.... The suspect knows his status as guilty or innocent and the likely strength of the law enforcer’s evidence, which is informative about the suspect’s status and may also disprove lies. We compare prosecution errors in the equilibrium of the one-shot interrogation and in the optimal mechanism under full...

... Specifically focusing on cartel conduct, the OECD’s Competition Committee concluded that: [E]ffective sanctions against cartels should take into account not only the amount of gain realized by the cartel but also the probability that any cartel will be detected and prosecuted. Because not all cartels...

... or maintain business interests in overseas jurisdictions, historical legal and enforcement practices and traditions—and resource poverty—have created a contemporary regulatory landscape within which contentious adversarial approaches, such as criminal prosecution, are rarely pursued. Instead, aligned...

...Joseph Geng Akech Abstract The horrific violations committed in South Sudan’s civil war led to the establishment of mechanisms ensuring the prosecution of serious crimes and reconciliation within communities shattered by war. Through a peace deal, three mutually supportive but independent...

...#) came from four different countries, namely Guinea Bissau, Nigeria, Senegal, and Syria. All interviewed migrants had been arrested and prosecuted for migrant smuggling in the areas within the competence of the tribunals of Catania, Palermo, Ragusa, and Syracuse between 2015 and 2019. Before going...

...://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) A leading criminal defence lawyer describes victims of trafficking being prosecuted for all the illegal activities listed above. Prosecutions for cannabis cultivation appear the most common, reported by virtually every...

... primarily conceive of justice as economic assistance and have limited interest in the prosecution of perpetrators. Such emphasis on economic assistance cannot be separated from the reality of poverty in which survivors live and local perceptions and practices of justice that are rooted in the concept...

... policies from one of de facto corporate impunity to de jure zero tolerance. Multinational corporations engaging in foreign bribery in China today are no longer vulnerable only to the risk of investigation, prosecution, and punishment by foreign jurisdictions. Rather, foreign corporations...

... (2016). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com 2016 Private prosecutions have been part and parcel of the law of Hong Kong for some time now. For example, in 1970, the Court of Appeal observed that ‘[t]here are, from time...

... and research to focus on the conditions under which ICC action alternately prevents, exacerbates or has no impact on atrocities, rather than whether the Court has any such effects. International Criminal Court prosecution conflict analysis peace and justice Democratic Republic of Congo...

... as civil complaints, taking part in any ensuing case as a de facto ancillary prosecutor. Such activism can shape an investigation towards favouring truth, justice, or other goals. ¹⁰ Abstract This article analyses how judicial activity in domestic prosecution of dictatorship-era human rights...

... of the process—cross-examination ( Temkin 2000 ; Kebbell et al. 2007 ; McDonald and Tinsley 2011 ). Complainants in Kebbell and colleagues’ study, for example, were dissatisfied with the defence lawyer’s performance and felt the defence lawyers were more likely than prosecuting lawyers to accuse them...

... involved have closely cooperated in investigating the matter, little inter-agency coordination can be witnessed with respect to the prosecution and punishment of the committed offences. Instead of avoiding jurisdictional overlap, each authority sanctioned the worldwide collusion between the banks without...

... General, Sir Hartley Shawcross (1951) famously said ‘It has never been the rule in this country—I hope it never will be—that suspected criminal offences must automatically be the subject of prosecution’. Instead the CPS applies a two-stage test: first, the evidential stage (if there is a realistic...

...’ where accused defendants appear via video link from police stations to the criminal courts. It is argued these two alterations call into question fundamental principles of procedural due process. police-led prosecution magistrates’ courts procedural due process virtual courts summary justice...

... in a structured and coherent way. This article concludes that key areas in the case law of the EU courts should be reviewed, particularly as regards what constitutes the same offence for the purpose of the principle of ne bis in idem in competition law, what decision bars a second prosecution...

... the effectiveness of the Los Angeles County Elder Abuse Forensic Center in prosecuting elder financial exploitation cases. In elder abuse, prosecution is rare for a number of reasons. Cases are often complex, involving difficult and convoluted transactions that the elder appeared to have agreed to that serve...

... and administrative cases in which physicians have been criminally prosecuted or charged by medical boards with offenses related to inappropriate prescribing of opioid analgesics. Design. We identified as many criminal and administrative cases of these types as possible that occurred between 1998 and 2006...

... to: Marcus M. Reidenberg, MD, Department of Pharmacology, Box 70, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA. Tel: 212-746-6227; Fax: 212-746-8835; E-mail: mmreid@med.cornell.edu . ABSTRACT Objective. In several high profile prosecutions of physicians...

...John Anderton Under US patent law and practice, there are three methods for modifying the scope of an issued patent: an interference proceeding, a patent reissue, and a re-examination proceeding. In each of these procedures, the claims allowed during patent prosecution can be modified. Each re...