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quasi-criminal adj. a reference to a court's right to punish for actions or omissions as if they were criminal. The most common example is finding a parent who is delinquent in child support in contempt of court and penalizing him/her with a jail sentence. If a hearing is quasi-criminal the quasi-defendant is entitled to all due process protections afforded a criminal defendant. (See: criminal, quasi)

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The over-reaching language of this section seems to suggest a fundamental shift in the enforcement of workplace health and safety, from provincial quasi-criminal prosecutions to aggressively pursued federal criminal prosecutions.

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One cannot help but question the department's motives in making those same allegations under the guise of a quasi-criminal RICO case - after it found no basis for bringing those same charges in its criminal investigation," said Kenneth V.

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