The Canadian Law Dictionary (2013) defines “plea bargaining” as “an informal practice where the accused uses his or her right both to plead guilty in order to bargain for a benefit that is usually related to a charge or the sentence”. A plea bargain is the most common method used in the disposition of criminal cases and makes up 95% of cases in Canada (Barbara‚ Morrison‚ and Cunningham‚ 1976) and usually consists of an agreement with the Crown prosecutor to make an alliance to get the judge to make
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manner that effectively deters future incidents and affirms respect for individuals. Student Discipline policies have two main goals: (1) ensure the safety of staff and students‚ and (2) create an environment conducive to learning. Serious student misconduct involving violent or criminal behavior defeats these goals. However‚ the commonest discipline problems involve noncriminal student behavior (Moles‚ 1989). These less dramatic problems may not threaten personal safety‚ but they still negatively affect
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within most of the police departments in the United States are responsible for helping to ensure police ethics and integrity within their respective agencies by investigating the conduct of the officers‚ particularly citizen complaints of officer misconduct. Having an internal affairs department is one of the most important means of ensuring a police agency’s adherence to community policing principles and acquiring
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discontinuing employment‚ that no security breaches occur and to gain valuable feedback from the departing employee. This procedure should be read with the accompanying the Human Resources Management Policy and the Poor Staff Performance and Misconduct Procedure. 2. Considerations This procedure has been developed primarily for permanent and contract employees. However‚ this employee exit procedure may be undertaken for casual or temporary employees where appropriate. Where possible‚
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various problems with inappropriate business practices. Top management has raised concern about these problems and they should be addressed so that Kitchen Best can achieve a sustainable expansion. The crises reveal that there is internal and external misconduct by the top management and company’s business partners. Company may suffer losses and commit an offense if no immediate action is taken to prevent further deterioration. Changes in management system of Kitchen Best are required and this report is
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Horizon Consulting Services (HCS) CODE OF ETHICS Standards and Procedures This ethics code was made to clearly identify the expectations of our employees and provide guidance by setting common ethical standards all of us must adhere to on a consistent basis. These actions and values will help guide us in today’s competitive business environment. Integrity · Employees will always display professionalism and integrity while at work and treat each other and clients with civility. · Employees
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Understanding discipline in the workplace 1.1 Disciplinary rules and procedures are important in a workplace to set out the boundaries of acceptable conduct and satisfactory performance‚ and to ensure fair and equal treatment of all employees. Since 1977 there has been a Code of Practice on disciplinary practice and procedures issued by ACAS. A revised version of the ACAS Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures came into effect on 6 April 2009. The Code must be taken into account
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More and more juveniles are being incarcerated in adult prisons because of legislation dropping the age juveniles are allowed to be tried as an adult and expanding the list that are considered adult crimes. States vary as to how old and where a juvenile is incarcerated. They may have to wait until a certain age to be transferred to an adult facility or they have to go in ight after sentencing. Sometimes they are in the general population of adults and others they try to keep them in different
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(a) In your opinion‚ do you think whistleblowing will work in Malaysia? Elaborate on the reasons in support of your opinion. In my opinion‚ Whistle blowing will not work in Malaysia. From the passage‚ this is due to several reason. Firstly is due to culture‚ culture is where a group of people believe and behave the same way as it is. From this case‚ Malaysia’s culture is to prefer to keep things their own secretly. Basically they just dont want to review what is happening and just keep quiet and
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1. Introduction Insider dealing has been affecting the efficiency of stock markets in different places like United States‚ United Kingdom and Australia. Hong Kong is of no exception. Basically‚ insider dealing refers to the trading of a corporation’s stock or other securities by individual with potential access to non-public information of the company. The law of insider dealing in Hong Kong provides a much more detailed definition and is very comprehensive. However‚ when it comes to enforcement
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