2008, the Brazilian government freed 4,634 slaves in 133 separate criminal cases at 255 different locations. |
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| Others while accepting retribution as an element of criminal justice nonetheless argue that life without parole is a sufficient substitute. |
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| Sweden has no tradition of using juries in most types of criminal or civil trial. |
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| The rules vary depending upon whether the venue is a criminal court, civil court, or family court, and they vary by jurisdiction. |
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| Most countries make a clear distinction between civil and criminal procedure. |
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| In 1998 an International criminal court was established in the Rome Statute. |
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| The Supreme Court of Cassation is the highest court in Italy for both criminal and civil appeal cases. |
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| England and Wales has strict liability offences, which criminalize behavior without the need to show a criminal mens rea. |
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| The right to counsel in criminal trials was initially not accepted in some adversarial systems. |
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| In 1995 Iraq introduced Sharia punishment for certain types of criminal offences. |
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| Law enforcement, including criminal courts, is officially a provincial responsibility, conducted by provincial and municipal police forces. |
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| Some criminal codes criminalize association with a criminal venture or involvement in criminality that does not actually come to fruition. |
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| If the criminal stayed on the road to the seaport, he was to be left unharmed. |
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| The cost of a television licence is set by the government and enforced by the criminal law. |
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| Unlawful killing is probably the act most frequently targeted by the criminal law. |
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| Creating a fear of imminent battery is an assault, and also may give rise to criminal liability. |
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| Aside from the criminal world of piracy, there was also the emerging colonies in North America. |
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| A posthumous pardon was not considered appropriate as Alan Turing was properly convicted of what at the time was a criminal offence. |
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| Smuggling is also reaping huge financial dividends to criminal groups who charge migrants massive fees for their services. |
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| In other words, a defendant may have been so drunk, or drugged, that he was incapable of forming the criminal intention required. |
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| Many criminal codes provide penalties for conversion, embezzlement, theft, all of which involve deprivations of the value of the property. |
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| The modern criminal court jury arrangement has evolved out of the medieval juries in England. |
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| A new criminal offence of failing to comply with statutory requirements was introduced. |
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| The ministry is therefore responsible for all aspects of the criminal law, including the scope and content of criminal offences. |
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| In Northern Ireland, abortion law is a criminal justice matter and is devolved. |
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| International criminal law can protect the rights of racial or ethnic minorities in a number of ways. |
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| Failure to return a completed questionnaire could lead to a fine and criminal record. |
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| The licence fee is classified as a tax, and its evasion is a criminal offence. |
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| Strict liability can be described as criminal or civil liability notwithstanding the lack mens rea or intent by the defendant. |
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| The authority of the pater familias was unlimited, be it in civil rights as well as in criminal law. |
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| In any state of society where crime can be profitable you have got to have a harsh criminal law and administer it ruthlessly. |
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| In many countries, surrender of the passport is a condition of granting bail in lieu of imprisonment for a pending criminal trial. |
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| In plots about crime, thriller films focus less on the criminal or the detective and more on generating suspense. |
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| Daniel Defoe turned from journalism and writing criminal lives for the press to writing fictional criminal lives with Roxana and Moll Flanders. |
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| In return, the prosecution dropped charges of conspiracy to cause criminal damage. |
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| Significantly, the author does not stop after discussing the criminal menticidal tactics of totalitarian states. |
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| Failure to comply with customs rules can result in seizure of goods and civil and criminal penalties against involved parties. |
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| In Scotland, the Lord Lyon King of Arms has criminal jurisdiction to control the use of arms. |
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| The Danish Supreme Court is the highest civil and criminal court responsible for the administration of justice in the Kingdom. |
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| However, this, and many of the codes that followed, were mainly lists of civil and criminal wrongs and their punishments. |
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| The Basic Law protects the Department of Justice from any interference by the government when exercising its control over criminal prosecution. |
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| The Criminal Courts of Justice is the principal building for the criminal courts. |
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| The Electoral Commission, who cannot investigate criminal allegations, passed the complaints onto Police Scotland. |
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| Sheriff Courts act as district criminal courts, organised by sheriffdom, and deal with cases under both summary and solemn procedure. |
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| The German penal system seeks the rehabilitation of the criminal and the protection of the public. |
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| People such as prostitutes and pickpockets were judged to be inherently criminal and a threat to the racial community. |
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| Poor living conditions led to high rates of sickness, injury, and death, as well as sabotage and criminal activity. |
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| The remaining books cover criminal and civil law, judicial procedures and remedies. |
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| No person may be punished for an act that was not a criminal offence at the time of its commission. |
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| The Article also prohibits a heavier penalty being imposed than was applicable at the time when the criminal act was committed. |
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| Even organizations and communities that may be considered criminal in nature may have ethical codes of conduct, official or unofficial. |
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| It means not just the criminal act but all the external elements of an offence. |
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| Despite the criminal charges against him, he seems to have remained in good standing with his peers. |
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