Prosecutors came to rely instead on a type of deal, known as a deferred-prosecution agreement, in which the company would acknowledge wrongdoing, pay a fine, and pledge to improve its corporate culture.
Rolls-Royce entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) - a type of corporate plea bargain - with the SFO in 2017 to settle allegations of wrongdoing.
Some of this co-operation is practical; it also reflects the legal principle of "comity", a type of reciprocity that results in one legal jurisdiction voluntarily deferring to another.
It is a type of instance-based learning or lazy learning, where the function is only approximated locally and all computation is deferred until classification [44].
It classifies foregrounds based on the closest training examples in the feature space and is a type of instance-based, or lazy, learning in which the function is only approximated locally, and all computation is deferred until classification [56].
Step 5: Issue a subpoena to your spouse's employer requesting information regarding any type of benefit, deferred compensation plan, stock options or retirement plans.
Public employees' wages are generally lower than private-sector workers, and so they have been afforded some type of equity in the form of deferred compensation, such as retirement benefits.
Contracts are lengthened as a means of deferring compensation.
Therefore, protocols were referred to as a means of deferring responsibility to the GP and offering "protection".
