"of justice. Pryce entered a plea of not guilty, advancing a defence of marital coercion at trial. In March 2013, she was convicted of perverting the course of justice and was sentenced to eight months in prison, the same as Huhne. Pryce and Huhne left prison on 13 May 2013, subject to electronic tagging. Pryce published a book based on her experience at HM Prison East Sutton Park in October 2013. The book, ""Prisonomics: Behind bars in Britain's failing prisons"", analyzes the economic and human costs of imprisoning women. Royalties will be donated to ""Working Chance"", a charity helping former"
"Danczuk made a criminal complaint to Essex Police about Liberal Democrat MP and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne after it was alleged that Huhne had asked his wife, economist Vicky Pryce, to take his penalty points for a speeding offence in 2003. On 3 February 2012, Huhne became the first Cabinet Minister in British political history to be forced from office as a result of criminal proceedings. Huhne was later tried and imprisoned, as was Vicky Pryce. In the wake of the 2013 Labour Party Falkirk candidate selection controversy, Danczuk compared some on the left"
"8 July 2010, Montgomerie was granted a super injunction by Mr Justice Eady, which came to light when he attended a press conference at the 2010 PGA Championship in Wisconsin. In March 2017, he and Knowles divorced. Montgomerie has been successfully defended twice by celebrity driving solicitor Nick Freeman for traffic infractions and speeding. Montgomerie was acquitted the first time when the policeman who was said to have caught him travelling at 96 mph on the A3 near Esher, Surrey (a 70 mph road) at 12:50 am failed to attend court. Montgomerie's second acquittal saved him from a 56-day ban"
"more widely and their attitude towards Conservative backbenchers. He also criticised David Cameron's decision to hire Andy Coulson. Binley and his wife Jacquie have lived in the constituency for over 20 years, and have two grown sons. In 2006, he became the victim of identity theft, when someone tried to divert his bank statements and unsuccessfully attempted to steal £9,000 from him whilst he was in India. The perpetrator wrote to Binley boasting of his exploits. He received a six-month driving ban in May 2007 having totted up 12 points on his licence when caught doing 37 mph in a"
"four times in recent years for speeding: The Premier, Morris Iemma resisted calls to sack him as result. He was quoted as saying: In an interview with the ""Newcastle Herald"", published on 10 July 2010, Hickey claimed that he was not the father of a child born in February 2009 to an unnamed parliamentary staff member. A month later, on further questioning by the media, Hickey admitted that he had lied about his relationship with the parliamentary staff member and admitted that the 18-month-old child was his. In a dramatic day of lying about his relationship, Hickey initially decided to"
"to the reopening of that case. According to O'Doherty, the priest's murder ""exposed a cover up of staggering proportions involving several institutions of the State and the Catholic Church."" in 2013, while investigating a nationwide penalty points cancellation scandal, O'Doherty sought to question Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan about the quashing of his own speeding points and called to his private home in order to do so, speaking to Callinan's wife. This action was condemned by her employer and cost O'Doherty her job. In December 2014, the ""Independent"" admitted they were wrong to dismiss O'Doherty, issued an apology to her and"
"was sentenced to 18 months in jail. Jim Speechley William James Speechley from Crowland is a former Conservative Party councillor and former leader of the Lincolnshire County Council. He was awarded a CBE in 1992, which was later stripped after his 2004 conviction for ""misconduct in a public office"" related to the route of the A1073 road (Spalding to Eye bypass), after not declaring a conflict of interest that land he owned would increase significantly in value as a result. It was confirmed in court that he instructed a planning officer to alter the road route to benefit his own"
"2013 Dunfermline by-election The Dunfermline by-election, 2013 is a by-election that was held for the Scottish Parliament constituency of Dunfermline on 24 October 2013. It followed the resignation of its MSP, Bill Walker after he was convicted of 23 charges of assault. It was won by Cara Hilton of the Labour Party, gaining the seat from the SNP. Bill Walker was elected as a SNP candidate in the 2011 election. In March 2012 a Scottish newspaper, the Sunday Herald, claimed that his first three marriages had ended with allegations of violent behaviour towards his wives. The SNP suspended Walker in"
"Magistrates Court at Berri in the SA Riverland, given a $450 fine and lost one demerit point. It followed a speeding incident in 2005, at 17 km/h over the limit whilst overtaking a truck. In his defence, Secker stated: I think I'm like most people and that's why I challenged that ruling is that when you pass a B-double you need to speed up. I think most people still do that on the basis that it's safer. In a Liberal Party pre-selection ballot on 3 March 2012, Secker lost Liberal Party endorsement for the 2013 election to Mount Gambier lawyer"
"this case on appeal in 2013, after winning the initial High Court case in 2011. Waterson married Dr Barbara Judge in 1999; they have a son and a daughter. On 29 January 2008 Waterson was arrested for allegedly assaulting his two teenage children. In 2010 the Metropolitan Police Service apologised for any distress caused by the arrest, accepting the allegations were wholly unfounded, and paid damages and costs to Waterson in settlement of a civil claim for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment. Nigel Waterson Nigel Christopher Waterson (born 12 October 1950) is a British former politician. He was the Conservative"
"2013 for going through a red light in December 2012. He has also admitted speeding in April 2013 and using his mobile phone whilst driving during the 2010 general election campaign. On 5 August 2014, he was fined £900 and given five penalty points on his driving licence for failing to stop after a car accident. He said he knew that the cars had touched, but did not stop to check as he did not think any damage had been done. On 28 April 2011, Balls, urged by an assistant to search Twitter for a recent article about him, accidentally"
"the 2013 Czech political corruption scandal which led to the downfall of Prime Minister Petr Nečas and his coalition government. On April 30, 2014, Janoušek was handed a 3-year prison sentence for a hit-and-run accident that took place in Prague in March 2012. It is claimed that he had been driving drunk when he collided with another car. He ran over the 51-year-old woman driver causing grievous bodily harm when she attempted to stop him from leaving the scene. Janoušek faced ten years in prison. Both the prosecution and Janoušek appealed the verdict. The court eventually decided to increase Janoušek's"
"being found more than twice over the limit and was banned from driving for three years. By 2000, his alcoholism became so heavy that he spent a period in the celebrity rehab clinic the Priory. In August 2009, Jones grabbed and repeatedly jerked the steering wheel of his car whilst his wife was driving it on the A55 in North Wales, causing it to swerve. On 19 March 2010 at Mold Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and drink-driving. His wife told the court that he had physically and emotionally abused her for years. On 27 April 2010,"
"March, and then expelled him in April, for allegedly not declaring similar claims cited in uncontested divorce proceedings during their MSP vetting process. On 22 August 2013, Walker was convicted of 23 offences of assault and one of breach of the peace in relation to three ex-wives and a stepdaughter, and sentencing was set for 20 September. The maximum sentence he could receive was 12 months, but only a longer sentence would see him automatically expelled from Parliament. This led to considerable political and media discussion about the situation; a majority of MSPs backed a motion calling on him to"
"remained on police bail. On 12 June 2013 it was announced she would be charged with two counts of intending to pervert the course of justice and would attend court on 24 June 2013. The first count alleged that she provided police with two inaccurate statements, and the second alleged that she produced a copy of her witness statement that had been altered. On 1 May 2014 she was found guilty at the Old Bailey of three charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice, by lying to police, falsifying a witness statement, and providing a false document to"
"fined and received two penalty points on his driving licence. The misdemeanour was ironic, for it came in a week when the government was coming under fire over poor road safety statistics. He retained his seat at the 2011 general election, though an opinion poll from ""The Irish Times"" had predicted that he was in danger of losing his seat. He was re-elected at the 2016 general election. He is married to Liza Davis.They have two daughters and one son. He is a cousin of late Fine Gael TD Liam Burke. Kelleher is the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on Health. He"
"that this power had been abused to annul thousands of penalties, favouring some influential people and others later involved in serious traffic accidents. One of the whistleblowers resigned from the Garda in May 2013. Four technical group TDs raised the matter in the Dáil in December 2012. In March 2013 one of the four, Luke 'Ming' Flanagan admitted he himself had had points annulled. In May, another of the four, Mick Wallace, traded allegations with Alan Shatter, the Minister for Justice, about being spared penalties at Garda discretion. An internal Garda report on the allegations was published in May 2013."
"to run his wife over with his Pickup truck. Justice Binnie dissented from the majority verdict of guilty claiming the accused was not guilty by reason of automatism. Binnie believed with automatism the onus is on the prosecution's ability to prove its case and that the accused should not bear the burden of proving automatism on the balance of probabilities. Ian Binnie William Ian Corneil Binnie (born April 14, 1939) is a former puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, serving from 1998 to 2011. Of the justices appointed to the Supreme Court in recent years, he is one"
"30 mph zone in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. With nine points already, he was given three more and a ban by Towcester magistrates. In January 2013, Binley revealed he was suffering from ""low-grade lymphoma affecting white blood cells"" and would undergo chemotherapy. In July 2013 Binley stated he would not stand again at the next general election in 2015. On 17 June 2009 it was revealed that Binley had claimed over £50,000 in expenses, renting a flat from his own company, BCC Marketing. Two months after beginning to rent the flat, expenses rules were changed to clarify that MPs could no longer"
"Ireland. In 2017 Buckley was appointed to the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Mental Healthcare which was tasked with developing a strategy for developing a world class public mental healthcare service. Buckley received a three-year drink-driving ban and was fined €500 in December 2014 following an incident on 9 June 2013 when he was stopped while driving by Gardaí. Subsequent tests showed that Buckley was over three times above the permitted blood-alcohol level. Buckley stated after his conviction, ""as a SF public representative I regret my actions and my choice to drive after drink."" Buckley pleaded guilty before Midleton"
"pervert the course of justice. Two further witnesses in the original trial, Violet Perriam and Ian Massey, were also charged with perjury. In July 2011 the trial (""R v Mouncher and Others"")—the largest police corruption trial in British criminal history—of Chief Inspectors Graham Mouncher and Richard Powell, Chief Superintendent Thomas Page, Detectives Michael Daniels, Paul Jennings, Paul Stephen, Peter Greenwood and John Seaford, and Violet Perriam and Ian Massey, commenced at Swansea Crown Court. A further four retired police officers were scheduled to stand trial separately in 2012. Massey was a convicted armed robber incarcerated at HM Prison Cardiff at"
"and not frustrate them unless they are shown to be contrary to the welfare of the child. Thorpe was appointed in 2010 to head a working party of the General Medical Council to consider and offer advice to doctors on matters relating to child protection. Thorpe was disqualified from driving and then, in January 2012, was reprimanded by the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice, both for receiving the ban and for failing to adhere to the guidance regarding the reporting of traffic offences. Mathew Thorpe Sir Mathew Alexander Thorpe (born 30 July 1938) is a retired Lord Justice of"
"counsel argued in mitigation that he was suffering from a head cold which may have impaired his awareness of his level of intoxication. He was disqualified from driving for nine months and fined $2,000. It was subsequently revealed that Marshall had incurred 17 speeding offences since 2002, and that his licence had been suspended on three separate occasions between 2003 and 2011. He was able to avoid a fourth suspension in May 2014 by entering into a good-behaviour bond. Having served on several standing, select and statutory Parliamentary Committees, as well as in the position of Temporary Speaker, Marshall was"
"the jury were discharged by the judge. A re-trial began on 25 February 2013 and led to the conviction of Pryce on 7 March 2013. Huhne had been the Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh since 2005. On 12 May 2010 he was appointed to the cabinet office of Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition formed after the 2010 general election. In June 2010, Huhne announced that he was leaving his wife of 26 years after he confirmed that he had been having a long-term affair with a media adviser. The couple divorced in"
"he was disqualified from driving for two weeks for speeding at 51 mph in a 30 mph residential area in Handcross. Soames was also fined £666, plus £85 court costs and a £15 victim surcharge. ""The Argus"", a Sussex paper, describes him as an 'anti-speed MP'. According to the ""Argus"", it was 'the third time he has been caught flouting traffic laws in four years'. After the ruling at Mid Sussex Magistrates' Court on 17 October 2012, Soames told ""The Argus"": ""These things happen. Haven't you ever gone over the speed limit?"" The speeding incident was criticised by Brake, a"
"the 1990 World Cup. Pienaar's ex-girlfriend Danielle Steeneveld attempted to sue Pienaar for ZAR10.8million in August 2009 for not marrying her. Pienaar was charged with drunk-driving and failure to comply with a traffic sign in central Liverpool in February 2010. He was subsequently found guilty of driving whilst under the influence of alcohol and was banned from driving for 12 months. In April 2012, a warrant was issued for Pienaar's arrest after he failed to appear before Chelmsford Magistrate's court on two counts of speeding. In the run up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Pienaar was involved"
"March 2013 three Metropolitan Police officers were arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice with regard to evidence given at Rigg's inquest. In April 2014 the IPCC passed files to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to consider whether criminal charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice should be brought against two of the officers, Sgt Paul White and PC Mark Harratt. White had given evidence at the inquest that he had checked on Rigg and carried out a risk assessment while he was detained in the police van, including his posture and his general demeanour, but"
"a debate in the Dáil on 10 March 1983 during which calls where made for uniformity of sentencing. It was pointed out that one of the young people who was sentenced to a 12 months suspended sentence was sentenced previously to a two-year suspended sentence for the theft of a car. This was stated to clearly indicate the inconsistency in sentencing policy which is very hard to justify. There were demands in the Dáil for the dismissal of Mr Justice Seán Gannon. Armstrong was back before court on Friday 11 March 1983 where he was convicted in Dublin District Court"
"2008 Vice Chair Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations 2009 2010 Vice Chair Justice Appropriations 2011 2013 Vice Chair Select Committee on Redistricting 2014-2016 Duval County Legislative Chair 2012 2013 Duval County Legislative Vice Chair 2011 2012 Duval County Legislative Rules Chair 2007 2012 Leadership Team Florida House 2014-2016 Chair, St. Johns River Legislative Caucus 2015-2016 In November 2012, while McBurney and his wife were driving on Interstate 10 to Tallahassee for the legislative session, he was pulled over by Charles Swindle, a state trooper. Swindle alleged that McBurney was traveling at 87 miles per hour, exceeding the 70 mile per"
"recovery. Mehajer was convicted of negligent driving on 23 October 2012 at Burwood Local Court where he had his license disqualified and was sentenced to 150 hours of community service by magistrate Brian Maloney. Mehajer appealed and in September 2013 the conviction was overturned. The two injured women later sued him in 2014 and Mehajer reached a settlement with them in early October 2015, agreeing to pay AUD$1.72 million which was paid by his insurers, NRMA. Mehajer is under investigation for undervaluing his luxury cars to avoid stamp duty and demerit point shifting to other parties for driving offences. Mehajer"
"revealed that he had committed nine speeding offences in the previous three years. In December 2012, Carles accused Buswell of having ""dry humped"" a businessman at a party in 2011. Buswell launched a defamation case against her; this was subsequently settled out of court with Carles issuing written apologies to the parties involved. In March 2014, Buswell resigned from his position as Treasurer and Transport Minister due to a mental health breakdown. In May 2014 Buswell was convicted and fined for 11 motor vehicle offences whilst holding the cabinet position of Minister for Transport. These fines related to careless driving,"
"Finance Division from 2007 to 2010. He was a member of the Governor's Joint Health Care Task Force, of the Legislative Commission on Health Care Access, and of the Task Force on Small Business Health Insurance. He announced on December 17, 2013 that he would not be seeking re-election in 2014. His wife, Gail, is a former DFL Party activist and state associate chair. Huntley was arrested on February 2, 2013, near Deerwood, Minnesota, on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol after being stopped for speeding. He subsequently announced that he was guilty of the charge, intended to"
"asked three other people to claim they were driving instead of her husband. Her niece agreed to tell this version. In March 2001 Boyer and her husband pleaded guilty to one charge each of obstruction of justice to which they were granted a conditional discharge. As a result of this, premier Dalton McGuinty suspended her from the Liberal caucus. In September 2001, McGuinty said that she would not be allowed back into caucus and that she would have to serve the remainder of her term as an independent. Boyer was bitter about the rejection. She said, ""It was very harsh..."