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…In the application the applicant complains that that the admitted publications have portrayed him as a corrupt and a criminal yet no criminal prosecution has been initiated against him.…

…To order the DCI to produce its investigation report directly before this civil court, without the DPP's involvement or sanction, risks the following: (i) prejudicing any ongoing or contemplated criminal prosecution; (ii)…

…prosecution against the Defendant; c) General damages for defamation; d) General damages in the sum of USD 42, 500 for each of the 17 days that the Defendant caused the Plaintiff to be detained and deprived of his liberty…

…He contended that he had proved, beyond doubt, that the Defendant instituted the said malicious prosecution in Criminal Case No. 143 of 2013 and proceeded to prosecute him over a period of three years and three months. 27…

…prosecutions, it is clear that a civil action is as great, if not a greater, restriction than a criminal prosecution.…

…government without fear of civil as well as criminal prosecution.…

…The Plaintiff claims further that, the Defendants, while being at all material times aware that the allegations made against him and resulting in his criminal prosecution were untrue, falsely and maliciously caused to be…

…severally, through investigations and prosecution, induced the breach of the Plaintiff’s contract with his employers and eventually led to the termination of his employment with KBC, since the said termination resulted from his criminal…

…He must prove that the court has found him not guilty of the offence charged...The law in an action for malicious prosecution has been clearly defined and in so far as the ordinary criminal prosecution is concerned the action…

…It is possible that, since an assault was express mention of criminal responsibility in the pleadings, that the learned judge thought the case should be treated in the same way as a criminal prosecution.…

…written or signed by him; (c)against the interest of maker when the statement is against the pecuniary or proprietary interest of the person making it, or when, if true, it would expose him or would have exposed him to a criminal…

…prosecution or to a suit for damages; (d)an opinion as to public right or custom when the statement gives the opinion of any such person as to the existence of any public right or custom or matter of public or general interest…

…Nothing stops the defendants from presenting a complaint to the appropriate authorities if they wish to pursue a criminal prosecution. I will therefore not grant prayer (f).…

…The criminal prosecution could also have been fast-tracked, given that its subject-matter was perishable, to obviate the possibility of the goods perishing during the course of the prosecution, if the defendants were not…

…No effort was made to fast-track the prosecution.…

…look at the definition of procedure according to Black’s Law Dictionary, 9th Edition which provides as follows: a)   A specific method or cause of action. b)   The judicial rule or manner for carrying on a civil lawsuit or criminal…

…prosecution also termed rules of procedure. 112.   …