Director Of Public Prosecutions

• Christopher P. Blaxland; Marcella Blaxland, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions; Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Defendants-Appellants, and Paul R. Shaw; Dennis T. Barry, Defendants. Christopher P. Blaxland; Marcella Blaxland, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions; Australian Securities and Investments Commission; Paul R. Shaw; Dennis T. Barry, Defendants-Appellees., 323 F.3d 1198 (9th Cir. 2003)

Christopher P. Blaxland, Manhattan Beach, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants. Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, United States Department of ...

• Federal Circuits

• Glen Andrade Is Dead

RETIRED DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Glen [Sharon Andrade Bucknor], QC, died on Thursday September 17, at the Andrewe Memorial Hospital after battling with cancer for the last year. Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn, QC, described Andrade as a very strong and effective leader. She said he was unflinching and led from the front. The DPP said While he was a very good leader, he Was also very humane. She described him as being very encouraging andisupportive of young prosecutors.

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• October 30, 2009

• Lightbulb Scandal Case Postponed

North East St Elizabeth Member of Parliament Kern Spencer along with Patrick Roberts, the People's National Party caretaker for West Central St Andrew, makes his way to the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court in Half Way Tree, St Andrew Monday. In the background, at centre, is Colleen Wright, Spencer's personal assistant, who like him is facing corruption charges. In the exchanges before Senior Resident Magistrate Glen Brown, Director of Public Prosecutions, Paula Llewellyn, revealed that the Crown did not invite Rodney Chin to turn against co-accused Spencer and Colleen Wright in the lightbulb affair. Llewellyn's disclosure led to a protest by defence counsel. Patrick Atkinson, who takes instructions from Spencer, said it was unfair for bis client and Wright to sit together with...

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• September 02, 2009

• Assisted Suicide Will Lead U.K. Down Slippery Slope

While America debates whether the federal government should dictate which insurance policies and medical treatments it will allow us to have, in the U.K., the conversation has "advanced" to the approval of assisted suicide. Debbie Purdy, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, has won a landmark ruling in the House of Lords that many believe will move Britain one step closer to self-destruction. Purdy must be told under what circumstances her husband could be prosecuted should he accompany her to the Dignitas euthanasia clinic in Switzerland. The Director of Public Prosecutions will now be required to spell out exactly when the government will act if someone helps a friend take their own life abroad.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• June 25, 2010

• Paula Llewellyn's Ascendancy and Mission

So, she is unlikely to make too much of her appointment as Jamaica's first female director of public prosecutions (DPP), to succeed the retiring Kent Pantry. We, however, acknowledge the historic significance of her elevation, following last year's appointment of Zaila McCalla as the island's first female chief justice. For as much as Ms [PAULA LLEWELLYN], and perhaps Mrs McCalla, may not have noted or paid much attention to it, there remains a gender glass ceiling in Jamaica, cracked though it has become. Nonetheless, we applaud what Ms Llewellyn has chosen to make the central issue of her appointment and, thereby, provided a context against which she can ultimately be judged. Not only does she intend to work in the public interest, but to run a 'world-class' prosecutorial service that...

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• August 25, 2009

• The Manley Airport Hoax

Yet, according to the prime minister, even as Mr [Patterson] and his party were being processed, claims were flying among Customs Enforcement officials and further abroad that he had arrived in the island with Cuban diplomats and that there was a diplomatic bag, which scans showed contained bank notes. It was further alleged that the diplomats objected to the bag being searched and opted to reboard the aircraft and leave Jamaica. These claims had so morphed into 'fact' that Customs brass sought late-night advice from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and Solicitor General on how to treat with diplomatic pouches, not as a hypothetical case, but as a matter of immediate and specific instant. It appeared not to have occurred to the senior Customs officials, who may have bee...

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• October 02, 2009

• Lights Out!

PEOPLE'S NATIONAL Party (PNP) Members of Parliament [Phillip Paulwell] and Kern Spencer, who resigned as shadow spokespersons for the Opposition, were on Tuesday, November 13, absent from Parliament for the first time since taking the oath of office on September 27. The police Fraud Squad, the Contractor General, the Auditor General and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) have been called on to investigate the circumstances under which the last PNP government accrued a bill of more than $276.5 millions dollars in the distribution of free Cuban light bulbs.Mr. Spencer wept in Parliament last week Tuesday when Mr. [Clive Mullings] revealed that the Fraud Squad had been called in to investigate the matter. The PNP, in the meantime, have called for a forensic audit and have said that ...

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• August 21, 2009

• Us Security Groups Target Jamaican Lotto Schemes

The taskforce, which has already commenced operations in Jamaica, is comprised of the Immigration Custom Enforcement (ICE) division of the United States Homeland Security Department, the United States Embassy in Jamaica and individuals from a number of national authorities, including: the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), the Customs, Passport and Immigration departments, the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), the MontegoBay Magistrate's Court and the Financial Investigation Division of the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service.

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• October 02, 2009

• Justice in Distress

Alternatively, it is to the area dons and gunmen that these communities turn for protection and justice even while lamenting that gunmen threaten the peace and order of their communities. The alarming spate of killings since the start of the year is a matter of grave concern. And even though we are not aware of the overriding motives behind the killings, I venture to assert that many killings are caused from revenge, retaliation and reprisals, which can easily be attributed to the failure of the criminal justice system to punish wrongdoers speedily or at all. The Director of Public Prosecutions, Kent Pantry Q.C. would well spend time and effort to clean up his department in the pursuit of justice, instead of issuing veil threats to the media. His tenure has not been a salutary one. To b...

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• July 30, 2009

• Go-Go No-No! Cops to Clamp Down On Under-Age Dancers

We will be using covert and overt operations to prosecute club owners who are engaging in this act," the tough-talking superintendent told The Weekly Gleaner on Monday, March 13. "We are now in the process of seeking legal advice from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, with a view to prosecute the owner of the club," said Superintendent [Knight]. "Right now, there is a case before the court involving a St. Catherine club," said SSP [Devon Watkis].

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• July 27, 2009