The lawyers in the case argue that they need to review those files to learn the names of all those with civil and criminal liability in the blaze.
In an open letter to licensed taxi drivers, the Met warned it was keen to avoid serious disruption and that, without official written notification the protest "could give rise to criminal liability", with a risk of arrest and prosecution.
A complete normative theory of criminal law must include an account of the criminal process, and any such account must tackle the problem of plea-bargaining, which seems inconsistent with the idea that criminal liability should be imposed only when the truth and justice of the criminal charge have been publicly tested in a criminal trial (see Lippke 2011).
These findings illuminate the way that participants' own comfort with harm reduction (as opposed to risk elimination) influenced how they advised people with HIV about avoiding criminal liability.
The group recommended that Division 4 commanders Matthew Puljang and Thiab Gatluak Taitai, be investigated for their potential criminal liability, along with Paul Malong, Kiir's top military official and the SPLA Chief of General Staff.
"Is 14 cases a year over-prosecution to you?" Nevertheless, even Conyers indicated he might back two of the Chamber's five major proposals: one that would clarify who qualifies as a foreign official, and another to exempt companies with strong compliance programs from criminal liability.
The meaning of "high crimes and misdemeanors" for impeachment purposes is famously underspecified, and is not synonymous with "crimes" for purposes of ordinary criminal liability.
These might well be used to circumvent current extradition procedures and, combined with the threatened abolition of "double criminal liability", will make it possible for a person to be sent to another country to be tried for an offence that is not considered criminal here.
Second, if the 'act requirement' is to do any substantive work, we need an account of the concept of 'action' or 'conduct' an account which will also need to deal with such questions as that of criminal liability for omissions (see Hughes 1958; Feinberg 1984: ch. 4), or for statuses such as being drunk or an addict (see Glazebrook 1978): such an account is notoriously difficult to provide.
