THE LAW REGARDING BAIL IN KENYA AND ITS PRACTICE Introduction Bail is one of the rights protected by the Constitution‚ based on the notion that one is presumed innocent by the law until proven guilty. In general‚ an individual accused of a crime must be held in the custody of the court until his or her guilt or innocence is determined. However‚ the court has the option of releasing the individual before that determination is made‚ and this option is called bail.1 Bail is set by the judge
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What is bail? Under law‚ if any subject is held for criminal charges‚ they can avoid arrest or jail if they put guarantee money in form of cash or property. This is a financial obligation that guarantees a person ’s future appearance. This pledge payment is made to the court by a third party as an agreement‚ and it acts as a guarantee for which the criminal defendant has to make an appearance in court later What is a bail bond? It is an agreement. Recently‚ Bail bond is applied through modern business
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Portuguese Fiscal Policy Assessment Abstract: This work tries to do an overview of the Portuguese Fiscal situation ex-post the 2008 financial crisis. There is a short description of the GDP evolution and how it affected fiscal revenues and expenditures: revenues decreased with the crisis and then got up with taxes increasing and expenditures add an upward trend (from 2008-2010‚ for 2011 everything is projected). Moreover‚ we compute four types of fiscal balances (total‚ primary‚ adjusted from
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Using the issue of bail/remand‚ complete a practice piece of writing. The legal concept of bail refers to the conditional freedom of a person charged with a criminal offence. The purposes of bail are to protect society from potentially violent and dangerous offenders and to minimise the amount of inmates held on remand. The decision to grant bail is made by a magistrate in a formal bail hearing held in the local court. Under certain circumstances police can grant bail. Bail is a crucial part of the
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[pic] |Course Syllabus Axia College/College of Criminal Justice and Security Ethics and the Administration of Justice | | Course Description ADJ 235 presents the ethical standards‚ roles‚ and responsibilities of criminal justice professionals and examines potential profession-specific ethical dilemmas. Ethical theories are applied to real and hypothetical scenarios in the justice system. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering
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INSTAGRAM: How will Facebook manage its acquisition? CORPORATE STRATEGY 4G12 BARIL Xavier FIERE Benjamin IMBODEN Thomas JAYARATNE Mellane ZAJAC Damien 1 INTRODUCTION the 9 of April 2012‚ FACEBOOK bought the application INSTAGRAM for 1 billion dollars. FACEBOOK Social network on the Internet Available in 70 languages 900 million active users 2011: a billion dollar profit INSTAGRAM Share your life with photos Created on October 2010 40 million users on April 2012 2 PLAN
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In the breathtaking movie We Bought a Zoo‚ directed by Cameron Crowe‚ Benjamin Mee believes that he can find the solution for everything even though his wife died. In the beginning‚ Benjamin quits his job and he looks for a different house to live in because he wants to start a new life with his kids so they can try to move on from his wife’s death. Benjamin buys a zoo‚ but his son Dylan doesn’t like the zoo and he wants to go back to their original house‚ school‚ and friends. After living in a zoo
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help bail an individual out of jail. However‚ I must admit the concept of bail was confusing for me as a child. I understood that I was emptying all the coins from my piggy bank to be able to help get someone out of jail‚ but I never questioned if helping with bail was ever a good idea. We were poor‚ and my mother had always told me that the reason she was never able to turn to crime‚ was because we could never afford the consequences. At the time‚ I thought she simply meant she did not want to be
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Corruption of Running a Bail Bonds Business As early as 1912 – over one hundred years ago – critics were concerned that poor people remained in jail while awaiting trial solely because of their inability to pay even small bail amounts‚ that bail bondsmen had become too prominent in the administration of justice and that corruption plagued the industry. The Justice Policy Institute (JPI) feels that the bail bonding industry stands in the way of fair and effective pre-trial justice with much backed
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Affaf Noor Saidi 1. Consider arguments for and against granting bail to each of the following defendants. * Lucy‚ aged 22‚ has been charged with dealing heroin. She was caught with a large amount of the drug in the back of her car. She lives with her parents and has worked as an office assistant for the same employer since leaving school at the age of 16. Bail is when a person is granted temporary freedom provided the person promises to appear at court on a fixed date and pay a certain
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