The purpose of this paper is to discover and analyse the principles2 upon which a court at first instance3 may act on an application to dismiss a proceeding for want of prosecution.4 Initially, a brief discussion of the policy rationales which support the power and the courts'Hettiarachi...
"Assange's prosecution by the United States is for activities that are daily work for investigative journalists -- finding sources with evidence of criminality and helping them to get their stories out into the world," she said. "If Assange is prosecuted, free expression the world over will be...
you retain control over the position; whereas, if you deliver something to the police, you don’t have to gather evidence, which is great, but essentially the issue is taken out of your hands and it is processed by the police and given to the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service], and they ...
He was under Communist discipline for the duration of the war. Here in Spain the Communists offered the best discipline and the soundest and sanest for the prosecution of the war. He accepted their discipline for the duration of the war because, in the conduct of the war, they ...
decriminalizing marijuana, the rest of the agenda was a bust. Mandatory minimum sentences remain on the books. People convicted of marijuana possession are still unable to expunge their records. Commonwealth’s attorney's still can’t set aside prosecutions for defendants who deserve a second ...
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These include an Injunction against the prosecution of the contest, an action at law for damages, or a defense to the contest. An agreement among heirs and beneficiaries not to contest a will is a way to avoid a costly will contest proceeding. The heirs and beneficiaries negotiate a ...
The prosecution delivered a definitive victory. Now, in the wake of the guilty verdict, we must ponder: What effect will Kurniawan's conviction have? How will it affect the fine and rare wine industry, and what comes next? After Kurniawan’s arrest in March of 2012, people in the world ...
Social Purists fought for a variety of abolitionist reforms, including prosecution of customers as well as prostitutes, improved prison conditions and rehabilitation for prostitutes, and centers and activities to safeguard the virtue of urban working girls. Movement advocates were also instrumental in esta...
where “Pr” denotes probability, “Hp” the proposition summarising the prosecution’s point of view, and “Hd” the proposition summarising the defence’s point of view. The letter “I” stands for the information mentioned in the section on the first principle of interpretation, and “E” ...