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  Ross Cranston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ross Frederick Cranston (born 23 July 1948) is a lawyer and politician in the United Kingdom.
He is Labour member of Parliament for Dudley North, since 1997, and served as Solicitor General from 1998 to 2001.
After returning to the back-benches and speculation amongst colleagues, he announced in 2005 that he would not run for office again in the 2005 election.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ross_Cranston   (105 words)

  
 USAO/CDCA Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The purported borrowers were actually people who Cranston paid simply to use their identity and credit history but who had no involvement in the loan transaction and did not occupy the homes that were being purchased.
Cranston also created a series of sham employers and investment companies for the purposes of verifying the employment, income and assets of the purported borrowers.
Cranston is scheduled to be sentenced on March 3, 2003 by United States District Judge A. Howard Matz.
www.usdoj.gov /usao/cac/pr2002/153.html   (524 words)

  
 75661 -- In re Marriage of Cranston -- Royse -- Kansas Court of Appeals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ross R. Cranston argues the district court committed error by using one worksheet rather than two to compute his child support obligation.
Ross and Christie Cranston obtained a divorce in 1992.
Ross argues the Kansas Child Support Guidelines require the district court to compute child support using two child support worksheets in a divided custody situation.
www.kscourts.org /kscases/ctapp/1997/19970110/75661.htm   (397 words)

  
 Oral evidence
Q22 Ross Cranston: We could have a long debate about separation of powers and so on and how Montesquieu got it wrong and Lock is often invoked, but I think Lord Cooke pointed out that Lock was not really concerned about the judiciary, he was concerned about the dispute between the Executive and the legislature.
Ross Cranston: I think that has been a point of criticism and I did raise it with the last Lord Chancellor, that the resources do not compare with other high courts.
Q98 Ross Cranston: One of the particular concerns that has come out of previous discussions is the increasing numbers of Legal Aid lawyers both at the Bar in terms of family practice but also on the high street.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmlcd/uc903-i/uc90302.htm   (10809 words)

  
 Uncorrected Evidence 1060
Q100 Ross Cranston: As you know, we spend a great deal of time scrutinising the DCA and I understand that you were on that fees working group, as you have just told us, but you are also on the more general advisory working group.
Q109 Ross Cranston: I speak for myself, but I have some difficulty in actually working out where the different responsibilities are.
Q112 Ross Cranston: In terms of the other agencies and departments, as we understand it, the DCA encouraged each to appoint a champion.
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmconst/uc1060-ii/uc106002.htm   (11445 words)

  
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Cranston goes on to say that the workhouse and the labour tests of the New poor law embodied this idea in its most developed form.
Cranston noted that "One of the flest parts of poor law history was the transfer of poor children to the mills and factories of industrial Lancashire and Yorkshire, supposedly under the provisions of poor apprentices." Id.
Cranston, supra note 3, at 17, as such, it was considered by some as progress from the feudal positioning which is set by birth or by the master alone, but only an intermediate step in the progress towards freedom to contract.
www.uakron.edu /lawrev/quigley2.html   (9134 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Cranston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
CRANSTON -- The city's investment committee is scheduled to vote this afternoon to select a private firm to manage Cranston's police and firefighters pension...
CRANSTON -- The new year is starting on a happy note for the city's public library system, which is continuing to restore hours that it was forced to cut last...
CRANSTON -- Even now, Harry and Janice Benevides are not sure what their 17-year-old son, Marc, was thinking when he shot himself in the head during a standoff...
www.nametraq.org /Jan04/C/Cranston.shtml   (2432 words)

  
 A Bill of Rights for Britain
Cranston was opening a major international conference on the future shape of legal education, organised by London University’s Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
Cranston says: "The King said that anyone who defended his wife would not be King’s Counsel, so the Bar rose up in a body and asserted its independence." It established the principle that a lawyer must do his utmost for the client, even if it was against the interests of the Crown.
Although Ross Cranston is now an MP - and was Solicitor-General until the latest re-shuffle - he was for many years a law lecturer, whose speciality was ethics (he edited one of the leading books on the subject).
www.spr-consilio.com /cranston.html   (434 words)

  
 Uncorrected Evidence 1060
Ross Cranston: I am not sure that we are able to understand it either.
Q247 Ross Cranston: Richard, last week we had Maurice Frankel before us and one of the points he made to us was that there has been a real turnover of staff at the DCA.
Q291 Ross Cranston: I am not strong on saints, as a non-conformist, but obviously your advocacy of this simple regime for fees and not being a deterrent for requests has proved beneficial in terms of the announcement yesterday.
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmconst/uc1060-iii/uc106002.htm   (12917 words)

  
 USAO/CDCA Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The conclusion of the case against Cranston completes a nine-year investigation that resulted in the conviction of 20 defendants responsible for causing $3.5 million in losses to 26 lending institutions.
Cranston also set up toll-free telephone numbers for each of the sham entities so that when lenders attempted to verify information on the loan application, the calls would ring to his office where he and others would falsely confirm the information.
In addition to the prison sentence, Judge Matz stated that Cranston would also have to pay restitution for his offense in an amount to be determined at a later hearing.
www.usdoj.gov /usao/cac/pr2003/076.html   (498 words)

  
 Cranston News
A Cranston second-grader is getting accolades for saving her mother with a quick call to 911.
CRANSTON, R.I. Congressmen Patrick Kennedy and Jim Langevin are hosting a training program to help first responders prepare for terrorism.
CRANSTON, RI —Uvex Sports announced that it has hired several new sales reps specifically to handle the higher demand for its bike products in the U.S. market.
rss.topix.net /city/cranston-ri   (1097 words)

  
 House of Commons - Constitutional Affairs - Minutes of Evidence
Q221 Ross Cranston: We will come back to that if needs be; but where the judge has to make a decision, where he says, for example, in a multi-hander, "Look, in this case I think we only need one firm of solicitors, even though you have got a number of defendants we need one firm".
Q222 Ross Cranston: The evidence is that these are the high cost cases and, of course, the evidence from the department is that 1% of these Crown Court cases are taking 50% of the costs?
Ross Cranston: I do not think we disagree in terms of giving it a go; I think we just think it is a bit rough and ready.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmconst/746/4070604.htm   (1992 words)

  
 creativematch: Evans Defeats Anti-Alcohol Advertising Motion
Evans noted that, as both he and Ross Cranston could attest, politicians spend a fortune on political advertising around the time of General Elections, yet it did not serve to grow the market, indeed consumption in the electoral market appeared to be in long-term decline.
Seconding Cranston, Eric Appleby stated that the answer to the question of whether advertising plays a part in alcohol misuse was a resounding "yes".
Responding to this, Ross Cranston QC MP pointed out that the motion did not actually call for alcohol advertising to be banned.
www.creativematch.co.uk /viewnews?88793   (1170 words)

  
 Ian Austin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ian Christopher Austin (born March 6, 1965) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
He is Labour member of Parliament for Dudley North since 2005, succeeding Ross Cranston.
He was a Government political adviser to Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ian_Austin   (94 words)

  
 Family Justice: the operation of the Family Courts (Inquiry 14 December 2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Essentially, that is the first thing we want to see, a recognition that when you have got allegations of abuse you have to address the issue of safety, and we are not satisfied that is being done properly at present.
Q198 Ross Cranston: At the present time an injunction might often be issued but without any sort of inquiry, there is no inquiry into the violence, there are no admissions.
Q204 Mrs Cryer: Ross Cranston was asking about injunctions, that a woman could make allegations and gain an injunction against her husband to exclude him entirely from the family.
www.parents4protest.co.uk /_private/inquiry_transcripts_dec14.htm   (12716 words)

  
 Family Justice: Family Courts Inquiry (9 November 2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Q16 Ross Cranston: There is a great deal of argument of course around case management where the proponents say that case management goes hand in hand with settlement, you grab hold of the case and you encourage settlement.
Q20 Ross Cranston: In the DCA White Paper, the statement is made that cases currently take 36 weeks to complete, on average.
Q21 Ross Cranston: There is a lot of talk about the effect of legal aid and one line of criticism is that legally aided parties spin the cases out.
www.parents4protest.co.uk /_private/inquiry_transcripts_nov9.htm   (15395 words)

  
 CCA | Director Duties | Draft Bill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Bill is based on an original Ten Minute Rule Bill drafted by Ross Cranston QC and the Centre for Corporate Accountability.
On Tuesday, 25 March 2003, Ross Cranston, Labour MP for Dudley North presented a 10-minute rule bill to the House of Commons to give company directors a stronger legal duty towards Health and Safety.
‘Ross Cranston MP deserves praise for introducing this Bill that deserves support across the House of Commons.
www.corporateaccountability.org /directors/privatebill.htm   (622 words)

  
 Eye - eye Society - 12.18.97
A who's who of dervishes twirled into town to salute Cranston's career at U of T's Varsity Arena.
Cranston's recent book, Zero Tollerance, is supposed to be a tell-all.
In the '70s, Cranston single-handedly changed the face of figure skating, then a sport with only a cult following.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_12.18.97/plus/society.html   (562 words)

  
 Justice Talking
British Solicitor General Ross Cranston debates University of Virginia law professor Curtis Bradley in this special edition of Justice Talking, recorded in London during a meeting of the American Bar Association.
Ross Cranston is Her Majesty's Solicitor General, the British government's chief legal advisor on domestic and international law.
Educated at the Universities of Queensland, Harvard and Oxford, Solicitor Cranston has been a practicing barrister and held various academic posts, including the Castle Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics.
www.justicetalking.org /viewprogram.asp?progID=70   (448 words)

  
 Ross Cranston, former MP, Dudley North (TheyWorkForYou.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This data was produced by TheyWorkForYou from a variety of sources.
Ross Cranston, former MP Former Labour MP for Dudley North
More useful links for this MP Ross Cranston's personal website
www.theyworkforyou.com /mp/ross_cranston/dudley_north   (285 words)

  
 Alcohol Concern. Reducing alcohol misuse, supporting treatment providing information
That will be the bleak picture painted when MPs debate a Ten-Minute Bill put forward by Ross Cranston MP on Tuesday April 23rd — calling on the Government to launch a new National Alcohol Service Framework, and introduce its long-awaited National Alcohol Strategy.
The Bill will be followed by an Adjournment Debate on Wednesday April 24th on the problems caused by alcohol misuse — when allocating some of the additional NHS funding to prevent alcohol problems is expected to be among the issues discussed.
Ross Cranston MP explains: “Despite the enormous scale of the problems caused by alcohol misuse, it remains a Cinderella service in terms of resources allocated by both central and local government.
www.alcoholconcern.org.uk /servlets/doc/469   (467 words)

  
 University of Rhode Island News Releases
A graduate of Cranston High School East, he received a fellowship in painting from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989–90.
Mark Ross ’64 and his brother, Darrell, built Cranston-based Ross-Simons into a top retailer of fine jewelry, tableware, gifts, and collectibles with retail outlets in Rhode Island, Connecticut, North Carolina, Georgia, New Jersey, Maine, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Virginia.
Ross-Simons is the largest company of its kind in America, and although the brothers recently sold their firm, Mark has remained as vice president to help run the business.
www.uri.edu /news/releases/html/01-0501-02.htm   (1228 words)

  
 Coseley news News File Black Country West Midlands Yampy
Ross Cranston is not standing in the forthcoming General Election
Ross Cranston, Labour MP for Dudley North, today called on Dudley residents to let him know whether tough new laws to crack down on fireworks abuse are working.
Ross Cranston MP urges WW2 veterans to claim for help regarding D Day 60th anniversary celebrations etc.
www.yampy.co.uk /coseley/link.php?link=newsfile   (1191 words)

  
 Yampy Gornal Dudley Black Country West Midlands News
Ross Cranston, Labour MP for Dudley North, urges local people to take advantage of this November’s Will Aid..
Ross Cranston, MP for Dudley North, today pledged his support for the Black Country by investing in the Black Country Reinvestment Society.
Our MP Ross Cranston reports that local people do not seem to be in favour of a regional assembly.
www.yampy.co.uk /gornal/news/main/index.php   (2633 words)

  
 Granny spy to escape prosecution
The Solicitor General, Ross Cranston, QC, said in a written parliamentary answer that the Crown Prosecution Service had decided "not to refer the papers to the police for investigation".
For the CPS and Solicitor General to close a case at this stage is regarded in legal circles as unusual.
Mr Cranston's statement said that, unusually, the Solicitor General was making a public announcement on individuals because of publicity given to the allegations and "not to name them could only prompt speculation about whether a case against them is still being received".
www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/12/21/nspy21.html   (843 words)

  
 Impact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He was on a programme of visits organised by Ross Cranston, Labour MP for Dudley North, and discussed new Government initiatives on crime with Chamber members.
"From talking to Ross I know that the Crime Fighting Fund has already delivered more than 150 officers to the area and I know that local police have substantially reduced vehicle crime and burglaries," he said.
Mr Cranston said: "I promised to bring Jack to our area so that people could ask him about the Government's crime fighting plans, and that is what I have done.
www.expressandstar.com /EStar2/Supplements/impact/imp07.asp   (282 words)

  
 Rugby Match Reports - Scrum.com - Rugby News, Rugby Results, Rugby Action from Scrum, the best Rugby Football site in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Then, as the last man back, Ross failed to smother a grubber kick arrowed through from Waratahs fullback Hewat, Staniforth scooped up the loose ball, gathered from the ensuing ruck and touched down in the corner.
Scotland continued to look vulnerable to the counter-attack but Ross began to settle, attacking the gain line with more confidence and he landed a penalty before prop Brannigan was driven over for the tourists´ first try.
The Waratahs were virtually gifted their next score, just five minutes later when Craig Smith missed Grey and his break found Staniforth who ran through the flimsy challenge of Scotland scrum-half Mike Blair and touched down for his second try of the night.
www.scrum.com /reports/report.asp?match=199   (722 words)

  
 Britain Won't Prosecute Recently-Exposed Cold War Spies -- 12/21/1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
But Britain's solicitor-general Ross Cranston said in a written statement to the House of Commons Monday that neither Norwood nor four others would be charged.
He said her admissions during interviews would probably be ruled inadmissible as evidence in a trial.
Cranston named two others - Hull University lecturer Robin Pearson, suspected of spying for the East German Stasi, and former Metropolitan Police officer John Symonds, allegedly trained to seduce female employees at Western embassies in a bid to secret obtain information for the Soviet Union.
www.cnsnews.com /ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\1998-2000\GLO19991221b.html   (739 words)

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