Director of Public Prosecutions

DPP [Director of Public Prosecutions] (1985) The Code for Crown Prosecutors (available online at http //www.cps.gov.uk/publications/docs/ code2010english.pdf last accessed 25 July 2012). 

Section 38 of HSW requires this to be by an inspector or by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The Magistrate will issue a summons to bring the defendant before the court, and this would be served on Hazards at their registered office. Since a company has no physical existence, and therefore cannot represent itself, it would act through a solicitor or barrister. 

The Director of Public Prosecutions is a barrister or solicitor of at least ten years standing. He undertakes duties in accordance with the directions of... 

The Lord Chancellor, and the English Attorney General and Solicitor General act also for Northern Ireland. The Director of Public Prosecutions is appointed by the Attorney General, and is a barrister or solicitor with ten years of practice in Northern Ireland. His chief function is responsibility for prosecutions in serious cases (compare the Crown Prosecution Service in England, and the Lord Advocate and procurators fiscal in Scotland). 

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In 1997 the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), General Barry McCaffrey, faced a big public relations problem. Even though McCaffrey, several former presidents, and many others lobbied against medical marijuana initiatives in California and Arizona, the citizens of those states voted to legalize medical marijuana. McCaffrey stuck to his conviction that marijuana was not medicine and vowed that the federal government would prosecute patients and doctors who broke federal marijuana laws. 

The preceding discussion has focussed on the prosecution of corporations. In some jurisdictions regulations hold senior managers and directors responsible for regulatory violations, if they have not exercised sufficient care to ensure that safe procedures are being followed. These provisions are seldom used, except where the individuals concerned have been particularly negligent with respect to their obligations, but they do appear to have a dramatic publicity effect. 

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