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Andy Slaughter

He is currently a Shadow Justice Minister, serving on the Labour Party's frontbench.

Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins

Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins (1415/1420 - 1478/1481) was Justice Minister of France from 1445 to 1461 and from 1465 to 1472.

Judith Webster

In 1993, she was named as the court's Chief Justice by provincial Justice Minister Rosemary Vodrey.

Marc Lalonde

In 1959, he worked in Ottawa as a special advisor to Progressive Conservative Justice Minister Davie Fulton.

Michael Pitfield

He went to Ottawa to join the civil service in 1959 where he worked as an administrative assistant to Justice Minister E. Davie Fulton.

Urba affair

The Mitterrand election campaign of 1988 was directed by Henri Nallet, who then became Justice Minister.


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2006 Brussels riots

Belgian Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx visited the deceased man's family shortly after his death.

2008 Austrian government formation

Judge Claudia Bandion-Ortner (well-known to the public from the Konsum and BAWAG cases) became non-party justice minister, deputy president of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber Reinhold Mitterlehner became economics minister and Burgenland state councillor Niki Berlakovich became agriculture minister.

Access to Information Act

In April 2005, the Justice Minister Irwin Cotler introduced a discussion paper entitled A Comprehensive Framework for Access to Information Reform.

Africo Resources

Later that month the DRC justice minister Georges Minsay Booka directed Gécamines to take note that Akam Mining had no stake in the property.

Allan Marat

He was replaced as Attorney General and Justice Minister by Ano Pala.

Amani Trust

In 2002, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa declared various NGO's illegal, including the Amani Trust; and also was accused of working with the British government to unseat President Robert Mugabe and destabilize the nation.

Anthony Kamanga

Speaking on Capital Radio's Straight Talk program, Justice Minister Chaponda said that legislation bans farting in public places and makes it a criminal offense.

Antonio Munguambe

He was removed from office (along with foreign minister Alcinda Abreu and justice minister Esperança Machavela) on March 10, 2008, and was succeeded by Paulo Zucula, the former director of Mozambique's National Disasters Management Institute.

Bill Jeffries

On 24 February 2012 Jeffries was convicted, along with fellow former Justice Minister Sir Douglas Graham and two other men, of breaching the Securities Act by making untrue statements to investors in his capacity as a director of Lombard Finance.

Bloed, Bodem, Eer en Trouw

According to Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx and Interior Minister Patrick Dewael, the suspects were preparing terrorist attacks in order to "destabilize" Belgium.

Buckfast Tonic Wine

In 2005 Scottish Justice Minister, Cathy Jamieson MSP, suggested that retailers should stop selling the wine.

Byron Hove

Byron R. Hove (born in 1940) served as Justice Minister in Zimbabwe Rhodesia with Hilary Squires as co-minister.

Dino Grandi

Dino Grandi (June 4, 1895 – May 21, 1988), 1st Conte di Mordano, was an Italian Fascist politician, minister of justice, minister of foreign affairs and president of parliament.

George Plant

Justice minister Gerald Boland transferred the case to a Special Military Court with army officers acting as judges.

History of the Jews in Belgium

Also he described an increase of 30% in the number of anti-Semitic incidents including physical assaults and vandalism of Jewish institutions, and a suggestion of the Belgian Justice Minister Stefaan De Clerck of the ruling Christian Democratic Party of an amnesty for Nazi collaborators in 2011.

Islamic Courts Union

Abdirahman Janaqow survived those attacks and is currently the Justice Minister in his friend Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed's TFG government.

John Githongo

On 22 January 2006, Githongo named Vice-President Moody Awori as one of four top politicians (with Kiraitu Murungi, former justice minister and present energy minister; finance minister David Mwiraria and former transport minister Chris Murungaru) as being involved in scams worth $600m – known as the Anglo Leasing scandal.

Joseph Akaagerger

He is a kinsman of former Attorney-General and Justice Minister Michael Aondoakaa.

Judges Assets Bill

The Bill titled The Judges Declaration of Assets and Liabilities Bill, 2009 was attempted to be introduced in Rajya Sabha by Justice Minister M. Veerappa Moily on 3 August 2009.

Kalukundi Mine

In September 2007 from DRC justice minister Georges Minsay Booka directed Gécamines to take note that Akam Mining had no stake in the property.

Kukoi Sanyang

Their pick up was organized by the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) office who got opportunistically alerted to their presence in Bissau's Justice ministry, while the Justice Minister was arguing with the Army Chief's services and refusing the impromptu transfer of the trio to his jurisdiction.

Lawrence O'Neil

O'Neil was appointed to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia on September 19, 2007 by Justice Minister Honourable Robert Nicholson.

Melchior Wathelet

As Justice Minister he had, according to David Canter, "encouraged the early release of many sex offenders" which included the later murder-convicted Marc Dutroux.

Murder of Danny Katz

Following continuous public pressure, the Israeli Justice Minister David Libai ordered the attorney Judith Karp to prepare a report about the case.

Muslim Executive of Belgium

Mohamed Boulif (male French-speaking dual Belgian-Moroccan citizen; economist in a Luxemburg bank) 2003-2005 (ousted by the Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx, who provoked new elections before the Assembly's term)

Provisional Constitution of 1950

It was chaired jointly by the RUSI justice minister Soepomo and the Indonesian Republic's prime minister Abdul Halim.

Robert Zollitsch

German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger condemned the "wall of silence" within the Catholic hierarchy, accusing the church of hiding behind a 2001 Vatican directive that called for cases of abuse to be investigated internally before going to state authorities.

Teatro del Libertador General San Martín

Noting the absence of a concert hall in his native Córdoba, Provincial Justice Minister Ramón J. Cárcano proposed the establishment of one to Governor Ambrosio Olmos in 1887.

Thomas Joseph Tormey

Tormey was awarded the Scott Silver Medal in June 1979 by Justice Minister of State, David Andrews.

Thomas Middelhoff

On June 5, 2009 several media sources reported that the German justice minister Brigitte Zypries had recommended that the state prosecution service look into allegations of fraud against Middelhoff, based on the fact that he and his wife held shares of an investment fund that bought real estate from Arcandor and then allegedly leased it back it to Arcandor for unusually high rental fees.

Timeline of the 2011–12 Egyptian civil unrest under the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces

The foreign, justice, interior, and oil ministers resigned and three new ministers were named: General and former governor of Minya, Mansour El Essawi, became interior minister; Mohamed Abdel Aziz Al-Guindy became justice minister; and former judge Nabil Elaraby was appointed foreign minister.

Timothy Coughlin

On July 10, 1927, the three surprised Justice Minister Kevin O'Higgins on his way to Mass at the Booterstown Avenue side of Cross Avenue in Blackrock, County Dublin and shot him down.

Victor Attah

In September 2009 the Nigerian Justice Minister and Attorney General, Michael Aondoakaa, said he would not release any Nigerians in response to a warrant of arrest issued by the London Metropolitan Police over alleged money laundering and corrupt offences emanating from the $38 million Virgin Mobile shares acquisition.

Virginity fraud

In 2009, amidst a wave of media attention, French justice minister Rachida Dati ordered the government to appeal this decision (on the grounds that an important element of French public policy was at issue).

Zhang Hongjie

The Federal Government of Australia wants the Australian Capital Territory (ACT includes Canberra) to cooperate with the Chinese investigation into the murder, as written by a letter from John Howard to Chief Minister Stanhope in May 2005, and another request from Justice Minister Chris Ellison in June.