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• WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Banner Bank released its 2022 ESG Report .
• Operating our business in a way that aligns with the highest ethical standards and effective governance practices.
• These and additional details from our Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Report, can be found in our full TCFD Report, which is linked within the ESG Report.
• “The activities outlined in this report are examples of how we continue to honor our longtime guiding principle to ‘Do the Right Thing’ for our communities, colleagues, clients and shareholders,” said Mark Grescovich, President and CEO of Banner Corporation and Banner Bank.

• The current trial of Lauren Dickason is a case in point, and the jury has a complex task in front of it.
• The latter may seem like a statement of the obvious, given Dickason does not deny the killings.
• What legislation and other sources of law mean is often contestable, and there may be specialised definitions.

Murder and manslaughter

• But the language used reflects a structure that goes back to English law from centuries ago, and is split into two offences: murder and manslaughter.
• Basically, murder is killing someone with “malice aforethought”, and manslaughter is any other culpable killing.
• But variations were introduced largely to avoid the formerly mandatory death penalty for murder, by allowing the offence to be stepped down to manslaughter.
• That condition was removed after Clayton Weatherston tried to use it in his trial for the 2008 murder of Sophie Elliott.

Infanticide and insanity

• New Zealand has never had such “diminished responsibility” – except in relation to infanticide.
• Infanticide has a legalistic meaning in the courtroom: it does not mean the killing of an infant.
• But the legislation also notes that if the defendant’s disorder was so great that there was insanity, then there must be a “special verdict of acquittal on account of insanity caused by childbirth”.

Modern psychiatry and Victorian language

• The law relating to insanity still uses language from Victorian times.
• It applies to all offences, though it is most prominently used in homicide cases.
• The doctors giving expert evidence have to try to mould modern understandings of psychiatry into this outdated legal framework, which has limited nuance to it.

The jury’s challenge

• Having considered whether the deaths would otherwise have been murder or manslaughter, they will then have to consider whether the expert evidence shows there was some disturbance in her mental health.
• If so, and if it was caused by childbirth or lactation, was it far enough down the line to amount to infanticide?

• This direction will improve notification to victims surrounding security classification and transfers of offenders, and establish a formal process to notify the Minister of Public Safety.
• The Ministerial Direction will also require that the Minister of Public Safety receive notification regarding security classification and transfers of high-profile offenders.
• The transfer of offenders can have a very profound impact not only on victims, but the broader public.
• - The Honourable Marco Mendicino, Minister of Public Safety
  The Corrections and Conditional Release Act (CCRA) mandates the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) to provide a safe and secure environment for staff and inmates at federal correctional institutions, which is conducive to the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders, reducing the risk of reoffending and keeping Canadian communities safe.

• TORONTO, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - BMO (TSX: BMO) (NYSE: BMO) today announced it is providing its innovative new Sustainability-Linked Deposit (SLD) product to Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (NYSE: ZWS), a client and leading engineered water solutions company.
• A Sustainability-Linked Deposit links the interest paid on a deposit account to a client's achievement of defined sustainability targets.
• "Zurn Elkay's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) progress – and our focus – are guided by our commitment to simply Do the Right Thing," said Todd A. Adams, Chairman and CEO of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions.
• Named one of America's Most Responsible Companies for three consecutive years by Newsweek, Zurn Elkay also develops solutions that help manage the most-important natural resource – water.