None of Galbraith's Enron allegations has been the subject of any prosecution.
They said the indictment had been carefully drafted to emphasize that the subject of the prosecution was the defendants' conduct in their business relationship with Hezbollah and Al Manar, without reference to the station's content.
I now understand from Linklaters that it is unlikely that these individuals would have been the subject of criminal prosecutions per se..
Some legal observers say Mr. Russell's case could be a test of a provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley law that places greater responsibility on lawyers to preserve evidence in situations that may become the subject of criminal prosecutions.
"If passed, almost all Yemeni non-governmental websites, including my own, of course, could be subject to prosecution," said Walid Al-Saqqaf, administrator of YemenPortal.net (www.yemenportal.net), of the dizzying 77-article draft law that would probably run most independent media aground financially and chase their owners into jail.
In such cases there is no statute of limitations, so the President could be subject to prosecution for the rest of his life.
And some law professors said that sites like whosarat.com might be subject to prosecution for obstruction of justice or aiding and abetting crimes.
It was regarding a quote from the founder and first khalifah of Ahmadiyya Islam, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who once said, God has revealed to me that every single person who has heard my claim of prophethood and has not accepted me, that person is not a Muslim, and in front of God, is subject to prosecution.
Under the new law, if an officer asks a person prior to search if he or she is carrying syringes or other sharp objects, and the person discloses their location, he or she is not subject to prosecution for possession of those objects.
In the report they said: "We would welcome clarification from the DPP as to the circumstances in which an indecent communication could and should be subject to prosecution under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 or Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988".
