Planning and policy implementation in the North St. Boniface community 1971-1985

69, [2], 3, 5, 13 leaves : maps ; 28 cm

Introduction

Today, American prosecutors exercise enormous discretion in a sequence of decisions-from initial case acceptance or declination, to charging and plea bargaining, to pre-trial and trial strategy, to sentencing upon conviction-often without meaningful internal or external review. In many jurisdictions, the prosecution effectively makes the Law, enforces it against particular individuals, adjudicates their guilt, and sets their punishment. For all intents and purposes, prosecutors are the criminal justice system through their awesome, deeply problematic powers

Off campus : developing co-operative housing for students

vi, 31 p. ; 28 cm.Based on the study: Off campus : a report on the feasibility of developing co-operative housing for students near the University of Winnipeg

Securing Defence Rights in Transnational Proceedings

This paper identifies and analyses problems and weaknesses standing in the way of the provision of an effective defence in transnational criminal proceedings. Drawing upon some key findings of the Euroneeds study, it extrapolates results from that examination of eu criminal justice as valid for all transnational justice settings. It is argued that the failure to recognise legally the difference between national and transnational proceedings leads to a lacuna. Transnational criminal law and justice mechanisms are recognised as developed, above all, as tools of repressive criminal procedure leaving individuals facing them stripped of their constitutional identities and corresponding protective rights. It is argued that those creating transnational criminal law and justice mechanisms must recognise and provide for a more balanced system to avoid such contexts acting as constitutional loop-holes and to ensure the provision of defence rights and procedural safeguards in such proceedings.</jats:p