A statute of limitations,known in civil law systems as a prescriptive period,is a law passed by a legislative body to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated. In most jurisdictions,such periods exist for both criminal law and civil law such as contract law and property law,though often under different names and with varying details.
The County Court of Victoria is the intermediate court in the Australian state of Victoria. It is equivalent to district courts in the other states.
The Supreme Court of Victoria is the highest court in the Australian state of Victoria. Founded in 1852,it is a superior court of common law and equity,with unlimited and inherent jurisdiction within the state.
Milton Orkopoulos is an Australian convicted sex offender and former politician. A member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2006,Orkopoulos was appointed Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Minister Assisting the Premier on Citizenship in August 2005.
Craig Robert Thomson is an Australian former trade union official and a former politician implicated in the Health Services Union expenses affair.
Troy Raymond Buswell is an Australian former politician who was a Liberal member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 2005 to 2014,representing the seat of Vasse. He was Treasurer of Western Australia in the Barnett Ministry from 2008 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2014,and also held several other portfolios.
Kathy Jackson was the national secretary of the Health Services Union of Australia (HSU) between January 2008 and February 2015. In August 2015,Jackson was found by the Australian federal court to have misappropriated union funds and was ordered to repay $1.4 million in compensation,with a criminal investigation pending.
Simon Joseph Bridges is a former New Zealand politician and lawyer. He served as Leader of the National Party and Leader of the Opposition between 2018 and 2020,and as the Member of Parliament for Tauranga from the 2008 election to May 2022,when he resigned.
Catholic sexual abuse cases in Australia,like Catholic Church sexual abuse cases elsewhere,have involved convictions,trials and ongoing investigations into allegations of sex crimes committed by Catholic priests,members of religious orders and other personnel which have come to light in recent decades,along with the growing awareness of sexual abuse within other religious and secular institutions.
William Theodore D'Arcy is a former Australian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. He held the Labor seat for Albert from 1972 to 1974 and represented Woodridge from 1977 to 2000.
Jami-Lee Matenga Ross is a former New Zealand politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Botany electorate in Auckland from the March 2011 Botany by-election,when he became the youngest MP at the time,until 2020. He was previously a local government politician on the Auckland Council and,before that,was on the Manukau City Council from the age of 18.
The Health Services Union expenses affair was an Australian political scandal that concerned criminal activities associated with the financial affairs of the Health Services Union of Australia (HSU),between 2006 and 2007;and the Health Services Union "east branch" (HSUeast) between 2006 and 2011.
The Elm Guest House was a hotel in Rocks Lane,near Barnes Common in southwest London. In a list produced by convicted fraudster Chris Fay,several prominent British men were alleged to have engaged in sexual abuse and child grooming at the Guest House in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Labour MP Tom Watson,having heard testimony from Carl Beech,suggested in an October 2012 statement to the House of Commons that a paedophile network which had existed at this time may have brought children to parties at the private residence.
The electoral district of Ovens Valley is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013,and came into effect at the 2014 state election.
Natalie McGarry is a Scottish former politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow East from 2015 to 2017. She was elected as a Scottish National Party (SNP) candidate in the 2015 general election but resigned the SNP whip after six months and sat as an independent until the end of the parliamentary session in May 2017.
A child sexual abuse scandal involving the abuse of young players at football clubs in the United Kingdom began in mid-November 2016. The revelations began when former professional footballers waived their rights to anonymity and talked publicly about being abused by former coaches and scouts in the 1970s,1980s and 1990s. This led to a surge of further allegations,as well as allegations that some clubs had covered them up.
Jack Andrew Renshaw is a British convicted child sex offender,terrorist and former spokesperson for the neo-Nazi organisation National Action. He was an economics and politics student at Manchester Metropolitan University and an organiser for the British National Party (BNP) youth wing,BNP Youth. On 12 June 2018,Renshaw pleaded guilty to preparing an act of terrorism,with the intention of killing the Labour MP Rosie Cooper,and to making a threat to murder a police officer.
The United Kingdom General Election 2015 –Party Spending Investigation was a probe involving the UK Electoral Commission,numerous police forces,and the Crown Prosecution Service into spending by political parties and candidates,primarily during the 2015 general election campaign. This co-ordinated investigation has been described as 'an unprecedented and extraordinary situation'.
Jared Cain O'Mara is a British convicted fraudster and former politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to 2019.
James Hayward is an Australian former politician. Elected as a Nationals member of the Western Australian Legislative Council at the 2021 Western Australian state election,he resigned from the party on 3 December 2021 after being charged with child sex offences,and was ultimately disqualified on 28 August 2023 after being convicted. He was the first person since John Marquis Hopkins in 1910 to be removed in this way.
