Sentence examples for * illegal offence from inspiring English sources

The payment of €2,500 a month to some of the witnesses "is not an anomaly but an illegal offence", they claimed, describing it as "tampering with evidence".

First, it is revealing that the man who used his first spell as home secretary so effectively to legalise homosexuality had actually committed the illegal offence himself.

Tim Alderslade, Bata chief executive, and Ed Anderson, AOA chair, said: "We need the message to go out that all passengers are responsible for their own behaviour and that causing disruption on board an aircraft is an illegal offence which can carry a heavy penalty, such as a travel ban, fine, or even a prison sentence.

In Iraq there is no legal level of alcohol that permits working or driving under its effect and any positive sample is considered as an illegal offence.

There is already a risk that the current anti-immigration rhetoric and the Immigration Act 2016, with its introduction of an "illegal working" offence, will undermine the intent of the Modern Slavery Act.

"The illegal working offence should be removed and victims of modern slavery should never be charged with it, after all they've been forced to do this work – it's not by their own will".

They allow for blanket bans across whole areas, turning things that are not illegal into criminal offences.

The retrospectively constructed cohort was then followed for reconvictions using the national crime register until either the date of first new violent offence (defined as homicide, assault, robbery, any sexual offence, arson, illegal threats and harassment), death, or end of follow-up (31 December 2001).

The immigration bill will create a new enforcement agency to tackle the worst cases of exploitation as well creating an offence of illegal working and enabling wages to be seized as proceeds of crime.

However, the new offence of "illegal working" can only lead to further confusion.

It includes subjecting foreign criminals who face deportation to tagging and tracking by satellites and a new offence of illegal working to give police powers to seize wages from illegal migrants.