Australia but worldwide‚ held as one of the most accountable in society (Robertson‚ 1998). In order to essentially resolve these issues‚ the focus of the research should be related to police officers and specific issues such as use of force‚ police discretion‚ delegation of authority and the attempts that were made to control officers behaviours’ in Australia. WHAT IS POLICE AUTHORITY? Firstly‚ authority can be defined as generally and basically‚ Persons having power or powers that other people will
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consider as follows: “The exercise of...a discretion must be a real exercise of the discretion. If‚ in the statute conferring the discretion‚ there is to be found expressly or by implication matters which the authority exercising the discretion ought to have regard to‚ then in exercising the discretion it must have regard to those matters.” In Padfield v Ministry of Agriculture‚ Fisheries and Food (1968)‚ Lord Reid held: “Parliament must have conferred the discretion with the intention that it should be
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Kothari et al. 2005)‚ many studies have addressed and continue to address earnings management using these models‚ presumably because few viable alternatives exist.1 Accrual models have been criticized for providing biased and noisy estimates of discretion‚ which calls into question the conclusions from studies that use them (Bernard and Skinner 1996). The objective of this study is to evaluate a different measure of earnings management—discretionary revenues—that permits more reliable and conclusive
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Judges are bound by strict rules and precedents which points out their duty in every case. There will be no arbitrary discretion in the courts. Whether a party prevailed would not depend on a judge but by the content of the applicable law (O’Scannlain‚ 2010). The courts and the public have long focused on the importance of judicial impartiality. Whether it is the United
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1. INTRODUCTION Administrative discretion can be defined as the exercise of professional expertise and judgment‚ as opposed to strict adherence to regulations or statutes‚ in making a decision or performing official acts or duties. Zambia’s state of bureaucracy battles with the affect effect of colonialism. This therefore has undermined and reduced the efficacy of the bureaucracy. This can be seen in areas such as education‚ managerial styles‚ organizational structure‚ and sociocultural environment
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Final Project: Appeals Process Paper University name here Your name here CJS/220 09/99/2012 Instructors name here What is an appeal? An appeal is a process which assists defendants from wrongful incarceration‚ (What are Appeal Courts for? 2004). An Appeal if successful allows the higher court to over-turn a lower court’s decision. An appeal is also a defendant’s way of challenging the court’s decision. In the Criminal Justice system‚ an appeal
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When a notice of pendency is cancelled pursuant to a motion under CPLR 6514‚ the CPLR 6514(C) allows for the court’s discretion and states that the court “may” award the aggrieved party “costs and expenses occasioned by the filing and cancellation‚ in addition to any costs of the action.” Id. Under subsection (b) of 6514‚ the court is empowered with discretionary authority as to determine whether the notice of pendency was brought in good faith or not‚ may cancel the notice of pendency if they determine
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Jessica Palacios Mrs. Arteaga English 1302 31 March 2014 Should Some States Continue with its Death Penalty? "As if one crime of such nature‚ done by a single man‚ acting individually‚ can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men‚ acting collectively" (Lewis Lawes‚ warden of Sing Sing prison in NY in the 1920s and 30s.) Many people think that is right to have payback over something that has been done to them and other think that it is brutal and goes against human morals. Also many people often
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Abstract Darryl Hunt is an African American born in 1965 in North Carolina. In 1984‚ he was convicted wrongfully of rape and murder of Deborah Sykes‚ a young white woman working as a newspaper editor. This paper researches oh his wrongful conviction in North Carolina. Darryl Hunt served nineteen and a half years before DNA evidence exonerated him. The charges leveled against him were because of inconsistencies in the initial stages of the case. An all-white bench convicted the then nineteen-year-old
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Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s quality of life initiative consisted of several details. This was policy that focused on non-criminal activities. There are many types of police discretion. The functions of a patrol division of a police department could be easy and challenging. There are different reasons why Miranda v. Arizona was an important court case in relationship to the police. The Miranda v. Arizona case changed things in Law enforcement. The quality of life initiative was policing that was utilized
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