Derek Brindle, of Jenkins Marzban Logan, said although this seems to be a "motherhood" statement, it has never before been defined as a criminal offence with the possibility of jail or severe fines. ..."There is no current business definition in Canada that escapes coverage by Bill C45," Brindle said. Brindle said he sees Bill C45 as "a heavy, heavy club" to be used to prevent a recurrence of this type of incident.
The criminal charges were recently withdrawn by the Crown when the contractor agreed to plead guilty to the three Occupational Health & Safety Act offences. The contractor agreed to pay a fine of ...$50,000. Although the contractor did-not see jail time, $50,000 is amongst the highest fines ever assessed for an individual under the Occupational Health & Safety Act. It is assumed the contractor agreed to such a fine in order to have the criminal charges dropped.
Canadian and Australian scholars have increasingly begun to search each other’s historical legal records for evidence of similarity and difference. The two countries have much in common. They were ...birthed as colonies by the same mother country and share roots in the British commonwealth tradition. Both countries were bestowed with virtually identical common law and legislative heritages. Both share a history of patriarchy, of political, social and economic imbalances between men and women that resonate in law. The comparative analysis of women’s legal history in Canada and Australia is potentially a remarkably rich field, which will contribute to the task
Ways to Fight OCNs: Law-Enforcement Services Cheloukhine, Serguei; Haberfeld, M. R
Russian Organized Corruption Networks and Their International Trajectories,
2011, 20110305
Book Chapter
It was not until January of 1997 that the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Chapter 22, defined “offences in the area of economic activity.” The definition was included in the chapter sections ...of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and comprised a structure of crimes, the majority of which were relevant to the developed market economy.
During the Russian market transition and state property privatization, criminal activities in the shadow economy, which existed throughout the Soviet era, were transformed into legal operations and ...businesses. Business-minded people, who previously had to operate in the sphere of illegality, found themselves relieved of many legal restrictions, and thus faced new opportunities for economic endeavors.
Throughout the nineteenth century, European legal science experienced a profound transformation, the consequences of which are still relevant today1. It would be a mistake to suppose, however, that ...all the legal reforms that took place in Europe in the nineteenth century, originated and developed from nothing. The roots of this process of transformation can already be seen in the sixteenth, seventeenth and especially in the eighteenth century, and the course of the European Enlightenment.
On September 29, 1958, more than eight years later, the Indonesian legislature has at last carried out for the codified criminal law the agreement made by the governments of the Republic of the ...United States of Indonesia and its member-state, the former Republic of Indonesia, prior to the establishment of the unitary state, to make the laws of the former Republic of Indonesia binding throughout Indonesia.
Corruption is a global concern today and Kosovo is no exception. Consequences of corruption are evident in every sphere of society including the environmental damage that can be caused through ...corruption! As a matter fact, successful combat against corruption is a crucial condition that has to be met for every legal and a democratic state. For the Republic of Kosovo this means first of all establishing a consistent legal framework based on the general principals of the European Law. Aim of this research is to prove that in order to have a more successful combat against corruption, Kosovo has to take all measures that are foreseen from the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption, even though Kosovo has not signed this convention yet. With other words this paper does compare the domestic criminal offenses on corruption of the Criminal Code of Kosovo with the incriminations of the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption. After the war, Kosovo was found in chaotic situation especially its justice system. Therefore this paper includes also a historical review on corruption in Kosovo. Nevertheless the main attention of the paper is about the relation between the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption and the Criminal Code of Kosovo.
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