Sarbanes-Oxley actually has two enforcement regimes--one civil, one criminal--to protect people who report on corporate fraud.
In some cases, it's criminal -- these are criminal acts when they release information like this.
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No wonder, then, that victims have little confidence in the criminal-justice system to protect them.
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With money tight, police forces are outsourcing tasks including criminal-case preparation to private firms.
The civilian criminal-justice system is neither designed for nor capable of handling wartime detention cases.
NACRO, an umbrella organisation for criminal-reform groups, by the Audit Commission and in internal Home Office reports.
For the SEC to pursue civil-fraud charges on the heels of failed criminal-fraud charges seemed almost petty.
It is in Mexico's own interest to reform its police and criminal-justice system to control drug violence.
Lawmakers also created an advisory group to help policy makers evaluate criminal-law questions.
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The criminal-justice system needs to recognize that carrying a gun illegally imposes a risk of serious harm to society.
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But the most important of the new ideas is a reform of the country's inefficient and unfair criminal-justice system.
Britain, Portugal, Slovakia and Austria are against the notion of harmonising criminal-law procedures.
Beck's case thus provoked one of the most important reforms of the English criminal-justice system of the 20th century.
Some proposals, such as unifying the core countries' criminal-justice systems, present huge challenges.
Then, in an abrupt shift to criminal-justice issues, you quote approvingly from a forthcoming article in the Atlantic Monthly.
For this reason, the main criminal-defence lawyers' association weighed in on Andersen's behalf.
She has "a cast-iron stomach, " said Frank Ragen, a criminal-defense attorney in San Diego who has known Ms. Clarke for decades.
If he cooperates, the combatant designation can be revoked and he can always be transferred to the criminal-justice system for prosecution.
And the question arises: If this is the way the Panamanians run their criminal-justice system, what hope is there for the canal?
If, on the other hand, it was stopped, the criminal-justice system would be accused of failing to protect the public from serious crime.
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Government regulations mean that, beginning next March, security guards will have to undergo four days' training and pass a criminal-record and background check.
If the trial had been allowed to go ahead, the public would have felt that the criminal-justice system condoned malpractice by law-enforcement agencies, he said.
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He relapsed after his release, however, and was institutionalized again only after he racked up several misdemeanor offenses that nudged him into the criminal-justice system.
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The efforts of Mexico's president, Vicente Fox, to enact sweeping reforms of the police and of the criminal-justice system have fallen foul of congressional opposition.
Some proposals, such as unifying their criminal-justice systems, present huge challenges.
The war has certainly exposed the weakness of Mexico's criminal-justice institutions.
The proposed reforms of the penal code and criminal-justice system will have to overcome the entrenched attitudes of judges and lawyers, also well represented in Congress.
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Tony Leon, the former leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance, claims that policing has been devastated by cronyism and that the entire criminal-justice system is dysfunctional.
In that event, judges can force lawyers practising in the area to take turns defending indigent clients, whether or not the lawyers have any criminal-law experience.
Criminal-defense lawyers who aren't involved in the case say Mr. Hayes is likely to try to strike a deal in which he pleads guilty to fraud charges.
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